Sandra Finley

2022-10-22 Fauci to be deposed as part of censorship collusion lawsuit (covid)

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Oct 232022
 

EXCERPT,  RECLAIM THE NET:  

The US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a ruling, ordering Dr. Anthony Fauci and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to respond to document requests by the New Civil Liberties Alliance in conjunction with the Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general on behalf of plaintiffs in State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al.

Judge Terry A. Doughty made the order, which has great importance for the millions of Americans experiencing censorship on social media – which is allegedly at the pressuring of government bodies and officials and would therefore be a violation of the .

We obtained a copy of the order for you here.

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There are other articles of high interest from Reclaim the Net.  It comes from the U.K. but I find it relevant to international citizens.

NOTE:  

I usually give up on trying to send you Reclaim the Net news.   Postings are most often unsuccessful.

If you are interested,  I recommend you go to https://reclaimthenet.org/     and sign up.   I receive straight news without promotional material.    /Sandra

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From: Reclaim The Net
Sent: October 22, 2022

Subject: Fauci to be deposed as part of censorship collusion lawsuit

Ordered to testify.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical advisor, and nine other top White House officials will be deposed as part of an ongoing lawsuit that was filed by Louisiana and Missouri attorneys general Jeff Landry and Eric Schmitt, alleging collusion between the federal government and social media companies to censor certain viewpoints.

We obtained a copy of the order for you here.

The depositions will require the defendants, including former White House press secretary Jennifer Psaki, to testify about their interactions with social media companies. The plaintiffs argued that written communication between federal officials and these companies showed that the officials used oral communication to pressure platforms to censor content.

“After finding documentation of a collusive relationship between the Biden Administration and social media companies to censor free speech, we immediately filed a motion to get these officials under oath,” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said in a statement.

“It is high time we shine a light on this censorship enterprise and force these officials to come clean to the American people, and this ruling will allow us to do just that. We’ll keep pressing for the truth.”

Social media companies were subpoenaed and the plaintiffs acquired evidence of communications with federal officials, which the plaintiffs allege is a “censorship enterprise.” On October 10, plaintiffs added 47 more defendants, bringing the total number of defendants to 67.

“[P]laintiffs argue that even if Dr. Fauci can prove he never communicated with social-media platforms about censorship, there are compelling reasons that suggest Dr. Fauci has acted through intermediaries, and acted on behalf of others, in procuring the social-media censorship of credible scientific opinions,” wrote Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana.

“Plaintiffs argue that even if Dr. Fauci acted indirectly or as an intermediary on behalf of others, it is still relevant to Plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motion. The Court agrees.”

New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) joined the lawsuit back in August, representing epidemiologists Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, alongside Dr. Aaron Kheriaty and Jill Hines.

NCLA attorney Jenin Younes said in a statement to Reclaim The Net that she looks forward to hearing the answers from the deposition.

“For the first time, Dr. Fauci and seven other federal officials responsible for running an unlawful censorship enterprise will have to answer questions under oath about the nature and extent of their communications with tech companies. We look forward to learning more about just how far these government actors went in ensuring that Americans heard only one perspective about Covid-19: the government’s.”

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2022-10-20 Set of postings related to Public Order Emergency Commission, Canada, in context of covid mandates

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Oct 202022
 

 

RESOURCE:  POSTINGS RE VACCINES

 

  1. 2021-04-19 U.S. Military WOULD BE more resistant to forced vaccination. History forgotten (deliberately?). Forced Anthrax vaccination wrongly labeled “Gulf War Syndrome”

https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=25332

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2.   2017-04-30 The Anthrax Vaccine and Gulf War Illness

https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=24684

EXCERPT

In October 2004, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ruled that it was “illegal” for the federal government to mandate anthrax vaccinations, which by then had been given to more than 1.2 million troops since 1998.19 

Judge Sullivan issued an injunction banning the Pentagon from forcing military personnel serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea and parts of Asia and Africa from being required to get anthrax shots without their informed consent until the FDA adequately reviewed and licensed the vaccine.

Congress has prohibited the administration of investigational drugs to service members without their consent,” Sullivan said. “This Court will not permit the government to circumvent this requirement.” Sullivan wrote, “The men and women of our armed forces deserve the assurance that the vaccines our government compels them to take into their bodies have been tested by the greatest scrutiny of all—public scrutiny. This is the process the FDA in its expert judgment has outlined, and this is the course this court shall compel FDA to follow.19 

In 2006, the Pentagon resumed mandatory anthrax vaccinations of troops after the FDA pronounced BioThrax vaccine as “safe and effective,” including against inhalation anthrax.20

Proposed Pediatric Anthrax Vaccine Trial

In March 2013, BioThrax manufacturer, Emergent Biosolutions, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed to conduct clinical trials of anthrax vaccine on American infants and children. According to an article in Nature, “Interest in a vaccination campaign was spurred by a 2011 modelling exercise, ‘Dark Zephyr’, which found that a release of anthrax spores in a city the size of San Francisco, California, would compel officials to vaccinate 7.6 million people—including 1.7 million individuals under age 18.”

The Alliance for Human Protection, along with NVIC and other health safety groups, opposed the trials, citing the vaccine’s poor safety record, including many documented cases of brain and immune system damage suffering by military personnel in the Gulf War.21 

Within a week, bioethicists with the US President’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, also advised against proceeding with the proposed pediatric clinical trials, stating that until a bioterror attack occurs, tests of anthrax vaccine or other anti-bioterrorism “countermeasures” should not pose risks greater than those that a child might encounter in daily life or during a routine pediatric checkup.

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3.   2017-03-06  Vaccines Syndrome. Helpful footage on youtube, Bob Lee. (Anthrax)

https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=18366

EXCERPT:

The U.S vaccine program is constructed on U.S. policies that impair science and provide huge profits to the vaccine manufacturers with zero liability.  When you have something like that it becomes a money machine that’s very hard to stop.  It fuels lobbyists and it fuels congressional campaigns   . . . 

So mandatory vaccine programs are inherently dangerous.  They go out to a very large number of people with very little tracking and there’s very little recourse if you are injured by a vaccine.

What is required is informed consent.  Informed Consent requires that patients be told upfront what the risk of a disease is and what the risk of a vaccine is, what is known about a vaccine has to be (–?) and a patient must always have the right to say no.  It’s not a question of no, it’s not for me because of a religious basis.  It’s more of no, because I believe it’s not right for me.  Until we can actually understand how each person’s innate immunity interacts with a new antigen it becomes very prudent to always have the ability to say no to a vaccine.  Removing that right is tantamount to fascism by vaccine.

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4.   2017-01-17 Vaccines. No doubt, serious fraud at the CDC. Brian Hooker, William Thompson. How are vaccines made? Henrietta Lacks. Attenuation. Anthrax.

https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=18218

EXCERPT

psychopaths can’t peddle their wares in western countries, they dump in poor countries, and continue to do so.   Thank goodness the doctors, scientists, lawyers and parents in Vaccines Revealed  are also connecting with people outside the U.S.   Without that, between bombing and vaccinating there won’t be a lot of love left for America, otherwise.  Citizens REALLY need to take responsibility for their Governments.

I talked yesterday with a friend.   People WANT to be told “Oh yes, but in Canada it’s different.  In Canada we now use the newer flu vaccine that doesn’t have the mercury in it”.

Is ALL the flu vaccine in Canada mercury-free?   I don’t know, but it’s a moot point.   It’s not the right question.

HOW ARE THE VACCINES MADE?  

When you know that, you will be in a better position to make informed choices about vaccines.   The answer also helped me understand a question I have long wondered about:

When I first heard the phrase rotavirus vaccine  I wondered:  what is rotavirus? it must be something terrible because they are vaccinating all the babies against it.   I’d never heard of it.

Well, the virus causes diarrhea,  the relatively few infants who die from it in the U.S. die because the parents don’t know to keep the baby hydrated.  Usually, the babies die from dehydration,  and they are immune-compromised to begin with.   But – – vaccinate the whole population of babies.

Then came the news that more than a million babies in the U.S. alone had received a rotavirus vaccine contaminated with a pig virus.

THAT IS THE QUESTION I HAVE LONG WONDERED ABOUT:

How could vaccine enough for a million babies ALL get contaminated with a pig virus?   I thought maybe the story was a hoax, so went to the manufacturer’s website.   They had posted a response.  The story is not a hoax:

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=1115

I was pretty incensed, for not least reason:  the head doctor for the pediatricians’ organization in Canada was pushing the stuff.   The diarrhea symptom is a call to boost the baby’s immune system through clean water, good food, love, care and protection from the pharma predators.     (Who happen to be the same people who killed those kids in Nigeria through surreptitious and illegal human-testing of their drug Travon:   Patients became unwitting guinea pigs for a new, untested antibiotic and many of them either died or were left with permanent disabilities.   It’s the story told in John le Carré‘s The Constant Gardener and a movie by the same name.  The book pre-dated public knowledge.  A Lawsuit brought by the Government of Nigeria against Pfizer, was settled out-of-court with confidentiality clauses … of course.

http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=4415.

So how are the vaccines made?   Besides the info in one of the presentations (Vaccines Revealed) , a book  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks  by Rebecca Skloot  is excellent and contributes to understanding.    Henrietta, long dead, became immortal because cells from her body are still multiplying in labs and production plants around the world.

Roughly speaking (I do not claim to have more than a sketchy understanding) – and with CLARIFICATION:  Henrietta Lacks is a cancer story not a vaccines story) – –    vaccines are a combination of genetic and other material – –  animal, human and other.  Invisible organisms.  Grown and multiplying (as cells do) under tightly-controlled laboratory conditions.

There are millions of airborne microscopic organisms everywhere that can contaminate the stew – so development of some pharmaceuticals is done inside sealed vacuums.  Anyone who enters has to be de-contaminated.  If contamination does happen,  the unwanted organisms just grow and multiply along with the intended ingredients.

A pig virus can infect a million doses of vaccine because, as with Henrietta Lacks’ cells,  they become inseparable from the stew.

A big problem – –  if you don’t know there’s a contaminant in the stew  why? and for what would you test?  (the pig virus example).

(You need a known protocol for testing for the particular organism, if what we learned from getting the City of Saskatoon to test for the presence in the River of a carcinogenic chemical compound being put down drains to dissolve tree roots – – is valid with vaccines.  There are lots of chemicals that when mixed in other compounds nobody knows HOW TO test for the presence of.  Anyway, you have to know what the contaminant is before you can test for its presence, and if you suspect its presence – –  before you can test, you still have to have a known protocol for testing.)

Another process in the production of vaccines is ATTENUATION.  Understand it, in order to understand the risk factors.  Attenuation is:

A dilution, thinning, or weakening of a substance, especially a reduction in the virulence of a pathogen through REPEATED INOCULATION, growth in a different culture medium, or exposure to heat, light, air OR OTHER WEAKENING AGENTS.

Vaccines contain the pathogen, in one form or another,  that causes the symptoms.  You cannot do “repeated inoculation” on human beings starting with the fully virulent pathogen.   So how is the attenuation done?

As I understand from Vaccines Revealed,  one way is to do the repeated inoculations to a series of monkeys, in which case the blood with the weakened pathogen in it, carries organisms found in animals into the human being.

(I thought the lesson from the transmission of mad cow disease to humans in the form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was:  you do not even feed cooked beef to humans, if the cattle received any kind of ground-up animal in their diets.

But more to the point: (from PDF, U.S. National Institute of Health website):

From 1955 through early 1963, millions of people were inadvertently exposed to simian virus 40 (SV40) as a contaminant of poliovirus vaccines;  the virus had been present in the monkey kidney cultures used to prepare the vaccines and had escaped detection.

(The simian (macaque) monkey virus is associated with cancer.)

Another method of attenuation is to add a weakening agent like borax.

I was curious about borax.  Mr. Google helped me:   Cripes!

(CTV News, July 26, 2016 ):

Health Canada is advising Canadians to avoid using borax to make kids’ arts and crafts, such as homemade “slime,” over concerns that too much exposure to all forms of boric acid can cause “developmental and reproductive health effects” in children and pregnant women.

. . .   in an update posted to Health Canada’s website this week, the agency says it is concerned about Canadians’ exposure to all forms of boric acid.

A recent draft risk assessment completed by Health Canada scientists found that too much exposure to boric acid has the potential to cause developmental and reproductive health effects.

“Since Canadians are already exposed to boric acid naturally through their diets and water, Health Canada is advising that exposure from other sources should be reduced as much as possible, especially for children and pregnant women,” the agency said in the update.

“The concern is not with any one product, but rather multiple exposures from a variety of sources.”   

(and might we add that some vaccines contain borax?   Did they order that any and all vaccines containing borax must be thrown out?)

April 15, 2017:   I did a quick look for a government website that documents the use of borax in vaccines.   This from  Australia, an alphabetical listing by component, with the vaccine name brand and the associated pathogen.  You see the different forms of aluminum (neurotoxic),  formaldehyde (no thanks!) – – but in a wide arrange of vaccines, MSG (another surprise),  polysorbate …  and this for Borax:

Appendix 3: Components of vaccines used in the National Immunisation Program

Page last updated: 06 March 2017

Borax/sodium borate:

Vaqta Hepatitis A (HAV) paediatric/adolescent
 All influenza vaccines
Agrippal		 Influenza

http://www.immunise.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/publishing.nsf/Content/Handbook10-home~handbook10-tools~handbook10-appendices~handbook10-appendix3

The end point is this:

    • knowing that the pathogens MUST be attenuated in the vaccine,  what do you choose to have injected into your body or your child’s body?
    • Injection of the vaccine bypasses the body’s immune systems.  (Th1 and Th2 arms of the immune system are explained in layperson terms in Episode 7, I think it was.)

Episode 6 had the story of the ANTHRAX VACCINATION.  Tragedy and heartbreak on a colossal scale.  (I had investigated the ANTHRAX story prior to seeing it in the docu-series.)

. . .    Our soldiers facing an order that they determined was illegal and immoral.  (Mandatory anthrax vaccination)  Witness the horror of human experimentation, all the while repeating; “This Vaccine is Safe”

I vented my emotional response by writing in the Comments:

You assembled and coordinated a large team of whistleblowers.  Bless you all.  Dig out the corruption.

News – – 12 people killed by terrorists. The American military leaders did several thousand times better than that. I still wonder if the number can be right – – 35,000 killed by the anthrax vaccination? It is so incomprehensible.  The military leaders are dangerous — the sometimes quick, sometimes long, strung-out deaths suffered by their victims are cruel. Slow torture.

If it’s terrorists – send some drones, drop some bombs, knock ’em out. And there’ll be some terrorists in the neighborhood, get them too. Helps keep everyone employed, paying taxes and saving the world for democracy.

I remember the footage of Hillary Clinton’s gleeful reaction to the news that the bombs had started falling on Libya. Frankly, I think there are more than a few badly-corrupted souls in high places.

But we don’t have to bomb them, just vaccinate them (and their neighbors) for “safety and security”.

The anthrax vaccination helps explain something else.

Episode 6 of Vaccines Revealed included the Worldwide Premier of the movie VACCINE SYNDROME.

After watching it,  I believe there is more to the arrival of the Veterans (4,000 of them) at Standing Rock.

The Gulf War Syndrome was more accurately the Vaccine Syndrome caused by the vaccine for Anthrax.   A million military and other first responders were forced to receive a number of injections of the vaccine,  with disastrous consequences for thousands and thousands.

When you know what happened, the deaths and the slow deaths – – lives, people and families totally ruined – – those people then ignored,  discarded in the gutter  – – you know that thousands upon thousands of people who would, under normal circumstances, be proud and patriotic supporters of their military buddies,  were no longer.   They went to Standing Rock with the original intention of taking up arms against the very forces they were once part of, on behalf of the Indians who were now their brothers.   (The Sioux Elders took the Veterans from violent means to non-violent resistance, which is the route to success – – people are “converted” to the view that the injustices inflicted by the Empire are shared and widespread.   They join forces against the regime.)

We have “conversion”, big time.

I posted an update on:

016-12-29 Role of Conversion in revolution. Four thousand veterans come to fight for the Indians against the U.S. Military at Standing Rock. Wesley Clark Jr., Chris Hedges.

Is it a sequence we know?

    • they did it to the Indians.   But we were not Indians.
    • they did it to the Soldiers.  The Soldiers recognized they were the Indians and went to help.
    • But we were not Soldiers OR Indians.

Guess what?   In the U.S.  there are currently huge fights against mandatory vaccination.  Some States have passed laws:  unvaccinated children are not allowed to attend schools.  Healthcare workers lose their jobs if they don’t get vaccinated.   Flu vaccinations from age 6 months on upward.  . . .  (as I say, in some States).

Simultaneously there are serious questions about vaccine efficacy raised by science and the historical record (epidemics that have come and gone without any vaccines,  the role of clean water and good food – – disease trends that were on the decline prior to introduction of the vaccine, but the vaccine is credited with the decline, and so on).

Vaccines Revealed reported that vaccines are not mandatory in named countries including Australia and Canada.   I notice in the Comments,  several Australians corrected the information:  it used to be the case.   It is no longer true in Australia.

The situation in Canada?   you can get a sense by doing an internet search on the phrase “vaccinations in Canada”.   The Provinces are divided on the issue.  There is a 2015 report of doctors lobbying to make them mandatory.

Especially with Big Pharma allowed to do “pull-through” advertising (which wasn’t allowed in the past) it is not a good idea to have those who make money from the vaccinations allowed anywhere near such decisions.

Officials “float” ideas, testing the water.   The best way to sink orthodoxy is with science that is not undermined by fraud, or obsolete in a rapidly-evolving world.

Learn about vaccinations and have conversations with fellow citizens, regardless of where they sit.  Officials will back off, OR a campaign to discredit the particular scientists will be mounted, OR there will be a large new propaganda campaign to promote vaccinations.

The way I see things, Big Pharma is transnational.  The countries most in their grip are the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.   What gets rolled out in one of the FVEY countries gets rolled out in the five countries at least,  IF they can get away with it.   Rest assured they are trying.

If the Americans are fighting hard against mandatory vaccination (have been for a few years now), if Australians are realizing they have a problem on their hands,  my best advice:  get talking!

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EMAIL FROM BLAKE

Sent: January 16, 2017 9:50 AM To: Sandra Finley Subject: Re: Robert F Kennedy Jr video. Do not want to miss it!

Sandra,

Long time no chat. I thought I should share an experience with you.

I was quite moved by this video. I watched it to well beyond the 1:15 mark and then posted it with a note, which I’ll admit was a bit dramatized and calling for mothers of small children especially to watch it and be warned. I wanted to use this video, as you did, to act as warning and perhaps a prompt to learn more. RFK Jr. is someone, I feel, one should assume carries with him a certain ‘nobless oblige’, a strong leaning to carry on the legacy of his father as a champion of civil rights, and who is almost without question guided by a strong ethical compass.

The post caused quite a shit storm of comments in the thread that followed, including one fellow whom I know personally who identifies as being on the autistic spectrum, a more conservative relative and a more distant cousin, a number of other social activists and so on. And wow…it unlocked a lot of vitriol. I’d say 80% of respondents, absolutely dismissed the suggestion that vaccinations have contributed to the spike in autism, fact clips were posted categorically refuting claims that this might be going on in Canada, dismissing RFK Jr. as a crank etc. It got so nasty that I finally posted a note asking for respect and civility. When I went back to finish watching it it was no longer available to me, so I watched another video with all the same talking points. From his testimony, and from the content of his presentation I have no doubt that it is just as he says. I understand too, from a link posted by my autistic friend on the fb thread, that there are hundreds if not thousands of settlements already paid out of court.

I’m not going to go any deeper down this rabbit hole…I can’t take that on, but I’d appreciate any comments you may have about the comparison between the vaccines used to inoculate children in Canada, and those being distributed for use in the US. Could it be that the drugs here are so different than the ones the same pharmaceutical companies are selling to agencies here? That seems improbable, but the regulatory agencies responsible for reassuring the public respond to concerns by insisting that the risky components are not present.

Looking at charts, the start date and escalating rate of rise of autism since the late 80’s in Canada and the US are the same. The conclusions RFK Jr. draws related to the CDC in the US, but I wonder if the same collusion and corruption he insists are present and devastatingly problematic there are also corrupting our own institutions. For instance, has anyone done a comparative study, and really, why should they if everyone but the’ cranks’ refuse to acknowledge that there’s any validity to these claims. Just some thoughts shared…I know you are busy, so only reply if time allows.

Big virtual hugs to you.

Blake

Posted by Sandra Finley at 7:31 PM

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5.   2022-10-11 Meryl Nass, M.D. Testifies Against Maine Medical Board that charged Nass with Covid misinformation and suspended her license to practice medicine. Below is with thanks to CHD

https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=27452

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6.   2022-08-04 the REPORTING about blue jays player not vaxxed

https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=27322

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7.   2022-05-05 U.S. Army Lieutenant Convicted But Not Punished in First COVID-Related Court-Martial

https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=18218

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8.   2020-06-10 If I am making a choice about a vaccine, I want to know this.

https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=25074

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9.   2018-10-24 Vaccinations, Autism, reply to: I want “cause-effect” experimental data, not what someone “feels” or “believes”. Includes background on “Vaccine Court”.

https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=22600

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10.   2017-03-06 Reply to CBC: But it requires media cooperation for Big Pharma to accomplish the silencing of the CDC Whistle blower. Vaccines

https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=18384 

EXCERPT:

The horrific consequences of the anthrax vaccines for military personnel were known before the year 2000.   

Only a wacko nutcase would propose to inject children, let alone adults, with the vaccine.

But hey!   If you’ve purchased more than a billion dollars worth of anthrax vaccine from Big Pharma, 

you gotta get rid of it somewhere

 

2022-10-20 Covid: L’s letter to the Public Order Emergency Commission. With thanks to Ken Drysdale, True Facts C-19

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Oct 202022
 

  • kenrdrysdale

    • 6 hours ago
    • 7 min read

A True Story, From One of Our (The True Facts, C-19) Subscribers!  

Many of you ask me on a daily basis: “What Can I do”? I received this poignant, email from one of our subscribers, in which she included a copy of her submission to the “Public Order Emergency Commission”. The submission not only tells her story, but also chronicles what had happened to many of us.

I though you might want to see it for yourselves.

TO:  Public Order Emergency Commission
DATE: October 7, 2022
FROM: L.     I am a 60 year old Ontario resident, retired law clerk after 35 years. I am a wife, mother, step-grandma, sister, aunt to an RN who was fired by LHSC during a “health crisis” and “hospital staff crisis”.

I lost an old friend, healthy 59 year old to massive heart attack 2 weeks after her “booster”.

I am the wife of a semi-retired family physician who has seen firsthand vaccine injuries for the first time in his 40 year medical career, having never had to treat a vaccine injured patient during his whole career until the rollout of the experimental injections in Canada.

I strongly opposed all senseless, discriminatory, draconian and illegal mandates and restrictions inflicted upon Canadians.

I attended dozens of rallies in my small town protesting against vax mandates forced upon Canadians. I was and am a strong supporter of the Freedom Convoy 2022, and for this my prime minister labels me a racist and extremist with unacceptable views and questions whether I should be tolerated.

From the beginning of the announcement from our government and unelected health authorities declaring a “pandemic” I was highly skeptical of the facts and data being presented to the Canadian public, given that anything provided to the citizens were predictions and modelling. When lockdowns, masking, distancing and further restrictions were ordered in what seemed to me to be in co-ordinated global lockstep, I truly could not believe what was happening before my very eyes.

The level of compliance with these restrictions by the populace was shocking to me. The blind acceptance however was predictable given the propaganda and brainwashing campaign foisted among Canadians by our government and corrupt media. I seemed to be one of the few asking questions and believing the steps being taken were just completely wrong, immoral, unethical and unjustified. I have never felt so alone or unheard. I wrote endlessly to my local politicians, my provincial and federal representatives and health authorities requesting justification and medical and scientific evidence in support of the restrictions.

 

I never received a reply.

 

Once mandates were put in place I truly could not believe this was happening in my own country. The sickening division, discrimination and hate spewed towards Canadians for not complying with mandates and restrictions coming from the mouths of our politicians, unelected health bureaucrats and media was completely shocking to me and caused so much anger and anxiety for me as in my heart this destructive behaviour was like nothing I have ever experienced or witnessed before. I felt completely hopeless and helpless. I did succumb to the blackmail, bullying and coercion of our government and took the experimental injections in order to travel.

My family had travel plans to British Columbia booked for the summers of 2020 and 2021 however due to restrictions we did not travel in either year. Approximately $30,000.00 in tourism dollars in those two years was lost just from my family alone. The economic consequences of the draconian measures taken by our government are incalculable. I could not in good conscience use my VAX PAPERS and therefore was banned from my gym, restaurants etc., being discriminated against for my personal choice. The evidence is clear: these experimental injections are neither safe nor effective. I feel extremely lucky and thankful that I did not and to date have not suffered a serious adverse reaction.

How many Canadians need to suffer severe adverse reactions or death from these injections before they are pulled from the market????? Continuing to promote these experimental injections is criminal and our government and health authorities need to be held to account.

For the first time in almost two years, there was a glimmer of hope! The Freedom Convoy 2022!! From the moment I heard about the convoy plans I thought, finally, I’m not the only one feeling hopeless!

One leg of the convoy departed from my small township, Plympton Wyoming. I drove with this convoy for an hour to its London, Ontario pit stop. At least 1000 people were in the crowd sending us off, people of all ages, families with children all waving Canadian flags and holding signs of support and cheering on the convoy in -10 degree weather. Every single overpass between Plympton-Wyoming to London was packed with hundreds of supporters, with many more waving and cheering from the side of the road. More vehicles joined the convoy along the way. I was experiencing hope and joy for the first time in almost two years. I had to show my support to the convoy and supporters in any way I could.

My sister and I headed to Ottawa on February 13th and remained until February 16th. Our journey was an 8 hour drive with well over an hour of that time spent just navigating a few blocks trying to reach our hotel on Cartier Street.

For no apparent reason to us, many streets were blockaded by police or barricaded with concrete barriers despite being many blocks away from downtown proper. Each day we continued to see empty streets in the downtown area either barricaded with concrete barriers or with police cars with flashers going and were mystified as to why these streets were being blocked off. We spent our four days in Ottawa personally thanking every trucker we saw, hugging and thanking all truckers and supporters who were there, including several veterans, singing, laughing and dancing and experiencing nothing but peace, joy and happiness with fellow Canadians from all walks of life.

I have never seen such a peaceful and happy gathering of people, waving Canadian flags and uniting and supporting each other. The unity, peace and love shared by everyone we met in Ottawa was heartwarming. My sister and I were featured on Fox News in a segment hosted by Sean Hannity on February 15th, waving our flags and holding our signs of support for the truckers.

We had to watch news from the United States to get accurate coverage of the convoy. Every block we walked where trucks were parked there was ALWAYS a free lane of traffic allowing for emergency vehicles or Ottawa residents to navigate throughout downtown Ottawa. I will forever be grateful to the convoy organizers, truckers and supporters and will never forget what our government did to its own citizens. All of this hope, excitement and happiness came to a crashing halt once the Emergencies Act was declared by our government.

What followed was a shocking and horrifying act of aggression towards a peaceful and legal protest of Canadian citizens. The brutality inflicted on peaceful protestors was a shocking and sickening moment in Canadian history. All we wanted was for our voices to be heard. Instead, our government ignored its own citizens and inflicted as much damage, hate, division and trampling of rights as it possibly could. While the convoy may have overstayed its welcome, what transpired showed us all and was proof of the lengths to which this corrupt government would go to to shut down and silence Canadian citizens.

It’s hard to imagine our government officials felt so threatened by its own citizens, peacefully protesting for their voices to be heard, that it felt justified using the strongest powers to silence them. Our politicians need to remember, they work for US. For weeks I experienced anxiety and stress wondering if and when my bank accounts would be frozen as I had PROUDLY donated to both the Go Fund Me and Give Send Go funds for the convoy. The fact that our government officials were gleefully reporting the seizure of funds of Canadian citizens was sickening. The use of the Emergencies Act was a gross display of government overreach. The use of mainstream media to spread division, hate and misinformation over the convoy was beyond shocking. All mainstream media tv and radio stations have been banned in my household. We have been and are dealing with the greatest miscarriage of medical science, attack on democracy and erosion of trust in our institutions that we have ever witnessed in our lifetime. The parties responsible for this injustice must be held to account. I am hoping that this enquiry opens the eyes of Canadian citizens to the corruption plaguing our government and health authorities. Not only is this enquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act necessary, but criminal investigations are also desperately needed to hold to account our politicians and unelected health authorities for crimes against humanity. Data for Ontario and British Columbia have been analyzed and reports completed by thetruefactsc19.com evidencing the fact there never was a pandemic of a virus in Canada.

Many grassroots organizations, doctors and scientists have amassed evidence of fraud with respect to the “vaccine” being forced upon Canadians. The silencing of doctors, nurses, scientists and medical professions is proof positive that massive fraud has been committed by those in our government and health agencies.

Many questions need to be asked of our politicians and unelected health authorities, a few as follows:

1. Canadians need to see the contracts between big pharma and our government. When will these contracts be produced to the Canadian people?

2. Canada spent millions preparing Prewritten Pandemic Response Emergency Plans to be used in the event of a pandemic. These plans were updated as recently as September 2019. Why were these emergency plans ignored? Colonel Dr. David Redmond presented the existing Emergency Management plans in an interview posted on drtrozzi.org on January 29, 2022. Dr. Tam was one of the contributors to the existing Prewritten Emergency Management Plans. Not one Canadian premier would speak with Dr. Redmond. Why not? Where did the emergency plans supporting the restrictions and mandates used in response to covid-19 come from?

3. When will investigations or financial audits be conducted to show where the billions of tax payer dollars were spent in the management of Covid-19?

4. When were our politicians and unelected health authorities made aware that the experimental injections being forced on Canadian citizens did not prevent transmission of a virus nor stop infection? Did they have this information at the time of signing the contracts with big pharma? Why would our government mandate a product that does not stop infection or transmission of a virus and is now proven to cause serious adverse reactions and even death? Examination and analysis of the Pfizer documents clearly show their products never stopped infection or transmission of the covid-19 virus and this was recently admitted by a Pfizer executive in the European Parliament.

5. Why does our government and unelected health authorities continue to push the experimental injections on Canadian citizens when scientific and medical evidence now shows the severe injuries and death being caused to Canadian citizens? Why are people still being mandated to take these experimental injections and why are people still losing their jobs for not taking these experimental injections?

For the future of my son and grandchildren, I pray for justice and the return of the True North, Strong and Free!

Sincerely, L

Thank you L for you efforts to rebuild Canada Strong and Free!

2022-10-11 Meryl Nass, M.D. Testifies Against Maine Medical Board that charged Nass with Covid misinformation and suspended her license to practice medicine. Below is with thanks to CHD

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Oct 122022
 

The video of the hearing (Oct 11, 2022) is lengthy.   

Dr.  Nass nails the Board and the Prosecutor (the Assistant-Attorney-General for Maine). 

The hearing continued on Oct 12th;  I haven’t been able to find the continuation online.

With thanks to:  Children’s Health Defense (CHD)  – – and of course to Dr. Meryl Nass.   She is a remarkable person.

Maine Medical Board — Meryl Nass, M.D. Official Hearing

(INSERT:   2022-10-20.  I cannot find a video of the Oct 11 Hearing.  I was watching LIVE stream.  I assume it hasn’t been made into a video.)

Maine Board Licensure in Medicine Suddenly Withdraws “Misinformation” Allegations Against Dr. Meryl Nass

Augusta, ME — On Sept. 26, the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine (Board) suddenly withdrew six accusations alleging misinformation against Dr. Meryl Nass. On Sept. 30, the Board withdrew more factual allegations regarding “misinformation.” The board has now dropped all charges regarding so-called “misinformation” on the cusp of the hearing set for Oct. 11, 2022, at 1 p.m. (EDT). With no patient complaints, the Board is now resting its prosecution on the prescribing of hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin and on picayune record-keeping issues that are well within the standard of care.

The Board suspended Nass, a physician of impeccable credentials, on Jan. 12, 2021, without even a hearing. The Board accused Nass, a scientific advisory board member of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), of “unprofessional” and “disruptive” behavior based on her public criticism of government COVID-19 policies and early treatment of COVID-19.

Prior to her suspension, Nass never had a malpractice case or a prior Board action against her in over forty years of practice. Between October and December 2021, there were four complaints to the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine. Two from strangers regarding “misinformation” they saw on the internet, one complaint from a physician regarding prescribing a “deworming medication” (ivermectin) and one from a midwife regarding her prescribing hydroxychloroquine. Without a hearing, the Board ordered her license immediately suspended, demanded a neuropsychological evaluation and implied that she was mentally impaired or a substance abuser and incompetent to practice medicine.

Nass’s Maine counsel, Gene Libby and Tyler Smith, have moved to dismiss all charges and asked the Board to apologize to her for its unfounded case intended only to silence Nass and like-minded physicians who used effective early treatments for COVID-19 — as opposed to no treatment at all until patients were hospitalized.

Nass’s testifying experts will include Professor Emeritus in Epidemiology at Yale Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., pulmonary and critical care specialist Paul Marik, M.D., inventor of mRNA vaccine technology Robert Malone, M.D., intensive care specialist Pierre Kory, M.D. and surgeon Steven Katsis, M.D. of the Oklahoma Medical Board.

You can read two of the Board’s recent notices withdrawing various complaints (second and third notices), Nass’s opening statement to the Medical Board, and defense counsel’s timeline of events that led to her suspension.

Children’s Health Defense is supporting Nass’s defense. “The Board’s attempts to censor physicians like Nass have no role in medicine or science; they present a grave danger to the health and human rights of all Americans,” said CHD president and general counsel Mary Holland.

Justine Tanguay will be providing live-blogging coverage (copied below)   of this hearing.

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Justine Tanguay:Good afternoon. My name is Justine Tanguay and I will be live-blogging today’s hearing.
Justine Tanguay:As many of you know, the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine (BOLIM) suspended Dr. Meryl Nass’ license to practice medicine without a hearing on January 12, 2021.
Justine Tanguay:Dr. Nass’s original suspension order included accusations of spreading “misinformation,” “unprofessional” and “disruptive” behavior based on her public criticism of the government COVID-19 policies and early treatment of COVID-19.
Justine Tanguay:A motion to recuse is a request that one remove oneself due to personal bias, prejudice, or interest that would make that person unable to maintain an appearance of or rule impartiality.
Justine Tanguay:Today’s hearing will focus on Dr. Nass’s prescribing hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin since the board on September 26, 2022 withdrew six of the accusations of spreading “misinformation,” and on September 30, 2022 withdrew more of its factual allegations related to “misinformation.”
Justine Tanguay:The board is voting on whether the Motion to Dismiss should be granted.
Justine Tanguay:The board is deliberating whether to vacate the board’s original suspension and order directing that she participate in a neuropsychological evaluation.
Justine Tanguay:Each board member is being asked individually whether they will recuse themselves. All declined.
Justine Tanguay:Attorney Libby has raised the issue that several of the board’s allegations have been withdrawn since the original suspension.
Justine Tanguay:It appears that some of board members were unaware.
Justine Tanguay:The question is why did Dr. Nass have to give a false statement to the pharmacist in order to have a life-saving treatment prescribed for her patient.
Justine Tanguay:Pharmacists are not supposed to ask WHY a prescription is being written for a patient.
Justine Tanguay:Without legal authority, the Maine Board of Pharmacy on September 28, 2021, issued a statement on dispensing Ivermectin. The statement noted that FDA had not approved Ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19. The statement instructed pharmacists to take appropriate steps to verify that the medication was being taken for “legitimate medical purposes,” however, no such approval is legally necessary. It was merely an attempt to scare the pharmacists and for the most part, it worked.
Justine Tanguay:The AAG’s line of questioning is an attempt to make it look like Dr. Nass did not keep good records for each patient. However, it must be noted that Governor Mills’ Executive Order issued on March 20, 2020 suspended Provisions of Certain Health Care Professional Licensing Statutes and Rules in Order to Facilitate Treatment and Containment of COVID-19. Due to the “highly contagious” nature of COVID-19, the ability of physicians to provide services via telemedicine or telehealth and to support the suspension of health care privacy and confidentiality laws to a limited degree necessary to provide these services.
Justine Tanguay:Specifically, the Executive Order stated, “The enforcement of state patient privacy, and confidentiality laws to the contrary are hereby suspended for the purposes of responding to the COVID-19 emergency.”
Justine Tanguay:To clarify, Dr. Nass met with all 3 patients (aka Patient 1, Patient 2, and Patient 3 respectively) being referenced via a telehealth conference.
Justine Tanguay:Patient 1 and Patient 2 were healthy patients who wanted to have Ivermectin prescribed prophylactically should they contract COVID-19.
Justine Tanguay:Stating the obvious… how can a physician take a patient’s vitals over the phone?
Justine Tanguay:Please keep in mind that Dr. Nass has NEVER had a patient complaint against her and she has been practicing medicine for over 40 years.
Justine Tanguay:The AG’s office is using the medical records of Patients 1, 2, and 3 against Dr. Nass to make it look like she did not conduct the proper the evaluation. Dr. Nass’s expert witnesses who are also physicians who testify later on that her consultation and prescriptions met proper the standard of care.
Justine Tanguay:On March 17, 2020, HHS OCR relaxed the HIPPA rules. Specifically, it exercised its enforcement discretion and would not impose penalties for non-compliance with regulation regulations under HIPPA Rules . . . in connection with the good faith provision of the telehealth during COVID-19 nationwide public health emergency.
Justine Tanguay:Dr. Nass is being faulted for speaking with the son of Patient 1 who was living in the home and caring for Patient 1 who had later developed COVID, was seriously ill and had chosen to have him speak on Patient 1’s behalf.
Justine Tanguay:As Dr. Nass pointed out, if the son had been in a different location, she would not have spoken to him without prior authorization from Patient 1.
Justine Tanguay:10 minute recess
Justine Tanguay:While the hearing is in recess, I want to point out the importance and sanctity of the doctor – patient relationship. Even the American Medical Association Code of Ethics opines that “in all professional relationships between a physician and a patient, the physician’s primary concern must be the health of the patient.” When Dr. Nass first became a physician, she took a sacred oath to “first, do no harm” and she is morally bound by the Hippocratic Oath and her desire to help her patients.
Justine Tanguay:Rather than applaud Dr. Nass for trying to save her patients, the board has specifically targeted her because of her viewpoints and her outspoken nature regarding the government’s COVID-19 policies.
Justine Tanguay:Hearing has resumed.
Justine Tanguay:Yes indeed, 42 years of medical practice allows Dr. Nass to know that her medical records for Patient 1 were adequate with regard to the telemedicine consult regarding COVID-19.
Justine Tanguay:The AAG seems to be confusing the telehealth consults versus in-patient evaluations.
Justine Tanguay:On to Patient 2.
Justine Tanguay:On September 2, 2021, Dr. Nass conducted a telehealth consult with Patient 2 when healthy. The purpose of the visit was to have Dr. Nass prescribe Ivermectin prophylactically should the patient become ill with COVID-19.
Justine Tanguay:Dr. Nass took a detailed consult and noted that the patient was at high-risk with several comorbidities, as well as weight and overall health. She also detailed listing all medications and supplements that the patient was taking at the time.
Justine Tanguay:Again, Dr. Nass is being faulted for communicating with the wife of Patient 2 who had developed COVID in December. Standard medical practice allows a husband and wife to consult with a physician together.
Justine Tanguay:Patient 2’s wife (although sick herself) was the spokesperson for her husband who was suffering from severe COVID-19.
Justine Tanguay:When the pharmacies in Maine refused to fill the life-saving treatment of Ivermectin, Dr. Nass reached out to a New York compounding pharmacy to fill the prescription for her patient.
Justine Tanguay:On December 11th, after Patient 2 became sick with COVID-19, he and his wife contacted Dr. Nass again.
Justine Tanguay:Since the PCR tests are not 100% reliable, Dr. Nass conducted a clinical evaluation by phone. A clinical evaluation is a process of collecting and assessing sufficient evidence to determine that Patient 2 was suffering from COVID-19. Dr. Nass recommended that Patient 2 get a chest x-ray to further confirm the COVID-19 diagnosis.
Justine Tanguay:After Patient 2 was admitted into the hospital several days later, the treating physician spoke with Dr. Nass (at Patient 2’s wife’s request) to discuss Patient 2. Dr. Nass tried to make suggestions to help Patient 2 survive.
Justine Tanguay:Patient 2 had to extubate (remove tube from his trachea) himself in order to leave the hospital.
Justine Tanguay:On to Patient 3.
Justine Tanguay:Again, Dr. Nass consulted with Patient 3 by phone for a telehealth consult.
Justine Tanguay:Patient 3 had a positive COVID-19 test and contacted Dr. Nass on September 21st for an Ivermectin prescription after her own physician refused to do anything. Although Patient 3 had asked for an Ivermectin prescription, Dr. Nass declined because it was not approved for pregnancy. Instead, Dr. Nass prescribed Hydroxychloroquine as it is a safe medication for pregnant women.
Justine Tanguay:Although Patient 3 did not complain, her midwife did, asserting that there was no attempt to coordinate treatment and that the midwife would have used a different approach. It is interesting to note that there is no obligation whatsoever to coordinate treatment for COVID-19 with a midwife, who is NOT a physician.
Justine Tanguay:A subpoena is a legal document ordering a person to testify as a witness in court or hearing, and/or (in this case) produce documents in a legal proceeding.
Justine Tanguay:Dr. Nass’s former attorneys complied with Administrative Proceedings Act (APA) and filed an action in court.
Justine Tanguay:The AAG is totally out of line asking if Dr. Nass intended to defend herself or be a spectacle for her audience.
Justine Tanguay:Short recess before Attorney Libby questions Dr. Nass.
Justine Tanguay:Attorney Gene Libby is an experienced litigator with over 30+ years of litigation. He is a former District Attorney in York County Maine and was listed in Best Lawyers in America back in 2003 and also named “New England Super Lawyer” by his peers. In 2010, he was named one of 100 top Maine trial lawyers by the American Trial Lawyers Association. He is the founder partner of the law firm Libby, O’Brien, Kingsley, & Champion LLC located in Kennebunk, Maine. His partner, Tyler Smith has also been named one of Super Lawyers of New England “Rising Stars” in the area of litigation.
Justine Tanguay:Attorney Libby is introducing Dr. Nass as well as her expertise as an internist.
Justine Tanguay:In the fall of 2021, there were early treatments for COVID-19, specifically Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine.
Justine Tanguay:HCQ has been available for over 60 years and is considered incredibly safe. Ivermectin is also considered extremely safe and has been available as a human medicine effectively since 1978.
Justine Tanguay:In addition to being a physician, Dr. Nass is a biological warfare epidemiologist who investigated and became an expert in anthrax. Dr. Nass has reviewed government sponsored anthrax research in the context of the Biological Weapons Convention and used it as a model for discussion of how to prevent biological warfare.
Justine Tanguay:Doe v. Rumsfeld was a landmark decision where the court ruled that military members must give informed consent before receiving the Anthrax vaccine. This means that military members also have the right to refuse the experimental vaccine.
Justine Tanguay:Dr. Nass has become an expert in Gulf War illness and played a major role in the creation of a coalition that has fought the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program.
Justine Tanguay:If anyone is interested in reading Dr. Nass’s blog, it can be found at https://merylnassmd.com, entitled “Truth in the Age of COVID.” You can also find her on Substack, along with many other censored physicians who have become experts in treating COVID-19.
Justine Tanguay:On June 15, 2020, the FDA revoked the emergency use authorization (EUA) for hydroxychloroquine based on doctored and erroneous information that the drugs may not be effective to treat COVID-19. The Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine also issued an order that the FDA has not authorized the use of Ivermectin for preventing and treating COVID-19. The problem though is that ONCE A DRUG IS LICENSED by the FDA it may be used for ANY OFF-LABEL purpose if a patient and a physician have a reasonable basis to believe that it will treat the patient’s condition.
Justine Tanguay:If you are interested in the details regarding the government’s suppression of HCQ and Ivermectin, please refer to Dr. Nass’s blog dated June 28, 2020 in an article entitled, “How a false hydroxychloroquine narrative was created, and more.”
Justine Tanguay:Coronaviruses have been around longer than you think…
Justine Tanguay:Coronaviruses are a large, family of viruses that can cause respiratory illness, such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), as well as the common cold to both humans and certain animals. Although experts first identified coronaviruses in the mid-1900’s, it is believed that this diverse group of viruses has existed for centuries.
Justine Tanguay:Between October and December 21, 2021, the board received 4 complaints against Dr. Nass. Two of those complaints came from strangers who cited “misinformation” they read on the internet. One complaint came from a physician who accused Dr. Nass of prescribing “deworming medication” (Ivermectin) and another came from a midwife regarding Dr. Nass prescribing hydroxychloroquine.
Justine Tanguay:On January 12, 2022, the board suspended Dr. Nass’s medical license without a hearing for “misinformation,” “unprofessional” and “disruptive” behavior. However, on September 26th and September 30th, the board withdrew all of the allegations for “misinformation” and “factual allegations” supporting those grounds.
Justine Tanguay:It’s interesting that the board used allegations of “misinformation” to suspend Dr. Nass’s medical license without a hearing back in January, but now that information is irrelevant? WOW!
Justine Tanguay:Without the ability to give the appearance that Dr. Nass suffered from a mental illness through a series of allegations, the board could not immediately suspend her license nor could they order that she participate in a neuropsychological evaluation on January 11, 2022. Yet, that is exactly what the board did. Indeed, the board purposely targeted Dr. Nass in an attempt to intimidate her. Dr. Nass is courageous and cannot be silenced. And now the hearing is adjourned for today, but do stay tuned!

2022-09-(30?) Jordan Peterson makes the link between the trampling of rights in Canada under Covid and the case of Julian Assange. Tyranny.

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Oct 072022
 

1 hour 50 minutes.   Stella Moris (wife of Julian Assange) is pretty amazing.   

Jordan Peterson does a good job of the interview – – and he mentions parallels to the taking away of rights in Canada under the Covid guise.

https://utm.io/ueSXh

 

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This posting contains context – – I think of it as the transformation of Peterson!   AND my conversion to support of Peterson.  

2022-09-28 Interview, Jordan Peterson with Piers Morgan. WILL IT HELP TO DE-POLARIZE, SO WE CAN AT LEAST TALK WITH EACH OTHER?

    https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=27427

2022-09-28 Interview, Jordan Peterson with Piers Morgan. WILL IT HELP TO DE-POLARIZE, SO WE CAN AT LEAST TALK WITH EACH OTHER?

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Oct 042022
 

2022 – Sept 28 video

I ignored Jordan Peterson after assessing a number of his videos a few years ago.  He made some good points, but there were (are?) elements of an unhealthy anger he used (uses?) that I associate with sophisticated levels of manipulative behavior.  

Later, I came across this 2018 video by a young woman “Angie“.  Angie explains the problems (and dangers) behind Peterson’s arguments much better than I could ever hope to. 

 On why Jordan Peterson succeeds where the left fails   (Jungian Archetypes and Masculinity).

(Remember that Peterson is speaking to audiences from an elevated position of doctor, clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of  Toronto, an academic.  He is an “authority”.)

NOTE:

Women’s Reality by Anne Wilson Schaef, originally published in 1981,

contains elaboration of a point that Angie makes:  “Masculinity” in these contexts is NOT about sex.  In our beings, we ALL have elements of the masculine and of the feminine.   If people miss that point,  the division between the sexes deepens, IMHO.

The “white male system” is as harmful for males as it is for females.  

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I listened to the January 2022 interview  

Brian Peckford, Jordan Peterson, and the Charter 

by Peterson – – but only because Brian Peckford was the interviewee.  Surprise! – – Peterson did a good job.  It was a good interview.   I re-posted it on my blog.  

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The interview at top of this posting,  2022-09-28,  is similarily worthwhile.   

Jordan Peterson with Piers Morgan 

And potentially helpful – –  hope-giving – – in my way of understanding the world.   DE-POLARIZATION is a requirement, if we are to back away from the angry, violent, and tyrannical world we are creating.

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Peterson has roughly 5 million followers world-wide via social media.   Overlapping,

Peterson is the bestselling author of 12 RULES OF LIFE (2018) which has sold over five million copies worldwide. 

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The message in this September 2022 video at top:  we have to learn to LISTEN to each other.   The anger is not helpful.

I think that Peterson is disclosing a personal and fairly recent story of transformation.  Think of the potential for good that is riding on this one video, given the size of Peterson’s following!   I hope that Peterson is being genuine and I am not being hood-winked!  

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PETERSON VIDEOS ON MY BLOG

2022-01-27 Brian Peckford, Jordan Peterson, and the Charter

https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=26932

 

2018-11-18 On why Jordan Peterson succeeds where the left fails

https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=24852

2018-06-17 The Problem With Wokeness, NY Times Opinion, David Brooks

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Oct 022022
 

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A few weeks ago, I (David Brooks) mentioned on “Meet the Press” that for all the horror of the recent school shootings, we shouldn’t be scaremongering. There’s much less gun violence over all in schools today than in the early 1990s. Four times as many students were killed per year back then than in recent years.

This comment elicited a lot of hatred on social media, of a very interesting kind. The general diagnosis was that I was doing something wrong by not maximizing the size of the problem. I was draining moral urgency and providing comfort to the status quo.

This mental habit is closely related to what we now call “wokeness.” In an older frame of mind, you try to perceive the size of a problem objectively, and then you propose a solution, which might either be radical or moderate, conservative or liberal. You were judged primarily by the nature of your proposal.

But wokeness jams together the perceiving and the proposing. In fact, wokeness puts more emphasis on how you perceive a situation — how woke you are to what is wrong — than what exactly you plan to do about it. To be woke is to understand the full injustice.

There is no measure or moderation to wokeness. It’s always good to be more woke. It’s always good to see injustice in maximalist terms. To point to any mitigating factors in the environment is to be naïve, childish, a co-opted part of the status quo.

The word wokeness is new, but the mental habits it describes are old. A few decades ago, there was a small strain of Jewish radicals who believed that rabid anti-Semitism was at the core of Christian culture. Any attempt to live in mixed societies would always lead to Auschwitz. Segregation and moving to Israel was the only safe strategy, and anybody who didn’t see this reality was, in today’s language, insufficiently woke.

This attitude led to Meir Kahane and a very ugly strain of militancy.

In 1952 Reinhold Niebuhr complained that many of his fellow anti-communists were constantly requiring “that the foe is hated with sufficient vigor.” This led to “apoplectic rigidity.” Screaming about the imminent communist menace became a sort of display art for politicians.

These days we think of wokeness as a left-wing phenomenon. But it is an iron law of politics that every mental habit conservatives fault in liberals is one they also practice themselves.

The modern right has its own trigger words (diversity, dialogue, social justice, community organizer), its own safe spaces (Fox News) and its own wokeness. Michael Anton’s essay “The Flight 93 Election” is only one example of the common apocalyptic view: Modern liberals are hate-filled nihilists who will destroy the nation if given power. Anybody who doesn’t understand this reality is not conservatively woke.

The problem with wokeness is that it doesn’t inspire action; it freezes it. To be woke is first and foremost to put yourself on display. To make a problem seem massively intractable is to inspire separation — building a wall between you and the problem — not a solution.

There’s a debate on precisely this point now surrounding the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. Coates is, of course, well known for seeing the problem of racism in maximalist terms. The entire American story was and continues to be based on “plunder,” the violent crushing of minority bodies. Even today, “ ‘gentrification’ is but a more pleasing name for white supremacy.”

Coates is very honest about his pessimism and his hopeless view of the situation. But a number of writers have criticized his stance. Cornel West has argued that it’s all words; it doesn’t lead to collective action. In The New York Review of Books, Darryl Pinckney argues, “Afro-pessimism threatens no one, and white audiences confuse having been chastised with learning.”

I’d add that it’s a blunt fact that most great social reforms have happened in moments of optimism, not moments of pessimism, in moments of encouraging progress, not in moments of perceived threat.

The greatest danger of extreme wokeness is that it makes it harder to practice the necessary skill of public life, the ability to see two contradictory truths at the same time. For example, it is certainly true that racism is the great sin of American history, that it is an ongoing sin and the sin from which many of our other sins flow. It is also true that throughout history and today, millions of people have tried to combat that sin and have made progress against it.

The confrontation with this sin or any sin is not just a protest but a struggle. Generalship in that or any struggle is seeing where the forces of progress are swelling and where the forces of reaction are marching. It is seeing opportunities as well as threats. It is being dispassionate in one’s perception of the situation and then passionate in one’s assault on it.

Indignation is often deserved and always makes for a great media strategy. But in its extreme form, whether on left or right, wokeness leads to a one-sided depiction of the present and an unsophisticated strategy for a future offensive.

2022-09-05 Surveillance

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Oct 022022
 

This is for a younger person who was commenting on the current surveillance in Canada and the U.S.

Edward Snowden.   Snowden’s  incredible feat goes back 10 years.   “The kids” who are 20 years old today may know nothing about it.   The second link below has some info.

 

2012-03-25 F/U on 2009 NSA, $2 billion data centre in Utah. “More on spy city – Big Brother Goes Live September 2013”

 

2022-09-28 In support of Salman Rushdie, Freedom of Speech. PEN Canada, John Ralston Saul & Grace Westcott.

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Oct 012022
 

John Ralston Saul is president emeritus of PEN International and PEN Canada. His 14 books include The Collapse of Globalism and The Unconscious Civilization. This piece was adapted from opening remarks made at a Sept. 27 reading of Salman Rushdie’s work, organized by the Toronto International Festival of Authors, Penguin Random House Canada, the Writers Trust and PEN Canada.

Salman Rushdie, a fellow writer, remains in hospital, recovering from 10 wounds, each one of them intended to end his life.

Salman would be the first to remind us that this attack was not one of a kind. It was symptomatic of our time.

The pressure against free expression – sometimes subtle, sometimes violent – has been growing, everywhere, over the last two decades. For so many writers this era has been anything but free.

Libel chill. The courts being used to bankrupt writers and publishers. Prison cells. Torture. Assassination attempts. Assassination itself.

We in the West are quick to assert that all of this is happening somewhere else far away, in places less democratic, more autocratic, dictatorial.

Yet the preaching of legal and physical violence against those who use words to free the imagination – to encourage doubt, debate, change – has been almost normalized, as if it were a sign of intellectual vibrancy. As if literature were not a civilizational concept, but merely a political tool of the enemy.

Yes, novelists, journalists, playwrights, poets, essayists, filmmakers have always sailed close to the wind. Literature is about risk, not comfort.

In many places today, the target is journalists, including Mexico, our close partner, which is in the midst of its deadliest year on record for reporters. In others, it is poets.

Our reality is this: Writing remains the most dangerous profession. In many places, it is much more dangerous than military life.

This gathering is organized by PEN Canada – one of the 150 PEN centres around the world. Since the beginning of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie 33 years ago, PEN Canada has been at the forefront of his defence. Some of you will remember the night of Dec. 7, 1992, when a small group of us, under the leadership of Louise Dennys, brought Salman secretly to Toronto – it couldn’t have happened any other way – to put him suddenly on the Winter Garden Theatre stage at that year’s PEN benefit. A thousand people rose to their feet in astonishment and in support, including the premier at the time, Bob Rae.

We then took him to Ottawa to brief the foreign minister and, most importantly, to be seen with her. After that, it was on to testify before the foreign affairs committee.

It was the first time since the fatwa began that he was received publicly at such levels. This led to Canada taking his case – as a victim of international terrorism – to the United Nations. All of which changed the trajectory of his threatened life.

The threat was great, but he needed to be seen and heard. It was a matter of life and rule of law.

But Salman would want me to insist that his case is only one among many around the world. He himself has never hesitated to speak up in defence of other writers.

Why? Because the people of the word are everywhere sued, beaten up, imprisoned, tortured, murdered.

In my years as the international president of PEN, a small group of us travelled constantly from country to country, negotiating, pressuring and, if necessary, embarrassing those in power, trying to stop executions and torture and attempting to get writers out of prison. We were continually fighting small battles over their rights to medications, decent food, blankets, family visits.

The indifference of those in power to freedom of expression was depressing. Their indifference to the imprisonment, torture and murder of writers was a frightening revelation.

Salman would not want us to focus on his case in a mournful manner. Free expression is a fragile force. He would expect us to embrace it, to imbue it with great strength, so that everyday, when each of us, each of you, wakes up and leaves our home, we carry free speech with us and we defend it.

No matter how small or large the cause, we make it part of our everyday life.

 

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Grace Westcott is the Executive Director of PEN Canada.  

Thirty years ago, PEN Canada, a non-partisan organization that supports freedom of expression in Canada and writers endangered around the world, staged an extraordinary coup in Toronto. Held in support of award-winning English novelist Salman Rushdie, it went on to have international ramifications – with this country at the root of it.

In 1992, Rushdie was in his fourth year of hiding, under constant police protection for fear of his life. Three years earlier, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran had issued a fatwa calling for his murder, and the murder of those associated with his novel, The Satanic Verses. Khomeini claimed the novel insulted Islam, though his son admitted later that he never read it.

Internationally, political will to stand up to such an astonishing public threat against a private citizen of another country was sadly lacking. But no country was willing to act alone. Louise Dennys, then president of PEN Canada, told the head of the International Salman Rushdie Defence Committee that she believed Canada could break the impasse.

A handful of PEN members – Louise, with Ric Young, John Ralston Saul, Adrienne Clarkson, Marian Botsford-Fraser and Clayton Ruby – hatched an ambitious plan to persuade the Canadian government to condemn Iran’s state-sanctioned act of terrorism against Rushdie. The strategy: to use the annual PEN Canada Benefit to showcase public support for Rushdie in the country and galvanize the government in Ottawa to take the issue to the United Nations. They needed to bring Rushdie to Canada and draw intense media coverage.

This was no easy matter. It required absolute secrecy, the support of MI6 in Britain alongside CSIS and the RCMP in Canada, and a frantic last-minute search for means – ultimately, a private jet offered by an anonymous donor – to bring Rushdie across the Atlantic when the initial flight plan fell through.

Miraculously, they managed it. On Dec. 7, 1992, Rushdie appeared as a surprise guest on stage at the Winter Garden Theatre before an astonished audience of a thousand people. There was a collective gasp as the crowd rose to its feet in applause, even as they suddenly became aware of the 60-some security personnel present in the theatre, talking into their sleeves.

And then Bob Rae, premier of Ontario at the time, came on stage and embraced Rushdie, the first head of government anywhere to publicly stand with him. Rae called upon all governments to “do the right thing.”

It did not end there. The small delegation flew straight to Ottawa. Overnight, a morning press conference was convened. A few hours later, Barbara McDougall became the first secretary of state of any country to meet with Rushdie. Jean Chrétien, then the leader of the Official Opposition, walked him over to the House of Commons where he testified before the Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Development and Human Rights.

The result was electrifying. Within 48 hours, Canada became the first country in the world to pass a unanimous, all-party resolution condemning the Iranian government for its shameful record on human rights, demanding the withdrawal of the fatwa. Three months later, at the instigation of the Canadian government, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva passed a resolution condemning Iran’s actions and calling for sanctions.

Remarkably – and sadly, given the cause – a full generation after the epochal 1992 benefit, the organization is again holding an event to stand with Rushdie after the horrific attack on him in August at the Chautauqua Institute, in upper New York State. Together with the Toronto International Festival of Authors, Penguin Random House Canada and the Writers Trust, PEN Canada will hold a reading of Rushdie’s works on Sept. 27.

The event will feature prominent writers, many of them alumni of the 1992 benefit: Margaret Atwood, Adrienne Clarkson, John Irving, Ian McEwan, Deepa Mehta, Rohinton Mistry, John Ralston Saul, Shyam Selvadurai and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa. It will be hosted by Matt Galloway of CBC Radio’s The Current, and will be broadcast in an upcoming episode of that program.

The attack on Rushdie occurred while he was on stage to discuss the U.S. being a sanctuary for exiles. Early in the fatwa he had decided that his life’s work would be to speak for others in jeopardy, while continuing to write.

A year after the 1992 benefit, Rushdie called to thank PEN Canada and the many who did so much to bring it to pass. He also said: “I will remember Toronto for the intellectual tolerance and wisdom of those who had been offended by my writing, but – in recognition of the fundamental human importance of freedom of expression – had allowed me to pass through Canada without a threat, without a single threat.”

He remembered, too, the passionate commitment to that same freedom shown by the media of Canada who rallied in support of him, speaking out against the silence that terrorism imposes, and ensuring that Ottawa heard the public’s support – that thunderous applause at the Winter Garden Theatre.

What did we learn? That it does work to speak out. When we speak out in support of Salman Rushdie on Sept. 27, we speak out for the future of free inquiry; opinion and debate, for our love of reading and writing; and against escalating book-banning. We speak out on behalf of those whose right to peaceful freedom of expression is being repressed.

Rushdie said 30 years ago, as he has said ever since, that his story, terrible as it is, is not unique. It is representative of the experiences of all those throughout the world who are silenced by repressive regimes. Indeed, we continue to be reminded daily of the fragility of the right to free expression, and the need to defend it today, tomorrow and every day.

We must keep speaking out, for all of us.

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