I don’t think not-Americans can participate. The drop-down list only offers American locations.
The text of the letter is interesting.
Americans will be interested. Maybe!
Letter to Senators and Congressmen
Subject: Investigate Anthony Fauci Now
I am writing to add my voice of support for an investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci’s handling of the COVID pandemic as requested by U.S. Representatives James Comer and Jim Jordan in a January 11, 2022 letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. Recently obtained government emails and documents indicate that Dr. Fauci was well aware of the potential that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the possibility that the virus was intentionally genetically manipulated, even though he has consistently told Congress and the public otherwise.
This new documentation sheds further light on the $3.1 million for bat coronavirus research provided to the EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit headed by Peter Dazak, including $599,000 to enable the Wuhan Institute of Virology to help identify and modify bat coronaviruses to infect humans.
Additionally, as detailed in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s new bestselling book, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health” (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/fauci_info/), Dr. Fauci’s failure to green light early, safe and effective treatments in favor of the expensive and highly risky remdesivir – as well as even riskier COVID-19 vaccines – may well have cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
I also draw your attention to Dr. Fauci’s vocal promotion of COVID vaccines for children as young as five years old. This is unconscionable considering that children have virtually no risk of serious disease or death from COVID, and he must surely be aware that from mid-December, 2020 through January 21, 2022 there have been 1,071,856 injuries including 22,607 deaths following COVID vaccination as reported to the U.S. government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Asking parents to sacrifice their children’s health for a disease that is mainly affecting older, unhealthy Americans with comorbid conditions is a failure of epic proportions. “The push to vaccinate children has nothing to do with their health and everything to do with adding billions of dollars to the bank accounts of ruthless, corrupt pharmaceutical companies,” said Mr. Kennedy.
As America’s top-paid government official in charge of the health of all Americans, there has never been anyone in the history of this country who has warranted a thorough Congressional investigation more than Dr. Anthony Fauci. I urge that you do all in your power as a member of Congress to ensure that an investigation of Dr. Fauci is launched immediately.
The public participation in online crowdfunding for public protests related to the Freedom Convoy taking place in Canada continues to be hit with roadblocks and is becoming a further threat to free expression and the right to protest.
After first having GoFundMe temporarily block the release of some of the funds that Canadians have donated to help support the livelihoods of the truckers taking place in the demonstration, GoFundMe began to pay out the funds, with the first payment of $1M in Canadian dollars being released, the campaign organizer tweeted on Friday.
However, the campaign has raised more than $7.3 million (UPDATE: as of Jan 31, $9.3 million. In short order, it hit $10.3 million) in Canadian dollars and those funds could now be at risk of being seized by the local government if some politicians get their way.
Mathieu Fleury, the Ottawa City Councillor of Rideau-Vanier Ward, has today announced his support for the government to launch a legal challenge to seize the remaining GoFundMe donations that had been collected online.
“This morning, I have asked the city manager and city solicitor to immediately launch court proceedings targeting the millions of dollars in funds frozen by @GoFundMe so Ottawa taxpayers are not left holding the bag for these protests,” Fleury tweeted, before locking his account after facing backlash.
He showed his letter to the city manager, announcing the request.
The email reads:
“I want to voice my support for the notion of City initiating actions against the GoFundme funds to cover City expenses from incidents from the protests. (Police costs, businesses and residents for clean-up, promotion for our City, and messaging to support downtown residents, and funds for local groups who were victimized over the weekend) Please advise on actions we can and will take.”
Online fundraising for civil liberties causes is becoming an increasing challenge as the platforms themselves, the payment processors, and even hostile government action continue to hamper attempts to fundraise for causes.
Spotify couldn’t afford to collapse under pressure and remove from its portfolio Joe Rogan, its biggest star, but it has in the past been quietly deleting a number of his podcast episodes to appease the ruling online censorship sensibilities, that have formed in the US and beyond over the past several years.
Now, in the wake of the unsuccessful bid by artist Neil Young to get rid of Rogan and his $100 million podcast from Spotify, for covering and conversations around the pandemic in a way Young didn’t like, the streaming platform is looking for ways other than directly undermining its own business to stay on the good side of the censorship monster.
For now, the demands Spotify will be meeting while still trying to appear as a good home for creators and not yet another cesspool of censorship masquerading as a major platform, is by adopting a series of measures eerily reminiscent of how Big Tech first introduced the slippery slope of its by now massive and unprecedented campaign of online censorship.
In a blog post on Monday, co-founder and CEO of Spotify Daniel Ek writes that his company will not take the role of content censor, and that this is a point important to him personally; yet, Ek goes on to describe how censorship by any other name will start to be given prominence.
Ek says that while Spotify has had “rules” in place for years, now the time has come to enforce them in a “more transparent manner” – and these have now been published as Platform Rules.
As has become customary, “widely-accepted” information is equated with factually correct, and now Spotify will add an advisory to every podcast episode about Covid – which will seek to take the listeners’ attention from what they came to Spotify for – to listen to that episode – and to something called “Covid-19 Hub.”
This is where Spotify will provide what YouTube and Twitter have used for years: “authoritative and data-driven facts” (even though “facts,” the fullness of time reveals, often turn into theories, even if they come from “trustworthy scientists and academics and physicians”).
Spotify users won’t have to wait for long for this new feature, as it is coming worldwide in the coming days. Creators, meanwhile, will have a new item to read in the Platform Rules – what they should not post about Covid, and how their content makes them “accountable.”
Ek basically recalls that Spotify has always been on the mainstream side of the multiyear controversy that is Covid, and the response to it, and adds that the company has donated to vaccine awareness groups, the WHO, and COVAX.
Many who were hoping this was a major “now or never” moment to remove Rogan from a big platform and cut off his access to his audience are now disappointed that Spotify is doing “too little too late” and “not enough” with this set of new tools – but depending on the kind of pressure the company continues to find itself under, we could easily see these “baby steps” into yet another full-blown censorship campaign. Creators, in particular, should watch these developments closely.
In the meanwhile, others look at the big political picture and the reason why Rogan elicits such strong reactions. For one thing, he continues to be an independent creator who is taking on, and beating the ratings that previously only large, corporate broadcasters and figures could count on. Therefore, depending on where you sit, he is either a hope for the future of the media, or a massive threat.
Observes like Glenn Greenwald see the obsessive need of US liberals do deal with those disagreeing with their talking points in a radically illiberal manner: by vilifying them as proliferating lies, i.e., “misinformation and fake news,” as well as “hate speech” – and then simply have the example of these ideological and political opponents removed from pretty much everybody’s view with demonetizing and bans.
Greenwald sees the accusation of hate speech (and even the outright lie that the US Constitution’s First Amendment doesn’t protect that type of speech, too) as having given way to an even more “elastic” term – “misinformation.” A lot more can be controlled and censored under that claim.
Hw writes that if a current major star follows suit and calls for Rogan’s removal, “it is not difficult to imagine a snowball effect.”
“The goal of liberals with this tactic is to take any disobedient platform and either force it into line or punish it by drenching it with such negative attacks that nobody who craves acceptance in the parlors of Decent Liberal Society will risk being associated with it,” he writes.
Within hours of Spotify relenting to the media outrage over Joe Rogan and introducing an “content advisory” warning for some podcasts, Rogan posted a video to Instagram with his response.
In the video, Rogan apologized to those who felt offended and then made some interesting statements about the state of public discourse in today’s world and about why his show, which is the number one podcast in the world, is worth listening to.
Rogan asked that people try to ignore many of the “disparaging” headlines that are trying to misrepresent his show.
“Many of the things that we thought of as ‘misinformation’ just a short while ago are now accepted as fact,” he added.
Rogan said:
“I think there’s a lot of people that have a distorted perception of what I do, maybe based on sound bites or based on headlines of articles that are disparaging. The podcast has been accused of spreading ‘dangerous misinformation,’ specifically about two episodes — a little bit about some other ones — but specifically about two. One with Dr. Peter McCullough and one with Dr. Robert Malone.
Dr. Peter McCullough is a cardiologist, and he is the most published physician in his field in history. Dr. Robert Malone owns nine patents on the creation of mRNA vaccine technology, and is at least partially responsible for the creation of the technology that led to mRNA vaccines.
Both these people are very highly credentialed, very intelligent, very accomplished people, and they have an opinion that is different from the mainstream narrative. I wanted to hear what their opinion is. I had them on, and because of that — those episodes in particular — those episodes were labeled as being ‘dangerous,’ they had “dangerous misinformation” in them.”
Rogan then commented about the recent trend in calling things “misinformation” as a way to get things censored.
“The problem I have with the term ‘misinformation,’ especially today, is that many of the things that we thought of as ‘misinformation’ just a short while ago are now accepted as fact. Like, for instance, eight months ago, if you said, ‘If you get vaccinated, you can still catch COVID and you could still spread COVID,’ you’d be removed from social media. They would ban you from certain platforms. Now, that’s accepted as fact.
If you said, ‘I don’t think cloth masks work,’ you would be banned from social media. Now, that’s openly and repeatedly stated on CNN. If you said, ‘I think it’s possible that COVID-19 came from a lab,’ you’d be banned from many social media platforms. Now, that’s on the cover of Newsweek.All of those theories that at one point in time were banned, were openly discussed by those two men that I had on my podcast, that have been accused of [spreading] ‘dangerous misinformation.’”
Observers fear that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan might be preparing for another round of censorship of the country’s media, now that he has issued a warning to domestic outlets not to show content which he said goes against Turkey’s “core values.”
Erdogan chose to react via the Official Gazette, Reuters reported, and focus his message on the need to “think of the children.” The president called for legal measures to be put in place as a way to protect the country’s culture, and make sure children are not negatively influenced by what he considers “harmful content” in all types of media.
Erdogan stopped short at identifying the content he was referring to, but those are said to mean the kind that undermines Turkey’s national values and disrupts family and social structure. This is interpreted to mean content that might in any way flaunt Erdogan’s ruling party’s Islamic values, including on issues like LGBT, or criticize him personally or his rule.
Whatever the clear policy behind the latest warning may be, it should not be hard to enforce, given that in Turkey – a NATO member who is hopeful of joining the EU – some 90% of the most influential media are either state-owned or allied with the government.
This “consolidation” happened particularly around the time of a failed attempt to dethrone Erdogan in 2016, when he came back with a vengeance, imposing more and more control on the way information was disseminated in that country.
The authorities, for their part, continue to deny that the measures introduced in the wake of the coup have had long-term consequences, including on freedom of religion – something critics would not agree with.
In Turkey, the regulator who exercises oversight and also direct removal of content, i.e., carries out censorship, is RTUK. Some of its activities in the past have been to fine outlets or have them delete content sees as “erotic,” offensive to the president, or referring to LGBT.
The work of journalists has also been criminalized in tens of thousands of cases. Only last week, journalist Sedef Kabas was jailed ahead of her trial for posting a proverb seen as unfavorable to Erdogan’s image.
A German minister’s crusade against Telegram seems to be over before it ever really started; not so long ago, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser threatened to ban the encrypted messaging app in Germany because it was used as a tool of communication by anti-lockdown activists.
Even though this may not be getting widely reported by mainstream media in Germany, and elsewhere, anti-lockdown gatherings are quite frequent, and those behind them like to use independent and secure apps like Telegram to organize and coordinate.
But that got them in trouble with Faeser, who seemed determined to pin “trigger warnings” such as “hate speech” and “online violence” on Telegram and thus quickly vilify the app, with the goal of getting rid of it all together.
Faeser even found a law that she said Telegram was “violating,” thus justifying banning the service in the country – and where the state apparatus couldn’t reach, she naturally expected collaboration from massive corporations like Google and Apple.
Those two, the way the minister envisaged running Telegram in Germany into the ground, would kick both apps from their store. This would critically lower Telegram’s visibility and accessibility to (regular) users.
It didn’t take long for Faeser to realize that she would at the very least have to rephrase her plan of mass-scale, coordinated censorship, from what seemed like the flimsiest of accusations.
According to the German press, Faeser is now seeking to distance herself from the previously clearly stated desire to “switch Telegram off” – claiming that was never her goal.
No, Faeser told Der Spiegel, the idea was just to “increase the pressure” on Telegram – but to deliver what? Ostensibly whatever Germany threatened to make the app do by force?
It’s not clear at this time what caused Faeser to walk back her previous radical comments – maybe she’s had a “democratic epiphany” and realized that this shutting down of communication channels is simply how things are done in democratic countries.
Reports say that Berlin is now exploring other ways to try to achieve the same goal – but this time, perhaps come off a little less radical, and ridiculous.
SMITH: Night in truck stop shows true value of being Canadian
“What I saw at the truck stop, however, proves that Canadians are not only resilient but also ready to come back to life and rebuild this country as soon as they are given the chance — or perhaps, once enough of them decide to take that chance.”
I went down to the truck stop Friday on the Ontario side of the border with Quebec, where the westbound convoy arrived to spend the night before it proceeded to the capital. I wanted to observe how they would put on a gathering like this for the first time since the ongoing situation started two years ago.
I witnessed the arrival of big rigs, flatbeds and cabs, pickups, vans and SUVs, plus sundry other vehicles sporting signs, banners, and flags (mostly national, many provincial, some indigenous, none “confederate”), as well as hand-drawn messages. Some of those were clever, others crude, but all of them were sincere. There were loud horns and bright lights, firepits and fireworks. Strangers approached each other with smiles, cheers, nods, and friendly gestures. It was something like a festival.
I expect that a lot will be said about the truckers, their supporters, and their opponents in the days to come. Much has already been reported and alleged. I want to focus on one aspect of this phenomenon that deserves some commemoration, especially given that it might otherwise go overlooked the coming hubbub. I want to give testimony to the volunteers who worked quietly behind the scenes on short notice arranging for those passing through to spend a night in safety with provisions and opportunities for camaraderie.
Despite temperatures around -20C, I saw and met many women and men, from across the political spectrum, from disparate socio-economic backgrounds, French- and English-speaking alike, young and old, vaccinated and unvaccinated, gathered to donate their time and the fruits of their culinary talents, such as hot bowls of chili and fresh baked goods, plus sandwiches, snacks, and beverages for the road. They delivered additional items donated by people who couldn’t make it in person, helped to shuttle people around, and and offered what other assistance they could — including offers of accommodations or a place to take a hot shower.
Drummers at truck stop. Photo by Travis D. Smith, for the Western Standard
They exhibited a spirit of generosity, compassion, and optimism that has not been seen —or permitted — for a long time. It was extraordinary to behold, given the sustained effort to isolate us and frighten us regarding every human interaction, preparing us to accuse and condemn even our friends, family members, and neighbours for the slightest infractions of often arbitrary and incoherent regulations. It is refreshing to observe that the Canadian readiness to be, well, so Canadian to each other has not yet disappeared despite an unrelenting effort to extinguish it.
Ordinary Canadians did all of this without a government program to do it for them, out of a shared sense of social responsibility and substantial concern for the direction that this country — or rather, the whole world — is taking. For so long, our right to experience healthy social lives has been stolen from us, and its continued denial still seems to stretch out indefinitely. But, for one night, at Herb’s in Vankleek Hill, some undaunted Canadians remembered what it is like to be human, and how to treat each other as human beings.
There was hardly any visible police presence. There was no need. The strongest emotions to be seen were in the tears on the faces of the emotionally overwhelmed. This was a gathering motivated by hope, not hate — whatever party hacks and stooges like (Warren) Kinsella or (Gerald) Butts and the inveterate bootlicks hosting televised newscasts might say.
The people who stepped forward to lend a hand perceived that the convoy’s participants have mobilized not only on behalf of themselves personally, but for all Canadians — even those who don’t approve of their efforts, and especially our children. Each trucker also represents some portion of the multitudes that have greeted them enthusiastically at every single overpass along the way as they trekked on. Those Canadians will not forget how excited and inspired they felt to finally see somebody standing up against the mandates, lockdowns, passports, closings, and restrictions that have destroyed our mental health, wrecked the economy, and damaged our interpersonal relations, not to mention ruining confidence in our political institutions. If the convoy is crushed, everyone who showed up in coats, scarves, boots, and mittens to wave a flag and root it on will know that they, too, have likewise been ground under.
Donated goodies Photo by Travis D. Smith
Our medical professionals shrugged as a significant number of their coworkers were unceremoniously released during a health crisis. Callous university administrators and neurotic faculty members expelled a proportion of their students. Many business owners adopted the irrational and immoral vax passes simply to survive an assault upon their livelihoods while other members of their local communities shuttered their businesses. Overall, Canadians have been steamrolled, and many Canadians have been complicit in the gradual destruction of everything they once held dear and boasted about as Canadians.
Many Canadians have decided now that they won’t wait any longer to be allowed to live their lives, and they’re pleased to assist those who have decided to take a big honking stand on their behalf. They have decided that it’s time to make no more excuses for their abusers. Unfortunately, there also remain many Canadians who seem glad to be ruled, insisting that we all must be uniformly and strongly ruled, unable to imagine living without being ruled.
I didn’t want to add one more screed decrying public health authorities or the colossal disappointment that these much-ballyhooed shots represent. I didn’t want to rant about a prime minister who gives infomercials disguised as press conferences where he practically orgasms live on camera while fantasizing about people getting injected. And now our dear leader has now gone into hiding after a tweet that, when you boil it down, said, “the vaccines have failed; get vaccinated.” Yes, we’re at that stage of the deterioration of things, and it’s not good.
I wanted instead to remember that Canadians are at heart kind-hearted, giving, and exceedingly affable. They were jovial and convivial at the truck stop last night. They still love the Canada that once was. They are yearning to resurrect it, hoping against hope that it has not been forever lost. They refuse to permanently surrender to those who have already exploited this crisis to empower and enrich themselves incredibly at their expense, knowing that those in charge will continue to prolong people’s misery so long as they keep benefiting from doing so. Amid an environment contaminated by so much vitriol and acrimony, these authentic if less sophisticated Canadians nevertheless convened, at this place and at this time, and interacted in a fashion that allowed them to regain some practice in the ways Canadians are supposed to behave.
Donated foods. Photo by Travis D. Smith, for the Western Standard
I relate all of this with no small amount of trepidation. The Harrison Ford voice in my head says I’ve got a bad feeling about this. It has been clear since the election campaign that this government is determined to sow terror and hatred in the Canadian population through division and scapegoating. Aided and abetted by their mercenary arms in the national media, the authorities have primed us for violence. They don’t seem to care who starts it — whether it’s the vaccinated who are led to blame the unvaccinated for delays in their cancer treatments or the dehumanized and vilified unvaccinated who feel backed into a corner, or else the very prospect of compulsory vaccination. Make no mistake: compulsory vaccination would be a grievous form of violence, portending worse violations of bodily autonomy still to come.
The stakes are high, and it is not good when it looks like the powers-that-be have an interest in reacting to violence with violence so as to secure their positions and empower themselves further. A lot of people are worried that the trucker convoy represents Canada’s January 6th. Given those whom the prime minister is on record as expressing great admiration for, the worst-case-scenario corner of my brain worries about a Canadian Tiananmen Square scenario. Fortunately, my rational side reminds me to know better than to believe that, since Canada’s law enforcement officers and armed forces are too brave and too honourable to ever allow themselves to be turned against the Canadian public like that.
Edmund Burke wrote about society’s little platoons, where public affections are formed through the small actions of members of small communities working together to accomplish things for themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about how there is no free society without abundant voluntary associations through which citizens take care of themselves instead of being taken care of. Burke and Tocqueville alike knew that revolutionary and despotic types can’t stand the independent, voluntary efforts that people engage in at ground level. They will systematically stamp them out from above. We have endured two full years of their near total suppression. What I saw at the truck stop, however, proves that Canadians are not only resilient but also ready to come back to life and rebuild this country as soon as they are given the chance — or perhaps, once enough of them decide to take that chance.
Whatever one thinks of the truckers themselves, I wanted to raise a glass in honour of the Canadians who rallied voluntarily in good faith to welcome them into their community last night and then send them on their way. They remind us of the importance of treating each other with compassion, respect, and that congenital Canadian friendliness about which we used to be roundly teased. All of that is emblematic of the real “we’re all in this together.” You might think these volunteers are naïve fools, dupes of the Russians or some such — I am well aware that there may be bad actors involved in what’s going on. It is precisely on account of that sad fact that I offer this expression of admiration to my fellow Canadians who still hold on tight to the belief that the Canada they remember may be someday restored — and through acts of kindness like I witnessed, without being misled into attempting any kind of violence. And I hope that this article may be more of an encomium than a eulogy.
Travis D. Smith is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University
Watch investigative reporter and documentary filmmaker Dan Cohen’s coverage of the “Defeat the Mandates” protest in Washington, DC, to get the real story — not the pharma-funded mainstream media’s version.
Cohen was there to get the real story — not the story pharma-funded mainstream media was peddling to the public.
He interviewed firefighters, healthcare workers, lawyers, doctors, civil rights activists, professional athletes and parents of vaccine-injured children to find out why they were there.
Despite mainstream media’s portrayal of the protesters as “extremists” and “anti-vaxxers,” Cohen found people of many different religions, political views and opinions on the risks and benefits of vaccines.
But they were all united around a single message: freedom.
Watch here:
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children’s Health Defense.
At first I didn’t understand what you were describing, a “new dissident group” going to Ottawa for the January 29th Freedom Rally.
Then aha! . . . you were describing a group that will be there to offer an alternative to the message of the Freedom Convoy. Which is to say, they will be there in support of the Government narrative.
I told you, “No. WE are the dissidents!”. We are opposed to the Government’s taking away of our Constitutional Rights. AND their complete disregard for The Rule of Law (habitual) is not to be tolerated.
You asked “What do you call THEM, if not dissidents?” I told you I don’t know. Which is not true.
If I reply in a language that I understand, but you don’t, I may as well not speak. Here’s the thing: the words used “depend on who’s using them.”
“Military historian Edward Luttwak says, “A coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder”, thus, armed force (either military or paramilitary) is not a defining feature of a coup d’état.”
I know that to be the case in Canada. And so my language is: we have a corporatocracy in Canada.
I am therefore a “freedom fighter” (among other possible terms). The illegitimate Government (corporatocracy) in Ottawa DEFINITELY does not acknowledge me with that name!! Listen to how Justin Trudeau describes the Freedom Convoy.
Excerpt from Trudeau’s January 26th Press Conference: (Sandra: I don’t have it at my fingertips at the moment)
If these “freedom warriors” were in some other country,
in a country whose ruling regime supports American hegemony in their country,
the rising up might be described by Canadian mediaand officialsas insurgency. There would be “insurrection” in that country.
But the language evolves to suit the times. Today they will use “Terrorists” – – it strikes more fear.
So what words describe those other “dissidents”? What is the opposite of “dissident”? A quick search says “conformist“.
I think that would be the case, IFthecoup d’étathas not been acknowledged. Which, of course, the Government will not do.
As it is, the people you describe who are going to Ottawa to fight on the Government’s side, the side of the Corporatocracy, are going there to “counter insurgency” (us).
You may find helpful, written in 2010, but still valid:
Pozner’s talk and his replies to audience questions are instructive in dealing with the situation we find ourselves in.
On September 27, 2018, Yale’s Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Poynter Fellowship for Journalism hosted Vladimir Pozner, the acclaimed Russian-American journalist and broadcaster. Pozner spoke on the impact of US foreign policy towards Russia after the Soviet Union has been disbanded, and shared his opinions on a range of issues raised by the audience, from the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential elections, to Skripal poisoning, to the state of independent media in Russia and the US.
The failure of mainstream media is quite shocking. The example I use in the posting is from Victoria B.C., Sat. Jan 22, troubling.
The volume of short videos Canadians have posted on, for example, Convoy to Ottawa (Facebook) is amazing.
Thousands upon thousands of Canadians are lining highways and overpasses to cheer on the Truckers Convoy to Ottawa. Honking, and happy. People along the route have brought food and treats for the Truckers, gratitude in solid form!
More and more vehicles are joining the convoys as they stream toward Ottawa. Cars,too.
Significant numbers are coming from the U.S. in support. From all directions there are reports of Convoys on the move toward Ottawa.
As of Jan 25th, well over $4 million have been donated through GoFundMe to help pay the gas and travel expenses of the Truckers.
There are expected to be 500,000 citizens converging on Ottawa Saturday, Jan. 29th.
The Rule of Law, Constitutional Rights are the central motivator.
Two police groups are joining the Truckers in Ottawa:
Sniper Corporal Daniel Bulford may be playing a leadership role in the Canadian mobilization against the vaccine mandates. An older video, but well worth watching. Bulford’s competency is evident, IMHO! He is a founding member of Mounties for Freedom.
Another round of community protests will take place on January 29th, in support of the half million arriving in Ottawa. There’s lots of sharing at the rallies – conversations, literature, speakers, laughter, people with their poster messages. Lots of honking in support from vehicles going by.
OTHER COUNTRIES
The protests will only keep growing in size. People in other countries are watching Canada as an example of a potential overthrow of a corporatocracy, accomplished without violence.
Truckers are not the powerhouse behind the mobilizations in other countries. But the mobilizations in other countries are as dramatic in size (more so) and determination.
I believe that Kazakhstan’s president and other officials have fled the country. Not because of gasoline shortages as mainstream media would have you believe, but because of mandates. It’s the country whose citizens went ballistic when the Government announced vaccine passport requirement to withdraw money from your bank account! Ouch! No laughing matter.
A number of the people who are showing the way forward in different fields are fairly well aligned in the understanding: the organizing has to be at the community level in order to succeed in the longer run. Pam Popper is the best I’ve heard on this topic. Very practical about how to do it.
Another important interview. The years of work by Yohan Tengra will no doubt be a vital part of the lawsuit against Bill Gates and the Government of India (the posting below).
Tengra sets out the template that has been used in country after country to establish the “Medical Mafia” (Gates and Fauci’s collaborative work.)
I am guessing that documents from Mike Yeadon are in the hands of Reiner Fuellmich (What’s Happening With The Nuremberg 2.0 Trial) – –
Guessing that Yeadon will be a witness at the Trials of people who have been responsible for the deaths caused by the covid vaccinations.
As will other people in the preceding postings.
BTW: the number of deaths that have been reported through the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System (VAERS) (U.S.) which will be a fraction of the actual number, is now well over 22,000.
Somewhere I have a letter that incorporates the preceding, used in suggesting a basis upon which the Board of an organization could challenge the Health Authority’s mandate that all their workers have to have a vaccine passport. It could be used as a template, if anyone is interested, please ask for the letter.
The next posting is related. The journalist elaborates on what happens when “no one” is responsible.
The Biden administration withdrew its COVID vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers, saying the administration recognized the Emergency Temporary Standard could not be revived after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked it earlier this month.
By Megan Redshaw, Children’s Health Defense
The Biden administration is withdrawing its COVID vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers, the U.S. Department of Labor announced today.
In pulling the rule, the department said it recognized the Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) could not be revived after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked it earlier this month.
Instead, the Biden administration is working to set a permanent standard for the vaccine mandate based on the Supreme Court’s ruling, according to a notice provided to the court by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
“Although OSHA is withdrawing the vaccination and testing ETS as an enforceable emergency temporary standard, the agency is not withdrawing the ETS as a proposed rule. The agency is prioritizing its resources to focus on finalizing a permanent COVID-19 Healthcare Standard.”
OSHA could move a version of the vaccine-or-test rule through its rule-making process, but would still likely face legal challenges, according to David Michaels, a former OSHA administrator and professor at George Washington University.
The Labor Department’s decision to withdraw the rule means pending legal proceedings will be dropped. The case was on its way back to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to be heard on the merits, although the lower court most likely would have followed the Supreme Court’s lead, The New York Times reported.
Without OSHA’s vaccine mandate in effect, employers must follow state and local laws on COVID workplace safety. Some states have banned vaccine mandates for private employees, while other states, like New York, require them.
“OSHA continues to strongly encourage the vaccination of workers against the continuing dangers posed by Covid-19 in the workplace,” the Labor Department wrote in the notice of its withdrawal.
The Supreme Court on Jan. 13, rejected the Biden administration’s employer mandate.
The court’s conservative majority said the administration overstepped its authority by imposing OSHA’s vaccine-or-test rule.
The Supreme Court’s decision reversed the lower court ruling, imposing a stay on the OSHA mandate.
The conservative majority expressed concerns over the implications of allowing OSHA to implement a widespread mandate without congressional authorization.
“Permitting OSHA to regulate the hazards of daily life — simply because most Americans have jobs and face those same risks while on the clock — would significantly expand OSHA’s regulatory authority without clear congressional authorization,” the opinion stated.
Furthermore, the court said, Congress has “indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers,” but it “has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly.”
“Requiring the vaccination of 84 million Americans, selected simply because they work for employers with more than 100 employees, certainly falls in the latter category,” the opinion read.
The minority justices said OSHA’s mandate is comparable to a fire or sanitation regulation imposed by the agency, while the majority said a vaccine mandate is strikingly unlike the workplace regulations that OSHA has typically imposed as a vaccination “cannot be undone at the end of the workday.”
A majority of the Supreme Court’s justices concluded the applicants challenging OSHA’s mandate were likely to succeed in the merits of their claim and the secretary of labor lacked authority to impose the mandate, resulting in a stay while the case works its way through the 6th Circuit Court.
After the ruling, many companies were left scrambling to decide whether they should abandon the mandate or force their employees to be vaccinated while the lawsuit played out in the lower courts.
Starbucks was one of the first major retailers to backtrack on its plans to require workers to be vaccinated against COVID. Starbucks last week told its 228,000 employees at more than 9,000 U.S. coffee shops it would no longer require workers be fully vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID testing.
In a Jan. 18 memo to employees, Starbuck CEO John Culver said the company respects the court’s ruling and will comply even though it doesn’t align with the company’s beliefs.
A coalition of attorneys general from 27 states called on OSHA to rescind its ETS saying the agency lacked authority to issue a broad mandate.
I went down to the Old Island Hwy this morning (Sunday). The Trucker Cavalcade hit town about 10:30 AM. A rousing event. People were out in support in various pods along the route. Lots of waving, honking, some Canada flags, some upside down (the protest sign against mandates). (All this in a community that is small c conservative!)
Word travelled back from Parksville: there were large gatherings waiting ahead, in particular a very large one at the mall, in front of the Canadian Tire Store.
People newly met were sharing information. The “in-the-know” (social media) knew:
the GoFindMe account to help pay for the cost of gas & travel of Truckers in the Cavalcade to Ottawa had climbed from $1.2 million yesterday to $2 million by this morning (Jan 23). (Feb 1, it’s $9.9 million.)
A fellow had stayed home yesterday while his wife went to Victoria. He wanted to see how things were going. He watched Chek News at 5:00 (yesterday, Saturday).
Tell me this was not staged:
Yesterday was simultaneously a day of protest in support of the Ukraine vs Russia, at the same location as the Mandates protest, at the Legislature in Victoria.
Chek News interviewed some protestors, with the thousands of protesters in the background.
All the interviewees spoke to the Ukraine issue. I was there; I didn’t observe even one person there for that issue. I, of course, didn’t see all the 4 thousand people at the Rally. But we circulated around.
Doesn’t matter. We are effective communicators ourselves. This regime is coming down.
Maybe I’ll see you next weekend (the 29th). We’ll be there!
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DAN: (Sunday, Jan 23rd)
Sandra, thanks for the update.
Noticed the legacy media desperately trying to downplay and muddy the trucker event. Typical. But every time they allow comments, it seems to be 90% in favor of the truckers and the rest mostly ignorable comments by obviously misinformed people. I think people are wise to the irrelevance of CTV and CBC.
Yes, I plan to be there next week and hopefully get a few more people from work involved.
Power to the people!
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DAN: (Victoria, Saturday, Jan 22)
Some pictures and video I took today
There is indeed hope that the tide has turned. On the 29th the crowd may be even greater. Interestingly, didn’t see a single identifiable legacy media crew there today. The revolution won’t be televised.
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