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Truckers are winning with patriotic peace, goodwill, and some help from ex-Military and Police Intelligence

Canada FlagSomething wonderful is happening. The Truckers are winning. The Ottawa Police are admitting they can’t solve this. All the dirty tricks that can be played haven’t worked. Sometime in the last week, former policemen, security experts, and military intel have joined the leadership team, and strategically, they are playing a faultless game. Trucks with wheels removed appear to be ideally placed to stop a police response. Overnight the media spin has flipped from calling the rally “disorganised rabble with violent extremists” to describing the protest as being run with “military precision”.  Watching the transformation on the CBC it’s almost like they’ve realized they were backing the wrong horse. The videos far below from CBC reporters are very unexpected — they’re good.

The Truckers are resolutely happy, cheerful, dancing, and determined. They are patriotic and family oriented, and that’s blowing away the “Extremist Terrorist” playbook, making Trudeau and the media look like fools.

Now that the Ambassador Bridge is effectively closed, supply chain trouble is piling up very fast.

Ford Motor Co. was forced to idle its Windsor engine factory and operate an assembly plant at reduced capacity. The Emerson MB/Pembina ND has also been shut down until all mandates end. This may bring things to a head quickly.

Ezra Levant, from Rebel News says “I think I know how this trucker rebellion is going to end.

In short:Trudeau played the “Nazi extremist card” — so he can’t back down. But he’s falling in the polls, losing MP’s, and the Truckers are not backing down. Worse the protests are spreading, threatening to  spark off a US disaster for Joe Biden that would alienate the working class in a midterm election year, and exacerbate a supply chain crisis nightmare. So its Joe Biden that may announce that “the science has changed” and now we don’t need a vaccine mandate on the border. “Joe Biden saves The Workers!” If that happens, it won’t make any sense for Trudeau to keep a mandate on the other half of the same border, so he will follow. “He’ll say it was for Canada-U.S. relations, and that it wasn’t because of those racist, sexist, Nazi truckers.”

History books will be written about this protest — and other ones now gathering support in New Zealand, Australia and Europe.

Sixty or seventy other truckers have moved to the Ottawa Airport, and are slow rolling and honking as they circle the arrivals and departure lanes.

The Truckers are winning with peace, love and families

The Truckers are winning by staying resolutely absolutely polite and disciplined while they have a rollicking good time, with mischievous tricks to stay “ahead of the police”. By being family oriented, dedicatedly patriotic and steadfastly peaceful, they are showing Canada how fake the news is, and how out of touch Justin Trudeau is. They are gaining the support of more people as the news spreads  and the protests grow.

Bouncy Castles protest

This is a family protest.

When they were banned from honking, they obey the ruling, and rev their massive engines instead. The singing, cheering and whooping sound like a party or festival.



And there are more red jerry cans than ever, most carrying water or nothing at all, so that the police cannot possibly stop the fuel getting through. Ottawa police were even seen confiscating wood as well. They stole the wood from indigenous groups doing some sacred fire. Where are the Woke protests?

Red Jerry Cans carry the fuel, but mostly carry water.

Everyone joined in the red jerry can decoy game, thwarting the police from confiscating the fuel the truckers need to stay warm. Twitter

At one point, the Canadian government used taxpayer money to book out every hotel room near the protest to make it impossible for the Truckers to get accommodation.  @Shimjelly has videoed a hotel basement completely empty of cars in a supposedly booked out hotel. It’s just sheer malicious waste to use the Truckers taxes against them. But it didn’t work. The Truckers found other accommodation or slept in their trucks.

Truckers now have military intelligence and former police and security on their side

And as the days tick over the protesters are becoming even more disciplined and organised. They appear to have help from former police and military workers who are advising them. The leadership team now includes the former RCMP officer who was on the PM’s security detail (Daniel Bulford quit last year due to the vaccine mandate).  Bulford is urging the protesters to connect with the police. Many of the police will have sympathies, and it’s so much better to build on that than oppose them.

Another key adviser is Tom Quiggan — a military intelligence officer, who is a counter-terrorism expert. The Freedom Convoy have set up a supply site 6km away, they built the instant shack kitchen, they have even brought in three saunas to help keep protesters warm. About 400 trucks are holding firm near Parliament Hill, and about 100 of those have families with children sleeping in them. The optics of any forced removal will look appalling.

Chief Peter Sloly, Ottawa Police Service admits there is not much he can do:

“There is likely no policing solution to this”.

Tom Quiggan, former military intelligence:

I would say the opposition at this point doesn’t actually have a strategy. They have a sort of weak goal, in that they want the streets cleared, but they have no real idea of how they want to get there.”

 

One policeman involved spoke out against the police doing politicians dirty work. He said something had happened which had changed him, being asked to remove Canadian protestors gas tanks. He knew this was wrong, and it conflicted with the whole reason he joined the force. His job was to protect the people, not take things from them.

Nick (Motichka? Apologies for the spelling) of the Calgary Police Force

Trudeau has lost the moral highground

He has tried to tar and smear the Truckers, call them racist, and it’s failed. There is no easy way out — he’s painted himself in a corner. It’s a game of double or nothing and it looks more ridiculous by the day.  As long as the Truckers stay defiantly Canadian, and completely well behaved, they will win. Trudeau could have stopped this all so easily — all he has to do is take away the vaccine mandates — instead there are no paths to victory left for him that don’t involve a major back-down or tyrannical force. He loses either way.

The police have seized 3,700 litres of fuel and yet the fuel for Truckers keeps coming.

Trudeau can’t order the police, the tow trucks, or the military to take the trucks away. The police are apparently taking long service leave and holidays, and the tow truck drivers “all have Covid”.

The Truckers have the endorsement and advice of retired police and Canadian Forces.

The shunned CBC are now painting the protestors as “military”:

Despite a strategic strike by police to cut off supplies to truckers encamped in the city’s downtown core, protesters appear to still have the upper hand on police.

It’s a success that experts partly attribute to the deep knowledge of law enforcement and military tactics that exist in the convoy’s organizational structure.

The group Police on Guard, formed during the pandemic, has endorsed the truck convoy. On its website, it publicly identifies more than 150 mostly retired police officers who are against government-imposed public health measures, such as vaccine mandates. More than 50 former Canadian Forces soldiers are also named on its site.

The organization says it has “boots on the ground” in Ottawa and has linked to YouTube videos of its members participating in the protest.

The Truckers refuse to do any interviews with the hostile press (like the CBC). This is excellent — it denies the CBC the footage to use against them in heavily misleading edits. It denies the CBC any relevance at all.

Michael Kempa, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa, says the convoy’s policing and military expertise can be seen in the co-ordination of their activities in downtown Ottawa.

“They have this sort of military or police or at least survivalist training. Look at the sophistication of what they’re setting up in terms of an encampment in downtown Ottawa,” said Kempa, who studies policing across Canada.

“It looks like a military operation.”

In the core, abandoned cars and trucks with their tires removed are blocking streets. To Kempa, the placement of these vehicles is not random but rather strategic in that they may prevent police infiltration.

This CBC News segment below is fascinating — having been made irrelevant, I wonder if this like a wake up moment for one CBC reporter, who has listened for hours to protesters talking on “Zello” — an App on phones that works like a CB radio.

 

The issue at the heart of it is just “freedom to choose”.

She does a very respectable job of describing what’s going on — I’m shocked. And perhaps she’s one of the good people left on the CBC, just as there are a few still at the ABC and BBC. Or maybe, having listened for hours a few at the national broadcaster realize they have to change their approach or they risk being left behind entirely by the winning side. 

This new workers revolution are aware, perhaps thanks to the fallout from the Jan 6 protest in Washington, that the legacy media are the enemy, and that agents of government bureaucracies might be wandering among them, trying to incite bad behaviour. These protesters are so much more aware of the old traps, so much more politically sophisticated.

A desperate government and a despised media

In desperation there are thinly veiled hints that the government is concerned about the children in the Truckers Protest. About 100 trucks have children with them. This is overreach on a mass scale which will ignite a fire of indignant determination. Furious truckers started counter-interviewing some hapless CBC journalist who turned up — the truckers were demanding he tell them whether their children are in danger “Yes or No”!

The media have become so disparaged — all the large organisation are banned from interviews with Protest leaders, and even the man-in-the-street now knows the media are the problem. CTV gushed over the BLM and Antifa destroying statues, but now CTV Edmonton have peeled off their car branding stickers “for safety”. One journalist at the TorontoStar  claims  rather hysterically that the flag has been “critically injured”:

Canada’s flag has been weaponized and transformed into a hyperpartisan prop — here, and, it now seems, abroad. It’s not clear where we go from here.”

He then goes on to admit — without any irony — that he didn’t like the flag anyway:

I am not a flag-waver; never have been. I don’t own one, I don’t wear flag lapel pins. And like generations of Canadian backpackers, I only donned a Canadian flag patch while travelling many years ago in Europe to avoid being mistaken as an American.

Which says it all. The Canada-hating journalist class is completely flummoxed by the Canada-loving Truckers.

It’s a turning point

A few days ago CBC news was painting them as angry people, who were disorganized, and  being used by other groups with an agenda. See the video at “Protests in Ottawa crossed line from ‘expression of ideas’ to ‘extortion,’ criminologist says“. This was an interview with the same criminologist who now says they are organized like a military operation. How times change in just a few days?

The Truckers are winning, and the partisans are adjusting their narrative.

As Ezra Levant says:

 These Canadian truckers — and everyone cheering them on, despite the rage of the establishment — are saving Canada. They’re already making us more free. They’ve done more damage to Trudeau than the last two Conservative Party leaders combined. They’re a political tsunami.

 They’ve restored a sense of community in a country that Trudeau and Butts pitted against itself. They’ve restored a common purpose in a country where lockdown laws kept us isolated from each other. They’ve literally been a moveable street festival. They’re great Canadians.

Maybe saving the Western World. Wait and see.

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Thursday Open Thread

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mRNA vaccines produce huge amounts of Spike protein and for two months!

They told us the mRNA in the injections wouldn’t last long, barely a few days, and the protein spikes made from the vaccines would only stick around for “a few weeks”. But now, after 60% of the worlds population has been vaccinated, now we find out that the CCP bioweapon spikes are still there in lymph nodes two months after the last injection, and so is some of the mRNA. And we don’t know how much longer those spikes keep churning out, because no one has done that study.

Pause for a moment to wonder how it is that we could inject four billion people “for health reasons” yet no one knew the most basic things about how it worked, like, how long the vaccine mRNA might survive, and keep producing spikes for, or how many spikes it might keep making.

Now comes the bad news that mRNA-vaccinated people may be making more spikes than severely ill Covid patients, and that the mRNA survives much longer than anyone expected.

A Health Public Policy Nightmare

Robert Malone

The hidden highlight (lede) buried in this peer reviewed paper is that protein production of spike in people vaccinated with the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine is higher than those of severely ill COVID-19 patients!

This study asserts that the mRNA and the spike protein produced persists for weeks in lymph node germinal centers in human patients. Having worked with mRNA for decades, I can attest that this is highly unusual.

Figure 6. Disrupted LN GCs in COVID-19 patients versus mRNA vaccinees.

Click to enlarge. Figure 6. Disrupted Lymph Nodes GCs in COVID-19 patients versus mRNA vaccinees. (B) Representative immunohistochemistry of GCs with CD21 (left), BCL6 (middle) and PD-1 (right) in peribronchial LNs of an autopsy patient who died of COVID-19, a control autopsy patient who died from a non-COVID-19 pneumonia (pre-pandemic), and in an axillary Lymph node of a patient vaccinated with a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine.

To stop the mRNA from being degraded as normal RNA would be, the manufacturers used a synthetic type of nucleic acid — a pseudo-uridine instead of the normal uridine. Is it a bit like the plastic waste that takes years longer to breakdown in landfill? Could be. All our normal enzymes that chop up RNA might be stuck, flummoxed, and the mRNA might last for months…

One very real hypothesis is that the substitution of pseudouridine for uridine to avoid the immune response is working so well that the mRNA is completely evading the normal clearance/degradation pathways. Hence, mRNA that is not being incorporated into cells at the injection site, is migrating to the lymph nodes (and throughout the body as the non-clinical Pfizer data suggest?) and continuing to express protein there. In this case, the cytotoxic protein antigen is spike. Spike protein can be detected for at least 60 days after administration of dose. Note that the duration of the protein expression was only tested for 60 days.

In Figure 7 the researchers found vaccine mRNA in the GCs of Lymph Nodes  up to day 37 post vaccination (middle column), but there was still a lower but “appreciable specific signal” of mRNA even at day 60. The Spike was found even up to day 60 (right column).

mRNA vaccines lymph nodes 60 days later.

Click to enlarge | Fig 7: (B) Representative in situ hybridization of an RNAScope control probe (left panels) and SARS CoV-2 mRNA vaccine-specific probe (middle panels) within ipsilateral axillary core needle Lymph Node biopsies of female patients 7 to 60 days  after second mRNA-1273 or BNT162b2 dose. Probe hybridization is indicated by red chromogen spots. IHC signal for spike antigen (right panels), is detected as granular brown staining.

More spike than a severe case of Covid:

… the study quantitatively measured spike protein levels in plasma after vaccination. Which, it turns out, are higher than the levels observed in a person with a severe COVID-19 infection. Just to write it, the fact that this only now being discovered or it it was known, released to the public is criminal in my opinion. This should have been characterized long ago, including prior to beginning human clinical trials.

The biggest medical experiment ever….

That this has not been published or investigated more demonstrates the gross regulatory dereliction of duty by Pfizer, Biointech, Moderna, NIAID VRC and that whole crew. Using these vaccines, which include pseudouridine without fully understanding the implications and without the FDA requiring a complete pre-clinical toxicology regulatory package, including long-term follow-up, as is done with any other unique chemical or adjuvant additive is shocking.

So many institutions have failed us

It’s not just the corporate Pharma giants who have failed the public. What about the CDC, the FDA, the TGA, the Chief Health Officers, and all the professors at our public funded universities that didn’t ask the right questions, that assured us the vaccines were safe and the mRNA would be degraded quickly?

What about all the publicly funded science journalists at the BBC, ABC, CBC and NPR etc? That’s a lot of science unit investigative reporters who didn’t investigate. What do we pay public broadcasters to do — if not to grill scientists about the most important health policy decisions in the last 30 years?

The length of time the spike is produced for could have all kinds of effects. Not only will it increase the adverse effects, but if it is expressed too long, it could even reduce the immunity, or desensitize people to the very thing they are meant to be sensitized too. We really don’t know.

Robert Malone wonders if the pseudouridine was just the cheap option to avoid paying out on patents:

To note: The use of pseudouridine in these mRNA vaccines is not the only option. It has often been hypothesized that the reason Dr. Kariko added pseudouridine to the mRNA vaccine was to make an improvement to the original mRNA patents that I was an inventor on. An improvement to an existing patent allows commercialization of that patent. It is an old trick. Remember, that Curevac does not use pseudouridine in its formulation and it is not required or necessary for a significant immune response.

We had so many better choices

Covid, Coronavirus, Bioweapons.The mRNA technology is so new and risky. There are too many moving parts and unknowns. I’ve said before that we didn’t know how much protein spike people might make, and it was obvious that some people might make a lot more spike than others. At least with a protein-vaccine, like Novavax or the Australian Covax-19 the injection has a fixed amount of protein.  We know what we’re getting. It’s still a nasty spike, a bad protein, and it’s still an out of date version of a virus that doesn’t exist anywhere — but there is a known quantity, and it’s not being made inside your own cells and displayed on healthy normal cells. That in itself ought to reduce the risk of autoimmune diseases like myocarditis.

Hat tip to Matthew L, David E.

In response to a question from Strop on why this matters:

The issue is mRNA is an entirely new technology, which has not even had basic testing and research done on it, and they’ve been lying about all of that.

They say they care about our health, but if they did, they would have done this testing and in 2020. That failure and deception is criminal.

If we had informed consent they would have told us how uncertain it was.

If people are being double dosed on a three week schedule, the first dose is still being processed and present when the second dose goes in. No wonder the second dose is such an issue. In Toxicology, the dose makes the poison — yet we didn’t even realize that the second dose was a “double dose”.

The spike itself is toxic — it binds to 13 different receptors in our tissues including crucial ones like ACE2 which lowers blood pressure. If spikes are still wandering two months later, that’s a major potential risk. Does it increase blood clotting and stroke or heart attack risk for months, and how long?

Not only does this show Pfizer and Moderna lied for profit, but that they were assisted by Professors of Microbiology etc who went on TV and swore these injections were safe. It also shows the failure of all the regulatory agencies who should have been demanding this data before they would even consider approving them.

It shows we should have rushed any other kind of vaccine into production before we rushed a totally new and unknown technology into mass production.

REFERENCE

Röltgen et al (2022) Immune imprinting, breadth of variant recognition and germinal center response in human SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination Cell. Published:January 24, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.01.018

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Trucker Convoy: Trudeau doesn’t know how to solve this — Freeze them out?

All Trudeau has to do is declare vaccination is voluntary…

The Trucks can’t be towed away — apparently all the towing companies “have Covid”. And the Truckers have been resolutely peaceful and considerate (honking aside). The protests are spreading, not shrinking. The Ambassador Bridge is now also blockaded — that’s the major bridge connecting Detroit, Michigan and Windsor. Hundreds of Truckers on the Alberta border are still gathered there.  The Cavalry has arrived! Hordes of cowboys on horses have joined them. In Alaska, trucks are gathering too. Truckers in Alaska can’t drive to the rest of the USA without crossing the Canadian border.

The Ottawa Mayor has declared a “State of Emergency” because people were burning down buildings, destroying statues, and looting Nike stores — wait… No. That’s all fine. It’s a state of emergency because someone is honking horns. Trudeau could have come out to meet the workers revolution, listen to them, and negotiate, as any good leader would. Instead, the troopers started to arrest people carrying cans of fuel or propane gas to support the Truckers. Staying warm in parked trucks is now an act of insurrection.

It was minus 5C last night in Ottawa, and it’s forecast to be minus 20 this weekend.

In reply people started carrying empty jerry cans “filled with love”:

With everyone carrying red jerry cans, it’s hard for the police to find the few with fuel.

Jerry Cans, PRotest Truckers Convoy

These Jerry Cans are “Filled with love”. Rebel News.

In three and a half days since GoFundMe tried to steal the donations, donors have already re-given almost 80% of the funds. The Freedom Convoy donations at GiveSendGo are now up to $6.2 million USD.

So much for it being “fringe”: One third of Canadians feel they have a lot in common with the Truckers protest. Obviously the protest includes a lot of vaccinated people as well.

The new conservative opposition leader in Canada (as of last week) is Candice Bergen, and she is now calling for an end to Federal vaccine mandates.

 Ezra Levant: Trudeau is scared, and he doesn’t know how to stop this:

The DailyMail, quotes one Brian Gregg, a trucker from the US who is at the protest in Ottawa, saying:

…he’s amazed at the amount of support the truckers have received from the public.

‘We have access to whatever we need. I haven’t spent a dime since I’ve been here.’

The Freedom Convoy is well organized, according to Gregg. ‘Every street with truck drivers parked on it has a block leader, about 20-30 drivers per block leader. The block leader is the person you go to if you need anything –  food, gas, clothing, shelter, etc.’

Gas is a hot commodity to these diesel drivers who haven’t moved their trucks in over a week, while still idling their engines to keep warm. Gregg said men come by with wheelbarrows or wagons hauling 5-gallon jerry cans of diesel fuel to keep their trucks running.

Apparently US truckers are coming to help with spare diesel:

See #FreedomConvoyUSA2022 for more perhaps?

US Truckers are on the way

US Truckers are on the way

Meanwhile it appears the Really Big Trucks have arrived:

The miners are sending the monster dump trucks.

The Ambassador Bridge is also now blockaded:

This bridge carries 25% of the trade between the US and Canada and about 14,000 vehicles a day.

 

The whole Tucker Carlson show

David said it’s a cracker…

Tucker Carlson on Fox

How long before protests like the ‘Freedom Convoy’ come to America?

Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains.

Karl Marx never spent a moment in a factory. He was a rich kid who became a journalist. Of course he was. But for more than 150 years, Karl Marx inspired generations of other rich kids who also became journalists to repeat his line or variations of it.

…consider what’s happening right now in Canada. Thousands of truck drivers have descended on Ottawa, the capital city, to protest the tyranny of Justin Trudeau’s government. Justin Trudeau does not like truck drivers. He thinks they’re revolting. Justin Trudeau likes private equity barons and tech moguls, the only people who give him money. Trudeau is not in Ottawa right now. In fact, he and his family fled when the truck drivers arrived and they’ve been in hiding ever since. So when the revolution he has been calling for finally arrived, Justin Trudeau wasn’t there to see it. He ran away in terror, kind of sad.

… in his place, his friend Mark Carney has been speaking for him. Carney is a former Goldman Sachs executive who many believe will replace Justin Trudeau if Trudeau ever decides to give up power. In a recent op-ed, Mark Carney vented his rage …””Anyone sending money to the convoy should be in no doubt,” Carney wrote. “You are funding sedition. Foreign funders of an insurrection interfered in our domestic affairs from the start.”  “

Got it? That is not a protest. It’s sedition. It’s an insurrection.

Things may get nasty. There is no sign the Canadian government is going to govern in the spirit of democratic debate and persuasion. There is video of the police in Ottawa manhandling a 78 year old man, aggressively harrassing people, pushing them out of their cars and confiscating legal jerry cans. There are unverified claims that the internet and cell phone coverage are down in all major cities where there are protests. I cannot confirm this on Netblocks or the IP Observatory. That would indeed be cruel, not to mention a bit of a problem for the people of Ottawa and Toronto etc. It may be nothing.

There is also a claim that a suspicious man who appears to be a “Fed” was trying to provoke the protesters to “storm Parliament”.

The protesters however inflating bouncy castles for children. Send in the SWAT team, eh?

#GlobalMovement #FreedomConvoy2022 #FreedomConvoyCanada2022 #FreedomConvoyUSA2022 #FreedomConvoy2022nz #FreedomConvoyaustralia #FreedomConvoyArgentina #freedomconvoyuk #freedom   #FreedomConvoygermany   #FreedomItalia1

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Tuesday Open Thread

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Dear Complier, you can mock and throw angry names and I will still fight for your freedom

Feel the implacable calmness that comes from someone who knows exactly what they stand for.

From Anon:

Dear Complier,

We’ve met, but you probably don’t recognise me. You may remember referring to me as a “conspiracy theorist”, “racist”, “sexist”, “bigot”, or “anti-vaxxer”, but in fact I am none of the above, and much more to you than you realise. I am your friend, family member, colleague, lover, acquaintance and neighbour. I am everywhere, but I don’t self-righteously disclose where exactly.

You’re wearing a mask so I can’t see the scorn set on your lips, or even your smile (if it’s there). Your eyes are visible, but in them I see only compliance, fear, shame and defeat. I don’t judge you, as I know you are a victim. You have been efficiently conditioned, the result of which has left you stripped bare of self-confidence, dignity, power and compassion.

Your only strength is to attack those unwilling to join you in obedience. It’s okay – I don’t feel mad – I feel sad for you. I will allow you to direct your fear at me and I will accept it, because the battle I am fighting is for you as well as me. It’s for your children and grandchildren, as well as mine.

You and I both had a choice to make, and I decided to fight for freedom. You submitted instantly, and attempted to shame, intimidate and coerce me into the same, becoming outraged at my independence and my belief in “my body, my choice”. You disagree with my striving for a fair and just society, free from fraud and deception. You call me a “fascist” for arguing against government overreach. Do you see this irony?

While you continue to angrily comply, to follow those who have continuously lied to you, I will continue to push back. I will continue to value my autonomy and I will use my strength to free us both from the path you are blindly walking down.

One day you will see how much your compliance almost cost us, and hopefully you will see that I was never your enemy. I look forward to this day, and I will celebrate it with you. Until then, I will be here propping you up and preventing you from falling, anonymously of course.

Sincerely, Anon.

Below — Another RedPill Moment — send it to friends who may not know what historic events are taking place. It’s the dead of winter. They’re a long way from home. And no one is paying them to be there.

The most important way to help them is to share what they’re doing. Don’t let their effort be wasted. Tell The World.

Thanks to Scott of the Pacific for both.

GiveSendGo has already raised $4.6 million for the Convoy.

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Electric Scooter explodes

We’ll be teaching our children different fire safety lessons soon — starting with “don’t try this IN your home?”.

All the kilojoules came out at once.

Commentary sent with the video:

The battery of a scooter explodes while it is being charged. The person still had the presence of mind to remove the socket, but it was too late because the chemical reaction was already underway. This is what firefighters fear when it comes to electric cars.

As well as the battery of your ebike! Charging in a fireproof box or outside is not a luxury.

h/t Alistair P, and Helen D.

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Open thread

Some days there is too much to discuss.

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Truckers settle in, building kitchen near Parliament. Gofundme tries to steal funds, but is thwarted

The latest:

  • GoFundMe has taken control of $9m in Trucker donations. But people started demanding a chargeback from their bank to punish GoFundMe with full refunds plus fees. Donors can donate to GiveSendGo instead.
  • The Truckers are not going anywhere. The legacy media claimed they stole food from the homeless at a soup kitchen in Ottawa, so the Truckers built a soup-kitchen, called “the Shack”, as a community kitchen, and are feeding the homeless. When told that was illegal, and they could not build a fixed structure, they announced they were adding wheels.
  • The city of Ottawa is restricting food sales to starve out the protesters, but instead the FreedomConvoy are feeding themselves. (Did the city not realize the Truckers might be good at the logistics of food deliveries?)
  • After threats to bring in the military to remove the truckers, the Military has told Ottawa to find someone else to evict the truckers.
  • Truckers are being called terrorist extremists but in the streets they are playing ice hockey, sweeping off the snow, congo dancing and doing the Macarena. Live music and fireworks happen at night. Look out, it’s an insurrection: Bouncing castles for children have arrived.
  • In chilling news, a white van appears to have deliberately struck a group of protesters. Four are in hospital. The driver has been apprehended.
  • UPDATE: Panicked, GoFundMe has now promised an automatic refund to everyone. But it’s too late now. If the aim was crush the resistance, it only made it stronger. But nobody wins. The money hasn’t gotten to the Truckers YET, but GoFundMe may have sabotaged itself.

Fightback against GoFundMe’s theft*

From SmallDeadAnimals and ZeroHedge

..the weak corporate cowards at GoFundMe have succumbed to the pressure from “powerful forces”. Ezra Levant claims it was a request from Trudeau.  They now say they will donate it to charities of their choosing. So people who donated may end up unwittingly supporting BlackLivesMatter or Greenpeace. So GoFundMe become GoFundYourEnemies. That, obviously, is outrageous, (and how is it even legal?). But there are ways to fight back.

This was the second largest donation cause for GoFundMe in Canada, and would probably have become the largest had they not halted it. GoFundMe now claims the Trucker convoy is not a peaceful protest but “an occupation” with “unlawful activity”. Though GoFundMe was happy to fund the “Occupation” of Capital Hill in Seattle in 2020. Some occupations are more equal than others.

If you have donated via GoFundMe, please contact your bank and dispute the charge to your credit card or bank account. That will mean GoFundMe will need to return the money and pay a fee of $15USD.

The word is that donors should not use the gofundme.com refund form.

*UPDATE: In a panic GoFundMe now says it will offer refunds to donors “automatically”. Perhaps the thought of 120,000 donors demanding chargebacks with fees was a bit frightening, or it might be all the people reporting the group to Attorney Generals and asking for investigations into what is surely illegal?

Once the money is returned, people can donate via the Christian charity GiveSendGo.com/FreedomConvoy2022. The site asks donors to be patient, as their servers are overwhelmed, and it may take several tries to get past the 505 Gateway error.

In their hysteria the collectivists destroy all they touch. Will GoFundMe recover when half the political spectrum refuses to use it? Long Live the alternatives.

A night with the untouchables

Reports from inner Ottawa from someone living there make for great reading.   A local citizen wonders what makes the protesters tick, and nervously finds out that they are honorable hard workers from every corner of Canada, keeping the streets clean, honking by day but stopping at night. They love Canada and want to keep it free of tyranny for their children.

Farmers for Freedom

The Tractors have joined the Truckers.

Truckers are going nowhere

They stop honking at 6pm.

….


The honking will continue until freedom improves.

The Truckers are building infrastructure. One instant community kitchen….

Truckers build a shack for food service

….https://twitter.com/JonathanWilling/status/1489641127313653767

News sites to follow the Convoy

The real news is anywhere-but-the-legacy-media. Thanks again to SmallDeadAnimals in Canada for the list below. I am but a cog sharing info. These blogs find such live and archived coverage of this historical event in Ottawa.

RebelNews Convoy Reports

And here some video aggregators helping spread the true facts on the ground:

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Natural immunity, still strong and durable 20 months later (no boosters needed)

Handy!: A group at Johns Hopkins checked 295 people who had caught Covid before (and tested positive). Amazingly, all but two of them still had antibodies and there was “no indication” that the antibodies were declining.

Natural immunity doesn’t always work this well. There are plenty of diseases where protection wanes after six months, like RSV, or Norovirus, and many common cold coronaviruses.

Natural Immunity to COVID-19 Detected at 20 Months After Infection: Study

 Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times

Protection against the virus that causes COVID-19 among the recovered was detected by researchers at 20 months post-infection, adding to the body of evidence that such protection, known as natural immunity, is long-lasting.

Researchers found antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) in 99 percent of study participants who tested positive for COVID-19, with some having had the illness as long as 20 months prior.

The major takeaway is that natural immunity … is strong and durable,” [Dr Dorry] Segev told The Epoch Times in an email.

Dr. Dorry Segev, the director of the Epidemiology Research Group in Organ Transplantation at Johns Hopkins University.

There were three groups involved in the study. Of the 295 people who “thought they had had Covid” about half of them actually had. And of 246  who thought they “had never had Covid” 10% appear to have had an asymptomatic infection.

There have been many anecdotes of reinfections with Covid, which doesn’t gel easily with this study. Perhaps some antibodies are just not protective? Cross protection between variants may be a hit-and-miss thing.

These results just mean people still have antibodies to whatever strain they caught. That’s good, but it doesn’t mean they will be protected against other strains of Covid. Nor does this result necessarily apply to the very high risk, or old or immunocompromised, who weren’t in the study.

It is nonetheless, indisputably better than immunity generated by vaccines.

So why don’t  we do more testing for natural antibodies?

These antibody tests exist and are called Serology Point-of-Care Tests. But The Australian TGA tells us that these are illegal to supply to Australian citizens direct. They are only available through their doctors, and maybe not even then (doctors argue they are too busy)?

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Weekend Unthreaded

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2000 Mules: It’s normal in elections for one person to make 53 trips to 20 drop boxes…

A new movie coming soon, based on new surveillance footage of ballot drop boxes.

Dinesh D’Souza:

h/t PeterS

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Who needs trees: Welcome to a black glass wilderness

Greens destroy wilderness one innumerate fantasy at a time. If only they had enough fossil fuels underground they might have saved this forest.

A solar wilderness. Tiahang Mountain Solar plant.

A solar wilderness. Tiahang Mountain Solar plant.

“Industrial solar farms require 300-400 times more land than natural gas or nuclear plants” — — Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

Dystopia await all those who think solar power is free


Solar panels on Taihang Mountain have a theoretical capacity of 20MW

“It can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20,000 tons annually replacing 7,500 tons of coal each year. “

Since China consumes 4,319,921,826 tons of coal each year, that’s one plant down, and only 575,145 more to build…

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Thursday Open Thread

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Major win: UK Govt backs down on mandatory jabs for Healthworker Jabs

Don’t underestimate how important this UK news is. The protesters won. The people who held the line, saved the day. There were just too many of them to sack them all.

The Big Retreat is great news — except of course, for all the healthworkers who’ve already quit, or been forced to take an injection they didn’t want, or who have suffered for months with the stress of not knowing if they would be sacked. It’s all been so cruel and will leave a wake …a loss of trust that will last for years.

Covid passports programs are also ending in  Ireland, Bolivia, the Czech Republic, and Denmark and now Switzerland, Saskatchewan and Alberta Canada are promising that vaccine passports will end this month.

Tell the world about them: it’s fuel for protesters and a cold shower for politicians. Newspapers probably won’t headline the pattern of freedom that is starting to spread. There will be people in the world who will be wondering right now if they should hold-the-line.

Politicians will feel isolated if other countries are abandoning their “health passes”.

Health secretary Sajid Javid announces U-turn that will prevent exodus of thousands of health workers

The move came three days before the 3 February deadline that unvaccinated NHS workers who had face-to-face contact with patients had been given to have their first dose or be dismissed.

Figures published last week by NHS England show that 127,515 NHS and domiciliary care staff working in registered settings had not had a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine as of 23 January.

Javid also plans to remove immunisation as a condition of working in care homes, an approach that has already led to the loss of about 40,000 staff in that sector.

He told MPs: “While vaccination remains our very best line of defence, I believe it is no longer proportionate to require vaccination as a condition of deployment by statute.

NHS organisations said that an estimated 60,000 staff would have been dismissed if Javid had not relented.

Omicron has changed everything, but governments shouldn’t have mandated this in the first place. The loss of faith in institutions may never be recovered. After calling healthworkers heroes, they treated them like dirt. The next time there is a major health crisis,  healthworkers will believe the pots-n-pans theater?

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It’s Class Warfare — The Truckers are the Workers against the new Bureaucrat-Kings

The Truckers convoy is so much bigger than just rules on a border crossing. And it’s spreading —  hundreds of trucks are gathering on the US Canada border at Alberta. It has become the lightning rod for the disaffected, the put-upon, and the seriously Fed-Up.

Lots of people don’t even know this is happening. This is a chance to Redpill friends. Reach out in emails. Just ask people, “did you hear about this?” Share the message, because the MSM won’t, and the Empire will silence the news and sabotage the protests every way they can.

Life is so absurd it’s hard to tell what’s satire

Socialists Condemn Workers Of The World For Uniting

OTTAWA—Socialists around the world are condemning the trucker freedom protest in Canada as the working class unites to defend their human rights.

“When workers of the world unite against overbearing government mandates, that’s literal fascism,” said a sobbing socialist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from deep within his top-secret bunker underneath Washington, D.C. “True, compassionate socialism is when the government partners with private corporations to force experimental drugs on the populace and threaten their very livelihoods if they don’t. Everyone knows that.”

The Empire is terrified of the power of Truck protests

They know the Truckers have the power to capture attention. The pushback reveals how just how worried they are.  In Nova Scotia they have banned donations and people joining the protest. They are not even allowed to “park” in such a way as to slow normal traffic and the fines are obscene. Is this even constitutional in Canada?

Nova Scotia government “prohibits” all residents from donating or participating in freedom convoy through emergency order

The order stipulates that “all persons are prohibited from stopping, parking, or operating a vehicle or putting any item in such a manner as to create or contribute to a partial or complete blockade of the normal flow of vehicle traffic on a road, street or highway in the Province”.

“A failure to comply with this Direction could result in a summary conviction with fines between $3,000 to $10,000 for individuals and between $20,000 to $100,000 for a corporation per incident.”

Meanwhile Trucks gather at the US-Canada Border in Alberta

US Truckers promised to join their Canadian counterparts. They said they would go to Ottawa, and if they were not allowed to cross the border they would block it.  These drivers (below) will not or cannot show “their papers”.

Trucker protests are not just show stoppers, they’re infectious. Looking in both directions (below), this is one hell of a side protest going on a long way from Ottawa.

The pushback to make life hard for these truckers is so desperate that reports are coming in suggesting that other people bringing in food to these truckers are being blocked. They are told in the freezing cold of midwinter that they will have to walk  20km (12 miles) to deliver food. Imagine if this were a BLM protest and people were stopping food deliveries?

Where is that Aerial Food Drop when we need one?

UPDATE: This report from Rebel News explains that while the Truckers on the border are being called terrorists who are holding people hostage, the Truckers say they have allowed all who want to leave, to go, and made room for emergency vehicles, but they were denied food, water, medicine and fuel in freezing weather. Rather than them being a threat to anyone else, it was the RCMP who were blockading them in. Snow is falling and some vehicles have run out of propane, some have families with children. But lawyers have arrived to the border to help the truckers who are being charged with offenses while they maintain a peaceful protest.

Meanwhile Trudeau received his booster shot at the beginning of January, but has just caught Covid in his secret hideaway

The effect of the third jab should be peaking about now shouldn’t it?

And the attempts to make out that the protesters are violent vandals continues:

Trudeau slammed the protestors’ actions during a Monday news conference, accusing them of using “hateful rhetoric” and “violence toward fellow citizens.”

“Freedom of expression, assembly, and association are cornerstones of democracy,” he said. “Nazi symbolism, racist imagery and desecration of war memorials are not.”

Police are investigating potential criminal charges against some protestors after reports emerged that some urinated and danced on the National War Memorial. Videos showed a group of protestors dancing on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

“Several criminal investigations are underway in relation to the desecration of the National War Memorial/Terry Fox statue, threatening/illegal/intimidating behavior to police/city workers and other individuals and damage to a city vehicle,” Ottawa police said on social media.

This is what the “desecration” of the Terry Fox statue was — two Canadian flags and a sign that read “Mandate Freedom”:

Terry Fox statue desecration

Terry Fox statue desecration includes two, count them, two Canadian Flags!

These people don’t know what desecration means. If it were a BLM protest they would have torn it down and dragged it away in chains.

As for the odd Swastika in a sea of Canadian flags, the righteously indignant believe their own “white supremacist” propaganda. They don’t realize the symbol is only used as a comment about Trudeau and his totalitarian regime:

And now there is a swastika being flown at our parliament. A fucking swastika.

They don’t realize the Swastika is a protest flag and a comment about Trudeau.

Viva Frei spent hours in Ottawa filming today and says he saw Nothing but freedom loving, tolerant, Beautiful people at that protest.“. “…wouldn’t you know it, Canadian fake news and those blue checkmark Twitter politicians are absolute liars.”

 

 

BREAKING: Quebec to scrap proposed “tax” on the unvaxxinated

In a moment of good news, the protests have at least won a small concession in madhouse Quebec where it looks like it will scrap a planned “health” tax on the unvaccinated.  Unfortunately at the moment,  unvaxxinated people must still be escorted through department stores by staff to buy aspirin at Walmarts without stopping to get socks.

Spare a thought for this historic event — Canada is now #Truckistan

Seems a fair comment:

#Truckistan

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The GoFundME stands at $9.6m. But there are a lot of Trucker GoFundMe’s See  also #FreedomConvoy2022 for news.

The Australian Convoy to Canberra is on Facebook and there are updates here

Please help provide other useful links in comments to better social media links on GETTR, GAB, Parler, Telegram, Bitchute, Rumble etc.

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Suddenly the world shifts back to nuclear power

With an energy crisis hitting the Northern Hemisphere and China streaking ahead, an atomic renaissance is brewing.

The UK is putting more into new nuclear power. France has flipped from shrinking nukes to growing them. The Netherlands had changed its tune. The EU has quietly drafted rules allowing nuclear power to count as “green”.

There are 443 Nuclear Power plants in the world. Another 54 plants are under construction, and more than a third of those are in China. Right now China has about half the capacity of the USA, but within five or ten years China will be the largest nuclear power in the world.

The Green energy experiment is failing to produce cheap reliable energy.

Australia has one third of the world’s known uranium, but has no nuclear power. Why don’t the Coalition do something a tiny bit brave and do what 32 other countries already do.

There is no reason under the sun that the nation with the world’s uranium and the most stable tectonic plates on Earth shouldn’t go nuclear.  We’re getting the subs, why not the power?

Nuclear Ban Has To Go

Adam Creighton, The Australian

It should be obvious nuclear is no longer toxic for other democracies yet Australia, alone among G20 nations, maintains an outright ban despite sitting on one of the largest uranium reserves.

France late last year reversed a decision to cut its dependence on nuclear energy from 75 per cent to 50 per cent, announcing €30bn ($47.7bn) for six new reactors. The EU looks set to designate gas and nuclear power as “green energy”.

The Netherlands has allocated €500m to extend and upgrade nuclear capacity to 2025. “Nuclear energy can complement solar, wind and geothermal energy in the energy mix, and can be used to produce hydrogen,” the Dutch government said in December. “It also makes us less dependent on gas imports.”

Germany’s decision to phase out its nuclear reactors is looking increasingly foolish, tying its hands in a looming showdown between NATO and Russia over Ukraine’s future.

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Tuesday Open Thread

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Game-changer: US Military Data shows much higher rate of vaccination injuries

A Bomb: Last week a lawyer for military personnel spoke about the extraordinary rise in medical conditions that occurred after vaccination against Covid. This is one of the largest and best kept medical datasets in the world, the people in it are mostly young and healthy, and the whistleblowers have signed legal declarations.

The military data suggests most national vaccination databases suffer from gross underreporting of adverse events.

In the World-We-Thought-We-Lived-In, this would have been Frontpage news the next day. Calls should be coming in from all around to pause vaccinations immediately until it can be reviewed.

The three whistleblowers noticed strange patterns in the patients they were treating. They trawled through data on medical billing from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED).

Aside from the [300%] spike in miscarriage diagnoses, there was an almost 300% increase in cancer diagnoses (from a five-year average of 38,700 per year to 114,645 in the first 11 months of 2021). There was also a 1,000% increase in neurological issues, which increased from a baseline average of 82,000 to 863,000.

CovidWorld

The event was a five hour hearing held by US Senator Ron Johnson. Lawyer Thomas Renz has been representing clients suing over vaccine mandates and he was on fire. As well as the risks above, there were many conditions with rates far above their long term averages:

      • myocardial infarction –269% increase
      • Bell’s palsy – 291% increase
      • congenital malformations (for children of military personnel) – 156% increase
      • female infertility – 471% increase
      • pulmonary embolisms – 467% increase

“Our soldiers are being experimented on, injured and sometimes killed…”

*UPDATE: These are not case numbers. These were medical billing items. One person could notch up many billing items for a single condition over the course of a year. What it shows is that — compared to a normal year, or even compared to a pandemic year (2020) — there were 3 to 10 times as many billing items for some conditions.

The increase in medical reports didn’t happen during the first year of Covid, only after the vaccination program was started. In other words, Covid itself didn’t cause this.

Hopefully, for everyone’s sake, the effects will fade with time, especially if people don’t get boosted, or choose a safer vaccine, or an even safer anti-viral.

Senator Ron Johnson….“it must be investigated”, “this is frightening”.

h/t to David E, Old Ozzie, Analitik, Prophet of Boom, and a long while ago, another Ian, Tel, Major Distraction.

Here’s the short 2.5 minute slice:

For people who are vaccinated and may be concerned, bear in mind that many of these conditions are rare events and even three-fold increases will still be rare events. Talk to your doctor, get medical tests, and reduce risks.

Renz points out that the CDC is aware of this data yet tells the public something else.

…on September 28th, when Fauci and others were blaming the unvaccinated and saying this was a “crisis of the unvaxxed” — in actuality their Project Salus DOD data, which is given to the CDC, showed that 71% of new cases were fully vaxxed. And 60% of hospitalizations were also in the fully vaxxed.

“This is corruption at the highest level”

Daniel Horowitz writes in The Blaze:

Whistleblowers share DOD medical data that blows vaccine safety debate wide open

I have spoken to one of the whistleblowers who attests to being gravely concerned with seeing young soldiers with sudden metastatic cancers, auto-immune diseases, and heart and circulatory disorders that have caused many soldiers to drop out of various training programs. “These doctors were motivated to explore DMED data due to the numbers of case increases they were seeing empirically,” said the whistleblower, who served in the military for many years. “Some physicians throughout the force (all branches) have been intimidated by commands not to perform the full spectrum of testing and adhere to the regulations, which implicitly direct full workups for EUA vaccination adverse reactions. It will require other military physicians to step forward and share experiences to fully ascertain the enormity of these allegations and engender an investigation to the fullest extent.”

If these numbers are verified in the upcoming court cases, then absent some massive military insurance fraud or bizarre glitch in the system, it potentially paints a shocking picture of vaccine safety concerns that would indicate that not only were the VAERS safety signals something that should immediately have been followed up on, but they are plagued by woeful underreporting. The military is a defined, finite, and closely controlled and monitored population. They are also overwhelmingly young and healthy. If allegations of neurological, cardio, and cancer concerns surrounding the vaccines are indeed true, the military would be the most revealing place to discover it, and their data is the most reliable and undisputable.

Why didn’t Defense Health Agency speak up?

DMED is quite literally an epidemiological surveillance program designed for the express purpose of detecting surges in illness and injury to make sure the military is combat-ready. It’s about national security even more than public health. Why would the military not have blown the whistle and warned the CDC right away about this data?

How could the blaring and glaring surveillance signals of a lifetime be ignored by the Defense Health Agency (DHA), and how was this not conveyed to the general public?

Why didn’t the FBI or the CIA say something? If foreign national military forces were struggling like this (and presumably some are) we’d hope the intelligence agencies were aware of it.

When it’s the US military and US — surely it’s even more important?

A longer 15 minute edit with a few other speakers:

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