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.

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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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Canadian Truckers Protests massive, Trudeau runs from Ottawa

Spread the word. The legacy corporate media are not telling the world about the biggest Truck Convoy in history. People in cars have joined in, farmers in tractors are lining up. People are baking cupcakes and organising food for the drivers. A few hours ago it was a freezing cold midwinter night but throngs were cheering and tooting around Parliament Hill and the streets nearby were in gridlock. Three or four blocks away from Parliament Hill people are tooting in queues of cars, cheering on the Truckers.

Justin Trudeau has tested negative to Covid but has fled Ottawa for a secret location for “fear of violence” and to self isolate with his family. He’s called it a “small fringe minority” expressing “unacceptable views”, and the protesters have taken on the small fringe minority label in placards.

The Empire strikes back

Ezra Levant is on the scene and reporting that officials are going to extreme lengths (as I said they would) to stop the Convoy — they are blocking roads near Parliament Hill with police cars and graders. They have turned off traffic cameras that normally run 24/7 so that people cannot see what is going on.  Apparently they allowed “some trucks” into the centre but are banning the others. (Great way to manipulate the shots to show a “small protest”.)

Nova Scotia has banned people standing on roadsides cheering for the Truckers. So much for free speech! They have allowed some trucks in but are blocking the rest, presumably so they can get shots of a “small protest”. The lies to defend the Empire never end. Someone on Canadian State Media, CBC, is even blaming the Russians.

See also Rebel News  Convoyreports.com   CitizenFreePress

 

On Tucker Carlson, one trucker reports that as he approached the border the border guards didn’t need to see his phone “passport” because his phone had already reported his status on their screen. His phone had already given his private medical details to the border guards. As he said, what’s to stop them bringing this in all over the country, not just at the borders.

“Fear of Violence”: Easy way to sabotage any protest

The Washington Post and Trudeau are already labeling this as “far right” and potentially violent. The Truckers have gone out of their way to insist the protest is peaceful. There is a real risk here that this protest could be turned against the protesters just as the unarmed January 6 Capitol Hill protest was. Is a another false flag type incident on the cards? Who knows, but it would serve the autocrats if it happened, wouldn’t it? It would be used to discredit all the upstanding hardworking citizens just asking the government to let them choose their own medical treatment. Another fake insurrection. Another Reichstag fire?

Truck protests appear to be popping up now in  other countries but they are hard to confirm:

See Germany, Brazil, Australia. In Australia, #ConvoytoCanberra has begun. CraigKellyMP will be at PheasantsNest tomorrow at 7am. There are a lot of things stacked against this — we don’t have the same trigger point of new border truck restrictions like Canada does. But we have plenty to protest about. Will it take off? See #AustralianTruckers There are convoys on the road in Wyong and in Queensland/

Map of Australian Truckers for Freedom

Map of Australian Truckers for Freedom

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A thread to discuss the Canadian Truckers convoy

Sorry I can’t do the updates today, but hopefully readers can below.

Great to hear from so many Canadians!

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Quebec: Unvaxxed only allowed in Big Stores with staff supervision to get food, medicines

Bizarre moments in viral control

In Quebec, unvaccinated humans over 12 are no longer permitted to shop in large stores in Quebec, other than to buy food or pharmaceuticals. If a Big Box store like IKEA, Costco and Wallmart sells food or drugs the unvaxxed will have to be marched through the store by a staff member in case they buy socks or something unpermitted as well.

Does that mean parents who are vaccinated will have to leave their unvaccinated 13 year olds in the car, or at home?

Will unvaccinated parents send their 11 year olds alone into shops to buy forbidden toasters?

Unvaccinated to be Accompanied by Staff in Walmart to Make Sure They Don’t Buy Anything Other Than Food & Pharma

Summit News, Paul Joseph Watson

The rule is set to apply in big box stores so as “to make sure they (the unvaxxed) do not go and buy other products or other items that might be in the store,” according to a CBC newsreader.

In other words, in order to stop the spread of COVID-19, disgusting unvaccinated extremists must be prevented from purchasing things like disposable barbeques and electronic goods.

“For pharmacies located in big-box stores, such as Walmart or Costco, an unvaccinated person must be “accompanied at all times during his or her travels by an employee of the business, the pharmacy or any other person mandated by them for this purpose,” reports CBC, citing the decree. “This person may not purchase products other than those related to the pharmaceutical service they are receiving.”

Imagine how well this will work if 200 unvaccinated people insist on turning up at the same time.

This is, of course, just informed consent:

Health Minister Christian Dubé says the expanded vaccine mandate is meant to encourage more people to get vaccinated.

So the government just forced retailers to pay for Vaccine-Guards to humiliate and harass the unvaccinated in the hope this will persuade them that the government really cares about them and their health will improve if they “trust the government”.

This applies to  stores of more than 16,000 square feet, so stores like Walmarts, IKEA  and Costco. It might be the first time in history that a government has accidentally made a rule that benefits small business owners.

Enforcing new vaccine mandate frustrates some Quebec retailers

High costs, unfair competition, angry customers

On top of customer service challenges, businesses say they’re being dealt a significant financial burden. Canac says it will cost around $100,000 a week to enforce the measure in its 31 stores across Quebec.

For Simon Gagnon, owner of a Sports Experts franchise in Sherbrooke, Quebec’s labour shortage was already making it tough to find staff. Now he says he faces the “colossal challenge” of hiring security guards and employees to scan vaccine passports and he fears he may lose some of his customers.

“What scares us is that instead of lining up, people will go shop somewhere else,” he said, adding that he feels the province is creating unfair competition between larger retailers and smaller stores that don’t have to enforce the new rules.

If they divide a big store into little stores will that end the need for Vaccine-Guards?

Quebec also has a plan to charge adults who are not vaccinated a “health contribution fee” which will be “significant”.

“Those who refuse to get the shot bring a financial burden to hospital staff and Quebecers,” said the premier. “This 10% of the population can’t burden the 90%.”

So if the vaccinated end up needing more hospital care than the unvaxxed will they be charged too?

Western Australia gets its own form of Vaccine Guards at drive through bottle shops next week. More on that Bizarre Moment in Viral Control coming soon.

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Good News! Many Vax Mandates end in England, Ireland, Bolivia, Czech Republic, Denmark

It’s a miracle. Common sense.  For the first time in two years government rules are shrinking.

A lot of this is thanks to Omicron, the gift from Africa.

In terms of infections the UK is past the peak, but most of Europe is a viral Firestorm. France just recorded a half a million new Covid cases in a single day, and with a test positivity of 31% awesome percent. Something like 1 – 3% of the entire French nation caught Covid yesterday.

Omicron in Europe

All the past awful waves shrink before Omicron.   | Source OWID

Despite the bonfire of cases, the deaths are lower than any wave:

A glorious contrast in graphs:

Daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people

Deaths per million in Europe    | OWID ..

With the disaster averted in the hospitals, suddenly political leaders are changing tune. We might think this is all just thanks to the magic of Omicronic nicety, but cases are still rising in places like Denmark and France and yet the Governments are already pulling back. That’s surely thanks to the pressure of mass protests. Without that pain and anger, political leaders wouldn’t be acting so early.

Though it helps that millions of people are catching Omicron and know first-hand that it just doesn’t make sense to force people to get vaccinated.

There’s a wave of mandates disappearing

Vaccine passports were wound back in England last week.  But 80,000 Doctors, dentists and nurses still face losing their jobs next week due to vaccine requirements for them. It’s about 5% of total healthcare staff. There are many rumours the UK government is considering postponing it.

The US Supreme Court threw out Joe Biden’s illegal mandates for not just private but federal employees, but not before 98% of employees were cajoled, coerced or tricked into getting vaccinated.

And suddenly other countries are winding back the rules.

Ireland ends vaccine mandates:

Ireland to End Most COVID-19 Restrictions, Including COVID Passport

Epoch Times

Almost all CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus restrictions in Ireland will end on Saturday, including domestic COVID-19 Certificates, curfews, social distancing, and capacity limits.

From 6 a.m. on Saturday, COVID certificates, which are currently required as proof of vaccination or recovery to access indoor hospitality venues, cinemas, theatres, gyms, and leisure centres, will be scrapped.

Bolivians blocked the roads in protest, and the mandates ended:

How Bolivians Defeated Socialist Government’s Vaccine Mandates

Epoch Times

ANTA CRUZ, Bolivia—On Jan. 19 the administration of socialist President Luis Arce canceled the requirement of proof of vaccination against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus to enter any public establishment or place of commerce.

The Movement for Socialism (MAS) party officials announced the original “supreme decrees” 4640 and 4641 on Dec. 28, which triggered nationwide protests and legal backlash in the cities of Santa Cruz, La Paz, Cochabamba, El Alto, and Sucre.

On Jan. 17 protesters established road blockades leading from the city of El Alto into the capital La Paz. The head of the rural magisterium in La Paz, Rudy Callisaya, said the blocks would stay in 20 provinces in La Paz department until the government agreed to dismiss the vaccine decrees. The roads Callisaya pledged to impede with other protesters are a vital part of the supply chain allowing food and essential goods to arrive at La Paz.

No more mandates in The Czech Republic:

The Czech Republic charts its own path on Covid

The new Czech government has pledged to undo the previous regime’s vaccine mandate for over-60s and selected professions in spite of the fact that the Czech Republic has lower levels of vaccination than Austria and Germany. Health Minister Vlastimil Válek has assured people that they “do not have to worry about sanctions” resulting from their vaccination status.

Denmark have so many infections they are stopping all restrictions including vax mandates

Politico

Denmark is to lift all remaining COVID-19 restrictions, with Omicron hospital admissions and deaths remaining stable and high rates of vaccination.

“Tonight we can … find the smile again. We have incredibly good news, we can now remove the last coronavirus restrictions in Denmark,” Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a press conference, following recommendations from the Epidemic Commission and with all the main political parties’ support. The last restrictions will be dropped on February 1.

The announcement comes as a new subvariant of Omicron, BA.2, is gaining a foothold in Denmark and driving infections up, with 46,000 new COVID-19 cases recorded on Wednesday.

On the other hand –Netherlands, France lift restrictions, but still have a “Covid pass”

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