The EU is reportedly planning to target Russian media channels with the upcoming ninth sanctions package, freezing the assets of ANO TV-Novosti, RT’s parent company, and revoking licenses from those few outlets which still hold them within the bloc. RT spoke on the new planned broadside against Russian media with Sonja van den Ende, an independent Dutch journalist, who believes the ongoing crisis has become merely a pretext to intensify the years-long crackdown on the freedom of speech in the West.
“This is what the Western countries are doing since the start of the special military operation, even before that. Even before the Syrian war, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya,” van den Ende said.
But now it intensified a lot, and we see every day new things coming out. They clearly want to control the media, this is what they do already, and everything that is said in favor of Russia or just neutral about Russia is straight away banned everywhere.
Germany has repeatedly targeted RT and its German-language division RT DE in particular. The latest initiative in the field was floated this week by MP Andrea Lindholz, a CDU/CSU parliamentary group chair, who proposed to set up a special reporting office to tackle “Russian disinformation.”
The MP claimed the alleged “danger of Russian propaganda and disinformation in Germany should not be underestimated,” particularly given the economic troubles “when everything is getting more expensive, there is a risk that people will become more receptive to pro-Russian fakes.”https://rumble.com/embed/v1y1umq/?pub=4
The questionable initiative comes as Germany is already experiencing mass protests, van den Ende noted, expressing hopes that the country’s citizens will only “protest more.”
“The next part, the freedom of speech is gone. What is left then? They have no life. They can’t pay their bills anymore, they can’t say what they want. It’s a total dictatorship,” she said.
They preach democracy and freedom, and they do the opposite.
The main goal of such activities is maintaining control over the media narrative, and the Western establishment simply fears that Russian outlets would breach it, the journalist believes.
“The threat they imagine is maybe that some truth will come out, that they are telling not what is really going on,” van den Ende said.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at a gaming convention in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 13, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Canada
Musk Says Federal Internet Regulation Bill ‘An Attempt to Muzzle’ Canadians
By Peter Wilson December 14, 2022 Updated: December 14, 2022 biggersmallerPrint 0:003:08
Elon Musk recently commented once again on the Liberal government’s pending internet regulation legislation, this time saying it sounds like “an attempt to muzzle” Canadians.
Musk was responding to a Twitter post by Canadian journalist Andrew Lawton, who wrote on Dec. 13 that the federal government “wants to regulate internet content and deputize social media companies to enforce ‘hate speech’ bans.”
“I hope [Elon Musk] takes a stand against this,” Lawton wrote.
“Sounds like an attempt to muzzle the voice of the people of Canada,” Musk responded on Dec. 14.
Musk earlier responded to a comment regarding Bill C-11 in late October when a Twitter post asked if he would help Canadians “fight back” against the legislation.
“Now that you own Twitter, will you help fight back against Trudeau’s online censorship bill C-11?” said a post by Canada Proud on Oct. 28.
Musk replied, “First I’ve heard.”
Bill C-11, also known as the Online Streaming Act, is currently pending in the Senate and, if passed and given royal assent, will grant the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) regulating power over streaming platforms like Netflix and YouTube.
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, who sponsored the bill, has reiterated in the past that the legislation will not give the CRTC power to regulate the content of individual social media content creators.
However, CRTC chair Ian Scott told a parliamentary committee in May that, within the legislation, “there is a provision that would allow us to do it as required.”
Amendments
Senators on the transport and communications committee amended Bill C-11 earlier this week by adding a clause that will prohibit the CBC from publishing or broadcasting sponsored content in the future.
Sen. Percy Downe, who introduced the amendment on Dec. 8, said sponsored content leads to the “cheapening of journalism.”
The government’s Senate representative, Sen. Marc Gold, opposed the amendment.
“The government is of the view that this amendment is not appropriate in the context of this bill,” he said.
A week prior, the same Senate committee voted down an amendment that would’ve limited the CRTC’s scope of regulation under the legislation.
The amendment proposed that only digital content creators with a yearly revenue of $150 million or more be subject to the CRTC’s regulating authority, but was voted down 10-4.
“Many [online content creators] have testified that a financial threshold would be important to help give guidelines to the CRTC on who they can regulate,” said Sen. Pamela Wallin during a Senate transport committee meeting on Nov. 29.
“The government opposes this amendment and thinks it’s not necessary for reasons that it set out,” said Gold.
Two days later, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai told Canada’s International Trade Minister Mary Ng that the U.S. is concerned that Bill C-11 could lead to discrimination against American businesses.
“Legislation in the Canadian Parliament … could impact digital streaming services and online news sharing and discriminate against U.S. businesses,” said a U.S. government news release on Nov. 30.
CEO of social media platform nixes Trust and Safety Council amid spike in extremist content
New Twitter CEO Elon Musk disbanded an advisory panel set up in 2016 to address hate speech and other harmful content on the social media platform.
However, since the tech billionaire bought Twitter in a $44 billion purchase he has reinstated the account of former U.S. president Donald Trump among some 62,000 accounts brought back online. Musk also suspended the account of antisemitic rapper Kanye West.
Three Council members resigned last week, stating in an open letter that “the safety and wellbeing of Twitter’s users are on the decline” despite claims to the contrary by Musk. The three members who left are Eirliani Abdul Rahman, Anne Collier and Lesley Podesta.
The Council consisted of volunteers who served as advisers with no governing or decision-making authority.
“ADL (Anti-Defamation League) was an active member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council because we strongly believed that social media companies should learn from the best practices of civil society and those communities most affected by hate, harassment, and extremism online on how to best address these issues,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
“It is disappointing that the Council was dissolved because it’s members had valuable insights about how to make their platform a safer place for all users,” Greenblatt added.
Arik Segal, an expert on online conflicts such as hate speech and fake news, told i24NEWS that the Council was ineffective and that this was done on purpose.
“The big tech companies have this method to counter public outcry about all the troubles that they create online like fake news,” said the professor, who teaches at Israel’s Reichman and Bar Ilan universities. “They create this kind of council that doesn’t really do anything but at least they can say that there is a council. I don’t think it was meaningful [and its disbanding] won’t mean anything.”
Antisemitic posts spiked more than 61 percent in the first two weeks that Musk took control of the company, according to online hate monitors. The Network Contagion Research Institute said in early November that terms associated with Jewish people were being tweeted more than 5,000 times per hour and that antisemitic tweets were receiving the most engagement from users.
“The things that are much more troublesome with [Musk’s] behavior are the fact that he allowed those who were blocked on Twitter to be pardoned,” Segal said, expressing concern that Musk’s call on Sunday to prosecute U.S. President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci could give rise to more conspiracy theories on the extreme end of free speech.
Segal said that more structured or organizational antisemitism could be more of a problem, citing the BDS movement as an example.
“If it’s more structured antisemitism or influencer antisemitism and hate content on Twitter, that could disseminate to other platforms,” Segal warned. “The problem with the other platforms is the echo chambers — especially WhatsApp groups and Facebook groups — and those people actually go and do something about that.”
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(LifeSiteNews) — A new report shows that a large Canadian credit union reported to the police one of its customers who “liked” the Freedom Convoy Facebook page and proceeded to monitor his financial transactions.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, recently released records show that on February 15 of this year, Assiniboine Credit Union in Winnipeg, Manitoba, reported one of its users to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) because he had “liked” the Freedom Convoy Facebook page, telling the federal police he is “potentially involved” in the protest.
The report to the RCMP came the day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau enacted the Emergencies Act (EA) to shut down the protest, wherein the government gave banks and financial institutions the power to freeze suspected Freedom Convoy donors’ accounts without a court order.
Assiniboine went as far as having its staff members monitor the man’s social media posts, as well as comb through his checking account transactions.
Management at Assiniboine noted that before the EA was enacted, “account activity was being monitored but not deemed illegal.”
Police noted in a memo that same day that the credit union member in question was a “well known anti-vax” person, suggesting the tip from the credit union was followed up on.
In another instance of financial institutions using the EA as a reason to go after their customers, the same report shows that an unnamed Canadian bank had also reported to police one of its credit card users who had allegedly purchased a gas mask from an army surplus store.
This information was shown in a February 17 email, with police noting “It won’t come as a surprise but a bank has frozen assets of an individual and they also disclosed that a purchase was recently made at an Ottawa Army Surplus store.”
“Most likely a gas mask,” added the RCMP.
These recent revelations are not the first instances of Canadian financial institutions reporting their customers to the police due to their political views.
As noted last month by LifeSiteNews, records show Desjardins Group also reported to the RCMP some of its customers who were making financial transactions supporting the Freedom Convoy.
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The bank had reported a couple that made a $20,000 deposit, which the bank claimed was being used to pay for pro-Freedom Convoy signs.
Trudeau’s use of the EA led to almost $8 million in funds from 267 different people being frozen, in addition to 170 bitcoin wallets.
The full impact of Trudeau’s cabinet’s use of the EA to expand the scope of the Proceeds Of Crime And Terrorist Financing Act to allow for such freezing has yet to be determined by a parliamentary committee.
Last month during a round-table discussion at the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC), panel member Dr. Gerard Kennedy, who along with other POEC members was tasked with advising government officials on future policy in light of the Freedom Convoy, seemed to agree with the controversial freezing measures taken by the Trudeau government, saying it was “efficacious” and “even justified” for banks to freeze the assets of demonstrators for protesting government COVID measures.
During testimony before the POEC last month, it was also revealed that one Canadian bank executive suggested Freedom Convoy protesters could be labeled as “terrorists” to allow for a quick freezing of their funds.
Finance Minister Chyrstia Freeland’s testimony before the commission showed that she even agreed with one Canadian bank CEO’s call for possible military intervention in the Freedom Convoy.
With the POEC’s public policy phase coming to a close two weeks ago, they are now tasked with releasing a report to Canada’s parliament and Senate with their findings and recommendations by February 20, 2023.
You’re making the Senate water down online censorship legislation.
Thousands of taxpayers like you have been blasting senators with emails about Bill C-11 – the online censorship legislation. It’s a good bet many of those sleepy senators have never gotten that many emails before. And it’s waking them up.
The Senate committee just passed an amendment to Bill C-11 that would exempt online posts from ordinary people. That means if you post a video on YouTube or TikTok, it won’t be regulated by government bureaucrats.
This is a huge move to water down this legislation and CTF supporters like you deserve all the credit.
But watering down this legislation isn’t enough. It needs to be defeated.
The government shouldn’t have the power to filter your news and streaming feeds at all. Any step in that direction makes it harder for you to hold the government accountable. So there’s more work to do.
The amendment to Bill C-11 guarantees that the legislation has to go back to the House of Commons for further debate. That gives you another chance to fight Bill C-11.
This Sunday, December 11th – from 1 to 3 p.m. Corner of Main and Warren, Penticton.Julia Valenti will be your Host for the next two weeks while Mary Lou is away.TRUDEAU MUST GO!!! ~ December 11 – CROSS CANADA EVENTNaomi, Lynn and Darlene have been working hard to make this the event of the season. Show up and bring a friend!
Guest speakers:Bettina Engler Ocean to Ocean ~www.geoengineeringfreecanada.com – All about chemtrails and what to do about them. A CANADA-WIDE INITIATIVE. Dave Shearer – Truth Seeker – One Eyed Budgie Truth Centre, Keremeos – One of our neighbourhood heroes
Miss a week and you miss a lot! Fighting for freedom is more fun with friends. Bring a few. OTHER REGULAR RALLIES · Kelowna CLEAR Rallies – every Saturday at noon – Stuart Park, Kelowna · Oliver – in front of city hall – Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. · Penticton – Tuesdays at noon, in front of Richard Cannings’ Office – 301 Main Street ——————————- o0o————————————-
ACTIONS OF THE WEEK · Support the National Citizen’s Led Inquiry Support for the National Citizens’ Inquiry (NCI) is increasing amongst Canadians. Over 35,000Canadians have signed the petition in support of a truly independent public inquiry into all federal and provincial COVID-19 policies. First of all, please sign that petition yourself. There is no doubt that this inquiry is going to make history. Your support is needed to make the NCI a success. We are asking for $10 from every freedom-loving Canadian to go toward the cost of hosting multiple hearings across the country. Donate HERE——————————- o0o————————————-
· STEP 14 – DIGITAL ID AWARENESS
You’ve all done an amazing job using cash (see step one here) and raising awareness of the importance of keeping cash alive and dialing back the digital systems. Don’t stop now.
Now we need to take it a step further and start educating as many people as we can about the dangers of a Digital ID and Digital currencies, that includes CBDCs (central bank digital currencies).
First, watch the new documentary called State of Control so that you can answer people’s questions. Then, download and print the pamphlet we’ve made (see below). Go for a walk with your family and friends and drop them into letterboxes, give them out at work, to the cashiers and parents at school drop-off. Give them to as many people as you can.
This is so critical because when the implementation of these things begins to happen, it might be too late to educate others. You’ve got to start now. The more people we can reach now, the more effective our campaigns will be to stop their agenda. Think of this exercise as rallying the troops and getting them ready to pushback against the global digital ID and digital currencies when the time comes.
This will be the last step for 2022. We will start with step 15 on January 8th, 2023.
Merry Christmas Reignite Family
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· Join us at this historic public hearing and prelude to Dr. Commie Henry’s trial being held at the BC Supreme Court from Dec 12-16th each morning at 9:30am in Vancouver … 800 Smithe Street – Day one will be the most important of the dates if you can’t stay for the whole 5 days. That can be our big show of support for the class action suit – an audience of those harmed. · The judge has done something unprecedented in this case, by granting the right to bring phones and cameras into the courtroom, against the objections of Henry’s counsel.www.suebonnie.ca Or https://www.covidconstitutionalchallengebc.ca
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FREEDOM RISING Newsletter #25
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VIDEOS of THE WEEK
Died Suddenly
For centuries, the global elite have broadcast their intentions to depopulate the world. And yet… we never seem to believe them. The Stew Peters Network is proud to present DIED SUDDENLY, a damning presentation on the truth about the greatest ongoing mass genocide in human history. VIDEO——————————- o0o————————————- Closing Comments – Emergency Act Inquiry“If there ever was a time for a Prime Minister to step down, now is the time.” VIDEO
The film “MONOPOLY – Who Owns The World?” explains how virtually the entire world is owned by one single corporation, giving them the power to control governments, news media, health organizations, and much more.
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On March 16, 2022, the B.C Gov’t appointed a Commission comprised of three (3) people to analyze the Gov’t’s actions in relation to COVID-19. That Report was issued last week, in November 2022.
Notwithstanding the claims by the B.C. Government’s Minister Farnworth that the Report upheld the Gov’t’s response, this is pretty far from the truth. Here is the stated summary of their Report:
We were tasked with undertaking an operational review of the B.C. government’s pandemic response to help government prepare for future events. The review looked at preparations for the pandemic, the processes used to make decisions, government communications related to the pandemic response, and the implementation of response measures. Our findings include things that went well and things that could have been improved, because there are lessons to be learned from both. (What about things that went wrong – and there was lots of them?) (my emphasis)
We approached our task through a combination of research and
engagement. Our research examined the operational context within which government responded to the pandemic, public health and emergency management best practices, the events that took place during the pandemic, and how B.C. compared with other populous provinces in terms of several outcome indicators. We engaged broadly with the public, government, stakeholders, and Indigenous people and organizations to understand the response from a range of perspectives.
Before even examining this Report and its conclusions and findings, what does this Summary actually admit? I will come back to this at the end of this article – no cheating!!!
Many of the findings are quite irrelevant to our discussion here, such as people being dissatisfied with the time between announcements from Bonnie Henry at her press releases, and the timing of the Orders being issued.
The primary foundation of this Report is the assumption (or Gov’t direction) that there was a global pandemic. All findings, Part 3 What We Found, are based on the assumption that there was a pandemic. Nothing in this Report analyzed the accuracy of the Gov’t’s claims of a pandemic, nor challenges the truthfulness of the Gov’t statistics and claims.
For example, when the first Emergency Orders were issued on March 16 and 18, 2020 (Henry and Farnworth), only three people had allegedly died of COVID-19 in B.C. That is not a pandemic. Simply because the World Health Organization (WHO) issues an order of a pandemic, does not mean, factually, that there is a health emergency of that nature in B.C. Does it mean B.C. is required by law, because Canada is a member of the WHO, to issue such an Order?
Nor did the authors of this Report examine the fact that the Emergency Order by Minister Farnworth was issued without jurisdiction to so do, as the Emergency Program Act of B.C. only applies to natural disasters, not to viral infections or pandemics.
Nor did the authors of this Report consider that the PCR test utilized by the B.C. Gov’t has a documented 97.5% false positive rate and how this would have affected the statistics in relation to deaths and health effects.
Nor did the authors of this Report consider as to why the Gov’t determined to use PCR in the first place, and why it decided to use 35+ cycles in its use.
Nor did the authors of this Report consider Bonnie Henry’s previous admissions in evidence in Ontario and admissions in B.C., that masks do not prevent viral transmissions.
In examining these issues, all findings were made as admissions that the Gov’t narrative was correct, when in fact of course, the were not.
Why did the authors fail to contact organizations, groups or individuals opposing the Gov’t narrative, and seek out their reasons for so doing and their supporting materials? If the authors were charged with determining if the statistics released by the Gov’t were correct to support the restrictions, the results would have been much different, and even further against the Gov’t narrative. Indeed, the Terms of Reference for this Commission, stated the following: (Appendix “A”)
“The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of the BC government and the broad BC public sector throughout 2020, 2021, and into 2022…The scope of the review excludes an assessment of economic recovery and public policy decisions made by government to deal with the consequences of the pandemic and decisions made by the independent Provincial Health Officer. The review will, however, look at how these decisions were made.” (my emphasis)
These Terms set the foundation for this Committee that:
There was a pandemic for COVID-19;
The Committee was prohibited from doing a review or assessment on the decisions that were made by the Gov’t and Bonnie Henry.
Considerations, noted above and others in relation to the PCR test, mask effectiveness, vaccine orders, distancing orders, lockdown decisions etc., could not be examined by the Committee and thus Henry et al continue to remain unaccountable for them, and the Report conclusions are skewed in favour of the Gov’t as a result, as was intended by the Gov’t.
The Committee was given instructions, directly and via how to conduct their investigation by the parameters set for this report, to achieve results the Gov’t could rely upon to its benefits, while simultaneously minimizing all opposition.
As expected, it is a political sham which fails to get to the nature of COVID itself, the falsified stats, false PCR test results, etc.
This is the problem associated with these commissions – the Gov’ts appoint the authors, arbitrators or adjudicators, and the Gov’ts set the Terms and Conditions, what they can inquire into and what they cannot, to assure, as best they can, that they are unaccountable for their actions, while claiming to the public that this “independent” committee determined that they were doing a good job.
Interestingly, whether people wanted longer and more comprehensive restrictions or those who wanted none at all, a large majority of the people believed that the Gov’t failed in its response.
Indicative of the quantity of people opposing the lockdowns and restrictions, the authors admit that:
A vast majority of respondents want a review of the actual decisions made to respond to the pandemic, which is beyond the scope of this review.
The extreme level of vitriol directed at decision-makers by many respondents was shocking.
This indicates that the vast majority of people did not trust the Gov’t reports and statistics, and disagreed with the restrictions and lockdowns.
Statement #4 was worded: I trusted COVID-19 information provided by Gov’t
This resulted in a whopping 74% disagreement of Gov’t information!
Statement #6:Overall the B.C. Gov’t managed the pandemic well
Disagree: 74% Agree: 18%
The authors then stated:
A relatively small number of people commented on the enforcement of provincial orders and felt that government should have been more assertive.
From the above alone, it can be seen that despite the selective people involved, the vast majority did not trust or believe the Gov’t, and believed that the restrictions were excessive.
Now the crème de la crème. With regards to my opening insights into this Report. Though the authors claim to have engaged the public through an online survey, (p. 45), this was not publicly announced very well, and most members of the public were completely unaware of it. Over 15 000 people responded, (p, 45), but it is not stated where these people originated – were they all union/gov’t employees, or with a vested interest in the outcome, or within the large group of people who believed the Gov’t narrative? It appears that this survey was publicized to the organizations set out in Appendix “E” to the Report.
The authors of this Report admit to their awareness of the existence of many opposition groups to the lockdowns and restrictions. (p. 36, 37). However, they made no attempts to reach out to any of them.
None of these groups contacted have expressed opposition to the Gov’t narrative, statistics, or pandemic claims. All of them, in one way or another, cooperated with and/or supported the Gov’t due to financial or legal considerations. The authors made no attempt to contact Vaccine Choice Canada (Ted Kuntz), Action4Canada (Tanya Gaw), CLEAR (David Lindsay), Unity and medical doctors, or any other individuals or groups opposed to the Gov’t narrative and restrictions.
Despite the lack of participation by professional groups and people opposing the Gov’t narrative in this Report, there is clearly widespread opposition against the Gov’t. If people opposing the Gov’t narrative had been contacted and involved, these statistics and findings would have significantly increased in our favour and there would have been many adverse findings against the Gov’t, such that they would have had to truly justify their decisions and false statistics.
After perusing this document, the following findings became clear:
1. It is based on the false assumption that there was a pandemic and a response was needed (the BC Emergency Program Act does not allow for declarations of emergencies for viruses – only floods, earthquakes etc.)
2. No attempt was made to determine if the experimental injections themselves were safe after being developed in only months.
3. No attempt was made to determine if Bonnie Henry’s stats were correct or not to support their emergency actions, restrictions and lockdowns.
4. The incredible amount of public distrust and anger was visible, even though groups like ours who vehemently opposed these lockdowns and restrictions, were never consulted or our reasons considered.
5. All participating groups and individuals were corporations, unions, Gov’ts and Gov’t bodies, and others who are predisposed, either via bias (benefits such as employment or subsidies, or contracts), in favour of the Gov’t narrative. (Appendix “A”, p. 3) The lack of opposition is indicative of a study attempting to get hoped for Gov’t supportive results. Despite this, the results were, as the authors admit, shockingly against the Gov’t.
Sunday Paper Deliveries
A second time-slot has been added for those who cannot make it Sunday Mornings:
Every Sunday at 11:30am and 1:30pm is now also an option.
Sign-up on the Newspaper Delivery list so that you get an email confirming the deliveries for each Sunday. With winter in mind, we will only do this if roads are bare and it’s not snowing. The advantage of delivering this time of year is that nobody is hanging out in their front yards so you don’t have to worry about confrontations.
We meet at the Capri parking lot between A&W and De Dutch Pannekoek House
Bring a large bag for carrying the papers if you want
Grab a free small Kelowna map book that can help you get situated. Your cell phone will be tracking and tracing you. Learn how to read maps again
You will be provided with a printed google map of the area you will be delivering to. Bring a yellow marker to indicate which streets you completed. You may run out of papers or you may end up with extra
We ask that with every paper you deliver, you remove the inserts and place them in the mailbox in front or behind the paper. That way, someone who may hastily throw out the paper will still be forced to see each individual flyer
Please deliver only one paper per mailbox, regardless if you have different papers (we usually have a combination of different papers and editions). Some houses may have up to 4 mailboxes; put one paper in each as they are for different tenants
Dress warm and wear practical footwear
Please always bring back your filled-out map and extra papers to the CLEAR booth on Saturdays or the following Sunday so we can keep track of the areas that got done and restock those papers
We will keep doing this every Sunday, weather-permitting, until the majority of our 150,000 population has been reached. The more people step up to help, the faster this will get done!
Make Sure to check your email on Sunday mornings for confirmation that our paper delivery will take place that day
Anonymous Surveys
On Nov. 19/22, many people took surveys home to fill out. There was a total of 100 surveys and many are still missing. Please be sure to fill it out and return it to the CLEAR booth this Saturday, Dec. 10/22.
Thank you to all who have filled it out so far!
3 Simple Things Freedom Activists can do to WIN this War:
Spread the Word by delivering papers and flyers everywhere:
Knowledge is power!
Replace your cell phone with a flip phone:
Think of your apps as TRAPS!
Use CASH:
Hand out the “Use cash cards” and “pay cash” business posters
We need a truly independent inquiry – not some committee where the arbitrator is appointed and the terms and conditions set out by the Prime Dictator of Canada.
Recently, a freedom supporter and former volunteer for Elections Canada, was contacted and asked if she was available during the last weeks of January, 2023!
Interesting that a likely Federal Election is being contemplated PRIOR to the decision on the Public Emergencies Act Hearing.
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REMINDER
New Credit Card Fees & Lack of Privacy
The dangers of digital gov’t ID and currencies are here… you need to use cash.
Withdraw money on Sunday from the bank machine, and then leave your money at home if you are scared to carry it with you, and just carry the amounts of cash for each day’s purchases for the week.
NO MORE CARDS!!!! NO EXCUSES!
USE CASH!!!
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Contact Unity Health & Sciences Team to volunteer to distribute their professional brochures and Medical Doctor Packages throughout your home area, and to your medical doctor!
Not every doctor, analyst, and specialist is on the gov’t side and many have strong science and personal experiences opposing the gov’t narrative.
Even though COVID-19 restrictions are, for the most part, no longer in effect, other freedom issues have arisen as gov’ts use the cover of COVID-19 to introduce other more formidable liberty restrictions, including privacy violations.
Freedom is a multi-generational struggle – our legacy is to leave a better place for our children, not simply to quit after an issue appears to be over and anger diminishes; and of course, it rarely is truly over.
We urge you to provide designs (clear2012@pm.me) and/or your own signs for upcoming threats, including Digital ID
On the heels of the Constitutional Challenge filed by David Lindsay against the RCMP in British Columbia, Alberta is now bringing in legislation in the spring of 2023, in relation to firearms and elimination of the RCMP!
Quebec ministers refuse to swear allegiance to the Monarch. Meanwhile, Premier Legault claims that he will introduce legislation so that ministers do not have to take the Oath in Quebec.
The problem? Quebec will run into s. 126 of the Constitution Act 1867, aka the British North America Act 1867, which Constitutionally mandates that this Oath must be taken as a condition to sit in the Legislature and Parliament.
There is no ‘notwithstanding’ clause to the BNA Act as there is in the Charter, and it is an English document, which means this is all political bravado…Quebec cannot pass such legislation as this is prohibited by s. 126!
Netherlands to close up to 3,000 farms to comply with EU rules
A former official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who joined social media company Twitter has been terminated following the discovery of his attempt to block files set for release by Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
James Baker, deputy general counsel for Twitter and former FBI general counsel, was shown the door on Dec. 6. Musk himself confirmed the counsel’s firing in a tweet, writing: “In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter.”
Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi, who reported the initial “Twitter Files” release on Dec. 2, revealed that Baker was “vetting” the internal documents. He also divulged that the former FBI counsel was delaying the release of a second batch of files to him and fellow investigative journalist Bari Weiss.
“The news that Baker was reviewing the ‘Twitter Files’ surprised everyone involved, to say the least,” Taibbi wrote on Dec. 6. “Reporters resumed searchers through Twitter Files material – a lot of it – today,” he added. Taibbi reassured that the “next installment” of Musk’s revelations will appear in the near future.
The files released by Musk document Twitter’s censorship of evidence exposing the corruption of the Biden crime family, specifically President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Central to this evidence is a story of the New York Post, which revealed the multi-million-dollar deals Hunter inked with Eastern European oligarchs and Chinese entrepreneurs with links to the Chinese Communist Party.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) earlier recounted a sequence of events that led to Twitter hiring Baker.
Prior to joining Twitter in June 2020, Baker had been the alleged source of the story that revealed the existence of the now-debunked Steele dossier that maligned former President Donald Trump.
According to a December 2017 story by POLITICO, Baker “communicated with Mother Jones reporter David Corn in the weeks leading up to the November 2016 election.” The report added that Corn was the first to report the existence of the dossier on Oct. 31, and that the report was compiled by a former high-level Western spy.
The reporter for the leftist publication referenced “a senior U.S. government official not involved with the case, but familiar with the former spy.” That official vouched for Christopher Steele, the author of the eponymous dossier, describing the former MI6 agent as “a credible source with a proven record of providing reliable, sensitive, and important information to the U.S. government.”
Corn quickly denied that the FBI general counsel was his source for the story.
“I’m not going to discuss my sources,” he told POLITICO in a statement at the time. “But in order to prevent the dissemination of inaccurate information, I will say that James Baker was not my source for this story.”
According to Taibbi’s report on the Twitter Files, Baker may have directly coordinated with executives of the social media site to suppress the Post‘s compromising story on Hunter Biden. He mentioned that then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was left out of the loop in the decision to censor the Post.
Taibbi further revealed that Vijaya Gadde – former Twitter head of legal, policy and trust – spearheaded the effort to censor the Post‘s stories. She had also been previously responsible for decisions to permanently ban conservatives from the platform and had opposed Musk’s takeover of the website.
Musk fired Gadde as soon as he assumed leadership of the Big Tech company. She was not the only executive to suffer that fate, as Musk also fired Dorsey’s successor Parag Agrawal.
THE TWITTER FILES, PART II – Twitter’s Secret Blacklists
by Tyler DurdenFriday, Dec 09, 2022 – 05:51 AM
After nearly a week’s delay on the second installment of “THE TWITTER FILES” – Twitter’s internal correspondence surrounding their decision to censor the New York Post‘s Hunter Biden laptop story – Journalist Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) has begun releasing more information via Twitter.
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2. Twitter once had a mission “to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.” Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected.3. Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.
4. Or consider the popular right-wing talk show host, Dan Bongino (@dbongino), who at one point was slapped with a “Search Blacklist.”
5. Twitter set the account of conservative activist Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) to “Do Not Amplify.”
7. What many people call “shadow banning,” Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning. 8. “Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It’s a very powerful tool,” one senior Twitter employee told us. 9. “VF” refers to Twitter’s control over user visibility. It used VF to block searches of individual users; to limit the scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability; to block select users’ posts from ever appearing on the “trending” page; and from inclusion in hashtag searches. 10. All without users’ knowledge. 11. “We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do,” one Twitter engineer told us. Two additional Twitter employees confirmed. 12. The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team – Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often handled up to 200 “cases” a day. 13. But there existed a level beyond official ticketing, beyond the rank-and-file moderators following the company’s policy on paper. That is the “Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support,” known as “SIP-PES.” 14. This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others. 15. This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made. “Think high follower account, controversial,” another Twitter employee told us. For these “there would be no ticket or anything.” 16. One of the accounts that rose to this level of scrutiny was @libsoftiktok
—an account that was on the “Trends Blacklist” and was designated as “Do Not Take Action on User Without Consulting With SIP-PES.”
17. The account—which Chaya Raichik began in November 2020 and now boasts over 1.4 million followers—was subjected to six suspensions in 2022 alone, Raichik says. Each time, Raichik was blocked from posting for as long as a week.
18. Twitter repeatedly informed Raichik that she had been suspended for violating Twitter’s policy against “hateful conduct.”
19. But in an internal SIP-PES memo from October 2022, after her seventh suspension, the committee acknowledged that “LTT has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct policy.” See here:
20. The committee justified her suspensions internally by claiming her posts encouraged online harassment of “hospitals and medical providers” by insinuating “that gender-affirming healthcare is equivalent to child abuse or grooming.”
21. Compare this to what happened when Raichik herself was doxxed on November 21, 2022. A photo of her home with her address was posted in a tweet that has garnered more than 10,000 likes.
22. When Raichik told Twitter that her address had been disseminated she says Twitter Support responded with this message: “We reviewed the reported content, and didn’t find it to be in violation of the Twitter rules.” No action was taken. The doxxing tweet is still up.
23. In internal Slack messages, Twitter employees spoke of using technicalities to restrict the visibility of tweets and subjects. Here’s Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then Global Head of Trust & Safety, in a direct message to a colleague in early 2021:
24. Six days later, in a direct message with an employee on the Health, Misinformation, Privacy, and Identity research team, Roth requested more research to support expanding “non-removal policy interventions like disabling engagements and deamplification/visibility filtering.”
25. Roth wrote: “The hypothesis underlying much of what we’ve implemented is that if exposure to, e.g., misinformation directly causes harm, we should use remediations that reduce exposure, and limiting the spread/virality of content is a good way to do that.”
26. He added: “We got Jack on board with implementing this for civic integrity in the near term, but we’re going to need to make a more robust case to get this into our repertoire of policy remediations – especially for other policy domains.”27. There is more to come on this story, which was reported by @abigailshrier@shellenbergermd@nelliebowles@isaacgrafstein and the team The Free Press @thefp. Keep up with this unfolding story here and at our brand new website: http://thefp.com. /Fin