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
The Upper Grand District School Board in Guelph, Ontario, sent a survey to all students in the school district asking Grade 7 students and older to reveal their sexual orientation in a non-anonymized census.
The potentially pre-pubescent students can choose between identifying as Straight, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Queer, Questioning, Asexual or Pansexual.
If the child’s sexual identity is not listed, the board requests children to detail and specify their sexual interests to school staff.
The survey also asks students about their “gender identity” while listing over nine categories.
Students have the option to fill in their category if educators aren’t woke enough to know about their “gender identity” term.
It further asks Grade 9 students and older to answer questions about their parents’ socio-economic situation.
The school board claims the information is required from the Ministry of Education to achieve “equity, diversity, and inclusion” goals.
“The Ministry of Education requires school boards to collect identity-based student data. This is in order to ‘identify and monitor racial disparities in order to eliminate systemic racism and advance racial equity.’”
It also says the census is confidential but not anonymous.
The survey is found on the school board’s website, which showcases a video that promotes the surveys with help from two students on the board’s Student Senate.
The survey comes as a Canadian doctor warns of an uptick in transgender surgeries for youth and suggested Canada ‘slow down’ surgeries.
“Let’s slow down and make sense of what is going on,” said Dr. Joey Bonifacio, who treats patients with gender identity issues at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.
“All of these decisions … concerning social, medical or surgical transitions, these are big decisions, and they deserve the time, they deserve the respect that’s needed.”
This Sunday, December 4th – from 1 to 3 p.m. Corner of Main and Warren, Penticton.Surprise speakers often show up, and we still have 5 days to encourage a speaker to join us on Sunday. Any volunteers?
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————————————- COMING UP SOON…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
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GLOBAL WALKOUT
STEP 13 – ‘WITHDRAW AND REACH OUT’
Step 13 has two parts.
PART 1
If you have savings in the bank, consider withdrawing a decent amount of cash and putting it somewhere safe or investing it in something tangible.
If you don’t have savings, consider taking out your wages every time you get paid.
Why bother, you might ask…
Firstly, if you’re using cash most of the time anyway, this will save you trips to the ATM machine. Secondly, the banks make a fortune investing our money while it’s in there, so why not take those profits away from the major banks?
PART 2
is very different but just as important. Reach out to at least TWO people you’ve lost contact with. People you used to have a lot in common but drifted apart. Send them a text, give them a call or arrange a catch-up. What have you got to lose by trying?
Obviously, this action alone will not immediately affect the globalist agenda. But we all know that saying…united we stand, divided we fall. So let’s start uniting now, so we’re ready for whatever is coming.
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The book consolidates a great deal of information (accompanied by detailed analysis) that is scattered in hundreds of medical articles, books, and websites. All discussion is presented in clear and easy-to-understand language, so no medical education is required. It presents several original concepts in addition to laying a robust scientific foundation for the more established ones.
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VIDEOS of THE WEEK
Public Release of ‘Tip Toe to Tyranny’Free viewing is available here – https://librti.com/tiptoe-release Please share this powerful documentary with your friends, family, and colleagues. It’s the story of defeating the draconian wishes of New Brunswick’s Minister of Education, a man with no children and with evil intent, and eventually, having him thrown out of the cabinet altogether. Brave mothers take heart!
How To Protect Your Home/Land From The UN’s UNDRIP Scam
Odessa Orlewicz – Interview With An Expert – November 18, 2022 – 1 hour 19 minutes
“My recent UNDRIP episode was seen by this expert, and he contacted me as he wanted to let my viewers know there is much hope in protecting your homes you paid for via paperwork… via the law. BC government is trying to pull the wool over Vancouverites eyes as to what they can actually do. Ignorance is NOT BLISS when it comes to having your homes that YOU paid for stolen from you by the UN agenda. This is a MUST SEE for all Canadians who paid for their homes/land.” ~ Odessa
A national inquiry into Canada’s pandemic response (Ft. Preston Manning)
On this episode of The Rupa Subramanya Show, Rupa is joined by Canadian political icon Preston Manning who played a key role in shaping the conservative movement in Canada. Last week, Manning announced the formation of the National Citizen’s Inquiry to investigate Canada’s response to Covid. As Manning explained in his announcement last week, the National Citizen’s Inquiry will “examine the consequences on public and personal health, rights and freedoms, on specific demographic groups such as the aged and our children, and the economy.” In this discussion, Manning explains his decision to establish the inquiry and how the inquiry process will unfold.
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Crown Drops Covid Charge Against BC Pastor who Opened his Church for Prayer and Reflection
Posted On: November 16, 2022
Creston, BC: The Justice Centre is pleased that the Crown has dropped the charge against Pastor David Ripley of Grace Christian Fellowship, who was personally ticketed for allegedly violating a provincial health order.
The Provincial Health Orders issued by Dr. Bonnie Henry during the final months of 2020 prohibited in-person worship services – entirely. In carefully reading the document, Pastor Ripley found a particular clause allowing people to attend houses of worship for prayer and reflection. The local public authorities he called, including the Mayor, the fire chief and the RCMP, confirmed his understanding that the Provincial Health Order permitted him to open his church for prayer and reflection. So Pastor Ripley opened up the church on Sunday mornings, roped off pews to ensure physical distancing and complied with the public health guidance. There was no singing, no preaching. The people who came prayed and read Scriptures.
On January 3, 2021, as a small number of individuals attended Grace Christian Fellowship for prayer and reflection, two RCMP cruisers pulled up on the property. The Pastor’s wife Gina showed them the Order permitting attendance at houses of worship for prayer and reflection. The officers took issue with the number of cars in the parking lot, but otherwise did not challenge the language of the Order or the actions of the church.
Later that day, however, RCMP officers arrived at the Ripleys’ residence and issued Pastor Ripley a ticket, fining him $2,300 for allegedly violating the Provincial Health Order.
After more than a dozen preliminary court appearances by Justice Centre lawyers on behalf of Pastor Ripley, and the filing of a Notice of Constitutional Question challenging the constitutionality of Dr. Henry’s Order, the first phase of the trial to determine whether Pastor Ripley violated the Order was set to run on November 22-23, 2022, at the Creston Law Courts.
On Tuesday, November 15, 2022, the Crown directed a stay of proceedings on the charges against Pastor Ripley.
“The unjustified intrusions of government into the homes and churches of Canadians in the name of Covid enforcement is a stain on Canada’s free and democratic society,” states Justice Centre Lawyer Marty Moore. “Pastor Ripley was attempting to follow public health orders and serve the needs of his congregation. There was no justification for forcing him through nearly two years of court appearances and legal processes. He is relieved to have this behind him.”
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
Don Mclean, American Pie
It is very hard to maintain one’s composure when speaking to ordinary Canadians about the disaster in the making that is Canada today. I have engaged personally and via email over the last two years with literally hundreds of my fellow countrymen from all walks of life on the subjects of the national debt, the deficit, the sunsetting of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the draconian and illegal Covid and vaccine mandates and the turbo maladies that flow from them, the various repressive bills sieving through Parliament, the vicious and lying government and media campaign against the Trucker Freedom Convoy, and the unconscionable behavior of the most vindictive, incompetent and unpatriotic prime minister in the history of Confederation.
With precious few exceptions—“precious” is a key word here—I have come away in a state of profound depression. Some readers of my writings as well as everyday interlocutors have accused me of pessimism, which may be true. I recall a remark of Leonard Cohen’s: “A pessimist is somebody who is waiting for the rain. Me, I’m already wet.” Sometimes I feel completely drenched.
I’ve found the great majority of my correspondents do not know the difference between the debt and the deficit. They draw a blank when I mention the Charter or the Nuremberg Code, let alone Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum, and the Great Reset. None have researched the deception or willful ignorance among our politicians regarding the Covid mandates and not one has examined the harmful and even lethal nature of the vaccines and booster shots. None I’ve spoken to have even heard of SADS—Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, which emerged post-vaccine.
Bills like C-4, C-11, C-12 and C-18, which are dictatorial measures designed to muzzle and censor the average citizen, are little more than arcana unworthy of consideration. Most people are indifferent to, or approving of, the push for legislated mask mandates, “a result of a compliant populace,” Cory Morgan writes, “willing to shrug their shoulders and give up personal liberties with little complaint.” The government and medical profession’s targeting of parents who resist the sickness of transgenderitis in order to provide a normal life for their children does not appear to move many Canadians.
For the most part, they are not clear on the frivolous invocation of the Emergencies Act and tend to agree that the government was right in acting against the peaceful and legitimate truckers’ demonstration, to freeze bank accounts and to imprison Convoy organizers on the flimsiest of pretexts.
Nor are they aware that Canada’s chief justice, Richard Wagner, a Trudeau appointee, has violated the principle of judicial neutrality in condemning the trucker protest, thereby putting himself, so to speak, out of court. They have taken the false flag operations against the truckers at face value and naïvely fall for the profusion of spurious Internet “fact-checks” demonizing the convoy—those “typical blue-collar folk, doing real work for a living,” writes Rex Murphy, “a representative group of Canadian citizens with relevant and pressing concerns.”
Nor are they familiar with the Liberal finessing of the related Commission of Inquiry. Convoy lawyer Brendan Miller, for example, was removed from the Inquiry after asking embarrassing questions of the government and objecting to its redacted documents. And as expected, the hearing ended with the government presenting no relevant information, justifying its position, and relying on what Director of the National Citizens Coalition Alexander Brown wittily called, adapting a famous phrase from Hannah Arendt, “the banality of bureaucratic abuse.” The entire operation was an exercise in futility.
They do not know that Justin Trudeau has bought off the press with handsome tax rebates and emoluments, and most have declared their intention to vote for him again. Rampant inflation is laid at the door of Vladimir Putin rather than at Trudeau’s reckless economic policies, energy shutdowns, pandemic over-spending, skyrocketing carbon taxes, anti-farming animus, and record borrowing. They believe in the canard of global warming and they are still convinced that the unvaccinated are viral shedders, though we now know that the vaccinated are the major transmitters. And they are proud to be Canadians, “the best country on earth,” as all too many have proclaimed.
Aspects of what I regard as citizen failure are, of course, to be found almost everywhere, but rarely to the extent that we observe here. Ontario MPP Joel Harden put it in a nutshell on Canada’s Remembrance Day, November 11: “The most formidable check on all politicians are active and engaged citizens who are the lifeblood of any democracy.” We still have our heroes, but they are a visibly shrinking minority. The lifeblood is seeping away. In the words of John Mac Ghlionn at The Epoch Times, “the environment that Trudeau and his colleagues have created [is] one steeped in paranoia and suspicion. They have managed to turn a once respectable country into a surveillance state.”
In some respects Canada under Trudeau is gradually becoming a vassal state.
In thrall to the globalist agenda, Ottawa will introduce legislation to achieve net-zero GHG (greenhouse gasses), at a prohibitive cost to both energy and agricultural production. Yet, according to government statistics, Canada generates merely 1.5 percent of global GHG emissions. Needlessly decarbonizing the productive sector will eventually impoverish the country, as it did Sri Lanka, which seems increasingly to be the prime minister’s ambition. (The fascinating theory of abiotic oil, of course, is dismissed out of hand.)
Another of the scandals we are presently facing is called MAID or Medical Assistance in Dying. This new euthanasia program, which the World Medical Journal describes as “normalizing death as ‘treatment’ in Canada,” is affecting not only the disabled but the elderly, the poor and the homeless as well. Euthanasia, as Stephen Green writes in PJ Media, “the weeding out of undesirables by official means, has been a tenet of progressive ideology from the very beginning,” a system that “encourage[es] suicide over treatment.”
Canada has become the contemporary poster boy for this outrageous regime. Put bluntly, people who no longer recognize the country they grew up in have only two options: to leave or to die.
Thus, it comes as no surprise that Canadians are abandoning the countryin ever-growing numbers. Remaining in Canada depends on whether one considers it to be politically salvageable. For those who have settled elsewhere, the answer is a clear No. For these emigrants, this is not a question of weakness or moral defeat but of simple clarity. It can be said, to adopt George Grant’s injunction, that they are living with courage, for it takes courage to leave everything behind and begin anew in unfamiliar surroundings. They have taken the measure of the situation and do not expect a supine and stupefied citizen body to awaken to the reality of its condition.
Canada is now an immigrant-ridden and fissiparous country, the majority of its people wallowing in obliviousness and proud, it would seem, of their deference to authoritarian dictate. Perhaps the only solution, if there is one, is prairie secession, the goal of the Wexit movement, which appears to be gathering some momentum. The prairie provinces would make a viable and prosperous independent country. Admittedly, it’s a long shot, but discontent is mounting.
Whether or not the movement prospers, there are encouraging signs of pushback against federal government ordinances. The provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in particular have served notice they intend to resist Trudeau’s energy policies, the threat of a digital ID rollout, and the likelihood of renewed vaccine mandates and passports. Once the energy and agricultural backbone of the nation, and presently under the enlightened leadership of Danielle Smith and Scott Moe, respectively, these two provinces currently represent a silver lining in a massively dark cloud.
But one thing should be obvious by now: we cannot go back to the status quo ante. The levee is dry.
David Solway is a Canadian poet and essayist. His most recent volume of poetry, The Herb Garden, appeared in 2018 with Guernica Editions. His manifesto, Reflections on Music, Poetry & Politics, was released by Shomron Press in 2016. He has produced two CDs of original songs: Blood Guitar and Other Tales and Partial to Cain on which he was accompanied by his pianist wife Janice Fiamengo. His latest book is Notes from a Derelict Culture, Black House, London, 2019.
As of this moment, we are closing in on 30,000 signatures, doubling the number of signatures in just a couple of weeks. For this reason, we have extended the deadline for signature delivery by two weeks. It’s important that we give you and your friends and family an opportunity to sign this petition before it placed on desks in Toronto.
It’s incredible that parents are starting to be heard. According to True North, the Toronto District School Board has shelved their Student Census to review it! This census was particularly egregious: it asked elementary school students if they knew about transgender practices such as “breast binding” and “tucking”.
But this action isn’t enough: all school boards need to stop their Student Census – and Ontario’s Minister of Education Stephen Lecce needs to apologize to parents all across Ontario for the many schools that have already conducted their Student Census.
These Student Censuses are highly inappropriate: students as young as Kindergarten are asked their gender identity, and students as young as Grade 6 are asked their sexual orientation. Options for these questions include “gender fluid”, “gender nonconforming”, “two-spirit”, “queer”, “questioning”, “asexual”, “pansexual”, and a whole host of other options.
Soon we are going to drop off our petition to Stephen Lecce’s office. Can you sign this petition before the week of December 12th to help stop the harmful gender ideology in the Student Census? SIGN TO END THE STUDENT CENSUS
Sincerely,
Gregory Mertz and the entire CitizenGO Team
P.S. The Ontario government has done irreparable harm to Ontario’s public education system by allowing the Student Census to be yet another tool for far-left activists to shove LGBT propaganda into the minds of unsuspecting kids. Minister of Education Stephen Lecce should’ve ended this inappropriate census the moment he became the Minister of Education – and he owes parents and children across Ontario an apology immediately for not doing so.
On orders from the Ontario government, all school boards across Ontario are asking young students through the Student Census about their sexual orientation and gender identity. Children are being asked in the in non-anonymized Student Census to divulge whether they are “gender fluid”, “gender nonconforming”, “two-spirit”, “queer”, “asexual”, or “pansexual”, and even more. The government has no right to force gender ideology on our kids! Sign our petition to demand that Ontario’s Minister of Education put an end to the Student Census. SIGN THE PETITION
Dear Paul,
Right now, in every school board across Ontario, students are being asked to divulge their sexual interests and their gender identity.
On orders of the Ontario government, every school board in Ontario has to gather and report data on their students through a questionnaire called the Student Census.
Through the Student Census, children in elementary school are being asked to choose whether they are a boy, girl, “gender fluid”, “gender nonconforming”, “non-binary”, “questioning”, “trans boy or man”, “trans girl or woman”, or“two-spirit”.
Additionally, in grade 7 and above, school boards start asking students if they are straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, queer, questioning, asexual, pansexual, or “other”.
Doug Ford’s government is pushing harmful gender ideology down the throats of children in schools all across Ontario! We must demand that the Ontario government, especially the Ministry of Education, acknowledge the harm they’ve done to parents and students through the Student Census and cease collecting this data about students!
Links to these surveys are displayed on the front pages of many school board websites across Ontario, such as the Toronto District School Board, Durham District School Board, and even Catholic school boards like the Halton Catholic District School Board.
The following screenshot is taken from the Student Census page on Halton Catholic District School Board’s website, which is an example of a survey that would be given to a student from Kindergarten – Grade 8:
The following, also from their website, shows what’s given to a student from Grade 9 – 12:
As if this wasn’t bad enough,according to Upper Grand District School Board’s website, this survey that children are filling in is not anonymous (though they claim it is confidential). Schools in Ontario are required by Ontario’s Education Equity Action Plan and Anti-Racism Act, 2017 to gather and report this data. In other words, the Ontario government has created a system where: adults infecting the minds of children at a very young age with gender ideology these children are then questioned about their gender and/or sexuality this information is collected non-anonymously, where it can hypothetically be tied back to the student This is a disastrous system that should leave parents worried. Gender ideology has no place in schools, and we should not be asking young children if their “gender fluid” or keeping files of which teenage students are “queer” or “questioning”. Please, sign today to have Ontario’s government recognize this scandalous system and to stop our childrens’ schools from being infected by gender ideology through the Student Census. Ontario’s Ministry of Education must also recognize that this Student Census is a form of compelled speech. For instance, Catholic schools must survey children on their gender identity. The Catholic Church has always held the belief that humans are made either male or female (see: section 2393 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church). By forcing Catholic school boards (as left-wing as many of them may now be) to give validity to gender fluidity, transgenderism, and two-spirit (which is explicitly tied to Indigenous religious spirituality), the Ontario government is forcing Catholic schools to contradict their own teaching. Through the Student Census, the Ontario government has radically invaded schools with harmful gender ideology, and it seems to be for practically no purpose other than to collect a bit more data about students. According to Halton Catholic District School Board’s website, the overall point of the survey is to “eliminate systemic racism and advance racial equity”…what do any of these questions have to do with systemic racism? We need to put the government in its place and tell them to let kids be kids. The Ontario government is breaking the trust of parents and creating an unsafe system that is harmful to students. Parents send their children to school to learn about math, art, and science – not about queerness, asexuality, and transgenderism. Join our campaign today to demand that Stephen Lecce, Ontario’s Minister of Education, end the Student Census and apologize to parents. Thanks for all you do, Gregory Mertz and the entire CitizenGO Team — More information: Canadian school board surveys students on sexual orientation (The Counter Signal): https://thecountersignal.com/canadian-school-board-surveys-students-on-sexual-orientation/ Durham Catholic District School Board’s page on the Student Census 2022: https://www.dcdsb.ca/en/students/student-census.aspx?_mid_=128935# Student Census, Grade K-8 (taken from Halton Catholic District School Board website): https://www.hcdsb.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/K-8_English.pdf Student Census, Grade 9-12 (taken from Halton Catholic District School Board website):https://www.hcdsb.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9-12_English.pdf
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TIME TO WEAR MASKS ‘ONCE AGAIN,’ OTTAWA PUBLIC HEALTH URGES
The narrative is shifting now from restrictions to CONTROL & privacy violations – especially medical
UPDATE:See the Notice of Constitutional Challenge against the RCMP at the end of our newsletter, where Parliament has no jurisdiction to pass legislation in relation to the matter of policing in the provinces. All agreements between BC (and any Province) and Canada for the use of the RCMP in the Province, are unconstitutional!
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We all know we are in the midst of an “information war.” How do we fight back against the enemy’s number one “weapon of mass destruction” – mainstream media? By spreading the truth, of course!
Yep, the internet is a valuable source of truth and facts. It is also a huge sewer of lies, misinformation, disinformation, deceit, propaganda, indoctrination, coercion, fear and censorship. Most of our Canadian population has fallen into that sewer. We can share the truthful videos and documents and hope the recipient might feel open-minded enough to look/read/consider it. But all this information can be easily eliminated by the click of a button; out-of-sight, out-of-mind.
We don’t have access to TV or Radio stations to build a platform of truth. No one has found a “Mr. Moneybags” on our side to fund that type of endeavour. Everything we have so far is internet-based, but, as people become severely injured or experience the unexpected death of a loved one, a little window opens up in their minds that starts questioning. 25 million Covid vaccine deaths is a lot of bodies to hide (those are the estimated numbers based on data studied so far).
However, we do have access to at least three newspaper publications in Kelowna: Druthers, The Pandemic Papers and Common Ground. How do these papers get here from Ontario and Vancouver? Every month, volunteers are travelling from those locations and carry the bundles in their vehicles. Volunteers like Sarah usually pick up the skid at the depot and forward a portion of these bundles to other destinations in BC. The papers are then stored at her place and mine for further distribution. This is a co-ordinated effort by several core people who’ve been doing this for almost two years now.
What is it about a hard-copy newspaper that’s different from everything else? It’s physical, tangible, visual. You can write your own notes on it, circle important things, read it in the kitchen, in the living room, in bed, on the bus, anywhere. You can put it aside and continue reading it another day. You can save it or cut out specific articles for referencing later. You can hand it to a friend to read. It’s in your face and you have to make a physical effort to throw it out if you don’t want it.
That’s why our Sunday newspaper deliveries are so important. December 2022 will be the two-year anniversary of the Jab-Cult. Many doctors stated at the time that the injected could be expected to live for two to five years. 25 million didn’t make it to two years. This is Bill Gates’ wet dream on steroids coming true. Our job is to spread the truth. And there is nothing more effective than putting a newspaper with relevant flyers into somebody’s mailbox.
So how are the papers prepared for delivery? Each week, I stuff thousands of flyers provided by C.L.E.A.R, Unity and Action4Canada to help educate our locals about what is taking place in our community. Then, all we ask is for some volunteers to go for a walk in a specific area for 1 1/2 – 2 hrs on Sundays to deliver these papers. Let’s be clear that we are not becoming newspaper-delivery volunteers. We are only delivering to people’s mailboxes ONCE. We never do the same area twice. The idea is to drop off one newspaper to every mailbox in Kelowna. Many people cannot be reached this way because they either live in gated communities, have community mailboxes or live in apartment complexes. But there are a lot of mailboxes out there. Once someone gets a paper in the mailbox, the seed has been planted. They now have access to all kinds of links to truthful information and they get to see important flyers that are hard to ignore. What they choose to do with this information is now up to them.
Sunday Paper Deliveries
A second time-slot has been added for those who cannot make it Sunday Mornings:
Every Sunday at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm 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 DeDutch Pancake House
Bring a large bag for carrying the papers if you want
Grab a free small Kelowna mapbook 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
CLEAR Anonymous Surveys
On Nov. 19/22, many people took surveys home to fill out. There was a total of 100 surveys and 22 are still missing. Please be sure to fill it out and return it to the CLEAR booth this Saturday, Dec. 3/22.
Thank you to all who have filled it out so far!
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The psychological war on humanity
by Bruce Orydzuk
Since the beginning of time, there have always been men who want to rule the world’s population by deceit, only to reap the monetary rewards from slavery. The plan has always been the same; acquire massive wealth to control the masses.
We have all been slaves to this system since we were born. Many of us have gained the knowledge from others who have exposed it all. We are very grateful to those who have risked it all to expose the truth and reality of the evil world we live in.
The war against humanity has always been around, it was just presented by different means over the past couple of thousand years. Every system in place has been created for those in power to control the global population by a form of dictatorship hidden under the guise of a democracy.
The Chinese Communist Party has exposed this dictatorship to the rest of the world by controlling the Chinese people in every way possible. China was an experiment in complete control, and if the CCP could get away with it without massive rebellion, this model could be used by others to take over the entire global population.
The Bilderberg group has been working on plans for a New World Order and One World Government for decades. Using the CCP model for total domination and global control of the entire world’s population, they worked on economic plans to create massive wealth for the Chinese Communist Party.
I saw this plan in action back in the early 80’s as the company I worked for opted to have Chinese companies create products we made locally, which took away work and wealth from Canadians, only to destroy our economic growth. Good quality North American-made products were replaced with low quality Chinese “knock-offs” and offered at lower prices. The system promoted “made in China ” which made the CCP more powerful by creating massive wealth using slave labor.
The CCP became one of the richest nations by producing poor quality products using the slave labor system. Most Chinese-made products are now known to be totally disposable as they have a very short life expectancy and not worth repairing, and all by design to fuel their ever-growing economy. “Dollar stores” popped up en masse all across the globe selling low-quality disposable products which helped create massive wealth for the CCP. China has conquered the electronic market, and all by design. We need to stop supporting “made in China” products.
Somewhere around the mid 1990’s the globalists came up with a plan for total global control, a complete takeover of society without the use of force. A plan so evil that most of the world’s population is still not aware of it today.
As most wealthy inventors know, if you can create, build and sell a product that everyone will be addicted to and can’t live without, you will reap the rewards of your efforts. If your creation is marketed as such a convenience to the masses with a high element of fun and adrenaline rush, you will ensure that nearly everyone on the planet will want one. It will become so addictive that nothing will deter owners from being without it, ever!
What if that invention, which happens to be the biggest addiction in the history of the world, was created for ill intent under the guise of convenience and fun? The reality is that the invention of the cellular phone was to be used against the entire global population to control you and your future. Updated versions have new software ready to be used against you when the time comes. These devices are not safe, they do not ensure your privacy, and in reality, are collecting data which will be used against you in the future.
Many tests have taken place to determine mass compliance over the last few years. The Pokemon App was a good example. Create an App to see how many would actually comply with the test to use the new game to determine how many cellular users would download and use the tracking device. The test worked, as we saw masses of brainwashed people falling into the trap of compliance. The novelty wore off, but the test was conclusive to mass compliance.
A similar test was demonstrated by the media establishments when they created the toilet paper scare in 2020 to see how many people would rush out and buy toilet paper amidst a fake pandemic without questioning why. These tests proved that people could easily be manipulated by nonsense.
The next tests were forceful compliance checks. The ArriveCan & Vaccine passport Apps were introduced to see how many cell phone addicts were willing to use their devices against themselves, and guess what, far too many sheep complied.
Unfortunately, the next App the globalists are considering will not be a test of compliance, but will be a mandatory necessity to function and survive in society. The digital ID and banking Apps will soon be reality if we don’t make an effort to stop this evil plan.
So, I ask all of you: are you willing to get rid of your electronic addiction immediately to save humanity from being controlled by the most evil demons on earth?
If everyone canceled their cellular plans and got rid of their phones, this would become a war we can win as they are not counting on this to happen. So, it’s time for all of you freedom fighters to actually make a difference and help fight the war by acknowledging that by owning a cell phone, you are complying and facilitating the globalist takeover.
Please do your part to save humanity from tyranny, it’s not only free, but think of all the money you will save from not supporting the corruption. Switch to a flip phone to maintain communication. We all lived without these devices before and we can do it again, even if it’s only until we take back our Country.
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Smith introduces bill to defend Albertans from Ottawa overreach
Finally – a province that it telling Ottawa to stay within s. 91 and don’t leave! Notice how she expressly mentions in this article that ‘policing’ is exclusively provincial? This supports my Constitutional Challenge I have copied for everyone below!!
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From Vaccine Choice Canada
Please obtain a copy from Tom at Saturday’s Kelowna Rallies and pass along to informed and uninformed alike!
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.
Decision must be rendered by the end of February, 2022.
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OF INTEREST:
Is a Federal Election coming???
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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Hands-on Help!!!
Each Sunday, for as long as we can, we are delivering Druthers/Pandemic Papers Publications, including CLEAR rally cards and other important inserts such as our Masks/PCR brochure, and the recently released UNITY Health & Sciences brochure, for door-to-door delivery to all the mail boxes in Kelowna
See these inserts below
Though labour intensive, the outings are enjoyable and productive
But we need YOUR help!
There is simply no other way we can reach so many people who have believed the Gov’t/MSM narrative/lies
Join us each Sunday by signing the CLEAR Newspaper Delivery Sign Up Sheet at the CLEAR table & providing your EMAIL address to Linda & Nikki.
We need about 8-10 people to deliver about 100 flyers each – only about 90 min.
Each Sunday we will meet at a specified location to be announced by email on Saturday night. Start times will be 11:30 a.m.
Many recipients continue to thank us for delivering these to their doorsteps!
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
Join the OK Falls freedom activists continuing their local Freedom Rallies!
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Decembrer 3, 2022 12:00 noon
Oliver Freedom Rally
12:00 p.m. Town Hall
Join the Oliver freedom activists who are continuing their local Freedom Rallies!
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December 3, 2022 11:00 a.m.
Osoyoos Freedom Gathering
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Town Hall
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Kamloops Freedom Gathering
December 3, 2022 10:00 – 12:00 Noon
Valleyview Centennial Park
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December 4, 2022 1:00 p.m.
Penticton Freedom Rally
1:00 p.m. Warren & Main St.
in N.E. lot
Join Mary Lou for the largest rally in the South Okanagan, and growing weekly!
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When Danielle Smith was chosen by the United Conservative Party of Alberta to replace Jason Kenney as their leader early last month and consequentially became that province’s premier she started off her premiership with a bang by giving an exceptionally great speech. Even if we had not heard a word of it we would know it to be very good from the outrage it provoked on the part of Alberta’s socialists and the clowns in the legacy media, that is to say, the print and broadcast news outlets that predate cable news, talk radio, and the internet, which in Canada are all hopelessly corrupt having been bought off years ago by the dimwitted creep and lout who currently occupies the Prime Minister’s Office. The best response to the legacy media, other than to cut oneself off from it altogether, is to look at what they are promoting and root for the opposite and to look at what they are saying and believe the opposite. So when they began to howl and rage and storm and demand that Smith apologize for saying that the unvaccinated had experienced the most discrimination of any group in her lifetime, their reaction in itself was a powerful indicator of the truth of Smith’s words.
It has now been a few generations since the old liberalism succeeded in generating a near-universal consensus of public opinion, at least within Western Civilization, against discrimination. At the time the discrimination the liberals were concerned with was of the de jure type – laws and government policies which singled out specific groups and imposed hardships and disadvantages of various types upon them. It was not that difficult, therefore, for liberalism to create widespread public opinion against it. Since ancient times it has been understood that government or the state exists to serve the end of justice. In Modern times justice has come to be depicted in art as wearing a blindfold. This imagery is somewhat problematic – blindness to the facts of the case to be ruled on is not an attribute of justice but of its opposite – but is generally accepted as depicting true justice’s blindness to factors which should have no weight in ruling on a dispute between two parties or on the evidence in a case involving criminal charges against someone, factors such as wealth or social status. If this latter is indeed a quality of justice then for the state to discriminate against people on the basis of such factors is for it to pervert its own end and to commit injustice. This is what made the old liberalism’s campaign against discrimination so effective. What they were decrying was already perceivably unjust by existing and long-established standards.
Liberalism, however, was not content with winning over the public into supporting their opposition to laws and government policies that discriminated on such grounds as race and sex. Liberalism had set equality, which is something quite different from justice as that term was classically and traditionally understood, as its end and ideal and consequently with regards to discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, etc., they adopted a much more ambitious goal than just the elimination of existing unjust laws and policies, but rather set their sights on the elimination of discrimination based on such factors from all social interaction and economic transaction and as much as possible from private thought and speech. Indeed it was this goal rather than ending de jure discrimination that was clearly the objective of such legislation as the US Civil Rights Act (1964), the UK Race Relations Acts of 1965, 1968 and 1976 and the Canadian Human Rights Act (1977). Ironically, having so expanded their anti-discrimination project to target private thoughts and actions the liberals had to move away from their initial opposition to the injustice of state discrimination. The project of achieving equality by eliminating private discrimination required the cooperation of the state and laws and measures enacted by the state in pursuit of the ends of this project were themselves discriminatory albeit in a different way from the discriminatory laws to which the liberals had originally objected.
Today, decades later, the anti-discrimination project has become even further removed from the opposition to unjust laws that had won it broad public support. “Discrimination” has ceased to be defined by specific actions or even general attitudes that underlie actions and has become entirely subjective. Such-and-such groups are the officially designated victims of discrimination, and such-and-such groups are the officially designated perpetrators of discrimination, and discrimination is whatever the members of the former say they have experienced as discrimination. Loud and noisy theatrical displays of outrage cover up the fact that a moral campaign against “discrimination” of this sort lacks any solid foundation in ethics, logic, or even basic common sense.
Liberalism, or progressivism as it is now usually called having given up most if not all of what had led to its being dubbed liberalism in the first place and adopted a stringent illiberalism towards those who disagree with it, has clearly gone off the rails with regards to discrimination. If any discrimination deserves the sort of moral outrage that progressivism bestows upon what it calls discrimination today it is the sort of discrimination that the old liberalism opposed sixty to seventy years ago, discrimination on the part of the state. If we limit the word discrimination to this sense then Danielle Smith was quite right in saying that the unvaccinated have been the most discriminated against group in her lifetime.
In early 2020, you will recall, the World Health Organization sparked off a world-wide panic by declaring a pandemic. A coronavirus that had long afflicted the chiropteran population was now circulating among human beings and spreading rapidly. Although the bat flu resembled the sort of respiratory illnesses that we have put up with every winter from time immemorial in that most of the infected experienced mild symptoms, most of those who did experience the severe pneumonia it could produce recovered, and it posed a serious threat mostly to those who were very old and already very sick with other complicating conditions, our governments, media, and medical “experts” began talking like we were living out Stephen King’s The Stand. Our governments enacted draconian measures aimed at preventing the spread of the virus that were more unprecedented – and harmful – than the disease itself. They behaved as if they had no constitutional limits on their powers and we had no constitutionally protected basic rights and freedoms that they were forbidden to impinge upon no matter how good their intentions might be. They imposed a hellish social isolation upon everybody as they ordered us to stay home and to stay away from other people if we did have to venture out (to buy groceries, for example), ordered most businesses and all social institutions to close, denied us our freedom to worship God in our churches, synagogues, etc., demanded that we wear ugly diapers on our faces as a symbol of submission to Satan, and with a few intermissions here and there, kept this vile totalitarian tyranny up for almost two years. All of this accomplished tremendous harm rather than good. Towards the end of this period they shifted gears and decided to create a scapegoat upon which to shift the blame for the ongoing misery. It was not that their contemptible, misguided, and foolish policies were complete and utter failures, they maintained, it was all the fault of the people who objected to their basic rights and freedoms being trampled over. They were the problem. By not cooperating they prevented the government measures from working. Those who for one or another of a myriad of reasons did not want to be injected with an experimental drug that had been rushed to market in under a year, the manufacturers of which had been indemnified against liability for any injuries it might cause, the safety of which had been proclaimed by government fiat backed by efforts to suppress any conflicting information, or who did not want to be injected with a second or third dose after a previous bad experience, were made the chief scapegoats. These were demonized by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in terms and tone that call to mind those employed by Stalin against the kulaks and Hitler against the Jews. A system was developed, seemingly by people who regard the beast in the thirteenth chapter of the Apocalypse as an example and role model to be emulated, whereby society was re-opened to everyone else, but the unvaccinated were kept under the same brutal and oppressive restrictions as earlier in this epidemic of ultra-paranoid hypochondria. Indeed, some jurisdictions imposed new, harsher, restrictions on them.
So yes, Danielle Smith spoke the truth. Our governments’ attempt to shut the unvaccinated out of society as it re-opened from a forced closure that should never have occurred in the first place was indeed the worst case of discrimination by government to have occurred in Canada or the Western world for that matter in her lifetime. Her critics in the legacy media know this full well of course. Since they hate and are allergic to the truth, which they never report when a lie, a half-truth, a distortion, or some other form of mendacity will suffice, this is why they howled with rage and fury when Smith spoke it. Hopefully, she will give them plenty more to howl at. Posted by Gerry T. NealDanielle Smith, discrimination, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, legacy media, Stephen King, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports
Chinese rise up against communist regime’s COVID tyranny in biggest mainland protests since Tiananmen Square massacre
NewsJoseph MacKinnon November 28, 2022 Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Like Blaze News? Get the news that matters most delivered directly to your inbox.
Protests against communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his regime’s draconian COVID-19 protocols erupted across China over the weekend in what has been called the “White Paper Revolution.” This uprising is reportedly the biggest since 1989, when the communist regime killed thousands of Chinese in the Tiananmen Square protests.
What are the details?
Mass protests erupted in Shanghai, Beijing, and several other cities across China, condemning the communist regime’s so-called “zero-COVID” policies. Chinese police have reportedly rounded up some protesters, pepper-sprayed thousands, and have altogether attempted to clamp down on the demonstrations in the authoritarian surveillance state.
The Daily Mail reported that over the weekend in Shanghai, protesters demanded that the regime “lift lockdown in Urumqi, lift lockdown for Xinjiang, lift lockdown for all of China!”
Several police attempted to disappear one protester in Chongqing, who declared, “Without freedom, I would rather die!”
According to Newsweek, many protesters have taken to the streets holding blank sheets of white paper to both symbolize and denounce the Chinese regime’s censorious nature, earning the movement the name “White Paper Revolution” or the “A4 revolution.”
A video reportedly went viral depicting a woman at the Communication University of Nanjing holding up a blank piece of paper, which another individual then quickly took away.
A translation of one iteration of the post on Twitter stated, “Even if you hold up a blank sheet of paper, it makes them fear. It is not the power of the blank sheet of paper, but the power of awakening. Because, it is precisely because there is nothing written, so everything is written..
CNN previously underscored how open defiance of the regime is “extremely rare,” particularly in a country where dissidents and perceived foes of the state are imprisoned, tortured, enslaved, and in certain cases tossed into concentration camps.
Why and why now?
After three years of COVID-19 policies and decades of murderous authoritarianism, the catalyst for the Chinese protests was a fire and a reimposition of localized lockdowns nationwide.
The new lockdowns reportedly came as a result of a resurgence of COVID-19 infections, with an estimated 40,000 people catching the virus daily (in a country of over 1.4 billion people).
Chinese police also brutalized and arrested BBC journalist Edward Lawrence, who had been reporting on the protests. The BBC indicated that Lawrence “was held for several hours before being released. During his arrest he was beaten and kicked by police.”
The AP reported that in response to the protests, some Chinese authorities had eased certain COVID-19 protocols by Monday, but there was no indication that Beijing would back down on its overarching virus mitigation strategy.
One easement announced was that Beijing’s municipal government would no longer barricade and fence in apartment compounds containing persons who had been infected.
Another easement announced was that mass testing would no longer be required for all residents in Guangzhou.
While Beijing made minor efforts to address protesters’ concerns, bot accounts were weaponized online to hijack the hashtags associated with the White Paper Revolution, flooding Twitter and other social media sites with adult content (i.e., pornographic images, gambling posts, ads for escorts).
Jens Monrad, a cybersecurity analyst, told Newsweek that “using a (trending) hashtag in a spam campaign potentially hides authentic content observed during a protest or event, which can move focus away from a protest or ‘drown’ vital information posted on social media platforms.”
Although Monrad could not confirm that this campaign was state-backed, it would nevertheless be in the CCP’s interest to drown out the protesters’ critiques.
When asked about the anger over the regime’s pandemic policy, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said, “What you mentioned does not reflect what actually happened. … We believe that with the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and cooperation and support of the Chinese people, our fight against COVID-19 will be successful.”
by Tyler DurdenFriday, Dec 09, 2022 – 05:51 AM
