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Retired child and adolescent psychiatrist and American expatriate in New Zealand. In 2002, I made the difficult decision to close my 25-year Seattle practice after 15 years of covert FBI harassment. I describe the unrelenting phone harassment, illegal break-ins and six attempts on my life in my 2010 book The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee.

Freedom Convoy’ Vows to Stay in Ottawa Until COVID Vaccine Mandates Lifted

Hundreds of truckers and thousands of citizens protesting Canada’s vaccine mandates for truckers remain in Ottawa, vowing to stay until the mandates are lifted.

Thousands of truckers and others protesting Canada’s COVID vaccine mandates remained in Ottawa today, vowing to stay put until the mandates for truckers are lifted.

Ottawa’s police chief, Peter Sloly, said Monday, “all options are on the table, from negotiation through enforcement” to bring the protest, now entering its fifth day in the nation’s capital, to an end.

The “Convoy for Freedom” set out from British Columbia on Jan. 23 and arrived in Ottawa on Jan. 29.

According to RT News, the organizers of the protest initially estimated 1,600 trucks, a number that grew to 36,000 trucks, and later closer to 50,000. However, national media outlets and law enforcement reported anywhere from “hundreds” of trucks to figures in the low thousands over the past week.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday said he would not meet with the protesters because he does not believe in their goals.

He said:

“I have also chosen not to go anywhere near protests that have expressed hateful rhetoric, violence toward fellow citizens, and a disrespect not just for science but the frontline health workers and 90% of truckers who have been doing the right thing to keep Canadians safe and put food on our table.”

Trudeau on Monday also announced he tested positive for COVID, despite being fully vaccinated and boosted, and remains in an undisclosed location due to security concerns.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/freedom-convoy-ottawa-until-covid-vaccine-mandates-lifted/

Keep on Truckin’, Working Class Rebels, by Kurt Schlichter

Understand that “Democracy” means, to our garbage ruling class, rule by the ruling class with no annoying input from the people who actually make America work. The Democrat Party, once the party of the workin’ man, is now the party of tech zillionaires, college professors, welfare cheats, and sexually unsatisfied liberal wine women. The workin’ class was not merely abandoned by the Dems. It was thrown out of the party.

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To the arrogant “elite”, democracy means rule by the arrogant elite. They don’t like it when the help gets uppity. From Kurt Schlichter at theburningplatform.com:

Keep on Truckin', Working Class Rebels

The line of polite big-rig drivers crossing Canada in protest over the maple leaf mandate Marxism imposed by the ridiculous Justin Trudeau is a welcome sign of the workin’ class revolt to come. The courteous Canadians outside of its noxious elite, a caste that rivals our own useless elite in terms of unearned self-satisfaction, have discovered something. They make their country happen. It’s not diversity enforcers who feed the Great White North. It’s not regime journalists who fuel it. And it’s certainly not genderqueer-affirming professors who defend it.

The working class is getting sick of this Schiff, and it is starting to push back. And this will happened here in America too. How it ends is unclear, but my money is on the guys…

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Will Medieval Sleeping Habits End Your Insomnia?

In premodern Europe, and perhaps centuries earlier, people routinely went to sleep around nightfall and woke up around midnight—only to go back to sleep a few hours later, until morning. Then modernity came along and ruined everything by pressuring everybody to sleep in one big chunk.

Julian Assange nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for his fight for democracy

Steve Sweeney

Morning Star

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his fight for human rights, democracy and press freedom, it was confirmed today.

German MEP Martin Sonnenborn responded to an appeal by Mr Assange’s partner Stella Moris ahead of today’s deadline for nominations.

“Julian Assange has made unique and undeniable contributions to peace by lifting the fog of war,” Ms Moris said urging support for the journalist who remains locked up in Belmarsh high-security prison.

Mr Sonnenborn said that he nominated Mr Assange “for his fight for human rights, democracy and press freedom.”

In his submission, the German MEP said that he was returning the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize “mistakenly” awarded to the European Union for its contribution “to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.”

The Norwegian Nobel Institute which issues the global award confirmed the nomination of Mr Assange had been successfully submitted.

Last year the Nobel committee came under fire for “a sin of omission” after it failed to include Mr Assange as a joint recipient of the Peace Prize which was given to journalists Maria Resa and Dmitry Muratov.

They were award the prize because of “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression,” which the committee said is “a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”

But former Nobel Peace Prize committee chair and former Norwegian prime minister Thorberg Jagland said the award “must raise pressure on the demand to free Assange and pardon [Edward] Snowden.”

Mr Assange could face 175 years behind bars in the United States under the draconian Espionage Act after he revealed crimes and atrocities committed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Press freedom groups say that he is subjected to a “politically driven prosecution” for publishing details exposing the world’s rich and powerful elites.

Last year it was revealed that US and British spooks colluded in a alleged plot cooked up in the White House to kill Mr Assange on the streets of London.

Despite this, a British court ruled that the US could extradite him to stand trial there, overturning a previous decision blocking such a move on grounds he was a suicide risk.

Last week the High Court gave him permission to appeal against extradition to the Supreme Court, which must agree to accept the case before it can proceed.

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Via https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/julian-assange-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-his-fight-democracy

England Plans to Revoke Mandatory COVID Jabs for Health Workers

NHS staff protest against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine rules, at Trafalgar Square in London, Britain, January 22, 2022. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

Reuters

The British government said on Monday it planned to revoke mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for health workers in England after warnings that an already-stretched service could face crippling staff shortages.

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Via https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/england-plans-revoke-mandatory-covid-jabs-health-workers-2022-01-31/

Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis Injuring Record Number of Young People. Will Shots Also Bankrupt Families?

By  Children’s Health Defense Team

Medical debt is the predominant cause for about 25% of consumer bankruptcies, with medical debt often triggered by “sudden adverse events — such as vaccine-induced myocarditis.

  • In one-fourth (or more) of consumer bankruptcies, medical debt is the predominant causal factor, often triggered by “sudden adverse events.”
  • As of 2022, vaccine adverse event reporting of heart disease following COVID vaccines had increased 15,600% in young people under the age of 30, compared to the previous 31 years of heart injuries reported following receipt of FDA-approved vaccines.
  • Autism, linked to vaccines as well as other toxic exposures, furnishes a cautionary tale, potentially saddling families with lifetime care costs of $1.4 to $2.4 million.
  • In 2010, a government study estimated 1 in every 38 vaccine doses (2.6%) produced an adverse reaction. However, the sluggish and adversarial vaccine injury compensation process and a sky-high burden of proof leave two-thirds of claims dismissed or in limbo.
  • Emergency Use Authorization COVID shots are even less likely to garner vaccine injury compensation. Attorneys caution, “If you have suffered a serious injury from a Covid-19 vaccine, you are basically on your own.”
  • With over a million COVID-vaccine-related adverse events reported since December 2020, households are racking up extraordinary debt and turning to crowdfunding for help.
  • Heart conditions, among the 20 most expensive conditions treated in American hospitals, pack a financial wallop.
  • According to CDC, 96% of those under age 30 who experience heart injuries following COVID vaccination are hospitalized.
  • Children tend to have a more sudden and severe myocarditis presentation than adults, with an estimated 7% to 15% mortality rate. Children hospitalized with myocarditis are more likely to die than children admitted with other diagnoses.
  • Studies of children and adolescents who developed myocarditis following COVID vaccination show a “potentially poor prognosis despite the heart seeming to have returned to normal.” According to Mayo Clinic, “the greatest burden of myocarditis may not be apparent for 6-12 years after diagnosis when children die or need to undergo cardiac transplantation.”
  • Cardiac injuries triggered by dangerous COVID injections appear to be good for business.
  • A July 2021 BusinessWire report forecast a booming market for cardiac assist devices, noting “increasing incidence of heart failure is driving growth.”
  • Families, however, are left holding the bag not just emotionally, but financially, blindsided by financial impacts they surely never anticipated.

For decades, families have been learning bitter lessons about the financial impact of vaccine injuries. In an estimated 18% to 26% of consumer bankruptcies or more, medical debt is the “predominant causal factor” — with medical debt often triggered by “sudden adverse events.”

Consider autism — by now indisputably linked to vaccines as well as other toxic exposures — which can saddle families with lifetime care costs of $1.4 to $2.4 million, setting up a contentious battleground between parents and entities like insurance companies and school systems that don’t want to “pick up that big tab.”

The government’s National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), too, has gone to great lengths to avoid compensating autism and other childhood vaccine injuries, helped along by the well-known dysfunctions of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Although an HHS-commissioned study estimated, in 2010, that 1 in every 38 vaccine doses (2.6%) produced an adverse reaction, the conveniently broken surveillance system facilitates propagation of the fiction that adverse events are “rare,” “one in a million” or, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, “almost nonmeasurable.”

The taxpayer-funded NVICP has paid out over $4.7 billion since 1988 and professes to be an “accessible and efficient forum for individuals found to be injured by certain vaccines.” But its adversarial — and sluggish — process and sky-high burden of proof result in two-thirds of claims being dismissed or remaining in limbo.

When it does pay out, NVICP more often compensates vaccine injuries in adults than children.

Recipients of Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) COVID injections ostensibly have recourse to the special Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), but the CICP, from its inception, has proved to be even more of a hollow promise than the NVICP, with no funds set aside to cover eventual compensation, no allowance for attorneys’ fees and a one-year statute of limitations.

As attorneys wrote in January, “If you have suffered a serious injury from a Covid-19 vaccine, you are basically on your own.”

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccine-induced-myocarditis-injuring-young-people/

The Covid Narrative Falls Apart in South Africa

Source:  RHODA WILSON

NWO Report

Last week, China Daily published an article that perfectly encapsulates the magical thinking taking place worldwide around Covid-19. Titled “Plea for jabs even as Africa infections trend lower,” the piece described how African “health experts” are “stepping up calls for more people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in a bid to ward off future outbreaks even as trends point to a decline in the growth rate for new infections.”

That’s right, despite a clear downward trend in mostly-mild Omicron cases, “health experts” want shots imposed indiscriminately throughout the whole population. And adding even more to the cognitive dissonance here are the reasons they cite for the decrease:

“John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, attributed South Africa’s decrease in new infection cases to increased population levels of antibodies, meaning that many people have been infected so hence developed antibodies combined with the high vaccination rate in the country.” wrote Edith Mutethya before adding the kicker: “To date, South Africa has fully vaccinated 27.3 percent of its population.”

This is, of course, a perfect example of how ‘health officials’ massage and manipulate the facts to suit their narrative. In this case, in his drive to get more “jabs,” Nkengasong laughably tells us the country’s “high vaccination rate” is partially responsible for the decline in Omicron cases. A “high vaccination rate,” in this case, of … wait for it … 27.3 percent.

Granted, 27.3 percent is higher than the meagre 10 percent full vaccination rate for the rest of Africa. But given these low percentages, especially by Western standards, one would be forgiven for thinking Covid-19 was raging like a wildfire across the continent, overwhelming hospitals and leaving massive levels of death and severe illness in its wake.

Except, that’s not the case at all. Not even close. In fact, deaths per million are surprisingly low for the vast majority of countries in Africa. Tunisia, a small country of 12 million, leads the pack at ~2,200, and only five others – South Africa, Namibia, Seychelles, Eswatini, and Botswana – are even above 1,000. That’s a stark contrast to the United States’ ~2,600, Brazil’s ~2,900, or Bulgaria and Hungary with more than 4,000 each.

Still, according to World Health Organisation regional emergency director Abdou Gueye: “Although Africa appears to be emerging from the peak of its fourth pandemic wave, vaccination which is a pivotal measure against the virus remains far too low. About 50 percent of the world’s population is fully vaccinated. In Africa, this is just 10 percent.”

After a peak of 37,875 reported cases on December 12, 2021, South Africa – ‘home’ of the Omicron variant that now dominates the globe – has seen its case numbers decline steadily since. How can this be? Nkengasong, to his credit, tells a partial truth by partially crediting natural immunity. He should have stopped there. Why didn’t he? I submit that it’s because of the magical thinking around Covid vaccines. Even a paltry 27.3 vaccination rate, he reasons, must have contributed to the decline. Would that ‘health officials’ here in the States were so generous. Instead, the third of the country that remains unvaccinated is blamed for everything from virus spread to the Black Death.

We’re told that vaccines against a spike protein that is no longer dominant are the keys to ending the pandemic, but they refuse to explain in light of recent data exactly how. Instead, our overlords allow the majority of the public to falsely blame the unvaccinated for contraction and spread, even while knowing full well that the vaccinated are just as responsible.

Why is the virus raging again in Israel, the most vaccinated and boosted country on the planet? Why is there no statistical difference between virus infection rates in highly vaccinated versus lower uptake areas in the U.S.? Why do the unvaccinated have the lowest infection rate according to disturbing newly revealed data from Scotland? I could go on and on. (And yes, we have asked the same questions about mask use.)

The sad, tragic fact is that their measures, from lockdowns to masks to even vaccine mandates, have done little to nothing to curb the spread of this highly contagious respiratory virus, and taken as a whole they’ve likely done more harm than good.

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Via https://nworeport.me/2022/01/31/the-covid-narrative-falls-apart-in-south-africa/

Netherlands, Canada, Bolivia Convoys 2022

Also Australia. New Zealand convoy scheduled for Sun 6 Feb.

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I am sure there will be more to come.

Dutch truckers drive in a convoy through Friesland, Netherlands, inspired by events in Canada.

Netherlands in the growing
Jan 31, 2022

RT News reported it.
The only news I found so far to do so.
A Dutch ‘Convoy for Freedom’ Sets Off from the Hague to Protest COVID Restrictions Jan 31, 2022

RT News
Freedom’ convoys protest COVID restrictions in Canada and the Netherlands

Lots of videos on the Canadian convoy. Three pages and in the comments there are videos as well.
What the truckers want people to do Jan 29 2022 Lets help them with this
https://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/2022/01/29/what-the-truckers-want-people-to-do-jan-29-2022-lets-help-them-with-this/

FRASER VALLEY CONVOY IN SUPPORT OF OTTAWA CONVOY – JANUARY 29TH (CHILLIWACK, BC)

Cities across Canada join the movement
JANUARY 29TH,
Cities and towns coast to coast are joining in on this historic day! Several vehicle + trucker convoys along with massive rallies…

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The Influence of the Evangelical Faith in the South

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Episode 8: The Birth of the Cotton South

A New History of the American South

Dr Edward Ayers (2018)

Film Review

This lecture traces the influence of the evangelical faith on the South. Before the southern colonies joined the United States, the Anglican church was the primary faith. During colonial times, churches were built with public money and expected to disperse money and welfare services to paupers and widows.

Ayers credits John Wesley as one the the primary founders of the evangelical faith (in England). He and his followers preached about a God who spoke to them directly rather than through priests and preachers. Wesley taught that all Christians had to do to be saved was to acknowledge their sins, ask forgiveness and strive to live by strict guidelines forbidding drinking, dancing and gambling. After Wesley and his followers were derided as “methodists” (for the strict rules they imposed on themselves), they adopted the label for themselves.

Wesley visited Virginia and South Carolina in the 1740s, winning over numerous coverts wanting him to send missionaries or “evangels” to help spread his teachings in the New World.

The Anglican clergy, who couldn’t be “saved” without acknowledging their sins and experiencing conversion, prevailed upon civil authorities to have the evangelists jailed (for refusing to apply for a license to preach). They were also jailed and tarred and fevers (as suspected British loyalists) for refusing to fight in the Revolutionary War and for worshiping together with their African slaves. During the 1780s many evangelicals freed their slaves.

The evangelicals emerged stronger than ever from the Revolutionary War. Without the King of England as its nominal head of their church, the Anglicans lost their standing under the new US government. lost its standing under the new government. During the first half of the 19th century, the evangelical movement drew new members during “revival” camps hosting up to 15,000 people. Organizers and attendees belonged to Baptist and Presbyterian, as well as Methodist, churches.

Ayers emphasizes that these churches were the only real biracial institutes in the South in the 19th century. Unlike the Anglican church, the evangelical churches recognized slave marriages.  In the 1830s, freed slaves petitioned to start the First African Baptist Church of Richmond Virginia. Although state law required their minister to be white, the church was run by 30 African deacons (although most were freemen, a few were still enslaved).

Evangelical slave holders believed God’s purpose in sending Africans to America was to teach them responsible Christianity. Owing to the absence of law enforcement in frontier settlements, religion played a very important role in enforcing morality. Frontier churches also provided a stabilizing influence for slaves uprooted from their families to and transported to frontier settlements.

Film can be viewed free on Kanopy with a library card.

https://pukeariki.kanopy.com/video/evangelical-faith-south

Foreign airlines start canceling flights over 5G concerns

Foreign airlines start canceling flights over 5G concerns ...

Madeleine Hubbard

Just the News

As of Tuesday evening, 109 flights into, within or out of the United States have been canceled.

Foreign airlines are canceling flights to the U.S. starting Wednesday due to concerns that the launch of 5G could alter planes’ equipment.

Dubai-based Emirates airline suspended flights “until further notice” starting Wednesday from nine U.S. cities including Chicago, Miami, Newark, Dallas and San Francisco. Flights to New York (JFK), Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., will operate as planned.

“Emirates regrets any inconvenience caused. We are working closely with aircraft manufacturers and the relevant authorities to alleviate operational concerns, and we hope to resume our US services as soon as possible,” the airline stated.

Air India suspended flights from San Francisco, Chicago and Newark, as well as ​​New York City (JFK), notably unlike Emirates.

Japan Airlines announced the cancellation of some U.S. flights starting Wednesday.

“Boeing has notified us that 5G signals for U.S. mobile phones, which will begin operating in the U.S. on January 19, 2022, may interfere with the radio wave altimeter installed on the Boeing 777,” Japan Airlines stated. “We have decided not to use this aircraft-type on the U.S. mainland routes until safety is confirmed, and we regret to cancel the flight that cannot be changed to Boeing 787.”

Japan-based All Nippon Airways also announced that some flights would be canceled due to the 5G rollout.

Verizon and AT&T blamed the Federal Aviation Administration and airlines for not resolving the issues around 5G before now.

As of Tuesday evening, 109 flights into, within or out of the United States have been canceled for Wednesday so far.

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Via https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/transportation/foreign-airlines-start-canceling-flights-over-5g-concerns