As might be expected, most of tonight’s news once again comes from Canada, including reports on the smaller convoy that is blocking the border crossing between Alberta and Montana. The premier of Alberta has declared it illegal, and the RCMP is acting against it.
In other news, a 3-year-old boy in Cyprus has been denied urgently-needed heart surgery because his parents are unvaxed.
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Polish Economy Grew by 5.7 Percent in 2021
The Polish economy bounced back from its 2020 slump to grow by 5.7 percent last year, the country’s statistical central office announced on Monday.
Statistics Poland (GUS) reported that its initial estimate of Poland’s GDP growth for 2021 was 5.7 percent, compared to a 2.5 percent GDP decrease in 2020. Moreover, Poland’s domestic demand increased last year by 8.2 percent compared to 2020, during which a 3.4 percent drop was recorded.
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An Article V Convention Becomes More Likely as Convention of States Action Hits the Halfway Mark
On Jan. 31, Convention of States Action (COSA) announced that Nebraska and Wisconsin passed resolutions officially calling for an Article V Convention. They join 15 other states bringing the total to 17. These resolutions mark the halfway point for the 34 required to convene a Convention. South Dakota’s resolution also passed in the house and will head to the Senate shortly. COSA President Mark Meckler is looking forward to a year full of continued success with Iowa, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, and New Mexico. Like South Dakota, these states need passage in one more chamber.
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AOC Says She’s Taking a Break From Twitter, Then Resumes Tweeting
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was back on Twitter less than a day after saying she was taking a hiatus from the social media platform.
Ocasio-Cortez ended a brief break from Twitter with posts Tuesday, one targeting Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., for his opposition to President Biden’s Build Back Better legislation.
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From WMAR 2 News, “Baltimore City outpaces it’s 2021 murder rate with 31 homicides in 25 days”:
We’re not even a full month into the new year and already Baltimore City has seen more homicides this year than there have been days.
25 days into 2022 and already there have been 31 people killed in the city of Baltimore.
Right now the city is averaging more than one homicide a day.
WMAR 2 News reported that “no arrest have been announced for any of these 31 homicides this year so far.”
Chesley Patterson, the General Manager at popular Italian restaurant La Scala, was murdered Sunday on his way home from work after reportedly getting carjacked while stopping at a red light.
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Biden Supreme Court Front-Runner Ketanji Brown Jackson Faces Scrutiny for Overturned Decisions
Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of the women reported to be on President Biden’s short list to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, is facing heightened scrutiny over a judicial record that includes high-profile rulings later overruled by higher courts.
Brown Jackson’s record was a focal point last year during her confirmation for a seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where she now sits. The 51-year-old judge is widely considered one of the favorites to replace Breyer.
“Judge Jackson’s record of reversals by the left-leaning D.C. Circuit is troubling for anyone concerned about the rule of law,” Judicial Crisis Network president Carrie Severino told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “For example, in Make the Road New York v. Wolf, a D.C. Circuit panel composed of a majority of Democratic nominees concluded that Jackson had set aside a Trump administration rule where there was no legal basis to do so.”
“Cases like these suggest that Jackson might be willing in politically charged cases to ignore the law to deliver a particular policy outcome, and that’s not what we want to see from a Supreme Court justice,” she continued.
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Denver Dropping Mask or Proof of Vaccine Requirement: Omicron Has ‘Run Out of Fuel’
Denver’s mask or proof of vaccine requirement to enter businesses is set to expire this week as health officials in Colorado say the omicron coronavirus variant has “run out of fuel within our community.”
The development comes as residents in the capital of Colorado have reached a 78% vaccination rate, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock announced Monday, adding that “this virus is something we are going to have to manage and learn to live with.”
“Following extensive discussions with our regional partners as well as current health advice and the downward trajectory of cases, positivity and hospitalizations, Denver will not be extending our public health order,” Hancock said during a press conference. “So beginning Friday, people will no longer be required under the public health order to wear masks or show proof of vaccination for entry into a business in Denver.”
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican governors advocated for the role of parents in their children’s education at the 2022 National Governors Association meeting, saying that most of them “don’t want” critical race theory taught in schools.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, R., who banned critical race theory from state classrooms in May, said outlawing the controversial curriculum was a no-brainer.
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Lockdowns during the first COVID-19 wave in the spring of 2020 only reduced COVID-19 mortality by .2% in the U.S. and Europe, according to a Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis of several studies.
“While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted,” the researchers wrote. “In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”
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Massive Fire at North Carolina Fertilizer Plant May Cause Blast, Area Evacuated
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — The City of Winston-Salem is asking people within one mile of a raging blaze at a fertilizer plant to evacuate due to the possibility of a large explosion.
WGHP-TV reported that the fire started Monday night at the Weaver Fertilizer Plant on North Cherry Street. City officials have confirmed small explosions at the plant.
Bright orange flames could be seen shooting into the sky along with thick plumes of smoke as lights from firetrucks and other first responder vehicles surrounded the fully engulfed building.
The Winston-Salem Police Department said in a news release that a portion of the road was closed while emergency crews, including about 90 firefighters and 150 others from different agencies, responded to the fire around 8:20 p.m. on Monday and it remains closed.
Winston-Salem Battalion Chief Patrick Grubbs said at a news conference early Tuesday that the scene was still very much active and that the potential for an explosion was still possible…
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New Book Exposing George Soros’ Web of Influence Snubbed From New York Times Bestseller List
A new book documenting and exposing billionaire George Soros’s web of influence has been snubbed by the New York Times bestseller list despite selling the prerequisite number of copies.
The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros, according to author Matt Palumbo “…blew past the 5,000 minimum number of books needed to be sold the first week to be considered for the list.”
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New Bipartisan Bill Aims to Break Up Google’s Ad Dominance
More bipartisan bills are coming up in the US Congress as some lawmakers are trying to find ways of legislatively containing the enormous power that the likes of Google and Facebook have over the internet — in this instance, over the super lucrative digital ad market.
It’s no secret that there, these two giants form what’s effectively a duopoly, while their financial might relies on it, drawn from a business model crafted to continuously harvest data and track users.
According to The Information, we are now weeks away from Senator Mike Lee, a Republican, introducing a bill that aims to separate various segments of the advertising business, preventing monopolistic behavior. The report, based on unnamed sources, also said that Lee has the backing of Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat who chairs the antitrust committee, and several others across the aisle.
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Schools across America are implementing the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action curriculum that calls for the “disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics.”
The week of action started on Monday in several schools from Washington state to Massachusetts, bringing to classrooms the activist-based curriculum that preaches controversial ideas.
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‘Truck Yeah’: DeSantis Tweets Message of Support for Canadian Truckers
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tweeted a message in support of truckers on Tuesday, simply reading “TRUCK YEAH”.
The message comes as a Canadian convoy of truckers occupies the country’s capital of Ottawa in what has been dubbed the “freedom convoy.” That convoy sparked as a result of mandates for truckers crossing between the US and Canada.
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Two Officers Shot and Killed at Bridgewater College, Suspect in Custody
BRIDGEWATER, Va. (WHSV) — College officials report that there was an active shooter on the Bridgewater College campus. A Bridgewater College Campus Law Enforcement Officer and Campus Safety Officer were shot during this incident. A suspect is now in custody.
At approximately 1:20 p.m. Feb. 1, 2022, the Bridgewater College Police Department, Town of Bridgewater Police Department, Virginia State Police, Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office, City of Harrisonburg Police, Augusta Sheriff’s Office, Town of Dayton Police Department, FBI, and the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries responded to a report of an active shooter on the Bridgewater College campus.
Campus Police Officer John Painter and Campus Safety Officer J.J. Jefferson were shot and killed.
The initial report came in that Painter and Jefferson had responded to a call of a suspicious individual was on campus in Memorial Hall. After a brief interaction, 27-year-old Alexander Wyatt Campbell, opened fire and shot both officers.
Campbell then fled on foot and was located on Riverside Drive in Bridgewater. By 1:55 p.m., the male shooter, Campbell, was taken into police custody. The suspect was taken to Sentara RMH for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, where he was treated and released. He is being held without bond at Rockingham County Regional Jail.
Virginia State Police are still working to determine how the suspect was shot.
Campbell was charged with 2 felony counts of capital murder, one felony count of first-degree murder, and one felony count of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
“I want to offer our condolences, our prayers, our hearts to J.J.’s family, John’s family. Words will never be enough to express our sadness and grief,” Dr. David W. Bushman, President of Bridgewater College, said during a press conference Tuesday night…
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Updated: Trump Issues Statement on ‘2000 Mules’ Film That Alleges Election Fraud
Update 4:37 p.m.
Former president Donald Trump has issued a statement regarding the release of the trailer for 2000 Mules:
Highly respected Dinesh D’Souza, working together with Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote, just released a trailer to their new movie, “2,000 Mules,” that shows the world exactly how the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged and Stolen. The movie exposes the lies of the Democrats, RINOs, and Fake News who say it was the “most secure election in history.” It was, perhaps, the least secure in history. The ballot box was stuffed, and stuffed like never before—and it’s all on video. Ballots were trafficked and sold in a massive operation in each Swing State. The evidence is so damning, what will the cowards who sat and did nothing about the stolen election say now? The way our votes were taken away is a disgrace to our Nation. It must be fixed.
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More and more people argue that internet access is nowadays a basic utility, and even a human right — but that’s not the sentiment shared by a growing number of US Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who are habitually looking to protect their own interests above any other consideration.
To their mind, it must be particularly easy to justify cutting off a customer when their transgression has to do with copyright infringement — even without having rock solid proof that the infringement has in fact occurred.
But the very fact the option to take away people’s internet connection has been in the DMCA for several decades, yet was until recently very rarely enforced, speaks to the radical, and controversial nature of such a policy.
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Video: CBS News Tells Viewers Joe Rogan is Killing People
CBS News addressed the ongoing targeting of Joe Rogan for censorship, suggesting that the podcast host is killing people by spreading COVID misinformation.
While claiming that they are in favour of free speech, the talking heads on CBS Mornings declared Rogan’s show to be “dangerous.”
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Video: Potato Head Stelter Says Joe Rogan Doesn’t Have the Credibility That CNN Does
CNN’s resident creepy clown Brian Stelter declared Monday that Joe Rogan does not have the credibility that the cable news network does, and that its a big “problem” that more people trust “talk show stars” rather than “real newsrooms.”
Responding to Rogan’s rebuttal to his critics, Stelter spoke with Kate Bolduan, another CNN host (note how the CNN hosts always act as their own guests).
Stelter questioned what has taken Spotify so long to fall into line with other tech platforms that have been actively censoring anyone who doesn’t parrot the establishment narrative for years now.
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Virginia’s New GOP AG Prompts Three Largest Universities to Drop Vaccine Mandate for Students
The three largest universities in Virginia have dropped their sweeping vaccine requirements after the state’s attorney general issued his legal opinion calling such mandates illegal.
George Mason University, Virginia Tech and the University of Mary Washington all announced reforms to their previously strict vaccination requirements. The colleges now emphasis recommendations to vaccinate without negative consequences for remaining holdouts.
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Virginia’s newly-elected Lt. Governor Winsome Sears tackled the subject of the surge in violent crime, especially in major cities and their shift to soft-on-crime policies.
Speaking to Fox Business Tonight, Sears, who was elected to lead Virginia alongside Gov. Glenn Youngkin, said that “woke” leftists have “let the criminals out.”
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A 55-year-old serial looter in Seattle was caught on tape stealing a 70-inch TV from a Target last month, marking “his 22nd theft from the same store in three months.”
“Newly released surveillance video shows a prolific shoplifter arrested in downtown Seattle after he stole a 70-inch television from a Target store last month, which staff claim was his 22nd instance of theft in just three months,” The Daily Mail reports.
“Career criminal John Ray Lomack, 55, who is believed to be homeless and has a rap sheet dating back to the ‘80s, was caught on camera eyeing the TV in the store, loading it into a shopping cart and walking out of the store without attempting to pay.”
Lomack got arrested by police, accused them of racism and then got released by King County Superior Judge Melinda Young without bail.
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White House Urges Spotify to Censor Content Over COVID-19 ‘Misinformation’ Concerns
During the White House press conference, Biden press secretary Jen Psaki addressed the continuing controversy of Spotify and podcasting icon Joe Rogan in regards to COVID-19 dicussions, with Psaki encouraging Big Tech platforms Tuesday to censor content in order to fight “misinformation.”
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‘A Loving, Warm Crowd’: Lincoln Jay Joins Newsmax to Talk Freedom Convoy
Rebel News‘ Lincoln Jay has been in Ottawa since late last week, arriving on scene to capture the sights and sounds of the Freedom Convoy as it rolled into, and continues to, occupy the nation’s capital.
Still embedded in Ottawa, Lincoln, along with a trucker involved in the protest, were invited to discuss the Freedom Convoy on American news network Newsmax.
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A Look at What Trudeau Called the ‘Desecration of War Memorials’ During the Freedom Convoy Protest
On yesterday’s Rebel News DAILY Livestream, Ezra discussed the Freedom Convoy protest that took place this weekend in Ottawa, and the legacy media’s attempts to spin events to stain the image of all protesters.
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CRA Falsely Accused Truckers of Raiding Ottawa Office Buildings
The Canada Revenue Agency management falsely accused Freedom Convoy protesters of looting offices and causing property damage in a bulletin to staff.
The bulletin claimed confirmation that the truckers were raiding buildings near the CRA’s headquarters in Ottawa.
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Exclusive: Trucker Blockade Responds to Premier’s Comments That Protest is Unlawful
The truckers have issued a statement clarifying that they condemn individual actions of violence and that they are there protesting for Canadians and fighting for the future of the country.
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Fines Issued, COVID-19 Measures Enforced in Maple Creek
MAPLE CREEK, SK — Saskatchewan’s COVID enforcement team issued a number of tickets recently to people failing to follow public health orders, three of which were given in Maple Creek.
According to a provincial release, the restaurant in the Prairie Pride Motel Bar and Grill received a $14,000 fine for failure to check for proof of vaccination or a negative test.
Two individuals in Maple Creek were fined $2,800 each for failure to (wear a) mask.
As well, fines for failing to mask were also issued to seven other people in Estevan (which saw two fines), Grenfell, Fort Qu’Appelle, Leader, Wynyard and Hudson Bay.
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Liberals Re-Introduce Controversial Internet Regulation Bill
The Liberal government is once again attempting to ram through legislation to regulate the internet after Bill C-10 failed to make it through the Senate last year.
C-10’s latest iteration — titled An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts — was introduced to the House of Commons on Tuesday by Liberal Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez.
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‘Media Has Been Complicit’ In Mischaracterizing Freedom Convoy
Adam Soos on The First TV
Calgary-based Rebel reporter Adam Soos joined Buck Sexton on The First TV to discuss the Freedom Convoy and the protest in solidarity taking place the the Canada/U.S. border.
As Adam told Buck, much of the Canadian media, especially the corporate media, has been complicit in helping Prime Minister Justin Trudeau smear the convoy as racist and extremist.
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MP Leslyn Lewis at the Freedom Convoy: The People Have Been Lied to, And They Want Answers
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Dr. Leslyn Lewis (follow @LeslynLewis on Twitter), Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament representing the Haldimand-Norfolk, joined Ezra for an interview in Ottawa at the Freedom Convoy protest.
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On the Ground: What Was it Really Like in Ottawa During Saturday’s Massive Freedom Convoy Protest?
On Saturday January 29, 2022 the Canadian truckers’ Freedom Convoy — consisting of tens of thousands of transport trucks from all corners of the nation — began to converge on Canada’s capital city of Ottawa, while hundreds of thousands of supporters came out to protest in the city’s downtown, centred on Parliament Hill.
There was an incredible degree of non-stop noise on the scene (honk) where truckers were parked end-to-end on the streets downtown.
The message from truckers and protesters was clear: End the COVID mandates. Lift the restrictions. Respect the people’s rights, return their freedoms and let them govern their own lives.
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O’Toole Says He’s ‘Not Going Anywhere’ Despite Caucus Revolt
Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole released a late-night statement via social media following news that his party would review his leadership. On Monday, 35 Conservative MPs signed a letter calling for the leadership review of party boss Erin O’Toole.
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Poilievre Says ‘Tide Turning Toward Freedom’ After Quebec Drops Plans for Unvax Tax
Conservative Shadow Minister for Finance Pierre Poilievre called the removal of Quebec’s plan to tax the unvaccinated “amazing” in a tweet published on Tuesday.
“Other provinces are announcing they’ll remove mandates… The tide is turning toward freedom,” said Poilievre.
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Raw: More Convoys on the Way as RCMP Move in and a Legal Update From the Trucker Lawyer
44 SWAT team vehicles and an RCMP helicopter dispatched against the trucker convoy in Alberta.
Rebel News has crowdfunded a lawyer to help the truckers and de-escalate the situation.
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Saskatchewan Dropping All COVID Restrictions, Vax Passports by End of Month
Saskatchewan has become the first province to announce it will be dropping all COVID-19 restrictions, including proof of vaccination requirements.
Premier Scott Moe made the announcement during a press conference Monday evening, stating restrictions would end on Feb. 28 and recognizing Canadians’ desire “for a return to normal.”
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The Convoy Was Heard Loud and Clear
Thousands of people from all over the country descended on Ottawa this past weekend as part of the Truckers for Freedom convoy — and organizers say they aren’t leaving until all Covid restrictions and vaccine mandates are gone. True North’s Andrew Lawton reported live from Parliament Hill on the weekend, and in this episode talks about what it was like on the ground, the mainstream media spears, and Justin Trudeau’s dishonest characterization of the peaceful demonstrators.
He also shares interviews with Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis, People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier, and some of the many Indigenous convoy supporters. Also, convoy spokesperson Benjamin Dichter joins to talk about what’s next.
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Trudeau Liberals BLOCK Motion to Condemn Blackface
On Tuesday, the Trudeau Liberals refused to give unanimous consent to a Conservative motion condemning the use of blackface.
The Alberta MP for Peace River—Westlock Arnold Viersen brought the motion forward.
[Comment: Trolling little Justin.]
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Tuesday Afternoon Protest in North Bay to Support Trucker Convoy
A protest is planned Tuesday afternoon by a group in North Bay organized to support the trucker convoy involved in an ongoing protest in Ottawa.
The North Bay Convoy Support Group said on its Facebook page the protest will take place beginning at 3:30 p.m.
Supporters are being asked to gather at 2:30 p.m. and to bring donations for the food bank. It will then proceed with a “slow roll” at 3:30 p.m.
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Watch: Ontario Premier Doug Ford Tells Truckers to ‘Go Home’
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said it’s time to let the people of Ottawa get back to their lives, and for the truckers involved in the Freedom Convoy protests to go home. Ford said that the gridlocking of Ottawa has harmed restaurants in the area, who have been closed due to his COVID-inspired restrictions for “a while now.”
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Watch: Truckers Play Game of Pick-Up Hockey Amid Freedom Convoy Protest
Truckers in Ottawa decided to play a game of pick-up amidst their trucks, in what has been called “a beautiful and uniquely Canadian form of protest.”
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YouTube Censors Livestreams of Canadian Trucker Protests for Being Too Popular
YouTube censored multiple livestreams of the Canadian trucker protest in Ottawa over the weekend by limiting their viewership for being too “popular.”
Viewers were met with a statement saying, “Video unavailable: This video is popular! Due to limited creator history, we’re limiting the number of viewers. Subscribe to this channel to help this creator reach a broader audience.”
It happened yesterday evening to YouTuber UOttawaScotty on his video, “Freedom Convoy 2022 Ottawa, Live Feed.”
It also happened to YouTube livestreamer Cunuda Murica on his video, “Canada Trucker Freedom Convoy Saturday 2022 Live #Ottawa #freedomconvoy #raw #gimbalfootage.”
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Austrian Constitutional Court Demands Real COVID Data From Government
On Wednesday, the Austrian Constitutional Court sent the Ministry of Health a list of questions about the pandemic that the official media and their henchmen have considered taboo.
The Constitutional Court sent Austrian Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein some questions about the alleged “burden on the health system”. The background is an ordinance review procedure regarding the Corona measures taken by the government in Vienna. The catalog of questions can only be described as explosive due to the political narrative that has been cultivated in the Alpine republic.
The court wanted to know if the figures for deaths and hospitalizations during the pandemic cover all infected people. The question points to the typical manipulation of the data confounding the dead and hospitalized “with Covid” or “from Covid” that has also been used in Austria. “If so, why was this counting method chosen?” the judges demanded.
In addition, the court wanted a breakdown of Covid deaths and hospitalizations, specified by age. Was Covid the cause of the hospitalizations? Had they unnecessarily hospitalized healthy people, due to a positive test exclusively?
Another set of questions was devoted to the effectiveness of wearing the so-called protective masks. Against the background of the spreading Omicron variant, Austria tightened restrictions at the beginning of January. These now also provide for wearing an FFP2 mask outdoors if the minimum distance, which has long been mandatory, cannot be maintained.
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Cyprus: Toddler Refused Heart Surgery in Three Separate Countries Over Parents Being Unjabbed
A Cypriot toddler has been refused necessary heart surgery in three separate countries over the fact his parents were not vaccinated.
A three-year-old Cypriot toddler with a serious heart disease was refused necessary surgery in three separate countries because his parents are not vaccinated against the Chinese Coronavirus.
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Denmark Lifts COVID Restrictions — Again
Denmark has become the first EU member state to lift all coronavirus curbs on Tuesday despite surging Omicron cases.
The government believes its massive vaccination drive alone would allow it to cope with the more contagious, yet milder variant of the virus.
Starting from February 1, the Scandinavian country has stopped categorizing Covid-19 as a “socially critical disease,” ditching facemasks and Covid-19 passes.
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End of ‘Corona Apartheid’: Austria’s Unvaxxed Lockdown Ends Today
Austria’s unjabbed have finally been granted a little bit of freedom, with the nation’s ‘Corona Apartheid’ lockdown of the unvaccinated ending today.
A little bit of freedom has been regained by Austria’s unvaccinated today, as the nation’s “Corona Apartheid” lockdown of unjabbed individuals ends today.
[Comment: Article dated January 31, 2022.]
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Europe Seeks Alternative Gas Supply Routes to Reduce Reliance on Russia
At a time of growing tensions around Ukraine, the European Union is struggling to secure alternative sources in the case of a gas outage from Russia. Azerbaijan, among other countries, offers help and could partially supply gas and oil.
“If there is an urgent need as we saw in Turkey, some volumes, of course, would be made available,” Elin Suleimanov, Azerbaijan’s ambassador to the U.K. told Bloomberg on Friday.
The diplomat referred in his statement to a ten-day-old shortage of Iranian supplies to Turkey, which was caused by a technical defect.
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Exclusive — Boris Saying He ‘Got Brexit Done’ is ‘A Joke’ To Northern Irish: DUP MP
Boris Johnson has been scorned by a senior Northern Irish politician for boasting of a so-called Freedoms Bill on the two-year anniversary of Brexit, with Brexit never having really been executed in the British province.
While the Tory prime minister bragged about finally having “Got Brexit Done” two years ago — long after the people’s vote to Leave the European Union in 2016 — on social media, many in Northern Ireland believe the process is far from over, given the government agreed to leave their region subject to swathes of EU regulations and custom controls, enforced against the British mainland, as part of the Brexit deal.
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Finland to Scrap All Coronavirus Restrictions by Mid-February
Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin has announced that the country will be lifting all Wuhan coronavirus restrictions by mid-February as the country starts easing some restrictions this week.
The Finnish Prime Minister stated on Monday that all coronavirus restrictions would end by mid-February and that some restrictions will begin to ease this week, starting on Tuesday, such as restrictions on restaurants and sporting facilities.
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Freedom Convoys Revving Up in the Netherlands for ‘Prelude to National Action’
Dozens of trucks and tractors kicked off a series of freedom convoys in Leeuwarden on Sunday morning. The Dutch action is a follow-up to the Freedom Convoy in Canada with tens of thousands of truckers protesting against Corona measures.
In Zeeland, the activists gathered in the parking lot of the ANWB near Kapelle. After consultation with the police, the procession, the ‘Freedom Convoy Zeeland’, left for a tour through the province.
A procession of truckers and motorists also travelled on the busy A59. The convoy departed from the carpool area at Maarheeze to pass through the province of Brabant. The participants fear that they will lose their freedom and the vaccine will be used as a means of coercion. They carried banners stating “We are not an experiment”.
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In the Netherlands, It’s ‘Civilized’ To Empower Terrorists
How a jihadist entered the inner ranks of the Dutch ruling party.
by Bruce Bawer
Her name is Soumaya Sahla. Born in The Hague in 1983 to Moroccan immigrants (her father was the founder of a mosque in that city), she joined a jihadist terror organization, the Hofstad group, at a young age, and along with another member of the group, Noureddine el Fahtni, to whom she’d been married in an Islamic ceremony, acquired an Agram 2000 submachine gun, which they were reportedly planning to use, at the direction of the leaders of the Hofstad group, to kill various politicians. Among their intended victims were Geert Wilders, then a relatively new member of the Dutch lower house, the Tweede Kamer, who’d made a name for himself as a critic of the Islamization of the Netherlands, and the Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who’d rejected her Muslim faith after 9/11 and been elected to the Tweede Kamer in 2002.
The year was 2005. The previous few years had been a busy time for assassination and assassination plots. On May 6, 2002, nine days before a general election from which he was expected to emerge as prime minister of the Netherlands, Pim Fortuyn had been murdered by an activist named Volkert van der Graaf who was appalled by his criticisms of Islam. In the summer of 2004, Sahla’s husband, Fahtni, had been arrested in Portugal on suspicion of planning to kill that country’s then prime minister, José Manuel Durão Barroso, but there had not been sufficient evidence to hold him. A few months later, on the morning of November 2, 2004, a fellow member of the Hofstad group, Mohammed Bouyeri, had slaughtered the celebrated writer and filmmaker Theo van Gogh — perhaps the Netherlands’ most prominent critic of Islam — on a busy street in Amsterdam.
Sahla and Fahtni’s plans, however, did not prove as successful as Bouyeri’s. On June 22, 2005, they were both arrested by Amsterdam police.
Fahtni ended up serving six months. Sahla spent nine years in and out of court. First, she was convicted by a Rotterdam court of illegally possessing weapons and of membership in a terrorist organization with the intent to commit murder. Later, the Court of Appeal in The Hague found her guilty, in addition, of planning to murder Wilders and others. In 2011, however, the Supreme Court annulled that ruling and transferred the case to the Amsterdam Court of Appeal, which in 2014 found Sahla guilty of membership in a terrorist organization and possession of firearms but not of intention to kill anybody. Although sentenced to three years, she didn’t have to spend any time in prison because of the time she’d already served in detention.
During that long trial period, Sahla had studied political science, African Studies, and Islamic theology. She’d also, curiously enough, become the protegée of Frits Bolkestein, a legendary figure in the center-right VVD (People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy). As the newspaper Het Parool put it the other day, Bolkestein “led her into the party” in 2011 — that is, while her case was still under adjudication — “unseen and without causing a fuss.” It’s been established that Bolkestein knew about her history. So did other VVD leaders. Not one of them, apparently, considered it a reason not to give her a responsible party position. Sahla began her career in the VVD as head of its deradicalization and terror group; as of the beginning of this year, she’d risen in the party ranks to become — simultaneously — head of the VVD’s security and justice division, chair of a party advisory committee on deradicalization and terror, and “right-hand” woman to Bolkestein.
It’s worth noting that the current head of the VVD, Mark Rutte, is also prime minister of the Netherlands, a position he has held since 2010…
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Ireland: €30,000 in Fines Paid for Breaches of COVID Regulations in Kerry
Over €30,000 in fines has been paid for breaches of COVID-19 regulations in Kerry.
This includes fines for moving beyond travel limits, hosting house parties or not wearing face coverings.
Since the onset of the pandemic, gardai were given varying powers under emergency laws.
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Julian Assange: MPs Push for WikiLeaks Founder to be Granted Political Asylum in France
Four French MPs are pushing for Julian Assange to be offered asylum in France amid the WikiLeaks founder’s ongoing fight against extradition from the UK to the US.
Jennifer De Temmerman, Jean Lassalle, Cedric Villani and Francois Ruffin are due to speak at a press conference in Paris on 1 February where they will explain why Assange — currently in prison in the UK — should be given sanctuary in France.
Assange’s defence team announced in February 2020 that it would be seeking asylum for him in France, ahead of the hearing in the UK on whether the 50-year-old should be extradited to the US for trial.
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New Leader of Germany’s Greens Said Parts of Sharia Law Are Compatible With Country’s Constitution
It has been announced that Omid Nouripour will lead the Greens together with Ricarda Lang, but the male portion of the male-female leadership duo is being singled out for comments he made in the past.
The Muslim Nouripour seems to have a special connection to the Sharia, with him saying in 2017 that parts of it should be integrated into Germany’s basic law. The former Muslim civil rights activist Ali Utlu pointed out his speech on Twitter, writing: “The color of this party is the same as that of Islam. Green. Will homosexuals eventually be killed and have their limbs cut off? Resist this from the beginning!”
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Tens of Thousands Join Monday Marches Against Lockdown in Germany
Tens of thousands once again took to the streets of Germany on Monday to protest the nation’s lockdown restrictions.
Monday once again saw tens of thousands of people take to the streets in Germany in order to protest against the nation’s lockdown measures.
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UK: Exclusive — Fishermen Slam Boris for Saying He ‘Got Brexit Done’ Despite Being ‘Sold Out’
British fishermen have reacted with fury to Boris Johnson praising himself for having “Got Brexit Done” on the two-year anniversary of Britain’s belated break with the European Union, reminding Breitbart News of how they were “sold out”.
Britain’s fishing industry was infamously sacrificed by Prime Minister Edward ‘Ted’ Heath during negotiations to join the European Economic Community (EEC), as the EU then was, in the 1970s, with the Tory leader agreeing that European fishing stocks would be shared out by Brussels as a so-called “common resource” after Britain’s entry.
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Russian Orthodox Archbishop Blames U.S. For Stoking Fears of Ukraine War
Russian Metropolitan Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev warned this weekend that the United States is unnecessarily stoking fears of a war between Russia and Ukraine.
“Both as a clergyman and as a citizen, I am very worried and concerned by what is happening around us, as well as by the statements that one has to hear from different sides,” said Hilarion, who is archbishop of Volokolamsk and chairman of the Department of External Church Relations for the Russian Orthodox Church.
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George Soros Expresses Hope for Regime Change in Hungary and China
Billionaire U.S. oligarch George Soros has given a useful insight into his own thinking and plans during a Hoover Institution address this week, in which he outlines what he thinks are the greatest threats to his plans for a global open society. In this, the American businessman, who magnanimously calls himself a “political philanthropist,” points his finger firmly at China as the number one enemy. It is worth pausing at some of Soros’ remarks in order to understand the thinking of one of the most influential players in U.S. and European politics.
His self-description as a “political philanthropist” is a staggering contradiction in words that in a way characterizes his entire analysis of our current historical landscape. Pairing the concept of philanthropy, that is best described as selfless giving stemming from empathy and humanistic values with politics is a hypocrisy that is at the core of Soros’ quest for global influence, and one that runs through his entire Hoover Institution address.
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Scientists Speak Out on Being Silenced When Raising Concerns About COVID Lab Leak Theory
Some scientists have begun speaking out about efforts to silence researchers who raised concerns about the possibility that COVID-19 could have originated in a Chinese lab.
“It shot from every direction from people who we now know were actually thinking exactly the same thing but have chosen to say the opposite, which is extraordinary,” Australian Dr. Nikolai Petrovsky, a Flinders University Medicine professor, told Fox News of the backlash he received for voicing concerns that the pandemic may have originated in a lab.
Petrovsky was not alone, according to reporting from Fox News’ Benjamin Hall, who spoke with scientists from Israel, the U.S., Australia, Germany, the U.K., Australia and Germany. The scientists told Fox News that they received backlash and resistance to getting their work published, even from those who quietly believed in the possibility of the “lab-leak theory.”
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Unvaxxed Parents in Western Australia Banned From Visiting Sick Children in Hospital
Unvaccinated parents in Western Australia will not be able to visit their own sick children in hospital, with news anchors discussing the rule celebrating it as an excellent way of forcing the unvaxxed to ‘change their philosophy’.
From yesterday onwards, parents who haven’t received at least two doses of the vaccine will be barred from visiting their own kids, unless on compassionate ‘end of life’ grounds.
In other words, their child has to literally be on its deathbed for unvaxxed parents to be allowed into hospitals in Western Australia.
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Watch: Convoy to Canberra Reject Violence
Thousands gathered at Parliament House as part of a convoy from all over the country.
People made their way to the capital city to come together and voice their desperation to put an end to vaccine mandates and harsh restrictions.
Many protesting in Canberra have lost their livelihoods and expressed they feel let down by politicians.
While there was a slightly tense moment when the convoy gathered outside the doors of Parliament House, the organisers maintained control and the crowd signalled that they came peacefully and simply want to be heard by the decision makers of this country.
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Canary Islands Migration Route ‘Reactivated’ As 2,700 Illegals in One Month
Nearly 2,700 illegal aliens arrived in the Canary Islands during the first four weeks of January, prompting Spanish media to warn the busy migration route has been ‘reactivated.’
Between 2020 and 2021, more than 45,000 migrants reached the archipelago off the coast of Morocco, often with the assistance of Spanish authorities or non-governmental organizations.
Spain’s Ministry of the Interior reported 22,316 migrant arrivals in 2021, around a 4 percent decrease from the previous year, according to El Pais.
However, security forces detected a surge in migrant traffic in the final two months of 2021, with 3,039 arrivals in November and 2,451 in December — a trend that continued into 2022.
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France: €5.2 Million Spent to House Just 28 Migrant Minors
A French municipal council has been criticized for the construction of a reception facility due to accommodate young, unaccompanied migrants, after it emerged the cost to taxpayers will be €5.2 million and it will only house 28 minors, less than half than originally planned.
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Germany: Bavaria’s Interior Minister Voices Worries About Uneducated Migrants
Bavaria’s Minister of the Interior, Joachim Herrmann (CSU), has warned the federal government not to push immigration that lacks education.
“This has significant consequences for integration into work. With little or no schooling, it’s a long way to a living income for yourself and even more for the whole family,” warned Hermann on Monday.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has blamed Britain for every migrant who drowns in the English Channel and accused UK politicians of hypocrisy.
Macron, who is about to launch his campaign for re-election, said he will ‘step up’ the pressure on Boris Johnson to establish a legal route to Britain for asylum seekers.
He accused the Prime Minister of putting lives in danger because of his migration policy, with record numbers making the perilous journey across the Channel in dinghies.
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Data released by the Mexican government shows a 78 percent increase in migrants detained in the country in January compared with the same period a year ago.
The report, published by the National Institute of Migration on Monday, found that 16,740 migrants, mostly from Central and South America, were taken into custody between January 1 and January 30.
In comparison, 9,406 people who crossed into the country without proper documents were stopped in the same period of 2021.
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Six Times as Many Migrants Land on English Soil in January Than Last Year
Two years after securing its independence from the European Union, record waves of migrants continue to land despite the government’s promise to “take back control” of the nation’s borders, with six times as many landings in January than last year.
Hailing the second anniversary of Brexit, embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed on Monday: “Two years after we left the EU, we have taken back control of our money, our borders, and our laws.”
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Michigan High School Student Suspended for Privately Discussing Religion, Sues the School
Students talking about their Christian beliefs with their friends might make other students “feel unsafe,” according to Plainwell High School in Michigan.
Plainwell High School junior, David Stouts, was booted out of school for three days for discussing his Christian beliefs among friends via private text messages. So much for privacy and free speech.
Some of the things he discussed were the love God has for sinners, Stout’s love for his friends, and, here is where the “problems” began, Stout said he believed homosexuality is a sin and… drum roll… there are only two genders!
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UK: London Nightclub Charges Straight, White Males Six Times More Than Ethnic Minorities for Entry
A London nightclub organizer stoked controversy by charging straight white men an entry fee six times higher than the price gays or members of an ethnic minority had to pay.
Tickets for the Pxssy Palace event, which was held at the the E1 nightclub in east London on Friday night, were advertised at three different price levels based on a person’s skin color or sexual orientation.
The cheapest rate of £16.80 applied to black homosexuals, transgenders and non-binary people of color.
However, gay or trans white men as well as straight black women were charged a fee 50 per cent higher.
Anyone who had the audacity to seek entry as a straight white male was charged £112 to enter the club, a price six times higher than the base level.
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I keep hearing more about this increasing apostasy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8vMjcCsALU
Talking about Internet censorship,
I wanted to e-mail a couple of books with Shaw cable and all the e-mails containing key words, like Death of a Nation, Suicide of a Superpower and such were outright rejected.
Wonder why?
Hey Yanky..Do you know your cousins from Poland ?https://twitter.com/i/status/1488881636288696320
..”During World War I, occupying German troops killed 600 of the European bison in the Poland Białowieża Forest for sport, meat, hides and horns. A German scientist informed army officers that the European bison were facing imminent extinction, but at the very end of the war, retreating German soldiers shot all but nine animals. The last wild European bison in Poland was killed in 1921. The last wild European bison in the world was killed by poachers in 1927 in the western Caucasus. By that year, fewer than 50 remained, all held by zoos.”..
For folks worried about the fate of the wisent, it improved later. There are many now living in the wild, including many thriving herds in the Chernobyl area.
By the way, the Nazis were quite interested in their survival, and took good care of the Bialowieza Forest. So I have heard.
Satanists love animals, but hate “people”. Like their granddad Cain.
You must be a Czech ?
Mathooey, Ole Goring bought a couple hundred bison from America and as far as I know are ranging as far as Russia since the Russians let them loose from Goring’s wildlife preserves. You might want to get Poland to get some bison from America and expand your own herds. They are excellent for meat.
I do not know why Baron let you spreed all of this falsehood , lies and deceptive info?
Baron Anglo-Saxon double standard integrity ? or Ubermansch race associations ?
Don’t get me wrong Mathooey, I like you, for you are strong like bull, smart like tractor.
“The Lamentation of Christ” by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), stolen during WWII has been officially returned to the National Museum in Wrocław, Poland…from ???…Sweden National Museum :-))..who would taught so..
500 000 pieces art works stolen from Poland by : Germans,Dutch,Austrian,Russians ,Americans still “missing”..
Some of them in has been seen in National Museums mentioned countries with Hermitage on the top of the list..
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKgpdNyXsAEGxMv?format=jpg&name=900×900