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Best of the Web: Why Canada will become a dictatorship under Trudeau

Daniel Dickin, Contributor
HuffPost
Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:15 UTC
Justin Trudeau
© Reuters / Blair GableCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: The Great White North's virtue signaller-in-chief
Originally published in the Prince Arthur Herald

It's becoming clearer as the days of Trudeau's Liberals wear on: if elected Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau would turn Canada into a dictatorship.

This is the man who admitted he "admires China's basic dictatorship." It wasn't just a sarcastic comment - he seriously said that he admires the dictatorship because they can get things done quickly.

And it's becoming clearer that Trudeau not only admires the dictatorship -- he runs the Liberal Party like one too.

How else can one explain the police-enforced acclamation of Andrew Leslie as the Liberal candidate for Orleans? Even with hundreds of Liberals attending the meeting to show their support for another candidate (and former Trudeau leadership rival), it was clear from the beginning that Leslie was Trudeau's hand-picked favourite, and certainly wouldn't be stopped by pesky processes like "democracy."

Just the imagery of Trudeau's chosen candidate being selected with police intervention is scary. It shows that Trudeau doesn't just admire China's dictatorship -- he would practice one if he had the chance.

Comment: He sure called that one back in 2015. Look at where we are now:

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Best of the Web: 'Epstein accomplice' Jean-Luc Brunel reportedly hangs himself in French prison

Svetlana Ekimenko
Sputnik
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 18:25 UTC
Jean-Luc Brunel
© Screenshot/Wiki4AllScreenshot shows an undated image of talent scout Jean-Luc Brunel who has been linked to the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring. Brunel was taken into custody by French authorities on December 16, 2020, for questioning.
Jean-Luc Brunel had come under scrutiny over his ties to the late convicted sex felon Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he worked from the early 2000s until 2015. Brunel, who was accused of partaking in the alleged sex trafficking ring run by the disgraced tycoon, was arrested on 16 December 2020 and charged with the rape of a minor by French prosecutors

.Former French modeling scout and 'Epstein accomplice' Jean-Luc Brunel has been found dead in a French prison, reported AFP.

Brunel, 74, who knew the deceased sex offender and US financier Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead by hanging on Saturday in his prison cell in Paris, a source was cited as saying.According to Le Parisien, he was discovered at around 1 a.m. during the night patrol. He could not be revived.

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Best of the Web: Tulsi Gabbard: Democracy threatened by 'power elite,' mainstream media

Charlie McCarthy
Newsmax
Fri, 18 Feb 2022 08:34 UTC
tulsi gabbard
© Bill Pugliano/Getty ImagesFormer Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard.
Former Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard took to social media Friday morning to warn of the dangers presented "by the likes [of] Hillary Clinton and her cohorts in Deep State and mainstream media."

Gabbard, the former Hawaii lawmaker who ran for president in 2020, tweeted a snippet of her recent appearance on Fox News and commented on special counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.

"Durham probe further proves that the greatest threat to our democracy is not some foreign country, but rather the Power Elite, led by the likes [of] Hillary Clinton and her cohorts in Deep State and mainstream media," Gabbard wrote.

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Best of the Web: Freedom Convoy organizers arrested


RT
Fri, 18 Feb 2022 03:40 UTC
police freedom convoy protest
© AFP / Scott Olson; Getty Images North AmericaPolice patrol through a demonstration organized by truck drivers opposing vaccine mandates on February 17, 2022 in Ottawa, Ontario.
Two key figures in the Covid mandate protests have been rounded up and detained in Ottawa.

Ottawa Police arrested at least two top organizers behind the Freedom Convoy protests against Covid-19 restrictions on Thursday, as the Canadian government continues its attempts to shut down the demonstration.

Organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were arrested after Ottawa Police received emergency powers and worked to shut the protests in Canada's capital down.

Comment: More from Rebel News:
Last night, Lich posted a message to social media where she appeared to accept that she would soon be arrested.

"There's a pretty good chance — well I think it's inevitable at this point — but, uh, I'll probably be going somewhere tomorrow [Thursday] where I'll be getting three square meals a day. And that's OK,' Lich said.

"I'm OK with that. And I want you to know that I am not afraid," she added.

Another convoy organizer, Chris Barber, was also arrested tonight.

Lich is the Métis organizer of the original GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign for the trucker convoy that travelled to Ottawa to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers.

After astonishing support, both financially through crowdfunding and physically through support from those who turned out along overpasses to wave Canadian flags, the movement spiralled into a more broad protest against COVID restrictions and vaccine mandates.

Recently, Lich had been in discussions with Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson. Coming to terms through negotiations brokered by Dean French, the former chief of staff to Ontario Premier Doug Ford, a deal was struck between convoy organizers and the city that resulted in numerous trucks leaving residential areas.

French explained his decision to mediate between the City of Ottawa officials and Freedom Convoy organizers in a column published by the National Post tonight, citing former Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford as his reason for meeting with Mayor Watson.

Peckford is currently suing the Canadian government over its mandatory vaccine requirement for air travellers, and had a lengthy conversation last month with Ezra Levant about the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Peckford is the last living premier to have signed the document.


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Best of the Web: NYT backs the truckers now? 'Allowing nonviolent protest important in polarized society,' reminds Trudeau he supported farmers blocking highways in India

Keith Griffith
Daily Mail
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:43 UTC
new york times building
The New York Times Editorial Board has taken a stance in support of Canadian truckers' right to protest, saying that peaceful demonstrations are a vital part of democracy.
The New York Times Editorial Board has taken a stance in support of Canadian truckers' right to protest, saying that peaceful demonstrations are a vital part of democracy.

The Freedom Convoy protests against COVID-19 vaccine mandates, which have brought Ottawa to a standstill for more than two weeks, have sharply divided opinion in the US.

Conservatives have tended to cheer on the demonstrators, while many liberal pundits have issued calls for a swift and harsh crackdown on the protests by any means necessary.

Comment: Credit where credit is due. There's not much to praise the NYT for these days, but at least on this issue, they seem to have come out in the right. It seems the NYT couldn't survive the cognitive dissonance required to condemn the truckers while praising liberal-progressive protests. Either that or their polling showed they were largely in disagreement with their audience on the issue.

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Best of the Web: House Judiciary member's query about Jan. 6 inmates goes ignored by Dept. of Corrections

Penny Starr
Breitbart
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:18 UTC
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© Greg Nash/Getty ImagesRep. Greg Steube (R-FL)
Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) has yet to hear from the D.C. Department of Corrections, whose director he queried in July of 2021, about the status of the men and women who remain in the agency's custody for charges related to the January 6 riot at the Capitol.

Steube is on the House Judiciary Committee, which has oversight of the nation's federal prisons and jails in the District of Columbia.

Steube told Breitbart News that he did get a response from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), but that his inquiry to the D.C. agency has gone unanswered. His letter was addressed to Michael Carvajal, Director of BOP, and Quincy Booth, Director of D.C. Department of Corrections.

"It's very demonstrative of a willful and intentional intent on behalf of the D.C. jail system to avoid oversight, to avoid accountability, and to avoid transparency, even with members of Congress, as to what is occurring in the D.C. jail with the January 6 prisoners. If you don't have anything to hide, then why are you not responding to a member of Congress who sits on the Judiciary Committee, the committee that has oversight authority over the D.C. prison?"
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Best of the Web: 7 ways men live without working in America

Andy Serwer, Max Zahn
Yahoo Finance
Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
Help wanted
© Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesWork opportunity in San Francisco, CA
Almost one-third of all working-age men in America aren't doing diddly-squat. They don't have a job, and they aren't looking for one either. One-third of all working-age men. That's almost 30 million people!

How do they live? What are they doing for money? To me, this is one of the great mysteries of our time.

I'm certainly not the first person to make note of this shocking statistic. You've heard people bemoaning this "labor participation rate," which is simply the number of working-age men (usually counted as ages 16 to 64) who are working or are seeking work, as a percentage of the overall labor force.

It's true that the pandemic, which of course produced a number of factors that made working more difficult never mind dangerous, pushed the labor participation rate to a record low. But the fact that millions of American males have not been working precedes COVID-19 by decades. In fact, the participation rate for men peaked at 87.4% in October 1949 and has been dropping steadily ever since. It now stands at 67.7%.

As a business journalist for a good portion of those 70-plus years, I've looked at thousands of charts and graphs in my life, and I have to say this one is as jaw dropping as it is vexing:
Fred graph
Economists, sociologists, politicians, and cable news pundits each have their pet factors to explain the groundswell of non-work. But after digging down here, I've concluded there are many different forces at play. That's what I want to explore today, which is: how men can live in America without working.

Comment: Quite the assessment; many dots connected here.

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Best of the Web: Killing Us Softly: Klaus Schwab's "Great Narrative" For The Global Borg

Joe Allen
Salvo
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
Klaus Schwab
The sequel to his Great Reset is the Great Swindle

Every civilization is built upon layers of mythology. In his recently published book, The Great Narrative, the founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, promotes a new global mythos based on empathy and cooperation.

This is remarkable considering that five years ago, in The Fourth Industrial Revolution, he calmly explained that successful societies of the future would be "smart" termite colonies crawling with bipedal cyborgs. Then a year and a half ago, in The Great Reset, he declared that the COVID-19 pandemic "represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine and reset our world," making way for a polycentric technocracy — possibly run on a Chinese digital currency.

Because most of us don't want to become gene-edited, neuroenhanced, bionic welfare recipients put out of work by robots, and because his accent sounds like zee Stasi villain, Schwab has become a magnet for blame and popular hatred — a fascist to some, a communist to others, a technocratic mastermind to most.

Now, as if we all forgot our suspicions, he's calling for a new narrative, a great narrative, where all you need is love:

Comment: And now we're aware of yet a few more tools by which the Elite are attempting to corral and control Humanity. Its not enough that we've been locked down, mandated, poisoned, impoverished, isolated and divided against our fellow man - we will now be hacked such that one of our very most human features - empathy - will be identified, tweaked and turned against our own better natures; and against our own selves.

In another Elite circle we have NATO, whose aggressive tone in describing similar goals for control of thoughts and feelings, is no less monstrous:

Behind NATO's 'cognitive warfare': 'Battle for your brain' waged by Western militaries

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Best of the Web: Durham confirms Clinton campaign paid to 'infiltrate' Trump Tower, White House servers to link Trump to Russia


Fox News
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 17:53 UTC
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© AP/Rick Bowmer/Fox News/Wikipedia/KJNUS Attorney John W. Huber • Hillary Clinton • US Attorney John Durham
'Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP's DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.'

Lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to "infiltrate" servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an "inference" and "narrative" to bring to government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia, a filing from Special Counsel John Durham says.

Durham filed a motion on Feb. 11 focused on potential conflicts of interest related to the representation of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who has been charged with making a false statement to a federal agent. Sussmann has pleaded not guilty.

Comment: Was Sussmann the first brick to crumble in Killary's bunker?


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Best of the Web: No, the revolution isn't over: None of the fundamental drivers of "Wokeness" have relented

N.S. Lyons
Substack
Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:41 UTC
mao poster
“Long live the victory of Chairman Mao's revolutionary line!”
At least in the Boswash (the corridor of East Coast establishment power running from Boston to Washington), using January to make public predictions about the year ahead is an ironclad tradition. Usually these predictions end up being completely wrong, because no one here has any idea what they're talking about. I hope that holds true in my case, because I want to use my mandatory annual forecast to dump a few gallons of cold, contrarian water on what seems to have recently become a fashionable prediction: that the "woke" ideological revolution roiling the West has peaked and will soon be in full blown retreat.

Consider a handful of examples of this new genre: While a few of those examples are from earlier in 2021, this theme seems to have really emerged and begun to solidify into a consensus among more centrist types soon after the beginning of November 2021. That was when some conservative American politicians won or almost won a few special elections, in part by riding a popular backlash to Critical Race Theory in schools, and a number of local ballot measures to defund police departments failed around the country. Republicans, feeling especially good about their chances against a flailing Biden, started drooling over a "Red Wave" expected to sweep them back to power in the 2022 midterm elections. And now that private equity executive turned Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has personally won the culture war's Battle of Midway, the tide has turned and, aside from the occasional messy beachhead here or there, inevitable victory is now in sight, or something.
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