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I spoke to close to 100 protesters and didn't find a single insurrectionist, white supremacist, racist or misogynist

Rupa Subramanya
Daily Mail
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 10:30 UTC
Freedom Convoy
Photo of January 29, 2022 protest in Ottawa, Canada
A version of this article first appeared on Common Sense

For two weeks, the 18-wheelers, the semis, the tractors and the pick-up trucks streamed through the snow and ice into the center of Ottawa, the Canadian capital.

They came from across the country. Vaxxed, unvaxxed, white, black, Chinese, Sikh, Indian, alone or with their wives and kids.

They huddled around campfires. They set up pop-up kitchens and tents with block captains doling out coffee and blankets.

They honked (and honked and honked). They blasted 'We Are the World.' And everywhere you looked, someone was waving the Maple Leaf.

It dipped to 4 degrees. The mayor declared a state of emergency. And they didn't budge.

The truckers were scared of running out of gas — freezing to death in their little truck beds in the middle of the night. The city threatened to arrest anyone who brought it to them.

In response, hundreds of Ottawans did just that. The truckers stayed put.

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Surgeon General: As pandemic improves, 'we should be pulling back on restrictions'

Caroline Vakil
The Hill
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 23:32 UTC
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said that as the COVID-19 pandemic improves in the United States, "we should be pulling back on restrictions," which a handful of states have already done.

Murthy told The Associated Press in an interview published on Friday that he believed that restrictions should start being eased as pandemic indicators in the country improve; however, he stressed that the pandemic is not over yet.

"I think that as the pandemic gets better, we should be pulling back on restrictions. The conversation now is about what should determine when that happens," Murthy told the news wire.

"The pandemic is not over today," he noted. "We are still seeing record numbers of hospitalizations, deaths, and cases in this country."

He noted that health officials would need to look at several pandemic data indicators before making moves to lift restrictions.

"It's likely going to be some combination of the hospitalization rate or hospital capacity itself, which is about health care staffing, about the death rate, and also just about where we're going in terms of cases," he told the AP.
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Attention

Where did all of the THOUSANDS of trucks end up in Ottawa? Diverted by police AWAY from downtown

Dakota Christensen
Rebel News
Thu, 03 Feb 2022 06:30 UTC
canada truckers
This past weekend, I had the privilege of reporting on the ground in Ottawa, where the Canadian Truckers' for Freedom Convoy — consisting of tens of thousands of transport trucks from all corners of the nation — began to converge on Canada's capital city. Hundreds of thousands of supporters came out in support, to protest the heavy-handed COVID restrictions still in effect across Canada, which happened primarily in Ottawa's downtown, centred on Parliament Hill.

It was truly remarkable to see so many transport trucks parked up and down a number of the main streets in downtown Ottawa, including all down Wellington St, right outside of the Canadian Parliament building. But while all eyes were focused on Parliament Hill, the noisy trucks blockading downtown, and the massive protest underway there, I couldn't help but think — "where are all of the other trucks?"

As I mentioned, reports showed that not just hundreds, or a couple thousand, but tens of thousands of trucks had driven to Ottawa from all corners of the nation to converge on the capital.

While downtown Ottawa was quite a sight to behold — and it still is, with all of those trucks still there as I speak — I did not see tens of thousands of trucks parked downtown.
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Airlines suspend flights to Ukraine despite Kyiv promising $592m to keep airspace open

Angela Giuffrida
The Guardian
Sun, 13 Feb 2022 19:39 UTC
Ukraine airport
© Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty ImagesTravellers wait at check-in counters at Boryspil airport outside Kyiv. The airport said on Sunday it was operating normally.
Ukraine has allocated $592m (£437m) to guarantee the continuation of flights to and from the country, as fears of flying over its airspace led some airlines to scrap or divert flights as tensions between the west and the Kremlin mount over a possible Russian invasion.


Comment: Ukraine is promising money it doesn't have: EU gifts $1.36 billion in 'aid' to Ukraine


The prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, said the funds "were allocated to ensure flight safety in Ukraine for insurance and leasing companies" and would "stabilise the situation on the market of passenger air transportation and will guarantee the return to Ukraine of our citizens who are currently abroad".

The Dutch carrier KLM had earlier cancelled flights to Ukraine after the Netherlands government issued a travel warning over the risks of flying in the region, while Germany's Lufthansa said it was considering suspending air traffic.

Comment: At this rate, Ukraine is becoming so disordered that the country will soon be ripe for US and NATO to use it in a provocation against Russia: Cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war

Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: As Freedom Convoy Goes Global, Empire Contrives War With Russia



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It's a myth that politicians don't tell police what to do

Lorrie Goldstein
Toronto Sun
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Geoff Robins /AFP/Getty ImagesOfficers deployed to move protesters blocking access to the Ambassador Bridge.
Let's examine Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's statement yet again on Friday that "politicians don't direct police in a democratic society," which is nonsense. If that was true, the police would be a law unto themselves, which is what happens in dictatorships.

In fact, politicians and governments are directing police to remove protesters and blockades from the Ambassador Bridge, as well as in Ottawa and other locations. They're doing it right now.

Ironically, Trudeau's complete statement Friday makes clear federal, provincial and municipal politicians have ordered the police to end the trucker blockades and disband the protesters.

Comment: Consider in the sequence of intent - to demand - to action. Politicians order the police to exact an outcome. Military commanders give orders the soldiers carry out. Where does responsibility start and end? Surely not in the middle.

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How the Left betrayed the Freedom Truckers

Malcom Kyeyune
UnHerd
Wed, 09 Feb 2022 18:37 UTC
freedom convoy ottawa truck graffitti
© Twitter
They call it "The Honkening". Ottawa, Canada's capital city, is currently being besieged by a novel kind of protest. Honkening is a fairly appropriate name for what's going on. Thousands of truckers have driven to the capital, and barraged the city with the noise of truck horns creating a cacophony of sound. Elsewhere, on the border between the United States and Canada, truckers, farmers and cowboys have blockaded traffic.

As the protests enter another week, Ottawa's mayor has declared a state of emergency. Jim Watson described the truckers — ostensibly protesting against Canada's harsh Covid mandates — as "out of control". Watson sees anarchy; the truckers fulminate against Covid authoritarianism. But this battle is really about working-class discontent.

The naive among us could be forgiven for thinking that this protest signalled something auspicious about "late capitalist" society. For decades, the common folk wisdom for both the Left and the Right was that the West's working classes had been completely neutralised as a political force, and that class conflict itself was a relic of the past.

Comment: In one brilliant image:
leftist truckers cartoon socialism communism


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Progressive prosecutors: How pupils of US leftwing activists come to power as attorneys

John Scott Lewinski
RT
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 17:42 UTC
policeman
© Getty Images / Ross Mantle
According to San Francisco police, Troy Ramon McAlister, a habitual criminal, sped down a city street on New Year's Eve in a stolen car, ran a red light, struck another vehicle, and plowed into two pedestrians - killing them both.

McAlister, 45, who was intoxicated, got out of the car and fled into a nearby building, where officers found him within minutes and arrested him. Inside the vehicle, they allegedly found a handgun with an extended magazine and suspected drugs.

It was, said city Police Chief Bill Scott, a "senseless tragedy that shouldn't have happened;" the accused man was well known to his officers. He had been let out of prison on parole for robbery in April 2020, and had since been arrested numerous times for violations of that parole, including car theft and possession of drugs.

Despite all these arrests, however, prosecutors supervised by San Francisco's progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin chose not to file charges on any of those occasions, allowing McAlister to stay on the streets until the New Year's Eve fatalities.
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UK civil servants continue to teach banned 'diversity' training


RT
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 17:39 UTC
diversity training
© Getty Images / Cecilie_Arcurs
British bureaucrats have continued to attend publicly-funded 'unconscious bias' courses despite the government banning the controversial diversity training program in December 2020, according to The Telegraph. Whitehall has accused public servants of attempting to "subvert and sabotage" ministerial orders, the paper reported.

Citing "leaked" materials, the paper revealed that some 170,000 public servants have completed the course at a cost of £370,000 ($501,892) to the taxpayer. The training - which is billed as a way to address hidden prejudices - is apparently part of a "required learning" course about "inclusion" on the Civil Service Learning online portal.

According to The Telegraph, officials "must" complete four modules, which includes learning about how "stereotyping and unconscious bias can influence thinking and the impact this can have on work relationships and decisions." The course apparently teaches civil servants about the importance of being "mindful and aware" of their biases in order to "manage" them - so as to "build a diverse workforce."
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Annual father-daughter school dance cancelled over lack of gender inclusion

Damien Fisher
NH Journal
Wed, 09 Feb 2022 17:27 UTC
dance
© Dex Images, Inc./Getty Images
Luck won't be a lady for anyone in Hampton Falls after the Lincoln Akerman School PTO canceled the Guys & Dolls dance, an annual father-daughter event, due to complaints it is not gender-inclusive.

Parents in this small Granite State community received a letter from the PTO explaining the Guys & Dolls dance, along with the companion mother-son Ladies & Lads dance, ran afoul of the current climate of gender politics.

"The Lincoln Akerman School PTO has received some concerns regarding the lack of gender inclusivity surrounding the Guys & Dolls and Ladies & Lads events at our school," The PTO letter states. "These long-standing events at LAS have traditionally been separated by gender, but with the asterisk that anyone is is welcome."
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3 women sue Harvard, allege school ignored sexual harassment

Mark Pratt
Associated Press
Tue, 08 Feb 2022 17:22 UTC
harvard
© AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File
Three Harvard University graduate students said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that the Ivy League school for years ignored complaints about sexual harassment by a renowned professor and allowed him to intimidate students by threatening to hinder their careers.

"The message sent by Harvard's actions alleged in the complaint is clear: students should shut up. It is the price to pay for a degree," Russell Kornblith of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the women's law firm, said in a statement.

The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston alleges that one of the students, Lilia Kilburn, was subjected to repeated forcible kissing and groping as early as 2017 by anthropology and African and African American studies professor John Comaroff.
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