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Penn Ph.D. candidate argues 'freedom' is a 'key component of white supremacy'

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The concept of "freedom" is "intertwined with whiteness," according to a University of Pennsylvania graduate student writing in The Washington Post on Thursday.

Taylor Dysart, a doctoral candidate at Penn, authored a column in which she attempted to find roots of "colonialism" in the desire of a group of Canadian truckers to avoid being vaccinated. For several weeks, the truckers have clogged Ottawa's roadways, objecting to a vaccination mandate implemented by Canada's government.

"The convoy has surprised onlookers in the United States and Canada, both because of the explicitly racist and violent perspectives of some of the organizers and because the action seems to violate norms of Canadian 'politeness,'" Dysart writes. "But the convoy represents the extension of a strain of Canadian history that has long masked itself behind 'peacefulness' or 'unity': settler colonialism."

Comment: Freedom as a white-supremacist dogwhistle seems to be catching on. How can anyone take these people seriously?

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Dollars

Ontario government staffer out of a job after $100 donation to Ottawa blockade, crypto wallets seized, bank accounts frozen after GiveSendGo hack

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The director of communications in the Ontario ministry responsible for enforcing the law is out of a job after she was tied to a $100 donation supporting the convoy blockading Ottawa streets.

Marion Isabeau-Ringuette is among several government staffers and associates under scrutiny after their names or identifying information were found in a pair of leaks of some 100,000 donations to American crowdfunding website GiveSendGo.

"For the communications director to be financially supporting an unlawful, illegal occupation is definitely concerning," said NDP MPP Catherine Fife.

Comment: Canada is clearly going for the economic blitzkrieg option against the protesters rather than overt physical confrontation. More from Rebel News:
Canadian authorities have ordered all regulated financial firms to cease facilitating transactions from 34 crypto wallets tied to funding the trucker-led "Freedom Convoy" protests in Ottawa, and elsewhere across the country.

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Coindesk reports that the list of sanctioned crypto wallets includes 29 Bitcoin addresses, one Ethereum address, one Ethereum Classic address, one Litecoin address, one Monero address, and one Cardano address. A copy of the order circulated on Twitter on Wednesday.

Canadian press outlet the Globe and Mail confirmed that police agencies ordered several crypto exchanges and financial institutions to "cease facilitating any transactions," with all of the wallets as part of an investigation "in relation to illegal acts falling under the scope of the emergency measures act."

"Any information about a transaction or proposed transaction in respect of these address(es), is to be disclosed immediately to the commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police," law enforcement wrote in a letter to the financial institutions.

Coindesk reports that the donors sent more than 20 Bitcoin valued at $1.1 million CAD through alternative platforms following GoFundMe's suspension of the crowdfund supporting the protests.

"All crowd funding platforms and the payment service providers they use now must register with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), and must report large and suspicious transactions to FINTRAC," an RCMP spokesperson said. "As the situation is new and quickly evolving, the RCMP is not in position to offer further information on crowdfunding through cryptocurrency at this time."
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More from Rebel News:
Bank accounts are officially being frozen under Justin Trudeau's Emergency Economic Measures Order under the Emergencies Act.

Shaun Zimmer recently travelled from Winnipeg to Ottawa to show his support for the trucker's convoy, and now he no longer has access to his funds.

For whatever reason, the Canadian federal government deemed that he was engaged, either directly or indirectly with the protesters here in Ottawa.


This is the first story we are hearing first-hand about bank accounts being frozen in relation to the truckers' convoy.
Judging from the giggles Freeland is exhibiting at the beginning of the following clip, she's clearly enjoying this authoritarian show of force. Power-mad?


From ZeroHedge:
Citing terrorist financing laws, the government has forced crowdfunding websites and payment providers to register with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), the government's financial intelligence unit.

In a final warning to the assembled protesters, Freeland said those who have their big rigs on Ottawa's streets will see their insurance cancelled and their corporate accounts suspended โ€” a move that could make it difficult for these drivers to ever work again.

"The consequences are real and they will bite," she said.
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Meanwhile mainstream outlet reporters are taking a hacked list of donors the GiveSendGo Freedom Convoy fundraiser and have been harassing people who donated as little as $50.



And probably the most disturbing measure used against the Freedom Convoy:
Oh, and if you're arrested in Canada with your dog they'll consider it 'relinquished' after 8 days.





Attention

Reality honks back

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Like many, I have spent the last couple of weeks a bit entranced by the trucker protests happening in Canada (and now around the world, from Paris to Wellington). I initially tried to document here every twist and turn of the Freedom Convoy drama, but found it nearly impossible. Events continue to unfold very quickly. As I write this, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has just invoked the Emergencies Act (i.e. martial law), allowing him to suspend civil liberties and basically do whatever he wants (more on that later) to crush the protests. So they may soon be quelled. Or perhaps not. No one can yet say precisely how all this may end.

But in any case news and commentary detailing the protests can now be found everywhere, so I'm just going to assume you already have a familiarity with what's happening, as I want to try to distill a few more unique thoughts on why I find these protests so striking.

Specifically, why all this seems like such a perfect reflection of the Reality War.

In that essay, I noted how from the perspective of those with the most wealth and power, as well as the technocratic managers and the intelligentsia (our "priestly class, keepers of the Gnosis [Knowledge]"), digital technology and global networks seem to have created "an unprecedented opportunity for Theory to wrest control from recalcitrant nature, for liquid narrative to triumph over mundanely static reality, and for all the corrupt traditional bonds of the world to be severed, its atoms reconfigured in a more correct and desirable manner."

Handcuffs

Best of the Web: Freedom Convoy organizers arrested

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© 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 โ€” well I think it's inevitable at this point โ€” 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 Mรฉtis 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.



Handcuffs

New Zealand COVID vaccine protesters defy police ultimatum to leave parliament

Anti-vaccine mandate protesters gather to demonstrate in front of the parliament building, in Wellington, New Zealand
© ReutersAnti-vaccine mandate protesters gather to demonstrate in front of the parliament building, in Wellington, New Zealand, February 16, 2022.
An anti-vaccine mandate protest outside New Zealand's parliament swelled in numbers on Wednesday, with hundreds of people ignoring a warning from police that their vehicles would be towed away if they did not leave voluntarily.

Inspired by truckers' demonstrations in Canada, protesters have blocked several roads around Wellington's 'Beehive' parliament for nine days with trucks, vans and motorcycles, and camped out on the lawns in front of the distinctive building.

Comment: Despite all the evidence that social distancing and lockdowns have no impact on the spread of the virus and have done more damage than good, most of the world governments continue to impose very hard authoritarian police state measures.

They are just conditioning masses to accept and comply with everything they say and do, disguised as a public health concern.
Welcome to the new normal fascistic police state.

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Sherlock

City of Hong Kong to Covid-test its entire population of 7.5 million

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Specialists from mainland China will arrive in Hong Kong to aid in the citywide testing of one million residents per day
Hong Kong plans to test its entire population for Covid-19 and is currently in talks with mainland China regarding the details of the operation, which would require assistance from outside the city, Sing Tao Daily, a local media outlet, reported on Wednesday.

The city of roughly 7.5 million people intends to test one million residents a day, the newspaper said, adding that those who refuse to be tested would face a fine of $1,280. The campaign is expected to start in early March. Specialists from mainland China will be sent to the city to assist local medics, the report added.


Comment: Meaning that the wealthy that don't want to participate will just opt for a fine.


Hong Kong officials have not yet issued any official statements on the issue, and they have not commented on the media reports. The news comes as the city struggles to contain a major disease outbreak. New infection numbers in Hong Kong have been hitting records since early February after months without any new cases at all.

Comment: Since it's unlikely that those in the upper echelons truly believe that Covid is a threat, one wonder just exactly what this exercise is really intended to achieve? Could it perhaps be partly related to the Olympics that are still underway in Beijing? Preparation in the event of a real crisis? Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Why You Should Question Media Reports About China 'Causing Covid' And 'Invading Taiwan'




Footprints

Bank run? Canada's top banks mysteriously go offline

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Days after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would invoke emergency orders to crack down on demonstrators by freezing their bank accounts, five major Canadian banks went offline on Wednesday night, as customers reported their funds were unavailable, according to technology website Bleeping Computer.

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), BMO (Bank of Montreal), Scotiabank, TD Bank Canada, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) were all hit with unexplainable outages on Wednesday evening. Users began reporting issues with banks around 1600-1700 ET, Downdector data showed.

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Canadian Twitter users reported they couldn't access their funds at the ATMs. One user took a photo of an error message at one of RBC's ATMs that read, "Tap transactions aren't available for this card."

Comment: Considering how desperate Trudeau (and those who back him) is to clamp down on what is one of the best organized and most thought out demonstrations against Totalitarian Covid mandates to date - it wouldn't surprise us to learn that they were behind this - in an effort to instill the chaos required to bring about their version of "order".


Target

CBC and CTV News journalists target donors to freedom protesters

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© Toronto StarAnnouncement to Givesendgo donors
CBC and CTV News journalists have reportedly been contacting people who donated to the truckers' freedom convoy in an attempt to "understand why they support this."

CTV News reporter Graham Richardson said on Tuesday that he has spent the last two days calling people "who have donated to the trucker convoy," including a former MP, business owners, health care professionals, and a property developer.

He likely has the information because of a cyberattack that was executed on crowdfunding site GiveSendGo, that left the site shut down for a number of days, and made a list of donors publicly available.

Comment: Freeland is responding in the nastiest way possible: Financial blackmail and confiscation.


Ice Cube

Canada threatens to freeze pro-Trump bank accounts

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© Getty Images/Katherine ChengCanadian and pro-Trump flags waved during a rally in Queens Park, Toronto, Canada
Canada's Justice Minister David Lametti has told supporters of Donald Trump who donated to the ongoing Freedom Convoy trucker protests that they "should be worried" about having their bank accounts frozen. Lametti said his government is considering extending emergency powers brought in to break up the demonstrations.

In a CTV interview on Wednesday, Lametti was asked:
"A lot of folks say, 'Look, I just don't like your vaccine mandates and I donated to this, now it's illegal, should I be worried that the bank can freeze my account?' What's your answer to that?"
The justice minister responded:
"Well, I think if you are a member of a pro-Trump movement who's donating hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars to this kind of thing, then you oughta be worried."

Comment: Supporters of Donald Trump - not supporters of Joe Biden - were threatened with confiscation.
The authorities in Canada have told cryptocurrency exchanges to cease transactions with addresses they said were linked to the ongoing 'Freedom Convoy' by the anti-vaccine mandate truckers.

The order from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) began circulating on social media early on Wednesday, with the local media saying that its authenticity has been confirmed. Several major Canadian crypto exchanges also acknowledged receiving the relevant guidance and the list from law enforcement.

A total of 34 electronic wallets have been blacklisted, including 29 Bitcoin addresses, and several addresses in other crypto currencies like Ethereum, Litecoin, and others.

The order reportedly stated that
"any information about a transaction or proposed transaction in respect of these address(es), is to be disclosed immediately to the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police."
The backers of the convoy have already donated 21 BTC worth around $1 million dollars to the cause.

The protestors turned to cryptocurrencies after mainstream crowdfunding platform GoFundMe blocked them earlier in February, and the Canadian government froze $8 million gathered online to continue rallying.
Canadians and those who support the Freedom Convoy, have had a top down, crash course in government suppression and retaliation. Never forget.


House

US housing bubble about to burst, leading economist warns

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Higher interest rates could trigger collapse!

The US real estate market could crash this year, leading economist Desmond Lachman predicted in an interview with Nikkei Asia on Tuesday. Adjusted for inflation, house prices in America are now higher than they were 15 years ago, before the last housing bust, he added.

Lachman, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former deputy director at the International Monetary Fund, explained that last year the US government was buying large quantities of bonds, which created an equity price bubble, and led to "equity valuations at levels only seen once before in the last hundred years."

According to Lachman, the trigger for the real estate market collapse would be a hike in interest rates, which is expected to be introduced by the US Federal Reserve in March in an attempt to curb soaring inflation. He said:
"Those bubbles in the equity and the housing markets, they've been premised on the assumption that interest rates would stay low forever. So, as soon as the Fed starts raising interest rates in an aggressive way, there's the real risk that it bursts the asset price bubbles and that could, then, move us into a recession."