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No evidence that Ottawa truck protests met requirements for invocation of Canada's Emergencies Act

David Schneiderman
The Globe and Mail
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:14 UTC
canada truck flag protest
© Dave Chan/AFP/Getty Images
I was present during the negotiations around the federal Emergencies Act in 1987. As one of two full-time lawyers at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association at the time, I witnessed firsthand how Alan Borovoy, the CCLA's then-general counsel, managed to shape the contours of this scheme. And I saw how the end product was a carefully calibrated piece of legislation with checks at every turn.

It's why I believe the Emergencies Act was not a legally suitable instrument for removing unwelcome occupiers on Ottawa's streets.

The objective of Brian Mulroney's government in 1987 was to bring Quebec back into Canada's constitutional fold by drawing sharp contrasts with that of his predecessor as prime minister, Pierre Trudeau. There would be two limbs to this strategy: first, having first ministers agree to a new constitutional settlement, represented by the Meech Lake Accord - a colossal failure, it turns out. The second prong was the repeal of the discredited War Measures Act and replacing it with an instrument better tuned to addressing emergencies such as the October Crisis of 1970. This turns out to have been the less troublesome prong.

Comment: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Canadian PM Flees Freedom Convoy as Washington Seeks War in Europe



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Wolf

Mole leaking secret gov't regulation plans to former Deputy PM turned Facebook President Sir Nick Clegg

Glen Owen
Daily Mail
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 22:40 UTC
Nick Clegg
Nick Clegg is at the centre of a Whitehall leak inquiry after Ministers raised concerns he was receiving secret information about Government plans to regulate Facebook
Nick Clegg is at the centre of a Whitehall leak inquiry after Ministers raised concerns he was receiving secret information about Government plans to regulate Facebook.

The former Deputy Prime Minister has just been promoted to president of global affairs at the £400 billion tech giant, where he will lobby against tough new regulations that could affect its business.

But Whitehall officials fear he is being fed sensitive details about what is being planned, and have launched a major hunt to track down the suspected mole.
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Pirates

Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians - curiously absent from the list is the West

David Pegg, Kalyeena Makortoff, Martin Chulov, Paul Lewis and Luke Harding
The Guardian
Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:53 UTC
switzerland flag
© Doug Chayka
  • Massive leak reveals secret owners of £80bn held in Swiss bank
  • Whistleblower leaked bank's data to expose 'immoral' secrecy laws
  • Clients included human trafficker and billionaire who ordered girlfriend's murder
  • Vatican-owned account used to spend €350m in allegedly fraudulent investment
  • Scandal-hit Credit Suisse rejects allegations it may be 'rogue bank'
A massive leak from one of the world's biggest private banks, Credit Suisse, has exposed the hidden wealth of clients involved in torture, drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption and other serious crimes.

Details of accounts linked to 30,000 Credit Suisse clients all over the world are contained in the leak, which unmasks the beneficiaries of more than 100bn Swiss francs (£80bn)* held in one of Switzerland's best-known financial institutions.

The leak points to widespread failures of due diligence by Credit Suisse, despite repeated pledges over decades to weed out dubious clients and illicit funds. The Guardian is part of a consortium of media outlets given exclusive access to the data.


Comment: The current financial system depends on dubious clients, illicit funds, and dodgy dealing. So much so that, over in the UK, home to the City of London, one of the world's supposed financial powerhouses, it's anti-fraud minister was actually pressured to quit, highlighting just how critical criminality is to its functioning.


Comment: What's most glaring about these leaks is the timing, and how establishment figures in the West are almost completely absent: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Confessions of an Economic Hitman: Interview with John Perkins

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Bizarro Earth

'Joe Biden' wins WWIII

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
Biden
© Florida PoliticsUS President Joe Biden
Woo-wee, that was a close call, huh? But remind me: what was the war supposedly about? Protecting Ukraine's hallowed border? Bwahahahaha...! Borders? We don't care about no steenkin' borders (especially our own border). Upholding the sacred honor of NATO? Really? Who exactly would be punished if the US tries to shut down the Nord Stream-2 pipeline that will send much-needed Russian natgas to gasless Germany? (Did you guess our NATO ally, Germany?) Would Germany suddenly discover that the pipeline is none of America's business? I think so.

Anyway, what's the beef in Ukraine? Its easternmost Donbas region has rebelled against administration by Kiev. At America's direction, Kiev harasses the majority ethnic Russian population there with US-made weaponry. Yet Ukraine's president Zelensky claims he doesn't want to antagonize Russia, and certainly wants his much-stomped-upon country — the doormat of Europe — to not get stomped-on all over again in any hypothetical war. Ukraine is already an economic basket-case, supported only by CIA-sponsored grifting operations.

Enter Monsieur Macron of France. After two years of antagonizing his countrymen with lockdowns and put-downs, he needs a boost for the national election forthcoming in April. So, he has heroically sued Mr. Putin of Russia for a Ukraine "ceasefire." Note: the Russians haven't fired. Anyway, that opened the way for a proposed "summit" meeting between "Joe Biden" and Mr. Putin — when the Russians feel like it. They're playing it a little coy for the moment, letting the West twist slowly, slowly in the wind. If a summit does happen, what will the two summiteers talk about? Mr. Putin will reiterate that the US and NATO made a solemn promise (in writing) to not expand NATO along Russia's borderland in 1990 when the Soviet Union fell apart, and y'all reneged on that... and now it stops with Ukraine... really... got it?
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Footprints

Has Putin invaded Ukraine? The White House isn't sure

Nick Allen
The Telegraph
Tue, 22 Feb 2022 07:30 UTC
Russian flags
© AnadoluPeople in Donetsk celebrate Putin's decision to send troops into the region.
US military leaders warn of potential Russian 'shock and awe' to follow...

As Vladimir Putin delivered his belligerent, fact-bending lesson on Ukrainian history, Joe Biden was huddled with his defence secretary, secretary of state, and top general.

Shortly afterwards, White House officials struggled to say whether Mr Biden believed Russia sending "peacekeeping" forces into the separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk constituted an "invasion". A senior Biden administration official said:
"Russian troops moving in would not itself be a new step. Russia has had forces in [that] region for the past eight years. They're apparently now making a decision to do this in a more overt and open way."
The immediate US response was for Mr Biden to sign an executive order banning investment and trade by Americans to or from the rebel Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic. But officials emphasised those sanctions were distinct from the "devastating" ones Mr Biden has said are "ready to go" in the event of a Russian invasion.

Comment: There we have it...all the remaining wisdom in the world.

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Attention

When boring people turn dangerous: Canada's insane power grab

Matt Taibbi
taibbi.substack.com
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
Freeland
© unknownCanadian Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland
The Canadian government's decision to freeze bank accounts in the trucker protests is a mad leap toward bureaucratic dystopia.

On Christmas Eve, 2018, New York Times writer Andrew Ross Sorkin published, "How Banks Unwittingly Finance Mass Shootings." Chronicling the credit card history of the man who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida Sorkin noted Omar Mateen had not merely spent $26,532 on weapons and ammo in the eight months before the 2016 attack, but had wondered if his doing so had raised red flags:
Two days before Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 more at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, he went on Google and typed "Credit card unusual spending..." His web browsing history chronicled his anxiety: "Credit card reports all three bureaus," "FBI," and "Why banks stop your purchases."

He needn't have worried. None of the banks, credit-card network operators or payment processors alerted law enforcement officials about the purchases he thought were so suspicious.
Sorkin's piece ended up being an argument in favor of credit-card companies, payment processors, banks, and others working together to bring about a Minority Report-style panacea in which society's dangerous folk could be cyber-identified and stopped before they commit horrific acts.
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NPC

Why is the left silent on Trudeau's crackdown?

Heydon Prowse
Spiked
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
Pres of Canada
© UnknownCanadian PM Justin Trudeau
Last month I gave a speech at the 'Kill the Bill' rally in Westminster, with a bunch of fellow lefties who were rightly angry at Priti Patel's proposed Policing Bill, which would have essentially outlawed protests. Jeremy Corbyn was there (obviously), as were other well-known names from the left, many of whom I am friendly with and respect a lot. There was much impassioned rhetoric about the worrying resurgence of authoritarianism around the world.

Yet all of those speakers I demonstrated with in London have remained eerily silent on Justin Trudeau's crackdown on the Canadian truckers' protests (with the exception of Extinction Rebellion) as has practically every major civil-rights organisation on the planet for that matter, from the ACLU in the US to Liberty in the UK.
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Russian Flag

Russia can withstand Western sanctions after years of preparation: Chinese analysts


Global Times
Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:16 UTC
Kremlin
© XinhuaSnow-covered Kremlin and Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, Russia
Russia has strong capacity and resilience to withstand US and EU sanctions, as its economy - which has been buffering the impact of sanctions for years - is not outward-looking, and it has been diversifying its energy exports from Europe, a process that won't encounter difficulties amid global energy shortages, Chinese analysts said on Tuesday, as tensions are running high between Russia and Ukraine and the West.

But they also suggested that Russia needs to prepare for being cut off from SWIFT, which has been described as a "nuclear option" in sanctions packages that could deprive it of 40 percent of its revenue from energy exports and have long-term repercussions on its economy, even though the likelihood of such a move is extremely slim.

After Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed two decrees recognizing "the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR)" and "the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)" as independent and sovereign states, the US and Europe announced immediate sanctions against Russia.
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Dominoes

Victory for protestors in New Zealand as Jacinda Ardern announces plans to end restrictions and vaccine mandates

Will Jones
Daily Sceptic
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 19:53 UTC
new zealand protest
New Zealand will lift COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions after the Omicron peak has passed, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said, as protesters occupying the parliament grounds again clashed with police. Reuters has the story.
Inspired by truckers' demonstrations in Canada, thousands of protesters have blocked streets near the parliament in the capital Wellington for two weeks with trucks, cars and motorcycles, piling pressure on the Government to scrap vaccine mandates.

Ardern refused to set a hard date, but said there would be a narrowing of vaccine requirements after Omicron reaches a peak, which is expected in mid to late March.

"We all want to go back to the way life was. And we will, I suspect sooner than you think," Ardern said at a weekly news conference.

"But when that happens, it will be because easing restrictions won't compromise the lives of thousands of people - not because you demanded it," she said, addressing protestors.
Leaders can, to save face, claim that it's not because of the protests, but the truth is the protests have reminded governments that they cannot expect to ride roughshod over people's liberties and bodily autonomy and face no backlash or disruption. Now let's see if the protestors can keep the pressure on and bring the end-date forward and ensure the lifting is comprehensive.
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Light Sabers

The Fall of Canada, the Danger in the US

Naomi Wolf
Substack
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 18:53 UTC
Trudeau
© Blair Gable/REUTERSCanada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during the questioning period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill.
The world has watched, in pain, as images of police violence from Ottawa, and of a bid for Canadian tyranny (that I would ever write those words!) are flashed around the world.

As usual, I hate to be Cassandra; but the chessboard ahead is all too clear. On Feb 12, 2022, I warned, during an appearance on Steve Bannon's WarRoom, that we all must all now brace for a period during which the powers that now clearly seek to enslave our planet, and subdue our human species, will be broadcasting scenes of civil society mayhem, and of shocking violence against protesters.

I also predicted that there would be food shortages and other economic harms that would be blamed on the protesting truckers, and I warned too that people should print out their bank and any liquid asset records, as there would be cyberattacks on financial institutions and the freezing of accounts. All of that, of course, took place in the week that followed.

I recently received a kind note on social media thanking me for my bulletins about the near future as it helped people, the writer explained, to stave off shock and disorientation. I have often spoken about how tyrants rely on just these effects of shock and disorientation to "tenderize" a targeted population, so I will keep alerting you all to the near future, as unpleasant as that task can be.

So in this essay I wish to explain, especially to Canadians, what martial law really is, and how very dangerous it is, since many leaders there, especially Parliamentarians, appear to be in the treacherous "hangover" state of thinking that they still inhabit the old world that died when Justin Trudeau declared emergency law. I also wish to warn what happens historically at this moment in the decline of a formerly democratic nation, and what the murder of Canadian democracy — at least for now — means to the rest of the world.
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