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Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich wins review, granted bail


Rebel News
Mon, 07 Mar 2022 06:40 UTC
Tamara Lich
Tamara Lich, one of the organizers behind the Freedom Convoy, has won an appeal and will now be granted bail.

Initially taken into custody by police in Ottawa on the evening of Feb. 17, Lich has remained behind bars since. At a previous bail hearing on Feb. 22, Lich had her request for bail denied by Justice Julie Bourgeois, a former Liberal Party candidate who Lich accused of holding a political bias in the case.

Late week, Lich was back in front of a judge requesting a bail review, a hearing that was documented by Ottawa-based lawyer David Anber.

Today, a judge reversed the original decision and granted Lich bail.

Comment: Additional reporting from CP24:
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Lich -- described by a lawyer for convoy protesters in February as "the spark that lit this fire" -- was one of the most public faces of the protest that saw crowds move in with big-rigs and other vehicles in late January to protest the federal Liberal government, vaccine mandates and COVID-19 restrictions.

Since her arrest, her supporters have called her a political prisoner during her time in jail, and over the weekend some rallied outside the Ottawa jail where she is being held to demand her release.

That push reached all the way to the United Kingdom Monday, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in London for meetings with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was greeted outside 10 Downing Street by protesters spewing a chorus of expletives, and waving signs demanding that Lich be freed.

Lich was initially denied bail on Feb. 22 after Ontario Court Justice Julie Bourgeois deemed her detention was "necessary for the protection and safety of the public."

In a bail review hearing last week, Lich's lawyer argued that decision may have been tainted by the fact that Bourgeois ran as a federal Liberal candidates in the 2011 election and expressed that her own community had been affected by the protest.

On Monday, Superior Court Justice John M. Johnston found no merit to those arguments, and said the case was not about politics but the rule of law.

But he did find several other errors of law in that decision. He said the previous justice was too subjective when assessing the gravity of the offences, weighing them against the impacts to Ottawa's residents rather than objectively comparing them to other offences in the Criminal Code. He also said that while Bourgeois determined Lich could serve a lengthy prison sentence of up to 10 years, he thought it very unlikely she would serve more than two years if convicted.

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Red Flag

Orwell strikes again: Cardiff Philharmonic removes Tchaikovsky from program over Ukraine


classical-music.com
Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:43 UTC
Tchaikovsky
The Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra has removed Tchaikovsky from its programme of its upcoming concert 'in light of the recent Russian invasion'.

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture was due to be included in the orchestra's upcoming all-Tchaikovsky concert at St David's Hall on 18 March, but it was considered by the orchestra 'to be inappropriate at this time'.

The 1812 Overture was written to commemorate the successful Russian defence against Napoleon's invasion in 1812, featuring cannon fire, chimes and a brass fanfare. The piece was due to be performed alongside another militaristic work by Tchaikovsky: his 1876 Marche slave, written to celebrate Russia's involvement in the Serbian-Ottoman War. The composer's Second Symphony was the final piece in the programme.
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Eye 1

German spy agency may surveil far-right AfD party, court rules


Reuters
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:37 UTC
afd party
A German court on Tuesday ruled the domestic spy agency was justified in placing the Alternative for Germany (AfD) under surveillance on suspicion of being a threat to democracy, rejecting a complaint by the far-right party.

The radical nationalist faction of the AfD, known as the "The Wing", had been formally dissolved but its protagonists continued to exert influence within the party, said the court in the western city of Cologne, where the spy agency is based.

A policy goal of The Wing as well as the AfD youth organisation the Young Alternative was to protect the ethnic integrity of the German people and keep out "foreigners", the court said. This was at odds with Germany's democratic constitution.

The court said it also detected agitation against foreigners within the anti-immigration party.
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Propaganda

Thirteen days of the Cuban missile crisis

Maajid Nawaz
maajidnawaz.substack.com
Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
thirteen days of cuban missile crisis
Why Putin Invaded Ukraine - and what's really going on

1) Truth is the First Casualty of War. And War is Permanent
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Snowflake

German politicians talk of rationing heating gas... all for a 'good cause'

P Gosselin
Wattsupwiththat
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 17:31 UTC
elderly heating
Germany "gets more than half of its natural gas needs from Russia" and "almost half of all German households heat their apartments and houses directly and many more indirectly via district heating." reports German energy site Blackout News here.

But to punish Russian president Vladimir Putin, German leaders are now calling on citizens to endure pain by cutting back on their consumption of natural gas to heat their homes and cook their food. Already there's talk of rationing natural gas over the coming winter, and German politicians are desperate to find a way to explain it. "If you want to harm Putin a little, save energy," said German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens party).

"Of course, 'freeze to hurt Putin' sounds better than 'government rationing gas," writes Blackout News, which expects Russian gas supplies will eventually be halted and rationing inevitable. The construction of liquefied gas terminals in Germany that has been announced will take years to complete.
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Attention

Vogue erases 'Palestine' from supermodel's anti-war post


RT
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:55 UTC
gigi hadid
© Getty Images / Stephane CardinaleGigi Hadid.
Article about Gigi Hadid's anti-war Instagram post omits line about Palestine.

Vogue magazine has edited out a line about Palestine from an article about an Instagram post by supermodel Gigi Hadid, in which she announced support for both the Ukrainian and Palestinian causes.

Supermodel Gigi Hadid, who, along with her sister Bella Hadid, are known for being vocal supporters of Palestine, recently announced on Instagram that she would be donating her earnings from Fashion Month to Ukrainian and Palestinian causes, stating: "I am pledging to donate my earnings from the Fall 2022 shows to aid those suffering from the war in Ukraine, as well as continuing to support those experiencing the same in Palestine."

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Propaganda

Proud Boys leader charged with conspiracy in Capitol riot

Michael Kunzelman, Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo
The Washington Times
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:01 UTC
Henry
© AP Photo/Allison DinnerIn this Sept. 26, 2020, file photo, Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio wears a hat that says The War Boys during a rally in Portland, Ore. The leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group, Tarrio, was arrested Tuesday on a conspiracy charge for his suspected role in a coordinated attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
The leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was arrested Tuesday on a conspiracy charge for his suspected role in a coordinated attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory.

Proud Boys former chairman Henry "Enrique" Tarrio wasn't there when the riot erupted on Jan. 6, 2021. Police had arrested Tarrio in Washington two days before the riot and charged him with vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church during a protest in December 2020. The day before the Capitol was attacked, a judge ordered Tarrio to stay out of Washington. He later served a five-month sentence in that case.

The new riot-related charges are among the most serious filed so far, but they aren't the first of their kind. Eleven members or associates of the anti-government Oath Keepers militia group, including its founder and leader Stewart Rhodes, were charged on Jan. 12 with seditious conspiracy in the Capitol attack.

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Sun

Best of the Web: Austria scraps Covid-19 vaccine mandate, Hong Kong drops mass testing


RTE.ie
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:47 UTC
covid pass austria
A woman shows her Covid vaccine pass in a restaurant in Innsbruck, Austria.
Austria said it is suspending mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations for all adults saying the pandemic no longer poses the same danger, just weeks after the law took effect in an EU first.

The Alpine nation of nine million people was among few countries in the world to make jabs against the coronavirus compulsory for all adults.

The law took effect in February and called for fines up to €3,600 from mid-March for those who do not comply.

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Family

'Sexy Summer Camp' led by witch teaches children to masturbate, promotes sex work

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 21:43 UTC
sexy sex ed summer camp
A virtual summer camp aimed at people of all ages in the rural Appalachia region of the eastern US has been revealed to have taught people, including children, about masturbation, gender diversity, "self-managed abortions," and more over the summer of 2021.

The Sexy Summer Camp, put on by Sexy Sex Ed, was held in July and August of last year on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Comment: Why do these people think that masturbation needs to be taught?

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Bizarro Earth

Video shows IED attack on Belarus foreign ministry in Italy, significant damage reported


TASS
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:00 UTC
Belarus CCTV
© CGTVScreenshot: Belarusian foreign ministry reports blast near country's embassy in Italy As a result of the explosion, the embassy building has suffered significant damage, the staff of the diplomatic mission has not been injured
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry has reported an explosion of an improvised device near the country's embassy in Italy on Wednesday.

"On March 9, 2022, at 04:03-04:05 a.m., some unknown persons wearing masks <...> approached the building of the Belarusian diplomatic service holding unidentified objects in their hands," the press service noted. "After that, they set them on fire and threw to the territory of the embassy."

As a result of the explosion, the embassy building has suffered significant damage, the staff of the diplomatic mission has not been injured.

Comment: Video footage released by CGTN:


Over in Russia, footage has been released of a similar attack on an army recruitment facility in Moscow that also occurred within the last few days:


It remains to be seen just exactly who is behind the attack in Italy, but one would suspect that they have links to the West and its intel agencies:

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