On Friday, hundreds of legal protesters were peacefully arrested, but at times, the police were brutal. Dressed in riot gear and armed with guns, batons and pepper spray, the police were, ironically, also wearing the black bloc face coverings typical of BLM and Antifa.
There are reports, photos, and video showing them breaking a truck window, surrounding a protester who was already on the ground and beating on him, and pepper spraying people who had complied with orders. One group of officers on horseback were caught on video trampling protesters.
On Saturday, there were reports of more tear gas and rubber bullets being fired into crowds of peaceful protesters.
“A bunch of truckers parked on an Ottawa street for a few weeks and the government arrested them and nationalized their bank accounts and moved to take everything from them. What do you think it will take to make them angry at you? And what do you think they’ll do to you, when the time comes?” – Dan Ball
Windmoor, one of the on-the-ground truckers who regularly posted video clips explains why he decided to go home.
Some years ago, I was stuck on a crosstown bus in New York City during rush hour. Traffic was barely moving. The bus was filled with cold, tired people who were deeply irritated with one another, with the world itself. Two men barked at each other about a shove that might or might not have been intentional. A pregnant woman got on, and nobody offered her a seat. Rage was in the air; no mercy would be found here.
But as the bus approached Seventh Avenue, the driver got on the intercom.”Folks,” he said, “I know you have had a rough day and you are frustrated. I can’t do anything about the weather or traffic, but here is what I can do. As each one of you gets off the bus, I will reach out my hand to you. As you walk by, drop your troubles into the palm of my hand, okay? Don’t take your problems home to your families tonight, just leave them with me. My route goes right by the Hudson River, and when I drive by there later, I will open the window and throw your troubles in the water.”
It was as if a spell had lifted. Everyone burst out laughing. Faces gleamed with surprised delight. People who had been pretending for the past hour not to notice each other’s existence were suddenly grinning at each other like, is this guy serious?
Oh, he was serious.
At the next stop, just as promised, the driver reached out his hand, palm up, and waited. One by one, all the exiting commuters placed their hand just above his and mimed the gesture of dropping something into his palm. Some people laughed as they did this, some teared up but everyone did it. The driver repeated the same lovely ritual at the next stop, too. And the next. All the way to the river.
We live in a hard world, my friends. Sometimes it is extra difficult to be a human being. Sometimes you have a bad day. Sometimes you have a bad day that lasts for several years. You struggle and fail. You lose jobs, money, friends, faith, and love. You witness horrible events unfolding in the news, and you become fearful and withdrawn. There are times when everything seems cloaked in darkness. You long for the light but don’t know where to find it.
But what if you are the light? What if you are the very agent of illumination that a dark situation begs for?. That’s what this bus driver taught me, that anyone can be the light, at any moment. This guy wasn’t some big power player. He wasn’t a spiritual leader. He wasn’t some media-savvy influencer. He was a bus driver, one of society’s most invisible workers. But he possessed real power, and he used it beautifully for our benefit.
When life feels especially grim, or when I feel particularly powerless in the face of the world’s troubles, I think of this man and ask myself, What can I do, right now, to be the light? Of course, I can’t personally end all wars, or solve global warming, or transform vexing people into entirely different creatures. I definitely can’t control traffic. But I do have some influence on everyone I brush up against, even if we never speak or learn each other’s name.
No matter who you are, or where you are, or how mundane or tough your situation may seem, I believe you can illuminate your world. In fact, I believe this is the only way the world will ever be illuminated, one bright act of grace at a time, all the way to the river. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
CtH: I saw this text posted on Facebook. Mama Buzz took the photo.
CDC: Instead of highlighting the harmful effects that masks and lockdowns have had on the speech development of young children, the CDC decided to lower standards.
CRIME: On Thursday, 11 men associated with the Brooklyn-based Woo gang were charged with allegedly stealing more than $4 million in COVID-19 relief cash using personal information from 800 people to submit unemployment claims. Then they boasted about it in a rap music video.
KINDNESS: I saw this on FB – “Today at work I helped a little old lady out to her car with her groceries. She was very kind and talkative and I was just listening to her and barely contributing to the conversation because it was busy and I knew I needed to get back inside, but still trying to be attentive and engaged. I thanked her again for shopping with us before I turned to go back inside and she touched my arm and said “may I tell you one more thing before you go” I said “absolutely” she said “I live alone with my little puppy dog and every morning when I wake up she jumps on my tummy and we say our prayers and thank God for all of the blessings that he’ll bring to us for that day. I just wanted to let you know that I’m confident that you’re one of the blessings he sent to me today. Thank you for your kindness” and she turned and got in her car and I walked back inside crying.”
NEW YORK: CLICK https://rumble.com/vv69ey-n.y.-indoor-mask-mandate-lifted-amid-court-battle.html [3:53] to hear OAN report on how NYS has dropped its indoor mask mandate. Lawyers fighting the governor’s fight to continue keeping kids masked in school say mask mandates were never legal, because they did not have the legislature’s approval.
RUSSIA vs. UKRAINE: Pro-Russian groups have taken credit for blowing up a major European pipeline in the eastern part of Ukraine on Friday evening.
On Saturday, President Vladimir Putin plans to watch Russia’s nuclear forces test launch ballistic and cruise missiles.
THE FIVE: [9:07] – Where do they get their idiotic token libtards? ::smh::
Trudeau keeps saying how a single swastika flag seen in Ottawa is justification for him to go full Nazi on the Freedom Convoy. Here’s the true story behind that flag: CLICK https://gettr.com/post/pv8k19fa7b [:35]
Excerpts from Ace of Spades: “The Canadian Charter of Human Rights guarantees the right to protest peacefully– which the truckers have done. … The Ottawa Police Department is reportedly beginning a sweep through downtown Ottawa to remove Freedom Convoy protesters that have occupied the area since late January. … Tow truck drivers had previously refused to tow the big rigs but the Dictator Trudeau threatened them with arrest, loss of license, and loss of their vehicles if they did not follow the Doughy-Faced Dictator’s commands.”
OUTNUMBERED: [8:47] – Fox panel discusses actions taken by PM Justin Trudeau and the Ottawa police against the Canadian trucker convoy.
Adolf Trudeau’s regime is threatening to not only arrest protesters, take their trucks and their drivers’ licenses, but also to confiscate their kids and euthanize their pets. They’re also going after people who donated money to help the protesters by doxxing them and freezing their banking accounts.
When asked if regular citizens who donated to the Freedom Convoy should be worried about having their assets frozen by the government, Canada Justice Minister David Lametti said, “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, they oughta be worried.”
WATTERS WORLD: [7:55] – Ottawa’s Stella Luna Gelato Café owner, Tammy Giuliani, speaks out on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime’ about the harassment and threats she and her business have endured after a $250 donation was made public.
“Thousands of police have surrounded the Ottawa convoy over the course of the past 90 mins. More continue to come in to back up the front line, which has been methodically pushing in, foot by foot. An air of panic on the ground. … It feels like the beginning of the end.” – Nate Hochman
In the video above, the COPS are wearing black coverings on their faces, while the protesters are bare faced. This is the opposite of the BLM and Antifa “protests” that were actual riots.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Union will be suing the federal government over its decision to invoke the Emergencies Act in response to ongoing protests and blockades.
COVID-19: Autopsies of two teenage boys who died shortly after getting Pfizer’s COVID-19 jab indicate heart inflammation was the primary cause of death. Both boys were found dead in their beds, one three days after receiving the second dose and the other four days after the second dose.
In Virginia, Gov. Youngkin signed into law a bill guaranteeing that parents get to decide if they want their children masked at school and guarantees in-person instruction five days a week for Virginia students. Hours later, the intransigent Loudoun County finally backed down and canceled its mandate.
In California, the jackboot Dems who run what is essentially a one-party government are considering a law that would require all workers, public and private, subject themselves to the ‘rona vaxxx and however many boosters the FDA decides Pfizer’s bottom line desires. In addition, the law would require citizens who refuse the vaxxx be confined to their homes at all times, except for emergencies.
In Boston, a judge issued an injunction prohibiting the city from enforcing its vaccine mandate policy for Boston union police and firefighters.
In NYC, the Department of Education (DOE) terminated between 900 and 1,430 teachers who refused to get the vaxxx.
In El Dorado, California, hundreds of high school students at Oak Ridge High School staged a walkout on Tuesday over the school’s mask mandate. That afternoon, the school board decided that, although the mask mandate was still in effect, bare-faced students would no longer be punished … which kinda makes no sense.
On Tuesday, a federal court entered a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Department of Defense and Air Force from enforcing the vaccine mandate against an officer who has religious objections to the vaccine and also from forcing her to retire. Thomas More Society represented the 25-year veteran in her suit against the Air Force which has denied more than 99 percent of all such requests.
FAUXTUS: Showalter notes that, at the time then-Councilman Joe Biden was exacting revenge on a pesky Republican constituent, The Godfather was playing in theaters. “The hugely popular film was known for its frightening mob imagery of a decapitated horse head in a bed. That was a symbol of intimidation and terror for those who don’t play ball.”
HACK & DOX: Brian bragged on Twitter about what he was doing, noting that some of the replies he’d gotten had been “aggressive to put it mildly.” He got so much push back that he deleted his Twitter account! Among the push backs Twitchy recorded were:
“It wasn’t ‘leaked’, it was hacked and you’re doxxing these people….great job.”
“In other words, you’re harassing people and they aren’t taking it very well.”
“So weird that people would be hostile to someone who harasses them for their charitable giving to a peaceful protest.” “I’m guessing Bryan hasn’t called any of the donors to BLM whose funds were used to post bail for a socialist that tried to kill a candidate for mayor in our city.”
“So we have the names of the people who donated to the Trucker’s Convoy, but not the names of Ghislaine Maxwell’s customers?”
KINDNESS: I saw this on Facebook – “I once got punished at school for sharing my lunch with a classmate. When I got home, I decided not to tell my mother. The next morning when I opened the icebox there were 2 brown bags. One had my name on it and the other had my friends’ name on it.
I was overjoyed. My Mom understood why I was so hungry when I came home.
My friends’ mom was sick and I had been feeding her for about 2 weeks. The teacher hadtold me not to share my lunch but I could not eat my lunch when my friend didn’t have any lunch to eat.
She had told me not to share twice. The third time she sent me to the principal’s office. I had to sit there and not go to recess. I guess she called my Mom. My Mom made two lunches everyday until my friend’s Mom got well.”
MARK ELIAS: Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas calls the Dems’ dirty tricks lawyer, Marc Elias, “the Democrats’ Forrest Gump of election controversies” because he has shown up in “the most high profile election cases of the past two decades.” And in many of them, there were allegations of dirty tricks. Click to read about his sketchy ethical history and the increasing likelihood that the piper of justice wants to be paid.
MIDTERMS: Victor Davis Hanson lays out what he thinks Dems will do next. [8:14]
OKLAHOMA: Some states are punishing doctors who help ‘rona patients get hold of ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. Oklahoma’s Attorney General said his “office finds no legal basis for a state medical licensure board to discipline a licensed physician for exercising sound judgment and safely prescribing an FDA-approved drug – like ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine – for the off-label purpose of treating a patient with COVID-19. Healthcare professionals should have every tool available to combat COVID-19.”
RACISM: The Washington Post got caught saying Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is “the Black justice whose rulings often resemble the thinking of White conservatives.” IOW, they think Thomas is an “Uncle Tom.” After they got reamed out for it, they changed it … but the sense of the resulting statement was nonsensical. Clearly, the original intent was to tar Thomas as a GOP Stepin Fetchit.
UKRAINE: With fears brewing over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, FAUXTUS’ State Department advised Americans in Ukraine to take refuge in neighboring Poland whose government has said U.S. citizens may enter from Ukraine without prior approval. The State Department notice said “U.S. citizens must present a valid U.S. passport and proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Travelers are also encouraged to present a negative test result from a PCR or antigen COVID-19 test, which will facilitate entry into Poland.” BUT Poland’s own rules state only that vaccination is required to avoid a potential quarantine upon entry, not that Americans will be turned away if they are unvaccinated. IOW, more lying to scare people into accepting the vaxxx.
Earlier today, three Canadians – two former police officers and one veteran – held a live press conference to address Trudeau’s invoking of the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history. They called on Canadians to join the Freedom Convoy’s movement and condemned the mainstream media for spreading falsehoods about the protesters, making them seem violent and dangerous to the uninformed public. Click to hear the embedded video.
Five of Canada’s twelve provinces have ended their mandates, but Adolf Jr just keeps on being a schmuck. CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=610259653614530 [5:35] to hear Fox & Friends report.
International journalists, authors, politicians, broadcasters and celebrities have savaged Trudeau over his attempt to jackboot protesters into submission. Protesters with American and Canadian flags are even gathered outside the Canadian embassy in New York City.
The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) is launching a legal challenge to the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, saying, “The high threshold for declaring a public order emergency in the Emergencies Act has not been met. … The federal government has invoked the Emergencies Act as a matter of political convenience. This is illegal.”
In Alberta, the court threw out a lawsuit filed by far-left affiliated Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) aimed at keeping masks mandatory in the province’s schools.
Read (or listen to the podcast of) an on-the-ground report about what it’s like at Trucker Central. Excerpts (there’s a lot more at the link!):
“It’s a very Christian movement. There’s a lot of prayer, spontaneous prayers. They say the Lord’s Prayer in French and English every night at 7 p.m. And it is this sort of intentional community that has come together without really being organized in a hierarchical structure.
“It’s all spontaneous, but it’s remarkably clean. They’re cleaning up after themselves. You have truckers out there shoveling the streets to keep the snow off of it. You’ve got designated trash cans all around.
“This is pretty much the polar opposite of what we’re used to seeing from watching left-wing protests the last couple years where people are burning buildings down. These people are actually trying to build something up, which is one of the reasons I think they’re so successful. …
“I was talking to one of the truckers the other day and he was pointing out that to actually get a bunch of 18-wheelers out of these relatively narrow streets by Parliament Hill, they would need heavy-duty military equipment that, first of all, local law enforcement doesn’t have, but also the Canadian military probably doesn’t have. It’s the kind of equipment that the U.S. military has. So they’d have to call in U.S. military to get these guys out. And you can imagine what that would look like as far as a public relations special? …
“One of the reasons that you have seen the cops be really reluctant to enforce a lot of the orders they’re getting about confiscating fuel and not letting fuel through is because they’re quietly on—I don’t want to get the truckers in trouble by saying this, but something that is very clear if you spend time here is they’re quietly on the trucker side because they’re working-class blue-collar guys, too. …
“If you read any of the media coverage, you’d think that this was a hotbed of frothing at the mouth, right-wing extremism with a bunch of violent radicals at the helm, which could not be further from the truth. I think it’s not hyperbolic to just call that lying because it’s just not what’s happening here. …
“It’s all just nonsense and the truckers are actually taking it in stride. I find that I’m more upset about it than they are. The atmosphere here is so positive that they sort of just brush it off. They just smile and sort of take it in stride. I’m in my hotel room reading media coverage and my blood’s boiling and I’m getting really frustrated about it. But the guys out here, one of their great strengths is the positivity and being able to brush off all the threats and the saber rattling and the dishonest coverage.”
There was a moment when Moses had the nerve to ask God what His name is. God was gracious enough to answer, and the name He gave is recorded in the original Hebrew as YHWH.
Over time we’ve arbitrarily added an “a” and an “e” in there to get YaHWeH, presumably because we have a preference for vowels. But scholars and Rabbis have noted that the letters YHWH represent breathing sounds, or aspirated consonants. When pronounced without intervening vowels, it actually sounds like breathing. YH (inhale): WH (exhale).
So a baby’s first cry, his first breath, speaks the name of God. A deep sigh calls His name – or a groan or gasp that is too heavy for mere words. Even an atheist would speak His name unaware that their very breath is giving constant acknowledgment to God. Likewise, a person leaves this earth with their last breath, when God’s name is no longer filing their lungs.
So when I can’t utter anything else, is my cry calling out His name?
Being alive means I speak His name constantly. Is it heard the loudest when I’m the quietest?
In sadness, we breathe heavy sighs. In joy, our lungs feel almost like they will burst. In fear we hold our breath and have to be told to breathe slowly to help us calm down. When we’re about to do something hard, we take a deep breath to find our courage.
When I think about it, breathing is giving Him praise. Even in the hardest moments!
This is so beautiful and fills me with emotion every time I grasp the thought. God chose to give himself a name that we can’t help but speak every moment we’re alive. All of us, always, everywhere. Waking, sleeping, breathing, with the name of God on our lips.
FAUXTUS: Yeah … it’s got NOTHING to do with the miserable midterm polls or the increasingly vociferous protests against mandates. Nothing. At. All. (Stop pulling on that curtain, Toto!)
MANDATES: On Monday, unvaccinated health care workers across the country ran out of time on the federal vaxxx mandate. We know of at least one local nurse who quit her job rather than subject her body to experimental gene therapy.
D.C. is ending its vaxxx mandate for businesses, but keeping it for students.
NYC has fired 1,430 city employees this week for refusing the jab. Thousands more public jobs hang in the balance.
Minneapolis and St. Paul will no longer require proof of vaxxx or negative ‘rona test before entering bars, restaurants, and ticketed events.
San Franciscans voted overwhelmingly (72%) to oust the school board’s president, vice president, and their #1 fangirl over their harsh ‘rona measures and support for stupid things like renaming school buildings.
Amazon has dropped its employee vaxxx mandate, but upped penalties for the un-jabbed, including the removal of sick pay benefits related to COVID sickness.
In Italy, starting on Feb. 22, all public and private employees aged 50 and older will need to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination via the country’s “super green pass” in order to enter their workplace.
SPIKE PROTEINS: If you had COVID-19 or received a COVID-19 injection, you may have dangerous spike proteins circulating in your body, causing damage to cells, tissues and organs. The top 10 spike protein detox essentials include vitamin D, vitamin C, nigella seed, quercetin, zinc, curcumin, milk thistle extract, NAC, ivermectin and magnesium.
D and I have not had the ‘rona or the jabs, but after research, I put us on “Immune Support” by MediCove Health, because it contains the recommended amounts of Quercetin, Vitamin C, Zinc, and Vitamin D3. These substances bolster a healthy immune response to all viruses and should also help clear out those nasty spike proteins. Amazon sells it.
CANADA: “We’re not breaking the law and we’re not moving.” [1:57]
CANCELLATION: Canadian legacy media is doxing people who donated to the Freedom Convoy. WaPo is contacting them for why they would do such a thing. And Twitter is facilitating it all.
Remember when legacy and social media outlets pompously refused to report on the numerous allegations that fell out of Hunter Biden’s computer, because it was “hacked” and “personal”? Big Surprise (not). It turns out they only care about privacy when it protects The Leftist Elite.
CHARIOTS OF FREEDOM: The truckers’ business has saved this guy’s business. [4:26]
CROOKED DEMS: Only two campaigns have ever hired Neustar Information Services, the tech firm Shrillary used to spy on Trump – e.g., hers and Joe Biden’s.
In Hawaii, two Dems have been convicted for having accepted multiple bribes in exchange for using their positions in the state government to benefit a Hawaiian businessperson.
KIMMEL: CLICK https://twitter.com/alexchristy17/status/1493958387473817600 [:16] (or don’t) to hear Jimmy Kimmel call the Durham story a “made up Hillary Clinton spying case” that Fox News is feeding to its viewers with “soft, oatmeal-like brains.“
MIDTERMS: We must ignore everything campaigning Dems say hoping it will get them elected. We must never, ever forget what they have actually done. [9:16] – Thirty House Dems have now announced they’re not running for re-election. IOW, they’re all looking at the “Dems are gonna lose” polls and saying, “Why bother running?” Esp given the golden parachutes they voted to put into their retirement packages. (In what other business do the people earning the money get to decide how much they’ll get without any input from the people paying the bills?!)
PALIN vs. NYT: The jury returned a unanimous verdict in the Time’s favor BUT it stinks of week old fish. Before they finished deliberating, the judge announced that he was going to dismiss Palin’s case regardless of what the jury decided. And the jury now says they were informed of his decision before they voted.
POLLING: Democrats haven’t got any real values apart from a lust for power and money. During campaign seasons, they say whatever their focus groups tell them to say. Once in power, they revert to type … a type which is eloquently displayed here in both word and tone @ https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1493713299308830720 [:33].
We experienced this kind of “keep your nose out” attitude in our local public elementary school, so switched the kids to a wonderful Catholic school where we got used to being part of the team. When our eldest graduated, we sent her to a Catholic middle school where we were again told to butt out. Yeah, no. NOT going to put up with that WHILE PAYING TUITION. At that point, the local public junior/senior high was the better choice for our kids. I’m not sure it still would be, but thankfully, we’re not parenting school-aged kids any more. Even more thankfully, three of our grands are in a wonderful private school while the other five are being home schooled … and number NINE is due very soon!
PROJECT VERITAS: CLICK the link to read about and see the undercover video exposing how Big Pharma buys FDA approval to make money on their products. They want to force annual ‘rona vaxxxes on everyone because “it’ll be recurring fountain of revenue.”
SATANCON: Catholic demonstrators prayed, read from the Bible, and held signs, banners, rosaries, crosses, and images of the Virgin Mary outside the Saguaro Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona over the weekend. Inside, the Satanic Temple held an event called “SatanCon,” which included presentations celebrating abortion and instructing attendees on how to raise Satanic children.
SCIENCE: Not to mention the leeches. We must remember that science is objective while scientists can be threatened or bribed to advance a political agenda.
STEM CELLS: A U.S. patient who received a stem cell transplant for leukemia was also cured of HIV because the donor had natural immunity to the virus. In the two other cases, the virus was cured after the patients received adult stem cells.
TWITTER: Defiant L had 350K followers for his account that featured screen shots of other people’s tweets. Above is one example. Twitter has canceled him.
GRAMMY NOTES: One morning when I was sleeping in, my smoke alarm starting blatting at irregular intervals. It wasn’t on, like it had been triggered. And it wasn’t chirping, like the battery was low. It would beep, then beeeeeeeep, then beepbeepbeep. It kept happening until, finally, I gave up on my sleep in. Then, of course, it stopped! LOL
But as I was walking to the kitchen, I noticed a cold breeze and, turning the corner, saw the front door standing open and our beloved greyhound standing in the middle of the street! I went to the door and did my best squeaky ‘LET’S PLAY’ voice and she promptly came lolloping in to get a treat.
Later, I got on a step stool to take a look at the smoke alarm and was astonished to find it had no battery in it. When my husband came home, I showed him the bare wires and he said, “It kept going off when I took a shower, so I took the battery out.”
