Week of Sept 13, 2024
1. If elected, Trump has promised to sign an executive order barring federal employees from “colluding to limit speech.”
He stated: “We will fire every federal bureaucrat who is engaged in domestic censorship [under the current administration].” In recent years, the federal government has pressured social media companies to block some posts containing material it considered controversial, including about COVID-19 and vaccines. “I will bring back free speech in America because it’s been taken away,” Trump said.
2. In the year 2000, retired engineering professor John Brignell of the University of Southampton started a website called “Number Watch.” This site is devoted to the monitoring of the misleading numbers that rain down on us via the media, politicians, bureaucrats, quasi-scientists generating unnecessary alarm and panic. in 2006, Brignell began compiling “ The Warmlist.” “A complete list of things caused by global warming.” The list, an aggregation of links to mainstream media articles purporting to report on events and phenomena that have been attributed to “global warming” and “climate change” speaks for itself. https://corbettreport.com/list-of-things-caused-by-climate-change
3. Jim Breuer stated: “Before Trump was President, not many people questioned Hollywood or the news. You trusted everything they said. Everyone trusted all pharmacies, all doctors, everything…All of it is now flopping. Not just in America, across the whole world. No one’s taking it seriously anymore. They’re losing…I have lots of hope. And I truly believe incredible things are on the way.”
4. Jordan Peterson blasted Bonnie Henry, one of Canada’s most authoritative provincial health officers, calling her “power mad” and “detestable” for keeping jab mandates for healthcare workers in place for so long. “Bonnie Henry is arguably the most detestable progressive political figure in all of Canada,” Peterson wrote September 5 on X. “A true authoritarian in sheep’s clothing. She is literally everything wrong with the delusional utopian powermad left. No conservative or true liberal would tolerate her policies.” This in response to David Schreck, who wrote a post in support of Henry claiming “She saved thousands of lives guiding us through the pandemic.”
5. In response to five more complaints to the College of Psychologists of Ontario Peterson stated: The “language police types” typically have two motivations: to appear “as though they are good and that they care, without any cost to themselves” and “to control absolutely everything everyone else says all the time.”
6. The Democracy Fund won an appeal for a man who received a criminal record in connection to the protests that shut down the Ambassador Bridge in February 2022. Theodorus DeBoer, pleaded guilty to one count of mischief in relation to obstructing traffic leading up to the bridge back in November 2023. As part of a plea deal TDF lawyers negotiated, the prosecution agreed to drop the more serious charge of disobeying a court order. The trial judge, however, took the unusual step of rejecting the recommendation of the lawyers and imposed a sentence, which involved probation and a criminal record. TDF lawyer Alan Honner argued the appeal, and the Appellate Court agreed with Honner’s submission that the trial judge erred and the criminal record was vacated. TDF represented over a dozen protestors criminally charged in connection to the protests. With this successful appeal, not a single TDF client ended up with a criminal record.
https://www.thedemocracyfund.ca/tdf_wins_appeal_criminal_record_windsor_protest
7. A judge in Australia has ruled that two of three arrests of freedom advocate Monica Smit were unlawful.
8. In a significant turn of events, major media outlets have begun to correct their previous reporting on the so-called “Disinformation Dozen,” a group of 12 individuals accused by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) of being responsible for the majority of anti-vaccine content on social media platforms. This development marks a crucial step towards rectifying the record and vindicating free speech advocates in the realm of medical choices and informed consent. They may indicate a growing awareness among media outlets of their potential culpability and liability in wrongfully attacking the civil liberties of US citizens. The timing of these corrections coincides with positive momentum in the Biden v. Missouri case, which has recently seen a significant development: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the “Disinformation Dozen” members, has been found to have legal standing in the case.
9. Ford Motor Company took steps last week to distance itself from the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” movement that has swept the corporate world in recent years. In an Aug. 28 memo to employees, Ford CEO Jim Farley said he is “mindful that our employees and customers hold a wide range of beliefs,” and that the company is taking “a fresh look” at its DEI program. Ford’s reversal on DEI follows that of other major corporations, including Tractor Supply, John Deere, Harley-Davidson, Polaris, Indian Motorcycle, Lowe’s, and most recently Molson Coors, which have reportedly revised their DEI policies, either due to public pressure or legal challenges. In addition, 25 companies have been formally notified by shareholders since 2021 that their DEI programs constitute illegal discrimination under federal and state civil rights laws, as well as a breach of fiduciary duty to investors.
10. A new paper in JAMA reveals a significant decline in trust in physicians and hospitals, dropping from 71.5% in April 2020, to 40.1% in January 2024. Lower trust levels were strongly associated with reduced likelihood of receiving Covid-19 vaccinations and boosters. The top 4 themes why patients have lost trust: 1. Financial Motives Over Patient Care; 2. Poor Quality of Care and Negligence; 3. Influence of External Entities and Agendas; 4. Discrimination and Bias.
https://www.thegoldreport.com/news/trust-in-doctors-and-hospitals-plummets
11. A new whistleblower video shows Pfizer’s principal scientist Kanwal Gill admitting that the company skipped 10 years of safety testing, had significant knowledge of mRNA vaccine side effects, but released the COVID-19 jab anyway due to political pressure. She also mentions that they have attempted to bring mRNA technology to market for 50 years, but due to side effects, they were never able to do so.
12. RJK Jr declared – “The most profitable asset in America today is a sick child. We’re going to end the chronic disease epidemic. We’re going to start on day one. We’re going to declare a public health emergency.”