>DOUGH
>Why Do People Love QAnon? | The Problem With Jon Stewart
make lemonade bro, it's time to shred
https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1245139169934016517
While many of us are working from home, there are others who aren’t able to do that - like the truck drivers who are working day and night to make sure our shelves are stocked. So when you can, please #ThankATrucker for everything they’re doing and help them however you can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberley_Motley
Kimberley Chongyon Motley is an African Korean American international human rights and civil rights attorney from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
https://twitter.com/IrwinCotler/status/1486701606167003139
https://twitter.com/theJagmeetSingh/status/1486747893096755210
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as #WeRemember the genocide of six million Jewish ppl who died in this terrible tragedy
We must confront Anti-Semitism and hate, wherever it is found
And, we must ensure that the world never again knows the horrors of the Holocaust
with a gentle nudge you can shake the world
>DC Comics turned Superman into a bisexual who fights climate deniers
>Trucker Convoy to Shut Down Ottawa in Protest of Vaccine Mandates
Anyone have a good livestream of CB radio that's actually live?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYbRp41vwnk
On lâche pas la gang, ça va bien aller.
Kingston convoy to Ottawa is on the move.
"Have they underestimated the fringe or what?"
"Nobody likes Trudeau."
excellent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Smith_(business_executive)
Smith is on the international business council of the World Economic Forum and the international advisory boards of the British American Business Council and the Atlantic Council. A director of Pfizer, Inc.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Smith_(business_executive)
https://web.archive.org/web/20170929044311/https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=2533991&privcapId=515275
In February 2020, Steve Hasker succeeded Smith as President and CEO of Thomson Reuters. Involved with initiatives such as the international business council of the World Economic Forum, he is also on the board of Pfizer.
Mr. James C. Smith, also known as Jim, has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Thomson Corporation (Now Thomson Reuters Corporation) since January 2012. Mr. Smith served as chief operating officer of Thomson Corporation from September 28, 2011 to December 2011 and previously since January 1, 2007. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Professional Division of Thomson Corporation form April 2008 to September 2009 and served as its President of Professional division. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Professional Division at Thomson Reuters UK Limited. He served as Executive Vice President of Thomson Corporation. Mr. Smith served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Learning’s Academic and Reference/International Group of Thomson Corporation since April 2005. Following the sale of the Newspaper Group in 2000, he joined the Thomson Corporate Office and served as an Executive Vice President of Human Resources and Administration of Thomson Corporation since December 2001. He served as an Executive Vice President of Development and Corporate Affairs of Thomson Corporation since January 2002. He was responsible for Human Resources, Succession Planning, Training and Development, Organizational Development and various administrative activities for Thomson Corporation. He oversaw the Thomson's professional business information segments, including North American legal, tax and accounting, international legal and regulatory, healthcare and scientific. Mr. Smith joined Thomson Newspaper Group in 1987. He has worked for Thomson Corporation for 15 years, primarily in Newspaper Group that sold and held a number of operating positions. He began his career as a Journalist and held several Editorial and General Management positions prior to joining Thomson. He led a number of professional publishing businesses serving the legal, regulatory and academic markets. He has been a Non-Independent Director at Thomson Corporation since January 2012. He has been an Independent Director at Pfizer Inc. since June 26, 2014. Mr. Smith is a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum and the Board of Directors of the Brazil-U.S. Business Council. He also serves on the board of the World Economic Forum’s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative He serves on the International Advisory Boards of British American Business and the Atlantic Council. Mr. Smith holds a BA from Marshall University.
A Grosse Pointe Park telecommunications CEO killed in a plane crash was secretly financing an international drug ring and building a remote-controlled submarine to haul cocaine around the world, according to unsealed federal court records.
Federal prosecutors revealed the secret life of Marty Tibbitts, CEO of Harper Woods-based Clementine Live Answering Service, on Thursday while filing criminal charges against an accused drug dealer arrested in North Carolina.
https://www.justice.gov/
>Canadians Look good in Fringe
best thing to come out of Portland
>https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/leader-international-cocaine-trafficking-organization-indicted
LEADER OF INTERNATIONAL COCAINE TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATION INDICTED
As alleged in the indictment, Didani and other unindicted co-conspirators planned and financed the distribution of cocaine from several locations including the Eastern District of Michigan. According to the Indictment, in two transactions that occurred in June 2016 and December 2017, Didani received at least $550,000 from other co-conspirators for the purpose of purchasing bulk cocaine. Allegedly, Didani and other co-conspirators used several means of transportation, including private aircraft and commercial containerships, for purposes of obtaining and distributing the cocaine throughout Europe.
According to a criminal complaint that was unsealed on April 1, 2021, following Didani’s arrest on March 31, 2021 in Charlotte North Carolina, it is alleged that Didani was the leader of an international drug trafficking organization with ties to the United States, Mexico, South America, and Europe. The complaint also alleges that in 2017, a co-conspirator in Didani’s organization was overseeing the design of an underwater drone that would be utilized to transport large quantities of cocaine to Europe. The drone, which was going to be equipped with an underwater modem and GPS antenna, would transport the cocaine while attached to the bottom of a commercial containership. The drone would then be remotely released from the containership off the shore of Europe. The drone and cocaine would then be picked up by a fishing boat controlled by Didani’s organization.
The criminal complaint further alleges that Didani arranged the distribution of several shipments of cocaine from South America to Europe, where the cocaine was seized by law enforcement. In 2019 and 2020, Law enforcement seized over 3400 kilograms of cocaine from Didani’s organization. The seized cocaine has a street value of over $100,000,000.00.
>The drone, which was going to be equipped with an underwater modem and GPS antenna, would transport the cocaine while attached to the bottom of a commercial containership. The drone would then be remotely released from the containership off the shore of Europe. The drone and cocaine would then be picked up by a fishing boat controlled by Didani’s organization.
source of truck pic?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/freedom-convoy-truckers-1.6329870
Freedom Convoy needs to lose extreme rhetoric, says association head as truckers reach Toronto
As a convoy of truckers, dubbing itself the Freedom Convoy, opposed to a federal vaccine mandate made its way through the Toronto area en route to Parliament Hill on Thursday, the president of one trucking organization said the convoy's original message has been hijacked by far-right or extreme rhetoric.
"We're seeing signs calling our government communists and Nazis and comparing [the mandate] to the Holocaust. And if you're comparing this to the Holocaust, you need to educate yourself," Mike Millian, president of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada told CBC Radio's Metro Morning.
What began as a group of truckers against the cross-border trucking vaccine mandate has amassed the support of groups broadly opposed to public health measures in general, with some even calling for a Canadian version of the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.
In Vaughan, Ont., truckers were met by crowds of supporters, some with no connection to the trucking industry, but who came out to voice their opposition to pandemic public health measures.
But while many in the crowd held signs against the mandate, some appeared to be more on the fringe, holding signs like: "Join or Die" and "Liberty or Death." One supporter was seen draped in the flag of the far-right group the Proud Boys.
>Freedom Convoy needs to lose extreme rhetoric, says association head as truckers reach Toronto
Last Saturday, the U.S. barred unvaccinated Canadian drivers from entering the country, mirroring Canada's border restrictions for American truckers.
On Tuesday, Ottawa doubled down on its mandate, saying truckers and the wider industry have had months to prepare for the new rule. Travellers have been subject to such a rule since the fall.
Millian said his organization is against vaccine mandates for truckers on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border, but not for the reasons many in the convoy might be.
"Truck drivers are isolated in their jobs, haven't been associated to spread, and we can't afford to damage our supply chain any more than it is," he said. "But this convoy seems to have morphed into a kind of protest against all vaccine and COVID-related shutdowns."
He said he believes there are many in the convoy just trying to exercise their right to peaceful protest, but added that unless the messaging around it changes, it's unlikely to win the support of the broader public.
"Can you imagine when they start renaming schools to truckers' handles?"
Other truckers push back
Other truckers, like Andrew Marr, in London, Ont., are less sympathetic. Marr says he's had three COVID-19 jabs and sees the mandate as "fair."
"[Truckers have] known for almost two years that we were going to have to go through this sometime or another," he said.
Marr said he considers the battle against COVID-19 to be a collective effort.
"If drivers have that much pride and want to sit home, then so be it.… We'll get the job done. If we have to hire more drivers, fine," he said.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance and the American Trucking Associations have said up to 26,000 of the 160,000 drivers who make regular trips across the border are likely to be affected by the mandate — roughly 16 per cent.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance has said it strongly disapproves of the demonstration.