https://twitter.com/CTVNews/status/1491256808169639937

Israel hits Syrian targets after anti-aircraft missile fire

Genie Energy

The Israeli military said it attacked targets in Syria shortly after an anti-aircraft missile was fired from the Arab country into northern Israel early Wednesday.

The Syrian rocket exploded in the air and was not intercepted by Israeli air defenses, but it activated warning sirens in northern Israel. There were no reports of injuries or damage.

In a statement, the Israeli army said it struck Syrian facilities used in targeting Israeli aircraft, including a radar and anti-aircraft batteries.

Syrian official news agency SANA reported that Israel fired surface-to-surface missiles in the vicinity of the capital city Damascus and some of them were brought down by air defenses. There was no immediate word on casualties.

Israel has made hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria over the past decade of the civil war in the Arab country, but its government rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.

Israel has acknowledged, however, that it is targeting bases of Iran-allied militias, such as Hezbollah, which is fighting on the side of Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces in the country's civil strife.

>>15582740

https://syria.liveuamap.com/

>>15582731

https://twitter.com/NaheedD/status/1491044572331339787

Who else thinks the "freedom" protests in Ottawa were never really just about vaccine mandates?

https://pressprogress.ca/meet-the-extremists-and-social-media-influencers-at-the-centre-of-the-far-right-siege-of-ottawa/

Meet the Extremists and Social Media Influencers at the Centre of the Far-Right Siege of Ottawa

Who is really behind the far-right occupation of Canada’s national capital?

Ottawa is under siege, but who is really behind the occupation?

The siege began as a so-called “Freedom Convoy” of truckers disgruntled about public health rules for those crossing the US-Canada border.

Or so Canadians were told.

The fact remains 90% of Canadian truckers are vaccinated and the rules being protested only impact a small minority of truckers that do regular cross-border routes. Canada’s trucking industry had been vocal in disavowing the convoy well before they arrived in Ottawa as their extremism became clear.

While some, like Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre, have sought to downplay extremist elements within the protests as just a few bad apples, many of the group’s organizers and participants are drawn from the same old cast of characters.

In many cases, participants are the same people who’ve opposed public health measures throughout the pandemic and, more recently, stalked Justin Trudeau at campaign stops and protested at hospitals during last year’s federal election.

Here’s a run-down of the extremists and social media influencers helping to amplify their messages who have been spotted in Ottawa:

>>15582791

>Meet the Extremists

https://www.ottawapolice.ca/Modules/News/index.aspx?newsId=46eea503-f886-4e7a-9188-edbecabca0a6

The Ottawa Police Service is seeking the public’s help in identifying two individuals as persons of interest in the investigation of an arson.

The incident occurred in the early morning hours of February 6, 2022, at a building in the 200 block of Lisgar Street. It’s believed that one or more persons entered the building and started a fire using undisclosed materials. The fire caused minor damage but thankfully no injuries occurred.

>>15582791

>pressprogress.ca

PressProgress was founded in 2013 by the Broadbent Institute, an independent progressive organization dedicated to policy research, leadership training and promoting social democratic values.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadbent_Institute

Broadbent Institute is a Canadian progressive and social democratic think tank founded by Ed Broadbent.

John Edward "Ed" Broadbent PC CC (born March 21, 1936) is a Canadian social-democratic politician, political scientist, and chair of the Broadbent Institute, a policy thinktank. He was leader of the New Democratic Party from 1975 to 1989. In the 2004 federal election, he returned to Parliament for an additional term as the Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre.

https://givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022

Raised : USD $7,076,589

>>15582818

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadbent_Institute

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-jagmeet-singh-green-party-abortion-social-media-1.5309861

Singh brushes off Green complaint about abortion-related social media posts

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is brushing aside demands from the Greens that his party apologize for social-media posts that Green candidates hold anti-abortion positions.

On Monday, a report from PressProgress — a project of the Broadbent Institute, which is named for former NDP leader Ed Broadbent — raised questions about whether Green candidates, if elected, would quash any effort to reopen the abortion debate.

In a statement Friday morning, the Greens said the party filed a complaint with the Broadbent Institute and demanded an apology from the New Democrats after that party's candidates circulated the report on social media.

During a campaign stop in a Saskatoon riding the NDP want to hold on election day, Singh dismissed the demand, saying there are Green candidates that don't have a clear position on a woman's right to access abortion services.

Green Leader Elizabeth May has said she couldn't force Green MPs to vote a particular way on legislation or bills — comments Singh pointed to, adding for emphasis that May "went on to say, 'Frankly, I think that's a good thing.' Those were her words. She can't Photoshop those words. Those are real words that she said," Singh said.

"I know the Green party likes to Photoshop things, but they can't change what they said and the reality is, the fact is, there are candidates running for the Greens that do not have a clear position on a woman's right to choose," he said. (The two digs about editing photos are references to an image of May at a market the Greens modified to make it look as though she was holding a party-branded reusable cup when she was actually holding a compostable single-use cup.)

"With New Democrats, there is no question. All New Democrats firmly believe in the right to choose and if anyone did not, they would not be a New Democrat anymore," Singh said.

The New Democrats have sought to raise questions about abortion access as a wedge issue between themselves and the Greens. May has become publicly frustrated with Singh, saying on Wednesday she was losing patience with his attacks.

The NDP's focus on the Greens started just before the official launch of the campaign in September, when May told the CBC she would not whip votes or try to prevent anyone in her caucus from putting forward legislation on abortion, despite personally believing women should have access to safe and legal abortions.

The party later clarified that all candidates running under the Green banner are required to support abortion rights.

PressProgress's report on Monday said that more than half the 35 Green candidates who responded to its questionnaire believed Green MPs should have free votes on abortion issues and decide on their personal beliefs.

In a statement, the Green party said it filed a complaint with a self-regulatory news media body, although PressProgress is not a member of the National NewsMedia Council.

The party also said it has asked PressProgress to issue a correction — although the party didn't specify what in the article was incorrect other than claiming the article referred to candidates as "anti-choice" — and the NDP to issue an apology.

"This is a malicious attack that demonstrates a complete lack of journalistic integrity," Green spokesman John Chenery said in the statement.

"It is disappointing to see PressProgress acting not as a legitimate journalism outlet, but as the propaganda wing of a political party. That NDP candidates would spread these lies is disillusioning."

Singh quickly shrugged off the issue when asked about it Friday, even though it riled the partisan supporters around him, one of whom heckled a journalist by saying, "Greens are mean." After the event, party staffers noted that Liberal Melanie Joly also tweeted about the PressProgress report, but the Greens are only going after New Democrats.

The issue was one of several that Singh tackled during a stop in Saskatchewan, the historical home of the NDP.

Pitching his pharmacare program — a cornerstone of the party's campaign platform — Singh said Canadians would have access to the system by 2020 if the New Democrats are elected to govern on Oct. 21.

Singh is scheduled to make a similar pitch to supporters when he visits Thunder Bay, Ont., on Friday evening.

The NDP are looking to recapture the riding the party lost in 2015 to Liberal Patty Hajdu, the federal labour minister.

>>15582860

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/elizabeth-may-fighting-a-war-on-many-fronts/

On Friday morning, before the Saturna Island debate, the Green Party announced it had filed an official complaint with Canada’s National News Media Council and the Broadbent Institute over “intentionally misleading reporting” from PressProgress, which it described “as a project of the Broadbent Institute with close ties to the NDP.” The outlet “sent an intentionally misleading questionnaire to 200 Green Party candidates,” the complaint said. “Only 35 candidates responded, but PressProgress claimed that was enough to present their unscientific survey results as fact.” As a gambit, it’s risky, destined to expand readership of a story most people would never see. Still, May says, not correcting the record has consequences. She’s seeing the aftermath when door-knocking. “People worry about our stance on abortion.”

The Greens asked PressProgress and the NDP to issue a correction and an apology. Based on their responses Friday, Maxime Bernier will be leading a Climate Strike first. “We stand by our reporting and the facts we present in our story, as does the Broadbent Institute,” Katrina Miller, the program director and publisher of PressProgress told Maclean’s via email Friday. She noted that the Greens had been given a chance to respond to the story and chose not to. Green spokesperson Rosie Emery told Maclean’s that the Green’s had “requested more information about their ‘survey,’ as these could be open to different interpretation” before commenting. “PressProgress did not provide the responses that were requested,” Emery says. She hadn’t heard about the complaint being filed, she said, but disagreed with the Green’s characterization of PressProgress; she defined it as “an independent non-profit newsroom launched and supported by the Broadbent Institute, which is a non-partisan social democratic policy and leadership training organization.” The Institute’s founder, Ed Broadbent, was leader of the NDP decades ago, Miller said, noting he “is also well-respected author and political thinker across partisan lines.” Hearing this, May shakes her head. Ed Broadbent is well-respected, she says. “But the institute is controlled by the NDP.”

>>15582857

yeah well we have piss jugs

they can keep their costume

>>15582852

>>15582901

>If I'm arrested, you need to protest.

<wait, what?

https://www.denverpost.com/2022/02/08/tina-peters-mesa-county-clerk-arrest-grand-junction/

Mesa County clerk Tina Peters arrested in Grand Junction, suspected of deceiving judge

Peters was released pending charges after resisting a search warrant, according to authorities

Grand Junction police officers arrested Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters on Tuesday morning at Main Street Bagels after she allegedly resisted during the execution of a search warrant.

Police responded to the shop at about 10:45 a.m. in the 600 block of Main Street where Peters was released at the scene, pending charges, according to the Grand Junction Police Department.

Mesa County spokesperson Stephanie Reecy said the incident is unrelated to investigations of a possible election security breach in Mesa County.

Mesa County District Attorney’s Office investigators were looking for an iPad that belonged to Peters, according to the search warrant signed Tuesday.

On Feb. 7, Peters allegedly appeared to be using an iPad to record a court hearing in Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley’s criminal case and then told the judge in the case that she was not recording it, the search warrant stated. The judge had told members of the audience that he would take action if he found out someone was recording the hearing.

“If Clerk Peters had in fact made a recording, Judge (Matthew) Barrett’s decisions and actions would have been influenced by deceit,” the warrant stated.

Knisley was charged in August with felony burglary and a misdemeanor cyber crime of unauthorized access, to both of which she has pleaded not guilty. The charges stem from allegations that Knisley entered a Mesa County worksite and was using Peters’ computer on Aug. 25 after Knisley had been suspended two days prior over an unrelated workplace conduct investigation.

During a status hearing for Knisley’s case, a deputy DA and paralegal said they heard Peters claim in court that she wasn’t recording and that those who accused of her of such were not being truthful, but that they saw Peters using the iPad to record, or attempt to record and then stopping it when she was discovered, according to the warrant.

If the evidence shows Peters did record and lied to the judge, she could be charged with attempting to influence a public servant, a felony.

A spokesperson for Peters’ legal defense fund said the legal team is assessing its options after Tuesday’s arrest.

“The search warrant presented listed exactly one item, an iPad with a white case,” Rory McShane said in an email. “Clerk Peters complied with that, then officers began attempting to take other items of personal property, not listed in the warrant including her car keys, which is illegal.”

In a video that a witness shared with 9News from the incident, Peters can be seen struggling with police, repeatedly yelling “let go of me” and saying “it hurts” as police restrain her. At one point, she appears to attempt to kick an officer, and an officer yells back, “Do not kick. Do you understand?” She continues shouting at officers to let go of her and give her the key to her car before they take her outside.

>>15582898

>https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/judge-orders-ottawa-police-to-return-all-fuel-they-seized-from-truckers/

>>15583087

>did the gold contain C4?

That would be one cool story.

"How do we get into the safe?"

"From the inside."

But I'm sure all that jazz is blast proofed and jet fuel secure.

>>15583140

Why is the pizza box a square, when the pizza is a circle, and all the little pieces are triangles?

>>15583145

>>15583181

racecar spelled backwards is racecar

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/military-history/history-heritage/past-operations/europe/kinetic.html

Canadian Forces (CF) Information (KINETIC)

Name: KINETIC

Date: 24 March 1999 - 21 June 2000

CF Mission/Operation Notes: The end of the air campaign required peacekeepers on the ground to enforce the cease-fire. In late April 1999 the Canadian government was asked to provide an armoured reconnaissance squadron and support units as part of a British led armoured brigade then being deployed into the neighbouring Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as part of NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps.

Approximately 800 Canadian troops arrived in Macedonia in May of 1999, joining the 4th (UK) Armoured Brigade under the Canadian designation Operation KINETIC (NATO designation Operation JOINT GUARDIAN). In addition to national command and support element personnel, a reconnaissance squadron equipped with the new Coyote reconnaissance vehicle from Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians), a helicopter detachment equipped with eight Griffon helicopters, and engineers formed the initial Canadian contribution. On 12 June 1999, the first elements of KFOR entered Kosovo. As agreed to in the Military Technical Agreement, deployment of the Kosovo Force (KFOR) was synchronized with the departure of Serb security forces from Kosovo. By 20 June the Serb withdrawal was complete and KFOR was well established in Kosovo.

The Canadian reconnaissance squadron arrived in the vanguard of the British armoured brigade, while other Canadians soon followed or were fully tasked in support roles in Macedonia. KFOR elements were deployed to assist with the implementation of the cease-fire, provide public security for civilians, assist displaced persons in returning home safely, provide humanitarian relief and assist international organizations and non-governmental organizations in their efforts.

Soon after KFOR’s initial deployment into Kosovo the Canadian government announced that an additional 500 troops would be added to the Canadian contingent. Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, and tanks from the Strathconas were formed into an infantry battle group with armoured support. The battalion began its deployment in early July and soon replaced overburdened British infantry units. The new arrivals raised the total strength of Operation KINETIC to approximately 1,400 personnel.

In December 1999 the first rotation of Canadian Forces units serving with Operation KINETIC took place, and after performing duties similar to those of the first Canadians deployed, all Canadian military personnel were withdrawn from KFOR in June of 2000.

>>15583202

>nednarb og s’tel

gesundheit?

>>15583206

>Imagine being so conditioned to follow orders that you can't take a piece of cloth off of your face.

>>15583171

>>15583221

>If you say that to Biden in person it will suck him back to hell where it belongs.

https://acuitastx.com/

acquit us

https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1491133263767019521

Trudeau: "I can understand frustrations with mandates, but mandates are the way to avoid further restrictions"

>>15583268

Huh..

>>15583278

https://thepostmillennial.com/andrew-cuomo-regrets-resigning-vindicated

Andrew Cuomo regrets resigning over sexual misconduct scandal, claims he's been 'vindicated'

"I never resigned because I said I did something wrong. I said, I'm resigning because I don't want to be a distraction," Cuomo stated.

>>15583291

>mandates are the way to avoid further restrictions

https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling

Freelance investigative journalist.

5G and QAnon: how conspiracy theorists steered Canada’s anti-vaccine trucker protest

https://twitter.com/MariekeWalsh/status/1491177646470090752

https://twitter.com/MariekeWalsh/status/1491179230004379648

>>15583305

>everyone has a gas can

>>15583316

>5G and QAnon: how conspiracy theorists steered Canada’s anti-vaccine trucker protest

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/canada-ottawa-trucker-protest-extremist-qanon-neo-nazi

Ottawa’s occupation was a result of unrivaled coordination between anti-vax and anti-government organizations

The brazen occupation of Ottawa came as a result of unprecedented coordination between various anti-vaccine and anti-government organizations and activists, and has been seized on by similar groups around the world.

It may herald the revenge of the anti-vaxxers.

The so-called “freedom convoy” – which departed for Ottawa on 23 January – was the brainchild of James Bauder, an admitted conspiracy theorist who has endorsed the QAnon movement and called Covid-19 “the biggest political scam in history”. Bauder’s group, Canada Unity, contends that vaccine mandates and passports are illegal under Canada’s constitution, the Nuremberg Code and a host of other international conventions.

>>15583339

THERE it is

>>15583377

>Gas Can Ban

unique new york