https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvnd34/mps-told-to-hide-from-anti-vaxxer-trucker-convoy-by-parliament-security-chief
MPs Told to Hide From Anti-Vaxxer Convoy by Parliament Security Chief
The convoy, organized by some people with connections to extreme-right or anti-vax movements, has garnered support from some mainstream Conservatives.
>https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvnd34/mps-told-to-hide-from-anti-vaxxer-trucker-convoy-by-parliament-security-chief
https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/1492236069823303682
>Toronto Police Chief says they'll have assets in place to move convoy trucks if they decide to park in protest.
>What "assets" would they have against trucks anons?
moderate assets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-71_TOW
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-71_TOW#2011:_Syrian_Civil_War
The weapon was spotted as early as April 2014 in at least two videos that surfaced showing Syrian opposition forces in the Syrian civil war using BGM-71 TOWs, a weapon previously not seen in use by the opposition. Such a video, showing a BGM-71E-3B with the serial number removed, can be seen in a 27 May 2014 episode of the PBS series Frontline.
In February 2015, The Carter Center listed 23 groups within the Southern Front of the Free Syrian Army that have been documented using US supplied TOWs.
A sudden influx of TOWs were supplied in May 2015, mostly to Free Syrian Army affiliated factions, but also independent Islamist battalions; as a requirement of being provided TOWs, these Syrian opposition groups are required to document the use of the missiles by filming their use, and are also required to save the spent missile casings. Groups provided with TOWs include the Hazzm Movement, the 13th Division, 1st Coastal Division, Syria Revolutionaries Front, Yarmouk Army, Knights of Justice Brigade, and the 101st Division. Free Syrian Army battalions widely and decisively used TOWs in the 2015 Jisr al-Shughur offensive. Russia attempted a rescue operation after a Su-24M was shot down at the Syria–Turkey border on 24 November 2015, a video of Free Syrian Army 1st Coastal Division using a TOW missile to destroy a disabled Russian helicopter on the ground after its crew had retreated was posted on YouTube. In October 2015, Saudi Arabia delivered 500 TOW missiles to anti-Assad rebels. A video produced through Bulgarian Television provides evidence of non-rebel use of this weapon by Islamic affiliated fighters.
Reports indicate that small number of TOW missiles have ended up in the hands of al-Qaeda in Syria and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
In August 2016 footage of the Syrian military inspecting a captured BGM-71E missile system in Bani Zeit district, Aleppo, was leaked online. On 2 September 2016, rebels released a video of a BGM-71 TOW destroying a French-manufactured Syrian Air Force Aérospatiale Gazelle as it was landing on an airstrip near Khattab in Northern Hama.
Reports say that the TOW missile has successfully hit Russian T-90s in Syria, which are equipped with active defences designed to defeat such missiles. However, a Russian report claims the tank shows "very little damage" and was still operable.
>TOW
>Canada, the United States, and countries across Europe are committed to supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. I spoke about that today with @POTUS and European leaders – we’ll keep pursuing de-escalation and a diplomatic solution.
>“There were no natural phenomena that led to the break of the fiberoptic cable between Svalbard and the Norwegian mainland.”
<honk from a goose
>attention. Life
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1492149960929861634
Just in time for Galentine's Day, and the news that Trump was flushing documents down White House toilets…
A limited edition hat is in the @onwardtogether store now.
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what what
https://nypost.com/2022/02/11/prince-andrew-was-obsessed-with-anal-sex-physical-therapist/
Prince Andrew was obsessed with anal sex, former physical therapist claims
“Creepy” Prince Andrew was obsessed with anal sex and repeatedly demanded naked rubdowns — making it “absolutely” clear he wanted things to go further, a physical therapist said in a report Friday.
“I had a lot of high-profile clients and often visited their homes. But Andrew was very different,” Emma Gruenbaum, 50, told the Sun of her six “sleazy” sessions with the scandal-scarred duke in 2005.
“He was a constant sex pest right from the start,” Gruenbaum insisted.
The physical therapist said she was 34 when she worked for the prince after being recommended by the royal’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson.
When the PT arrived at Royal Lodge — the home Andrew still shares with his ex-wife — she immediately complained after a staffer led her to the master suite.
She was told by the aide that she had no option but to work on the prince there because “this was the way the duke liked it,” she claimed.
Gruenbaum said she was bending over to prepare her equipment when Andrew came in behind her and said, “Hey nice a–. Do you take it up the a–?”
“I went, ‘None of your f–king business,'” Gruenbaum said, adding that the prince came up so close, they were almost touching.
Despite their “so tense” introduction, they continued with the first of six sessions, she said.
“He was always naked under the towel,” Gruenbaum told the UK paper.
“All the way through he was talking about anal sex and making anal sex jokes. He asked when I had last had sex. It went on and on,” she said.
“Every time I saw him, he would try to overstep the line. He’d try to hug me without fail,” Gruenbaum said.
In his now-notorious 2019 interview with the BBC, Andrew claimed that the photo of him with sex accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre had to be fake because he was “not one to, um, as it were, hug.”
Gruenbaum said she had to push away the royal and tell him, “Look, I don’t do hugs.”
Her attempts to tell him off for his inappropriate sex chat failed because he appeared to like being spoken to “like he was a naughty schoolboy,” she said.
“He was a pest … He was just a creep,” she told the Sun.
Gruenbaum insisted she “absolutely” felt that Andrew wanted more than a massage — and says her professionalism led him to suddenly end their sessions.
“I think it is because he wanted more, and he was clearly not going to get anywhere,” she said.
“His advances weren’t working, and I think that his patience ran out,” she claimed.
Gruenbaum told the UK paper that she decided to speak out after seeing Andrew’s legal team suggest accuser Giuffre “may suffer from false memories” in her accusations against him.
Giuffre is suing the prince in Manhattan over long-held claims that late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his convicted madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, forced her to have sex with Andrew three times, starting when she was 17 in 2001.
“I don’t want to sit by and not speak out about the way he was towards me as he calls Virginia delusional,” Gruenbaum said.
Andrew has repeatedly denied Giuffre’s allegations, which saw him last month lose the title of His Royal Highness to fight the case as a private citizen.
A spokesman for Andrew did not want to comment on Gruenbaum’s story, the Sun said.
Epstein killed himself behind bars in Manhattan in 2019 awaiting trial on charges involving a slew of girls and young women, while Maxwell was convicted of sex-trafficking and other raps in December.
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1491528940388823041
#January6th was an assault on our Capitol, our Congress and our democracy itself. Republicans may try to run, but they can't hide from the truth.
explain the Mueller Uranium One thing
>https://twitter.com/melcasebee/status/1492241106364477445
Police came to make arrests and this happened❤️….who would have ever thought Canada would be leading the world, but they are…Holding The Line…this is tyranny and enslavement vs God and liberty! This is not a fight against mandates; this is a fight to liberate humanity…
https://twitter.com/CCryptonaire/status/1491419501984108546
Ottawa plans. Can't be shared enough.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-well-lift-our-anti-covid-restrictions-when-elected-governments-decide/
We’ll lift our anti-COVID restrictions when elected governments decide, not street mobs
For all the mistakes our governments have made in dealing with the COVID pandemic, Canada has one of the developed world’s lowest death rates from the disease: roughly a third of the United States’, per capita; less than 40 per cent of the United Kingdom’s; half of France’s; two-thirds of Germany’s.
By the more comprehensive “excess deaths” measure (comparing overall population death rates since the pandemic began to what they were before), Canada’s relative success is even more striking. Among the developed countries, only New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Norway, Denmark and Ireland have done better.
What accounts for this? Could one of the world’s highest vaccination rates have anything to do with it? Might it be in some way related to one of the world’s most stringent systems of public-health restrictions? Correlation is not causation, but if the common-sense explanations don’t account for it, what does? Tiresome as these measures have become, they seem to have worked; costly as they may have been, the payoff has been astronomical – literally tens of thousands of lives saved.
And not only that. If we are now in a place to lift many of these restrictions it is precisely because they were so successful. As the Omicron wave recedes, and vaccination rates improve, more and more of them are being removed.
And of those that remain, the least restrictive by far are vaccine mandates. Get your shot, as 90 per cent of Canada’s adult population have done, and you are demonstrably more free, not less.
People like to say, I’m not against vaccines, I’m just against vaccine mandates. It sounds like a valid distinction, until you examine the premise that underlies it: that vaccines are a purely personal matter, or at any rate that they are so unusually risky or pointlessly invasive that an individual might reasonably refuse them, despite their social benefits.
None of this applies. We have had vaccine mandates of one kind or another for two centuries. More than 10 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide. The shots are safe, quick, effective, and performed at no charge. They not only protect the individual, but all those he might otherwise have infected. Scratch a mandate opponent, and as often as not you find an anti-vaxxer underneath.
>We’ll lift our anti-COVID restrictions when elected governments decide, not street mobs
Which brings us to the current mess in Ottawa.
Much effort has been spent exhorting the rest of us to understand the grievances of the protesters, as if the protesters all had the same agenda. They don’t. Some are upset, to be sure, by the federal vaccine mandate on cross-border truckers – to which they would have to submit regardless, the United States having imposed a similar requirement.
But many more object to any public-health measure of any kind – not just vaccine mandates, but vaccines, masks, the lot. And behind them all are the organizers and leaders of the event, including QAnon-style loons, white-replacement theorists, and former members of the Soldiers of Odin, whose declared objective is to replace the current elected government with a committee made up of themselves, the Governor-General and the Senate.
Their objectives are plainly absurd. Their tactics – taking downtown Ottawa hostage, effectively – are intolerable. Their followers – not all of them, maybe not many, but enough – have been occasionally violent, frequently menacing, almost routinely insulting. There are legitimate questions about how they were financed, and by whom.
They do not represent truckers, or the working class, or “the people,” whatever claims they might make. In their actual aims, rather than the broader discontent they have learned to exploit, they represent a small sliver of public opinion – frightened, angry and vastly uninformed.
That such an element exists in Canada is disturbing enough. Much more disturbing has been the willingness of some Conservative MPs, backed by their supporters online, to hitch their wagon to them. At best this is an instance of the fallacy of “mirroring,” that is of assuming other people’s motives are like your own.
More likely it is tactical: imputing positions to others that are politically convenient to you. Thus: “what the protesters are asking for is,” by a remarkable coincidence, what I am asking for. “Give me what I want” is made over as “give them what they want” or “at least meet with them.” In effect, you have hired them to make your argument for you. They take the hostages, but you get to issue the demands.
Even if the issue were only vaccine mandates, it would be wrong to give in to such pressure tactics; even if there were no such tactics, it would be wrong to abolish the mandates. But given the protesters’ actual demands and actual tactics, it is unthinkable that they should be given any concessions whatever.
>explain the Mueller Uranium One thing
>first popularized by Fluke in the 1990’s