An election mega-thread... 🧵

By the end of today, for better or for worse, we will be one step closer to the end of 🇨🇦 as a unified country.

I don't know how this election will end, but I do know that neither of the frontrunners in this election (Carney or Poilievre) have put forward ideas that can reverse the destructive forces that are tearing this country apart.

If those forces are not reversed, and soon, we will not have a long future as a cohesive, peaceful, prosperous, and unified nation.

Here's a list of the storm clouds looming on Canada's horizon, regardless of which party wins:

1/ Neither frontrunner is proposing to tackle a comprehensive political reform of our broken and undemocratic parliamentary system (senate reform, separately elected prime minister, etc.) – despite the fact that many of those reforms have been demanded since Confederation and have been the source of Western discontent from day one!

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1/ In view of Trudeau's High Speed Rail announcement today, here's another scandalous Canadian railroad fiasco to celebrate Canada's proud history of corruption, incompetence, and political self-preservation when it comes to public works contracts:

Ottawa's light rail system (O-train) was billions over budget (the second stage of the multi-decade project was completed in 2019 and was 1.2 billon (35%) over budget).

No surprise there. But there's more to the story. A lot more.

A thread 🧵:

cbc.ca/news/canada/ot… 2/ One of several contractors to build it was SNC Lavalin - Canada's largest construction and engineering company.

Legally, a company guilty of fraud and corruption is not eligible for contracts with the Canadian govt.

In February of 2015, RCMP laid charges fraud and corruption charges against the company

Wikipedia says: "The charges allege that between 2001 and 2011, SNC-Lavalin paid CA$48 million in bribes in Libya to officials in the government of Muammar Gaddafi. They also allege that at the same time, the company defrauded Libyan organizations of CA$130 million."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC-Laval…

Game over for public sector contracts in 🇨🇦, like Ottawa's light rail system, right?

/ A little snapshot of 🇨🇦 history:

One of the dirtiest tricks ever pulled by our Canadian govt happened just after Confederation out on the newly opened prairie and led to thousands of farmers fleeing Canada to rebuild their destroyed lives in the USA.

A thread 🧵 2/ As you undoubtedly already know, one of the conditions for BC to join Confederation was for a railway to link East and West, coast to coast.

The first attempt to build the railway collapsed after it became known that Sir John A. MacDonald had awarded the railway contract to his buddies in exchange for them funding his election expenses in 1872. This was known as the Pacific Railroad Scandal.

MacDonald was forced to resign, though he returned to power 5 years later and ruled for another 18 years. (He also had a habit of proroguing parliament to try to save his political skin).

But the next chapter of this story is where the scandal really heats up...

Why did Chrystia Freeland resign?

In politics, nothing is what it seems. This isn't because of a dispute with Trudeau over tariffs & spending.

She resigned because she's making a play for his job, while simultaneously outflanking Mark Carney.

Let me explain the elaborate game that I think is afoot... (a thread🧵)

1/ The whole world can see Trudeau's star is fading. Even the 🇨🇦 dollar is in freefall. His own party wants him gone. Freeland, as his Deputy PM + Finance Minister, is tied at the hip to Trudeau's sinking ship.

Rumors were Trudeau was about to fire Freeland as his "fall guy".

And Mark Carney was being floated as her replacement, or possibly even his.

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Guess who is the biggest voting block in 🇨🇦?

(it's similar in other countries too, but let's use Canadian stats).

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1/ 1 in 4 employed Canadians works directly for one of the various branches of govt. 

However, their share of votes is much higher than that because...

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A brief overview of 🇨🇦Premiers (and a few mayors) with listings on the World Economic Forum's website or who have ties to WEF, or attended meetings in Davos.🤔

Having a listing doesn't necessarily mean they endorse the WEF nor do we know what their relationship is. But...
1/ Ontario: Premier Doug Ford
(via the Internet Archive)

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web.archive.org/web/2021031321…

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Surge in Omicron cases was to be expected given🇨🇦’s low natural immunity. Compare cases in🇨🇦(low nat. immunity) to South Africa (high nat. immunity). Yet low # of hospitalizations as % of cases illustrates how mild Omicron is even with low natural immunity
1/x Incidentally, cases appear to have plateaued. Since prior variants had steep waves and Omicron also had short sharp waves in other countries, like South Africa, we may already be peaking.
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A thread on the predator instinct, honey badgers, ... and bullies:

Once a predator spots you, the safest way to deal with it is often to master your fear by simply turning to face it and holding your ground.

1/x To think of it from the predator's perspective, the most useful characteristic in helping identify whether something is "prey" or "not prey" is whether the thing shows fear or whether it simply ignores the predator, goes abt its business, & growls if anything gets too close

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A thread about the psychology of Covid:

The world has become an increasingly complex place. A lot of people are intimidated by the number and complexity of decisions in their lives. Think of all the articles and Ted Talks in recent years about the burden of choice.

1/4 Covid has simplified their lives. Someone else is in charge. Control provides a certain comfort. Many do not want the old normal. Their new normal is easier to navigate.

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The target audience for my new book are the True Believers of Covid hysteria and the employers who are enforcing this medical tyranny.

We must work to plant seeds of doubt inside the info bubble they are trying so hard to defend.

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juliusruechel.com/2021/10/a-new-… The conflict between the resistance to the ideas within its pages and the guilt of ignoring a gift creates a push-pull dynamic that keeps a book on the forefront of our minds in a way that a pamphlet, email attachment, or internet link do not.

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Israel's Ministry of Health posted on FB that third dose is safe with very few side effects. (links in thread)

The post was flooded with thousands of responses of people (with full names and often pics) describing adverse side effects, many severe, and debilitating.
1/x Including many cases of death of relatives and friends.

Over 20,000 furious posts, and growing. MOH disabled translation but here is a machine translation:
mega.nz/file/LV1mHABD#…

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If they're willing to fire 17,000 healthcare workers in the midst of a "crisis", then there is no crisis.

They can afford to fire them b/c the system has underutilized capacity. Unvaxxed HC workers are being used as a scare tactic b/c of slack in the system.

Remember...
1/x Remember, the hospital system has consistently been underutilized throughout the pandemic. For example, remember this graph of hospital utilization in Ontario:

(from my investigative report: juliusruechel.com/2021/05/the-li…)
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The 1 in 1000 myocarditis study with data from Public Health Agency of Ottawa has been withdrawn.

12 co-authors. None noticed.
Despite going out of their way to point out in study that their #'s were 1/10th of other studies

There's something fishy...
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medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

https://twitter.com/JuliusRuechel/status/1440402162429796360

.... Option 1 - the benign explanation is that it was an honest mistake. If so, what a doozie. Seriously, no-one checked the denominator? Sloppy science at it worst.

But there are other more sinister possibilities...

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This thread is for everyone fighting vaccine mandates in the workplace:

strongandfreecanada.org/employees/ has released a toolkit and detailed advice on how to proceed. They are partnered with @JCCFCanada, Lawyers 4 Truth, and @TimeToActCanada

1/x Their toolkit includes a series of letters that you can use to send to your employer. In my opinion, it is the best letter I’ve seen to date to put pressure on employers and set up a clear stage for lawsuits in the event that they don’t back down. strongandfreecanada.org/employees/

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Book burnings in Germany began in 1933. It wasn't b/c paper was offensive. It was abt stopping ideas & information. It was abt preventing me from hearing what you think.

& it was abt silencing the counter-chorus that can defuse an evolving hysteria.

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encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art… Censorship is a violation of both speaker & listener.

But worst of all is the echo chamber it creates. When dissenting voices fall silent, hysteria magnifies itself, unchecked, escalating to ever greater extremes.

1933 led to 1938, which led to 1945

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encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…

Most people are not incapable of thinking for themselves, they are AFRAID to think for themselves.

1/7 Most people are not unable to see the problems with the narrative. They are AFRAID to trust themselves over the persistent drone of the "experts".
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1/x You have a right to protect yourself. You do not have a right to take away someone else's rights and freedoms to do so. Your rights end where mine begin and vice versa. This principle is the basis of ALL liberal democracies. 2/x 🇨🇦's Charter does NOT allow govt to suspend Charter rights and freedoms without FIRST passing the Oakes Test in a court of law in which ALL evidence is weighed. This was NEVER done. These public health measure are unlawful.

Ignoring legal principles does not make it right.

Pay attention Canada, here it comes. Bill 36 is the bill that criminalizes wrongthink in Canada. And the police are all over it.

A few excerpts are in order to show you how grim this is about to get:
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westernstandardonline.com/2021/07/rcmp-a… “In 🇨🇦we don’t have anything regulating speech,” said Statham. “Under Sec. 2 of our Charter Of Rights our freedom of expression is protected. So there is no such thing as free speech in Canada, only freedom of expression.”

AKA - freedom of expression is not freedom of speech
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A thread: The Revolt in Quebec's medical community has begun.

"We're over 100 per cent occupation and we have less than 50 per cent staff available."

Hysteria has consequences. Let's see how govt gets out of this self-created mess.
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cbc.ca/news/canada/mo… For context, there are only 54 COVID patients hospitalized in QC today. The trough between the 2nd and 3rd wave (end of February) bottomed around 500 concurrent hospitalizations.

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RE: Dr. Francis Christian's dismissal:

If you use the WayBack Machine you can see that the WHO changed the child vaccination message on their page sometime during the day on June 22nd.

From the bold "Children should not be vaccinated for the moment"

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web.archive.org/web/2021062201… ... to the wishy-washy "More evidence is needed on the use of the different COVID-19 vaccines in children to be able to make general recommendations" ... "suitable for use by people aged 12 years & above. Children aged between 12 and 15 ...
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who.int/emergencies/di…

A thread on why lockdowns kill:

The fantasy of "flattening the curve" completely ignores the reality of seasonality. There is no flattening because only the height, but not the width of the curve is affected by slowing the spread. Seasonality determines the width.
1/x The two COVID waves (Winter of 19/20 and 20/21) are clearly visible in this chart of weekly deaths. Seasonality is obvious. And there is ZERO evidence of flattening the curve. Waves did not get "fatter" than previous years.
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