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Freedom, Truckers, Ukraine and Sean Penn
February 24 was my son’s birthday, the day of the Ukraine invasion. Talking to my husband and me from his apartment in Germany, Trevor expressed sadness. Ukraine was a favorite destination. He told us of a country, full of exciting freedom-loving young people, who are ambitious to bring democracy to their land. And then something clicked…follow my reasoning.
The Canadian Freedom Convoy were also freedom loving people—who, thanks to the internet and their phones, could create a fairly sophisticated protest, complete with lawyers and a Go Fund Me campaign. Trudeau sent the military to disband them; but, after allegedly getting calls from the World Economic Forum (WEF), he drops the restrictions and unfreezes protestor bank accounts. Why?
As the Ukraine invasion began, when one would think President Volodymyr Zelensky would have more urgent things to do, he did an interview with Sean Penn for a documentary Penn is producing. According to Variety, Penn began preparing for this documentary since November when Putin’s troops first appeared on the border. If Sean Penn knew a war was going to break out, then the EU did and so did Biden’s administration. Why did they wait to sanction Russia? Why didn’t Ukraine join the EU back then?
One of Biden’s first moves as president was to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline and buy oil from Russia, instantly driving up gas prices and triggering inflation. That also gave Russia needed cash and an incentive to invade oil rich Ukraine. On the day of the invasion, gas prices jumped again…and Biden, claiming to be tough on Russia while protecting Americans from further inflation, announced sanctions on Russia that don’t include oil: “Sanctions will ‘allow energy payments to continue.’” So, we’ll just keep buying oil from Russia while Keystone remains shut and prices skyrocket. Why? Weren’t we energy independent just a little more than a year ago?
What do these events have in common? The suppression of freedom loving people, who can achieve great things without government help. As the world recovers from Covid-19, the restrictions that allowed world leaders to taste the thrill of authoritarianism now seem ridiculous, and freedom loving people have begun appreciating freedom again.
In Canada, when cameras showed Justin Trudeau speaking to Parliament, behind him were empty seats. About four were occupied by helpers – nicely masked women and people of color, who clapped politely after he spoke. The image told a story of a man isolated from his citizenry—an image that encourages outsiders to see him as a dictator.
But perhaps, Trudeau doesn't need support because he’s supported by the Canadian Swamp (Call it the Tundra?). And like our Swamp, they’ve been infiltrated by the WEF and China, a player in the WEF since 2017.
What is the WEF? It’s a five day, annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland that brings together 3,000 paying members and selected participants—investors, business leaders, political leaders, economists, celebrities and journalists. In short, among those hanging out to discuss global issues are Bill Gates, Xi Jinping, and yes, Sean Penn, who has been allied with Davos since at least 2009. WEF members are set on one world order. Quoting from their website: “Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism.” The next paragraph says Covid-19 provides a great opportunity to achieve this. Interestingly, in the past year, Zelensky has aligned with China and has spent time in Silicon Valley meeting the big players, so he’s become a WEF darling.
Because “oil and gas…must be transformed,” the US needs to buy oil from Russia even when they’re at war with an ally.
And Canada must stop bullying Truckers because Trudeau’s actions reveal too much about the real motives behind Covid restrictions.
Think about it. Trudeau came into power in 2015. Trump was elected in 2016, when he quickly, effectively began draining the Swamp. Then suddenly, Canada became a testing ground for Great Reset policies. In 2017, the same year Xi joined WEF, they passed the Gender Rights Identity Bill. They’ve pushed BIPOC and CRT and passed major gun restrictions. Most importantly, they’re about to implement a social credit system similar to China’s.
Canadians as a group are pleasant, reserved people who get along with each other because it’s unwise to judge the person digging your car out of a snow drift on a dark winter night. So, like Swedes, they do well with socialist policies, like National Health, and don’t question the government too much when Progressive forms of progress spring from Ottawa.
Until now. They love their freedom as much as we do, as much as Ukrainians do. So I wonder…is there any connection between appearing to give the Truckers their way, the launching of a Canadian social credit system, and a war that’s going to raise the price of oil world wide and further suppress the middle class? A war that could also be a great excuse for a Great Reset in the form of a social credit system in Europe. Or even here?
Perhaps Sean Penn knows the answer.
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Musings on Accountability vs. Blame
By: Anne Doherty
“Who am I dealing with?” my husband asks when he’s trying to sort out a problem with a bureaucracy. He asks this because if he’s not dealing with someone with authority who can be held accountable, he’s wasting his time.
Today, on the anniversary of the incident at the Capitol, it’s helpful to remind ourselves to focus on accountability and steer far away from blame.
Google “January 6” for 30 seconds and you will find that there are two opposing storylines and just about no way to know the facts about that event. Even people who were there know only what they personally experienced. Examples of contradictions include the number of people arrested, sentenced, and held without bail, plus whether or not prisoners are being abused. The January 6 incident is probably the best example today of what those in power will do to control the narrative, and control Americans by proxy.
In today’s speech, Joe Biden peppered blame amongst obvious half truths and misleading verbiage. But his administration, though they’ve charged upwards of 500 people, has stalled accountability in an open public court because the charges they’ve levied against those in custody (some for as long as a year) are small potatoes – no insurrection, no treason, no murder – mostly trespassing and, for a few, assaulting police. But they also stall for fear of revealing the whole truth and end the power they get out of keeping the story alive.
So what do we know and who should be held accountable? We know that many of us feel the 2020 election was stolen. We’ve seen legislatures stall or drop looking into it fully. Despite what most of us consider hard proof of large scale manipulation, we’ve seen state and federal courts – and the Supreme Court – largely shun their responsibility to address it. In fact, corruption seems so vast in some counties/states that it seems as if virtually every public official is accountable from the county clerks on up. Yet Joe Biden today said that there was no proof the election had been stolen because no one has been held accountable.
The “Stop the Steal” protests were an outcry for accountability, not only for the election, but for a political system that releases illegals into the country, that doesn’t prosecute many types of crime (San Francisco car break-ins, for example), and that labeled “peaceful” the burnings in Oregon and Wisconsin.
While we may not know all the facts of January 6, we do know to trust our common sense. Just as we “know” that, if 10,000 people attended any rally anywhere, probably 100 may have temperaments (or mental issues) that could lead to violence, we also know that if one or more people erected a gallows at the Capital with the intention of hanging Mike Pence, that we’d know by now who erected it – in short, we’d know who we were dealing with. And we don’t.
Many years ago, when I first started my musical theatre company, I got a call from a guy who not only wrote musicals but he made his living creating political theatre – not the kind you buy tickets for. Apparently, the Democrat party and other groups would hire him to stage things. He told me to look for his handiwork that weekend. It was 2003, and there was an anti-Iraq war protest at the Civic Center. His handiwork was the “Republicans” holding misspelled signs with pro-war and racist content. The “political artist” died about 6 months later, but I believe he probably wasn’t the only one making a living that way.
So while we can’t tell the facts for the theatre, we do know our people. We know our people usually can spell. Images of the more outrageous January 6 protestors simply don’t ring true.
We also know the world is changing fast – in a millisecond compared to other turning points in history. We are becoming a world in which we hardly need government at all. When the Industrial Revolution took off after the Civil War, and then again during and after World War II, we needed bigger government; and yes, we even needed unions, because the playing field was so uneven. But we live now in the world of iPhones and Bitcoin, in which a rural Indian woman can support her family using her phone, and we can see that all the social unrest is just the powerful trying to justify their existence. We can surmise that the powerful men who went to Jeffrey Epstein’s island had so much prosperity and time on their hands, they dared test the limits of their power. While none of the powerful have been held formally accountable, they have in the court of public opinion.
People on the Right tend to believe in accountability, while those on Left lean into blame. They do because, deep down, Leftists believe human beings can’t take care of themselves; conservatives tend to believe we can. Both sides are right. But unnecessary politicians and other public servants take advantage of our fears to create a co-dependent relationship with us. They want us to think we need them when we don’t.
In the face of uncertainty and unrest, I believe the one thing that can save us is to avoid blame and focus on accountability. You will know when you are blaming because it’s the same as complaining. Blaming denies our relationship to and participation in our own lives. Complaining robs us of joy. Without these two, life is liberating. It’s easy to see yourself and others more clearly. You will know who you’re dealing with, even when you look in the mirror. This kind of knowing inspires fearlessness, develops compassion, and connects us to our family and neighbors.
It will give us the strength to weather the storm until those wrongly held for the Capital incident have justice.