Ottawa for the past two weeks now and generally based on the videos as well as the independent on the ground reporting it seems like it is a peaceful protest with a bit of a family atmosphere and even though it’s been bone chilling cold sometimes even going well below freezing
For days at a time well the protesters there have been dancing singing chanting honking their horns handing out food and beverages and they even set up bouncy castles for the kids to play however if you have been following the mainstream media narrative about the protest well then likely you have gotten
A much different picture here’s an example of some of the different kinds of coverage that have been out there regarding the truckers over on the mainstream and legacy media outlets some of the organizers of this protest which as i mentioned started more than a week ago they do want to overthrow the
Government canadian officials calling the situation a quote nationwide insurrection the police chief says covet protests are a quote nationwide insurrection driven by madness a nationwide insurrection driven by madness just think of the language i know it sounds familiar to you right a threat to democracy an insurrection
Sedition the police say that they are under resourced and they are overwhelmed they have said that this city is under siege it’s not just truckers there’s a lot of i’ve heard there’s q anon supporters in the crowd residents that i have spoken to who say they feel terrorized intimidated it’s a
Cult there was even a woman on national canadian television hypothesizing whether the entire thing was actually being funded by foreign nationals maybe even russia take a look you know given canada’s support of ukraine in this current crisis with russia i don’t know if it’s far-fetched to ask but but there is concern that
Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this as this protest grows but perhaps even instigating it from from the outset and her comments they bring us neatly along to the question of funding because as we already discussed on our previous episode regarding this matter the
Truckers were able to raise over 10 million dollars on the crowdfunding platform called gofundme with that money it was earmarked by the organizers to go to things like gas food as well as expenses for the truckers so they can keep on protesting however in an almost unprecedented move the local police
Office of ottawa they lobbied gofundme to cut off the money for the truckers and would you believe it gofundme complied they capitulated and they closed the freedom convoy fundraiser which again had at that point raised over 10 million dollars here is a statement from gofundme when they
Decided to take this action quote we now have evidence from law enforcement that the previously peaceful demonstration has become an occupation with police reports of violence and other unlawful activity now i just want to pause here for a quick moment in 2020 when there was an actual occupation in the city of
Seattle you might remember it was called the chas zone which stood for the capitol hill autonomous zone and it was when a relatively large group of leftist protesters they took over an area of the city they had the police abandon their local precinct and essentially they set
Up a separate country within seattle and during that time gofundme praised the protesters and they promoted their cause here’s an example this was posted by gofundme’s official twitter account in july of 2020 and it says quote in a community with no police this farmer is feeding people bringing them closer
Together learn how you can support marcus’s mission within the chop and again just for your reference chop stands for capitol hill occupied protest so it’s pretty unambiguous that that was also an occupation however it looks like in the case of canada when the police say that the protest has become an occupation well
That’s enough for gofundme to pull their donations but even going further than that gofundme took an unprecedented step here’s how their statement continued quote given how the situation has evolved no further funds will be directly distributed to the freedom convoy organizers we will work with organizers to send all the remaining
Funds to credible and established charities verified by gofundme and so think about that for just this super quick moment the truckers convoy raised over 10 million dollars from small individual donors who supported the efforts at fighting back against the mandates but because the local police asked them to do so gofundme decided
That they will take this money and instead send it to credible and established charities that are verified by gofundme that is indeed unprecedented although when i was younger such an act would actually be called stealing but i guess now we can just call it the redistribution of wealth regardless
Though there was actually such a heavy backlash against this decision by the actual donors that gofundme they changed their tactic and they said that they would just automatically refund the money to anyone who donated to the cause and so then that left the obvious question how would the truckers in
Ottawa be able to continue protesting when they are not able to get funds for fuel well the local community appears to have stood up and filled the gap that’s because after the funding was cut over on social media you saw lots of videos of droves of people sometimes upwards of
100 people coming into the ottawa protest with cans of gas to give to the truckers but just as the police attacked the fundraising they also began to target the gas that’s because five days ago the ottawa police department announced that they would begin to crack down further and arrest anyone who gives
Material aid such as fuel and food to the protesters and indeed that’s what happened people began to get arrested for bringing fuel to the truckers then a new fundraising campaign was set up over on a different platform called give send go which is sort of an alternative to
Gofundme it’s a platform run by devout christians and at as of this moment the truckers have already raised close to nine million dollars on this new platform however a judge over in ontario he recently ruled that these gifts and go funds they must be frozen but unlike
Gofundme the owners of gifts and go they did not capitulate and instead they released this statement know this canada has absolutely zero jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at give sengo all funds for every campaign on gifsengo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns not least of which is
The freedom convoy campaign thanks for your concern but this recipient is receiving funds now the big question here is that with all these challenges these arrests the smears by the media and by the politicians well is the protest actually working is the protest having the effect that the truckers are
Hoping that it will and the answer appears to be yes that’s because as of today six of canada’s provinces have announced that they will begin to roll back their covet restrictions those provinces just for your reference are quebec alberta saskatchewan nova scotia manitoba as well as the province of
Prince edward island and all these provinces they have declared plans to either completely remove or to begin rolling back some or in some cases all of their respective policies as an example over in alberta they have dropped their vaccine passport system and they announced plans to get rid of
Their mask requirements altogether by the end of this month and then over in manitoba just earlier today their premiere announced that they are ending the proof of vaccination requirements by the end of this month and then eliminating the mass mandates by the middle of next month by march 15th and
So obviously this protest is having an effect however over in ontario which is canada’s largest province by a big margin about 40 of all of canada’s population lives in ontario well there is currently an interesting political situation because while publicly the premier of ontario mr doug ford he’s
Taking a hard stance in opposition to the truckers and he even announced a state of emergency just yesterday which will now grant even more authority to the police so that they can more easily arrest and find the protesters well privately it’s a different matter that’s because in a leaked private phone call
Which was first reported on by rebel news it reveals that doug ford is planning on dropping the vaccine passport system so that the province can get back to normal asap here’s part of that leaked phone call to get no worries We’re pulling these passports we’re going to get back to normal and uh you know i can’t give you the exact date but it’s going to be very soon okay okay now i’ll be speaking uh over the next few days friday i’m gonna put out a statement monday i’ll be giving some dates
And we’re gonna uh move forward okay thanks a lot okay appreciate it thank you all right now it is also worth noting that besides the pressure of having ottawa jammed by trucks well mr doug ford is also facing a re-election in june of this year in
June of 2022 which is just now a few months away and so we’ll have to wait and see how all this plays out and according to the statements that have been put out by the protest organizers themselves well it appears that they are in it for the long haul and will
Continue to protest until a permanent end to all the coveted measures has been announced if you’d like to read more about these protests over in ottawa about the drama with all the funding or if you would like to listen to the full leaked phone call from doug ford all
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Right now as i’m sure you’re aware the world is tuned in to the 2022 beijing olympic games now of course the ratings for this year’s olympics are in the gutter being something like 50 lower than 2018 but still that means during every event every press briefing and every chinese communist publicity stunt
Millions of people are still watching however very obvious cracks are beginning to form in what the world is actually seeing for instance take a look at what happened here when a journalist who is in china on a media visa in order to report in the olympics take a look at
What happens when he actually tries to do some reporting if you ever wonder what would happen to western press freedom in a communist country well there it was in full display furthermore underneath the surface meaning behind the scenes of all the glossy polish olympics well people are still getting thrown into prisons
Into re-education camps and many of them are being tortured brutally due to either who they are or what they believe in and along that line just two days ago senator rick scott he’s a republican from florida and he issued this statement which said this in part three
Days before the opening of the 2022 winter olympics in beijing ms mizji a falun gong practitioner was arrested for simply practicing her religion and is now being held at inner mongolia’s balinzuchi detention center chinese police have been following and persecuting msg since 1999 and she has been forced into forced labor camps and
Tortured in 2001 and 2008. mizji is currently on a hunger strike to protest her detention and authorities are not allowing her family to visit her now fortunately we here at the epic times were able to find that woman’s son who is an architect here in america his name
Is simon and we had a chance to interview him about what exactly is happening to his mom behind the scenes in china and the story is actually quite brutal because not only was she arrested three days ahead of the winter olympics but this wasn’t even the first time
Because back during the 2008 olympics in china his mom was likewise arrested and sentenced to several years of forced labor why well as senator rick scott mentioned she is a practitioner of a meditation practice called falun gong now falun gong is a spiritual meditation discipline that’s centered around the
Moral teachings based on truthfulness compassion and tolerance but it has been brutally persecuted by the chinese communist regime for the past two decades and so adherents within china they have been deemed enemies of the state and they’ve been thrown into prisons labor camps brainwashing centers and many of them they have been tortured
Raped and sentenced to do forced labor in order to make products for international export however amidst all this there are people like simon’s mom who continue to print materials hand them out to people try to wake them up to the realities of what’s actually happening and clarify the truth regarding the communist propaganda
Here’s simon’s story my name is simon john chinese named john fung i’m a architect in new york city right now the world is focused on beijing they’re focused on the 2022 winter olympics uh that’s you know what what’s on all the news channels however just a short five
Or six hour drive to the north to the northwest there’s something that’s happening with your family and your hometown can you set the stage for the audience tell them what’s going on on february 1st which was about three days before the olympic games was held uh before the opening ceremony my mom
Was the for the third time arrested and she was soon put into the local detention center in my hometown so when we heard the news it was really shocking to us because that was the first day of the chinese new year which traditionally is the day that people visit each other
Celebrate the chinese new year internet exchange greetings and sending gifts so it was a even bigger shock to my father because that’s that morning was the time she saw his wife being grabbed from home for the third time in my parents apartment they have a security door which is made of steel
And in the past they tried to try to break in and they didn’t because it was secured so this time my father was going out to throw out some trash and two policemen was waiting were waiting in front of that door and when the door was open they forced in
And started to ransack to ransack my parents apartment so they grabbed like dozens of books of falun gong which my mother normally read so what was the reason that they that they did this why did they break into the house ransack the place and take your mother away what was
The i believe they have been monitoring her for a long time because the first day of the crackdown falun gong the july 7 20th 1999 we that morning we were like everywhere in china we were practicing a group in a group way in a chinese square very close to my parents
Apartment like 20 maybe more police cars came and my mother was one one of them that was took him to the police station the first day so they the from the first day they knew she was she was a practitioner she never give up and she started to clarify truth in her
Own way like distributing flyers paste stickers and tell people truth sometimes randomly on streets to to strangers so they know very clearly that she is a violent practitioner and so from in 2001 2008 she was arrested and put into labor camp almost died there twice so she has been always been on record
That she is a vlogging practitioner and she is doing such a thing which they don’t like the communist regime don’t doesn’t like let me ask you this right now you have the olympics right yes beijing and your hometown what’s your hometown where is this happening it’s called chiffon city balinzo which is a
Town a small town and it’s it’s pretty close to beijing relatively right there’s the people yeah like few hours right like 400 miles around 400 miles i believe so what’s your what’s your take of this that the olympics are being held in beijing everyone’s watching the olympic games the olympic games of
Course are a sign of unity a sign of peace a sign of essentially human rights right that the world is coming together and it’s free and peaceful and everybody can compete against each other in this open platform but yet right there and behind the scenes your mom and many like
Her are in this precarious situation of being about to be put into prison being put into prison you said the forced labor camp system is abolished but i i suspect that they just rebranded it right right exactly so what’s your take on that so let’s take put it this week
In 1936 and nazi germany held an olympic games and that became a record of a bad record of olympics that they love a bad state put power we call it powder on their face to beautify their existence to persuade people that their existence makes sense
That’s uh i would put it in a similar way to the beijing olympics not this winter not only this winter olympics but also the summer olympics in 2008 because that summer three months before the olympics summer olympic games was uh open my mother was for the second
Time she was put into prison tortured terribly locally then thrown into a false labor camp in the capital city of inner mongolia so it was like 1000 miles away from my hometown almost died there two months after the olympics and i was watching the olympic ceremony the opening ceremony in 2008
In the city where i worked where i was working in xi’an it is fantastic the opening looks fabulous they used a world-class director to design that uh to plan that ceremony and almost every major country’s leaders when they’re it’s like a huge banquet celebrating unity like you said unity is one of the
The spirits of the olympic games but to me when i was watching a fabulous ceremony i was thinking of my mom what she was doing and how what was she suffering and uh far far away like i was like 2000 miles from my mother it’s something improper is happening in that country
Because she was arrested and tortured just for her belief in truthfulness compassion forbearance and her willingness to continue to tell the truth even if the government or the regime doesn’t want her to do so she was always persisting her belief which is a good belief which is benefiting everyone and
She was put into prison to put into labor camp to be tortured to silence to be silenced for that fabulous ceremony for the two weeks games that everyone is from the world is focusing on so and this is the second time for the winter olympics again in beijing and
She’s arrested again so this is this came from and this was a looks like an uh underground reporter from inner mongolia so in this part of the story your mother had already been tortured for a long time uh she went on a hunger strike she has been
Hung upside down not allowed to sleep forced to do forced labor she was shocked with electric batons over and over again and so this is where this quote starts up quote miss g which is your mother couldn’t care for herself the next day and had no appetite however the prison
Guards insisted that miss g was faking illness and threatened her 20 days later she was transferred to another team in order to do the forced labor she refused and was beaten even though ms ji had difficulty walking other falun gong practitioners were not allowed to help her carry her food and the authorities
Threatened to starve her to death anyone who tried to help ms g was verbally abused now i want to pause here for a quick moment when it says she was forced to do forced labor do you know what type of forced labor she was doing oh they produce tiny stuff that are
Sold very cheaply especially to the international community to other countries and uh that is one of the reasons why chinese products are so cheap internationally in the system how the labor camp system was designed they pay the payment to although the policeman’s the guard salary or the management system salary is really low
So they try to exploit their prisoners or people in the labor camp which is allowed by the law and by the system to force them to produce money for the guards the managements so that is the way they make money because everyone else is making higher money so they use
This way to encourage them to force them to work to treat them badly so the so the guards pay is low and so they compensate for their pay by by forcing the inmates to work harder at the forced labor which then some of that money goes into their own pocket yeah
Exactly exactly that’s how it works and that’s why the the first labor camps is so efficient because they have the motivation to make them work harder and harder and that was only part of the interview if you’d like to watch the full thing you
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