Last Week Today Episode 172 Show Notes for Tuesday, October 28th, 2024
A Bad Week for Justin Trudeau But Good News on the Legal Front plus Donald Trump on Joe Rogan, Israel Attacks Iran & Cataracts Explained
Bad Week for Justin Trudeau
It began with a Liberal Party palace revolt.
As noted in the sarcastic October 23rd, 2024 “Justin Trudeau’s Ego” account on “X,” and in quite a number of other places, a letter signed by 24 sitting Liberal MPs, under the title “Code Red Petition,” has demanded the resignation of current Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
It was classic Liberal Party double-speak, with the party professing public support for the PM, but privately questioning his competence.
As outlined in the October 23rd, 2024 The Deep Dive post, “The ‘Code Red Petition’: Is Justin Trudeau on the Brink of Losing His Party’s Support?,” the push for Trudeau’s resignation:
… has reportedly been brewing behind closed doors for some time, with MPs meeting discreetly to discuss the future of the party. Initially, the revolt was intended to remain private, but in mid-October 2024, media outlets began reporting on the growing movement within the Liberal caucus.
But as noted in the October 24th, 2024 Global News post, “Trudeau says he’s staying on as Liberal leader after caucus revolt,” there are no real mechanisms in place to remove a sitting Canadian PM, so Trudeau remains in charge of the government, for now at least.
Waiting is the wings is Mark Carney, a Canadian economist and banker who served as the 8th governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013, the governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020 and seems to want Trudeau’s job.
Carney is well known as a globalist, an advocate of AI and a strong proponent of central government and universal basic income policies.
To many, this means he’s a core member of the international banking cartel looking to destroy personal freedoms.
But the palace revolt does seem to have sidetracked the longstanding, highly unpopular Liberal immigration policy.
The existing policy has been replaced with a new one, outlined in the October 24th, 2024 Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) on Twitter post, “Canada’s 2025 – 2927 Immigration Levels Plan.”
It proposes massive cuts to immigration.
The October 24th, 2024 Better Dwelling post, “Canada Plans To Shrink Its Population… AFTER Immigration Demand Plummets,” and the follow-up October 27th, 2024 post, “This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Real Estate Prices To Correct & Immigration Slashed,” provide an overview of the changes and their expected results.
The October 25th, 2024 Financial Post story, “Bank of Canada to review growth projections following Ottawa's new immigration targets,” notes the budgetary effects of allowing 21% less immigrants into the country aren’t yet known while the October 24th, 2024 Yahoo Finance post, “Bank of Canada may need another big rate cut to adjust for slow growth, economists say” indicates that further rate cuts might be needed to compensate for the expected slower growth anticipated from the decreased immigration.
Everyone is concerned.
As outlined in the October 25th, 2024 Global New post, “Immigration has kept Canada’s economy afloat. What will coming cuts mean?,” many feel that recession is now inevitable.
Is Justin Trudeau’s “flip flop an admission that the NDP-Liberals have destroyed Canada’s immigration system?”
Some seem to think so.
However, as outlined in the October 24th, 2024 CBC News post, “'Reckless and irresponsible': Alberta government says feds must do more to reduce immigration,” at least a few people think the Feds should be doing more.
Also in the News this Week
Good News on the Legal Front
Outside of Ottawa, there’s lots of good news this week:
The New York Supreme Court has reinstated all employees fired for refusing vaccination during the great pandemic of 2020 - 2022 and ordered the government to provide back pay to the date they were first fired, according to the October 25th, 2024 Fox News post, “New York Supreme Court reinstates all employees fired for being unvaccinated, orders backpay.”
In its judgement, the court explicitly acknowledged that, “being vaccinated 'does not' stop the spread of COVID-19,” a fact well known in some circles but mostly ignored by government health care “experts” and pharmaceutical sales people.
According to the October 28th, 2024 Siri Lankan Guardian post, “Dutch Court Orders Bill Gates to Face Trial Over COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries,” a case filed in a Dutch court alleges that billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, “along with other figures involved in the global response to COVID-19, misled the public on the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, despite having prior knowledge of potential adverse effects,” may now now go forward.
Others listed in the case include Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, the Dutch state, former Dutch Prime Minister and current NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, as well as members of the Dutch COVID-19 Outbreak Management Team.
Lawyer representing the plaintiffs, Arno van Kessel, remarked that the court’s decision confirmed their legal grounds for holding influential figures accountable, noting that “even if … your name is Bill Gates, you still have to go to court.”
In the new media, the October 23rd, Behind the FDA Curtain: WarRoom/ DailyClout Pfizer Reports on Substack post, “On the Prospects for County- and State-Level Investigation and Prosecution of CDC Personnel and Others for Wrongdoing in the COVID-19 Vaccination Era.,” notes that:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) emails and documents provide reasonable suspicion to investigate identifiable CDC personnel for committing the state law crime of reckless endangerment during the February through May 2021 phase of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign and beyond.”
Since 2022, the Daily Clout, run by independent journalist Naomi Wolfe, has organized a volunteer group of over 3,250 physicians, RNs, medical investigators, and other expert volunteers to analyze the thousands of pages of internal Pfizer and Moderna documents released monthly since 2022 under a Texas court order.
That the group now believes there is enough evidence available to press charges against those responsible is good news for the vaccine injured, the businesses bankrupted during the lockdowns and those fired for refusing to comply with the illegal mandates during the pandemic.
In essence, a lot of important news is starting to dig its way out from under the censorship.
Although pharma companies are officially indemnified against lawsuits, as outlined in the December 17th, 2020 CNBC post, “You can’t sue Pfizer or Moderna if you have severe Covid vaccine side effects. The government likely won’t compensate you for damages either,” their legal protection is slowly eroding.
There’s also been significant recent success in Canada, mostly through the Democracy Fund, a Canadian charity dedicated to “strengthening democracy” by funding court cases focused around significant questions of civil liberties.
But nothing is ever certain and it’s worth noting that Canadian provincial and federal governments, especially in British Columbia, are still pushing the latest Covid-19 shots recommended by the US based Centres for Disease Control (CDC).
Donald Trump on Joe Rogan
Republican candidate Donald Trump was on Joe Rogan on Friday and the legacy media was keen to critique it.
The October 27th, 2024 Fortune post, “President Trump Appearing On The Joe Rogan Podcast Is Blowing Up On X,” noted that “when President Trump appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast recently, it set the world of social media on fire.”
The October 26th, 2024 BBC post, “In three-hour Rogan interview, Trump reveals 'biggest mistake', touched on a lot of areas including picking a few people he shouldn’t have picked, what he once told North Korea’s leader and whether extraterrestrial life exists.
Rogan’s interview with Trump was well received and is expected to reach tens of millions of viewers on “X,” on Spotify and on other social media outlets.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris held a big rally in Texas on October 25th with special guest Beyoncé, who came out on stage for a three minute speech endorsing Harris, but didn’t perform.
At the conclusion of her speech she left the stage and the audience booed, mostly because they were led to believe that Beyoncé would perform.
As outlined in the October 26th, 2024 Modernity News post, “Kamala Rally Descends Into Complete Chaos As Beyoncé Doesn’t Perform,” they got Willie Nelson instead:
The Kamala Harris rally in Houston last night was billed as a Beyoncé concert. Everyone, including the media, believed the singer would perform after the announcement was made earlier in the week, but all she did was walk out and make a barely audible speech for a few minutes.
Then the rally descended into complete chaos.
Other traditional Democratic allies were also having a bad week.
The October 25th, 2024 The Guardian post, “Furor over Washington Post’s decision to not endorse presidential candidate: ‘stab in the back’, ‘dying in darkness’,” discussed concerns by Washington Post employees too not publish the planned endorsement of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign.
The newspaper’s publisher, Will Lewis, announced on Friday that for the first time in over 30 years, the paper’s editorial board would not be endorsing a candidate in this year’s presidential election, nor in future presidential elections.
Staffers blamed Jeff Bezos, the newspapers owner who recently apologized for censoring FaceBook posts and likely wants a job in the expected next Trump White House.
And actor Leonardo Dicaprio came under increasing pressure from fans for his stance on climate change, his preferences for friends and his lavish lifestyle.
Israel Attacks Iran
In international new, Israel has now attacked Iran in the latest Middle East escalation.
With more, here’s the October 28th, 2024 Times Now on YouTube post, “Israel Attacks Iran: Will Putin Step In, Pick Direct Confrontation With IDF? Lens On S-300 Role.”
Cataracts Explained
The October 27th, 2024 Mongo Minds on Bitchute post, “Cataracts Explained,” doesn’t just talk about cataracts.
It also strongly suggests that respected medical authorities and medical device manufacturers shouldn’t be the final authorities defining personal care decisions.
It’s a reasonable stance to take, especially after the lessons learned from the great pandemic of 2020 - 2022..
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