House of Commons Votes 185 to 151 to Extend Emergencies Act

Proverbs 25:19 “Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Trudeau wins vote to extend emergencies act in bid to demolish ‘Freedom Convoy’
  • The Emergencies Act was approved in parliament by 185 to 151, with the minority Liberal government getting support from left-leaning New Democrats
  • “This state of emergency is not over. There continue to be real concerns about the coming days,” Trudeau said.
  • He noted that there were still truckers outside the capital who might be planning a future blockade.
  • Under the act, authorities can declare certain areas as no-go zones. It also allows police to freeze protesters’ personal and corporate bank accounts and compel tow truck companies to haul away vehicles.

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Despite Blackout of Media 20,000 Participate in Israel “Freedom Convoy”

Proverbs 25:19 “Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.”

Important Takeaways:

  • As many as 20,000 vehicles participate in Israeli COVID ‘Freedom Convoy’
  • Despite nearly blackout by much of the Israeli press, as many as 20,000 vehicles participated in a “Freedom Convoy”
  • Vehicles set off on Monday, Feb. 14, from 40 cities across Israel, calling on the government to lift the state of emergency declared due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the event’s organizers.

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GiveSendGo has been hacked, 92,000 Freedom Convoy Donors names Leaked

Proverbs 22:8 “Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Hackers Just Leaked the Names of 92,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donors
  • GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding site that helped raise $8.7 million for the anti-vax “freedom convoy” in Canada, was hacked
  • Analysis of the leaked data by extremism researcher Amarnath Amarasingam shows that while the majority of donors come from the U.S. (56%) and Canada (29%), there are also thousands of donations from overseas, including the U.K., Australia, and Ireland.
  • No one has claimed credit for the hack of the GiveSendGo website, but users who visited the site on Sunday evening were redirected instead to GiveSendGone.wtf, where they were greeted by a video from the Disney film Frozen and a message that read:
    • “Attention GiveSendGo grifters and hatriots. You helped fund the January 6th insurrection in the U.S. You helped fund an insurrection in Ottawa. In fact you are committed to fund anything that keeps the raging fire of misinformation going until it burns the world’s collective democracies down. On behalf of sane people worldwide who wish to continue living in a democracy, I am now telling you that GiveSendGo itself is now frozen.”

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Freedom Convoy spreads across Europe from Vienna, Paris and now Brussels

Proverbs 22:8 “Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.”

Important Takeaways:

  • ‘They Can’t Stop Us’: Freedom Convoy Rolls into EU’s Capital Despite Government Ban
  • A Freedom Convoy of anti-mandate motorists is arriving in Brussels, the de facto capital of the European Union, despite authorities banning the demonstration.
  • Some 1,300 vehicles are on the move into capital of the European Union Brussels
  • Authorities in charge of other European cities, such as Paris and Vienna, have made similar attempts to ban demos styled on anti-mandatory vaccine protests in Canada, though all so far have been futile.
  • While authorities in Belgium have issued a ban on the forthcoming anti-lockdown protest in the nation’s capital, the nation has also seemingly acquiesced to calls for the country to loosen its lockdown restrictions.
  • From February 18, rules regarding the closure of establishments after a certain time, as well as the mandatory wearing of masks are set to be loosened.
  • “Today, we are taking a huge step forward. We are returning to normalcy,” Politico reports Alexander De Croo, Belgium’s Prime Minister

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As Freedom convoy spreads to other nations and cities Biden urges Trudeau to get tougher

Proverbs 22:8 “Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Biden urges Trudeau get even TOUGHER with Freedom Convoy: Ontario authorizes cops to seize vehicles, fine drivers and asks court to freeze $8.6M donated on GiveSendGo as mayor warns truckers will be ‘physically removed’
  • White House is urging Justin Trudeau’s government to use its ‘federal powers’ to end the Freedom Convoy
  • Since Monday at least three US-Canadian border bridges have been blocked in Ontario, Alberta and Manitoba
  • Ontario premier Doug Ford asked courts to freeze donations to truckers on a crowdfunding site GiveSendGo
  • The Christian fundraising site, based in the US, said in a statement that the Canadian court had no jurisdiction in the matter.
  • Canadian officials previously got GoFundMe to cut off funding after protest organizers used the site to raise about 10 million Canadian dollars ($7.8 million)
  • Trudeau said he spoke to officials, accused drivers of ‘hurting jobs, businesses, and our country’s economy’

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Freedom Convoy spreads, thousands descend on Paris

Proverbs 22:8 “Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Nearly 360,000 protesters descend on Paris in convoy against vaccine mandates
  • Taking inspiration from Canada’s Freedom Convoy, French truckers and protesters have taken to the streets of Paris to protest vaccine mandates in a convoy that has already come into conflict with French authorities
  • Labeled “Le Convoi de la Liberte,” the convoy is made up of trucks, cars, and motorcycles.
  • The convoy made its way to Paris from southern France, but more convoys are anticipated to arrive in the capital from other parts of the country, the report noted.
  • Similar movements have begun taking shape in Australia and New Zealand, according to the report.

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Freedom Convoy Wins as Mandates are lifted in Canada

Important Takeaways:

  • Freedom Wins: Canadian Provinces Lift COVID Mandates After Trucker Protests
  • Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island provinces have all announced plans to eliminate or roll back some or all measures. For instance, Alberta “dropped its vaccine passport for places such as restaurants immediately and getting rid of masks at the end of the month,” the Associated Press reported.
  • The moves came this week after a huge throng of truckers shut down Ottawa, protesting a Jan. 15 rule requiring truckers entering Canada to be fully immunized against COVID-19. On Wednesday, more than 400 trucks gridlocked the downtown area. And a blockade by fed-up Canadians entered Day 3 at the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, the busiest trade bridge in North America.

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GoFundMe attack on Freedom Convoy blocks “mandate” protestors from $10 million in funds raised

Important Takeaways:

  • GoFundMe’s ‘attack’ on Canada’s Freedom Convoy shows dangers of big tech: ex-NY official
  • GoFundMe’s decision to remove the fundraiser for the trucker freedom protest in Ottawa is the latest example of big tech trying to shut down voices shunned by the left and is the “latest red flag that Silicon Valley’s power over us has to be stopped,” a former lieutenant governor of New York said.
  • Icing out the protesters from the $10 million raised in online donations.
  • The company defended its move based on reports that there has been “violence and other unlawful activity.”
  • Portland, Ore., 2020, GoFundMe seemed to have no issue helping raise “hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Portland General Defense Committee” that defended those arrested in the city “who set fires to police stations, vandalized city hall, wielded weapons and injured police officers.”

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As Canada declares National Emergency over “Freedom Convoy” some say they’re reliving communism

Important Takeaways:

  • Survivors of Communism Say They’re Reliving it in Canada as Government Targets ‘Freedom Convoy’
  • “Freedom Convoy” truckers are drawing attention to public health measures, such as vaccine mandates, and how they are an overreach by the government and abuse of power.
  • Twitter user Laura Lynn Tyler Thompson recently interviewed a woman who traveled from Toronto
    • When asked why she came to Ottawa, the woman explained: “We stand behind them. We come from communist country and we came here because we didn’t want to have oppression,” she explained. “We wanted to live in a free country. For the last two years, we are living like prisoners. We are being told to stay at home, not to go to the restaurant, not to go to the church. I mean this is unbelievable.”
  • Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency
    • “Declaring a state of emergency reflects the serious danger and threat to the safety and security of residents posed by the ongoing demonstrations and highlights the need for support from other jurisdictions and levels of government,” the statement reads.

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