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Labels freedom convoy ‘insurrectionists trying to overthrow government’

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The Ottawa councillor who labelled the freedom convoy Truckers in Canada as ‘terrorists’ earlier this week has doubled down in another interview, calling the protesters ‘insurrectionists’ and accusing them of trying to “overthrow” the government.

Diane Deans claimed in comments to CBC that the truckers occupying downtown Ottawa are “well-polished professional people” using “the Trump playbook” to foment an “insurrection” in the vein of January 6th at the U.S. Capitol building.

Deans further claimed that the truckers are guilty of “treason”.

Deans declared “this is not something this country has ever seen before. [former bank of Canada governor] Mark Carney referred to it as sedition before, I think that’s exactly what it is. This is treason this is a group of well-polished professional people that are trying to overthrow a democratically elected government of this country.”

She added, “It’s not targeted at the city of Ottawa, it’s much bigger than that. It’s really an insurrection. It’s an attack on our democracy and an attack on our federal government. It has a lot of international elements to it. Money is flowing from the U.S.. It’s right out of the Trump playbook.”

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Rather than being some shady conspiracy, the “money flowing from the U.S.” that Deans refers to relates to the funding campaigns that have been set up for the convoy.

The funding campaigns that she and other officials attempted to shut down by threatening to take legal action against GoFundMe. The platform froze the campaign after over $10 million had been raised, following the demands of Deans and others on the Ottawa council.

Since the GoFundMe debacle, over $7 million has been raised on GiveSendGo. The founder of the platform Jacob Wells slammed GoFundMe and big tech in general for acting in an “authoritarian style” by seizing the funds meant for the protesters.

“Big tech really has taken it upon themselves to be the arbiters of truth. And it’s a place that they were never intended to be, and it’s caused more damage than good,” Wells told Fox News.

“We are now stepping into that place because there is a natural pushback from many people because America was founded on these ideas of freedom,” Wells added.

He continued, “This is like the tip of the spear and what is coming in a tsunami of technology that is pushing back against this authoritarian style of social platforms where it’s like these people just think that they get to control the narrative.”

“It’s mind-blowing to me that they actually think that is the way that it ought to be, because in my perspective, it only breeds more distrust and more vitriol, more divide,” Wells further urged.

The freedom convoy rolls on, and is starting to see results, as both Alberta and Saskatchewan have announced they are going to end vaccine passports and other COVID restrictions.

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    Report: Elon Musk ‘Turned Off’ Starlink to Thwart Ukrainian Drone Attack on Crimea

    Musk himself said he actually declined a request to turn additional satellites on.

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    A new biography on Elon Musk claims that Musk “secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet,” though Musk himself said he actually declined a request to turn additional satellites on.

    From CNN, “CNN Exclusive: ‘How am I in this war?’: New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire’s Ukraine dilemma”:

    Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”

    As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes.

    Musk’s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk’s conversations with senior Russian officials, according to Isaacson, whose new book is set to be released by Simon & Schuster on September 12.

    Musk’s concerns over a “mini-Pearl Harbor” as he put it, did not come to pass in Crimea. But the episode reveals the unique position Musk found himself in as the war in Ukraine unfolded. Whether intended or not, he had become a power broker US officials couldn’t ignore.

    The new book from Isaacson, the author of acclaimed biographies of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, provides fresh insights into Musk and how his existential dread of sparking a wider war drove him to spurn Ukrainian requests for Starlink systems they could use to attack the Russians.

    After Russia disrupted Ukraine’s communications systems just before its full-scale invasion in February 2022, Musk agreed to provide Ukraine with millions of dollars of SpaceX-made Starlink satellite terminals, which became crucial to Ukraine’s military operations. Even as cellular phone and internet networks had been destroyed, the Starlink terminals allowed Ukraine to fight and stay connected.

    But once Ukraine began to use Starlink terminals for offensive attacks against Russia, Musk started to second-guess that decision.

    “How am I in this war?” Musk asks Isaacson. “Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”

    Musk was soon on the phone with President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, the chairman of the joint chiefs, Gen. Mark Milley, and the Russian ambassador to the US to address anxieties from Washington, DC, to Moscow, writes Isaacson.

    Meanwhile, Mykhailo Fedorov, a deputy prime minister of Ukraine, was pleading with Musk to restore connectivity for the submarine drones by telling Musk about their capabilities in a text message, according to Isaacson. “I just want you—the person who is changing the world through technology—to know this,” Fedorov told Musk.

    Musk, the CEO of electric carmaker Tesla and private space exploration firm SpaceX, replied that he was impressed with the design of the submarine drones but that he wouldn’t turn satellite coverage back on for Crimea because Ukraine “is now going too far and inviting strategic defeat,” according to Isaacson.

    Musk did not respond to CNN’s request for comment but did respond to the story on Twitter/X.

    “The Starlink regions in question were not activated,” Musk said. “SpaceX did not deactivate anything.”

    “Both sides should agree to a truce,” Musk said. “Every day that passes, more Ukrainian and Russian youth die to gain and lose small pieces of land, with borders barely changing. This is not worth their lives.”

    “There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol,” he said in a follow-up tweet. “The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”

    Ironically, the Ukrainian military (and by extension the war) is being kept alive entirely due to Starlink. If not for Starlink, Ukraine would have been forced to go to the negotiating table a long time ago.

    That said, Musk still deserves credit for advocating for peace while the bloodthirsty neocons running our government are doing everything in their power to escalate the war.

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    Civil Unrest Fears Grow As Youth Unemployment Accelerates

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    In nearly every country in the world, youth unemployment is much higher than general unemployment.

    Unfortunately, the pandemic only exacerbated matters. During a crucial stretch of their early careers, young adults were locked out of entry-level jobs, destroying their ability to pick up work experience and potentially impacting their long-term earnings.

    Now, nearly three years after COVID-19 first hit, young adults from some countries, like China, are struggling to find jobs. Using data from the OECD and the National Bureau of Statistics of ChinaVisual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao and Niccolo Conte chart out the youth unemployment rate for 37 countries.

    Ranked: Countries With the Highest Youth Unemployment

    At the top of the list, Spain has the highest youth unemployment in the OECD, with nearly one in three young adults unable to find a job.

    ℹ️ Unemployed people are those who report that they are without work, are available for work, and have taken active steps to find work in the last four weeks. The youth unemployment rate is calculated as a percentage of the youth labor force.

    A mismatch between educational qualifications and the labor market has been cited as a significant reason for Spain’s lack of employed adults between the ages of 15–24.

    Meanwhile, the country’s reliance on temporary contracts and dependence on seasonal sectors—like tourism—to generate jobs are some of the many reasons for its persistently high reported unemployment across demographic groups.

    Listed below is the youth unemployment rate for all the OECD countries, and China, as of the second quarter of 2023.

    RankCountryAverage Youth
    Unemployment Rate
    1🇪🇸 Spain27.4%
    2🇨🇷 Costa Rica27.1%
    3🇸🇪 Sweden24.9%
    4🇬🇷 Greece23.6%
    5🇨🇳 China21.3%
    6🇮🇹 Italy21.3%
    7🇨🇱 Chile19.8%
    8🇱🇺 Luxembourg19.6%
    9🇸🇰 Slovakia18.8%
    10🇨🇴 Colombia18.7%
    11🇵🇹 Portugal17.2%
    12🇹🇷 Türkiye17.0%
    13🇫🇷 France16.9%
    14🇫🇮 Finland15.8%
    15🇪🇪 Estonia15.6%
    16🇧🇪 Belgium13.9%
    17🇱🇹 Lithuania13.8%
    18🇨🇿 Czech Republic13.7%
    19🇭🇺 Hungary13.3%
    20🇬🇧 United Kingdom11.4%
    21🇱🇻 Latvia11.0%
    22🇵🇱 Poland10.3%
    23🇳🇴 Norway10.2%
    24🇨🇦 Canada10.2%
    25🇦🇹 Austria9.6%
    26🇩🇰 Denmark9.3%
    27🇳🇱 Netherlands8.3%
    28🇺🇸 United States8.0%
    29🇦🇺 Australia7.8%
    30🇮🇪 Ireland7.4%
    31🇮🇸 Iceland7.3%
    32🇩🇪 Germany6.1%
    33🇸🇮 Slovenia5.6%
    34🇰🇷 Korea5.4%
    35🇮🇱 Israel5.3%
    36🇲🇽 Mexico5.2%
    37🇯🇵 Japan4.2%

    Announced in June, China’s youth unemployment rate has climbed to 21.3%, a meteoric rise since May 2018, when it was below 10%. The Chinese economy is in the midst of a slowdown and its steadily climbing youth unemployment prompted the government to suspend age-specific unemployment data for the near future.

    On the other side of the spectrum, in Japan, only 4.2% of young adults are without a job. A key reason for this is Japan’s shrinking and aging population that’s made for a tight labor market.

    Youth Unemployment: Men vs Women

    In most OECD countries, it’s common to see young men experiencing a higher unemployment rate compared to young women.

    This contrasts with the trend across all age groups in the OECD, where the unemployment rate is 6.3% for women and 6% for men.

    We visualize the countries in the dataset with the biggest gaps in youth unemployment below.

    There is no singular reason that explains this common gap.

    Across the OECD, more young women opt for tertiary education than young men, which may lead to better employment prospects. At the same time women are overrepresented in the health and social welfare sectors—both growing rapidly thanks to an aging population—that may make it easier for them to find jobs.

    Why Does Tracking Youth Unemployment Matter?

    Aside from being an indicator of general opportunities within a country, youth unemployment is a key metric to track, because it can be a bellwether for future economic prospects.

    High rates of youth unemployment also correlate to brain drain within a country, as young adults move elsewhere to find better jobs.

    Finally, large increases in unemployed youth have historically led to the potential of civil unrest, which makes it a politically-charged metric to identify and monitor for governments.

    This post was originally published at Zero Hedge

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    Kremlin Rejects “Absolute Lie” That Putin Ordered Killing Of Wagner’s Prigozhin

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    Russian investigators say they are currently conducting DNA testing on the recovered bodies from the Wednesday plane crash northwest of Moscow believed to have killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and his top commanders.

    In yesterday’s condolence speech, President Putin referred to the Wagner chief in the past tense, remembering him as a “talented” businessman who made “mistakes”—which was widely seen as high level confirmation he went down in the plane

    State media sources have revealed new details of the status of the investigation at the crash site, with RT underscoring that DNA tests will take time, and that “the probe was entrusted to Ivan Sibula, a senior investigator who previously led inquiries into high-profile air incidents in Russia.”

    As for the US reaction, President Joe Biden had been quick to point the finger directly at Putin, saying while on vacation Wednesday he was “not surprised” as “There’s not much that happens in Russia that Putin’s not behind.” Biden had been briefed soon after reports of the crash emerged, but said, “I don’t know enough to know the answer. I’ve been working out for the last hour and a half.”

    A Thursday Pentagon briefing gave an official US assessment, with Pentagon spokesman Gen. Pat Ryder saying an intentional explosion brought down Prigozhin’s plane. Ryder called initial US reports of a surface-to-air missile “inaccurate” amid other reports saying it was a bomb detonated midair. The Pentagon assessed that Prigozhin was likely on board and was killed in the crash, but didn’t attempt to posit a precise cause.

    Interestingly, Ryder also strongly suggested that Wagner mercenaries are no longer active in a significant way on the Ukraine battlefield:

    Ryder recalled that after the rebellion of the Wagner Group two months ago in Russia, these forces were actually withdrawn from near Bakhmut and the battlefield in general.

    “But for all intents and purposes their combat effectiveness has been diminished. And they are no longer a significant factor when it comes to the conflict inside Ukraine.”

    Importantly, the Kremlin has on Friday rejected Biden’s allegation that Putin was behind it, with presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov calling attempts to incriminate Russian government leaders absolute lies

    “There is a lot of speculation around the plane crash and the tragic death of the passengers, including Yevgeny Prigozhin,” Peskov told reporters during a briefing. “Of course, in the West, this speculation is being presented from a certain angle. All of this is an absolute lie,” he added.

    Meanwhile, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has said those Wagner fighters currently in Belarus can stay there, according to state-run BelTA, at a moment the fate of the organization is uncertain. Makeshift memorials have been seen at Wagner offices in Russian cities, including in St. Petersburg where the group’s large HQ building is located.

    This post was originally published at Zero Hedge

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