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https://www.sott.net/article/463799-Justin-Trudeau-moved-to-secret-location-during-Canada-vax-protests-report

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family were reportedly moved to a secret location Saturday after thousands of protesters descended on the country's capital to decry COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Trudeau, his wife and their children were relocated from their Ottawa home to the undisclosed location in the capital amid heightened security concerns, sources told CBC.

The prime minister's itinerary for the day usually states he is in Ottawa if he's at home, but on Saturday it was changed to say "National Capital Region." Trudeau has been working remotely and isolating after one of his children tested positive for COVID last week.

The move to relocate Trudeau came as the protesters — mostly made up of a huge convoy of truckers — rolled into the city to rail against vaccine mandates, masks and lockdowns.

The so-called "Freedom Convoy" initially started as a protest against a vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers, but quickly grew into a mass demonstration against the Canadian government over COVID regulations.

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https://needtoknow.news/2022/01/the-truth-is-coming-out-about-covid-deaths/

The Truth Is Coming Out About COVID Deaths

Data shows COVID-19 deaths have been wildly exaggerated by counting people who died from other conditions but had a positive COVID test within 28 days of their death. Newly released data from the UK shows that the number of deaths between January 2020 and the end of September 2021 in England and Wales, where COVID-19 was the sole cause of death, was just 17,371 — not 137,133 as reported. The average age of death in the UK from COVID in 2021 was 82.5 years. This hardly constitutes an emergency, least of all for healthy school- and working-age individuals.

 

In the US, data suggest a similar pattern of exaggerated COVID death statistics. Most recently, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Rochelle Walensky cited research showing that 77.8% of people who had received the COVID jab yet died from/with COVID also had, on average, four comorbidities.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/long-funeral-homes-short-life-insurers-ex-blackrock-fund-manager-discovers-some-disturbing

Long Funeral Homes, Short Life Insurers? Ex-Blackrock Fund Manager Discovers Disturbing Trends In Mortality

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Friday, Feb 04, 2022 - 12:10 PM

Four weeks ago, OneAmerica insurance company CEO Scott Davison revealed that they had witnessed 'the highest death rates in the history of this business - not just at OneAmerica' with a jump of '40% over what they were pre-pandemic.' Interestingly, Davison noted that the majority of deaths are not classified as due to Covid-19.

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...The implication to many was clear - that the Covid-19 vaccine is linked to the excess mortality, and months of vaccine injury reports were now spilling over to actuarial data - which is beginning to show, among other things, that younger, working-age people began dying in greater numbers as vaccine mandates hit - for a disease which primarily kills older, non-working age individuals. The counter argument, often presented without evidence, is that the increase is due to people who postponed elective surgeries and other medical treatments during the pandemic...

...Ex-Blackrock fund manager Ed Dowd is in the former camp, and has spent the last month analyzing breadcrumbs associated with a rise in excess mortality vs. pre-pandemic levels. Given that we're now in the middle of earnings season, there are some pretty big crumbs rolling out of the insurance and funeral services industries which are beginning to paint a disturbing picture.

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A few key observations:

  • Mortality worsened in 2021 vs. 2020 despite widespread vaccinations

  • A spike in Mortality among younger, working-age individuals coincided with vaccine mandates

  • The spike in younger deaths peaked in Q3 2021 when Covid deaths were extremely low (but rising into the end of September)

On Tuesday, financial insurance company Unum reported that their Life segment saw an increase of 9% in their ratio of payouts vs. premiums (Benefit ratio), a 17.4% increase in 2021 vs. 2020 despite widespread vaccinations, and a 13.3% increase over 2019.

...On Wednesday, Dowd noted that funeral home company Carriage Services saw a 28% increase in September 2021 vs. 2020, and a 13% increase in August vs. the same period. Funerals and cremations are up 12% and 13% respectively on the quarter.

In general, funeral homes saw an uptick in business in Q3, and Dowd will be closely monitoring Q4 reports which are expected around Feb. 15 - less than two weeks away...

...Dowd also noted on Wednesday that Lincoln National's death claims are up 13.7% y/y, and up 57% in Q4 vs. 2019. CFO Randy Frietag explained on Thursday that in 2021, the share of young people dying from Covid doubled in the second half of the year...

...Meanwhile, Reinsurance Group of America noted in their Thursday earnings call that Q4 was impacted by a meaningful level of Covid-19 mortality claims despite the fact that the Covid-19 vaccines have been around for more than a year...

Also noting a spike in younger deaths which peaked in Q3 2021, is Hardford Insurance Group, which reported that mortality is up 32% from 2019 pre-covid levels, and 20% from 2020 pre-vaccine levels...

...mRNA inventor Dr. Robert Malone noted the troubling data in a recent appearance on Steve Bannon's "War Room":..

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Some key questions for the insurance companies:

  • What are the leading causes of death for 2020 and 2021?
  • How many of those who died were vaccinated vs. unvaccinated?

Reinsurance Group of America, for example, reported a profit in Q4 2020 when the most of the population was unvaccinated and amid a deadlier strain of Covid-19, yet they registered a loss in Q4 2021 with more than 60% of the country fully vaccinated (and around 75% who have received at least one dose).

Perhaps this is why Pfizer is now actively fighting to suppress research data submitted to the FDA for approval - while the pharmaceutical giant and its peers continue to enjoy legal immunity from vaccine injuries.

In closing, some tongue-in-cheek non investment advice from Dowd:

Long funeral homes short life insurance. Not investment advice but illustrates my point. One industry is growing the other is not.

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https://healthimpactnews.com/2022/38983-deaths-and-3530362-injuries-following-covid-shots-in-european-database-as-mass-funeral-for-children-who-died-after-pfizer-vaccine-held-in-switzerland/

38,983 Deaths and 3,530,362 Injuries Following COVID Shots in European Database as Mass Funeral for Children who Died After Pfizer Vaccine Held in Switzerland

On January 29, 2021 a mass funeral protest for children who have died after receiving a Pfizer vaccine was held in Geneva, Switzerland.

Someone recorded the event and made a short video. This is on our Bitchute Channel, and also on our Telegram channel.

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On 1/25/2022 at 12:30 AM, TailingsPond said:

Note that the vaccines are given to the old and sick first; so the same argument ("they were dying anyways") can be used for the vaccine deaths. A generally mild vaccine reaction might be enough to kill someone who is already very frail.

 

Hey, its almost as if you chose to use your brain.  Good to know it is possible. 

Except you have a problem: It is not called a vaccine death...they are labeled as unvaccinated deaths. 

My aunt was almost one of those "unvaccinated deaths" after taking the jab and effectively going into an epileptic state, lack of oxygen, 2 days after the shot even though she has never had such problems in her life before.  Did the doctors ever write it down as caused by the clot shot?  Oh HELL NO...  After seeing that, no way in Hell would I take their mRNA murder jabs.  They are clearly and obviously lying for profit and power.  Everyone knows adverse reactions to mRNA drugs(drugs, Not vaccines, a vaccine gives immunity) never happen... right? and does not count until 3 weeks after the jab... Ah, lying staticians...  Surprised they did not say 6 weeks or Hell, 3 months... after all that is when the drug is worse than ivermectin in the short term. 

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On 2/4/2022 at 10:55 AM, Tom Nolan said:

Long funeral homes short life insurance. Not investment advice but illustrates my point. One industry is growing the other is not.

It should be noted that 2021 has a provisional ***100,000*** dead from drug "overdoses" when 2019 was ~45,000, 2020 was ~70,000 dead, which was way up itself... Hrmm, Gee, let me think why .... hrmm let see... if you take a clot shot + Covid which causes heart problems and take meth, extasy etc.... guess what folks?  Your heart blows up when the drugs combine.  It would be VERY interesting to see how many of those who overdosed had the mRNA jab  I am sure this info will only come out 5 years from now... MAYBE

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On 2/4/2022 at 12:55 PM, Tom Nolan said:

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/long-funeral-homes-short-life-insurers-ex-blackrock-fund-manager-discovers-some-disturbing

Long Funeral Homes, Short Life Insurers? Ex-Blackrock Fund Manager Discovers Disturbing Trends In Mortality

Tyler Durden's Photo
by Tyler Durden
Friday, Feb 04, 2022 - 12:10 PM

Four weeks ago, OneAmerica insurance company CEO Scott Davison revealed that they had witnessed 'the highest death rates in the history of this business - not just at OneAmerica' with a jump of '40% over what they were pre-pandemic.' Interestingly, Davison noted that the majority of deaths are not classified as due to Covid-19.

IMAGES IN ARTICLE

...The implication to many was clear - that the Covid-19 vaccine is linked to the excess mortality, and months of vaccine injury reports were now spilling over to actuarial data - which is beginning to show, among other things, that younger, working-age people began dying in greater numbers as vaccine mandates hit - for a disease which primarily kills older, non-working age individuals. The counter argument, often presented without evidence, is that the increase is due to people who postponed elective surgeries and other medical treatments during the pandemic...

...Ex-Blackrock fund manager Ed Dowd is in the former camp, and has spent the last month analyzing breadcrumbs associated with a rise in excess mortality vs. pre-pandemic levels. Given that we're now in the middle of earnings season, there are some pretty big crumbs rolling out of the insurance and funeral services industries which are beginning to paint a disturbing picture.

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A few key observations:

  • Mortality worsened in 2021 vs. 2020 despite widespread vaccinations

  • A spike in Mortality among younger, working-age individuals coincided with vaccine mandates

  • The spike in younger deaths peaked in Q3 2021 when Covid deaths were extremely low (but rising into the end of September)

On Tuesday, financial insurance company Unum reported that their Life segment saw an increase of 9% in their ratio of payouts vs. premiums (Benefit ratio), a 17.4% increase in 2021 vs. 2020 despite widespread vaccinations, and a 13.3% increase over 2019.

...On Wednesday, Dowd noted that funeral home company Carriage Services saw a 28% increase in September 2021 vs. 2020, and a 13% increase in August vs. the same period. Funerals and cremations are up 12% and 13% respectively on the quarter.

In general, funeral homes saw an uptick in business in Q3, and Dowd will be closely monitoring Q4 reports which are expected around Feb. 15 - less than two weeks away...

...Dowd also noted on Wednesday that Lincoln National's death claims are up 13.7% y/y, and up 57% in Q4 vs. 2019. CFO Randy Frietag explained on Thursday that in 2021, the share of young people dying from Covid doubled in the second half of the year...

...Meanwhile, Reinsurance Group of America noted in their Thursday earnings call that Q4 was impacted by a meaningful level of Covid-19 mortality claims despite the fact that the Covid-19 vaccines have been around for more than a year...

Also noting a spike in younger deaths which peaked in Q3 2021, is Hardford Insurance Group, which reported that mortality is up 32% from 2019 pre-covid levels, and 20% from 2020 pre-vaccine levels...

...mRNA inventor Dr. Robert Malone noted the troubling data in a recent appearance on Steve Bannon's "War Room":..

...

Some key questions for the insurance companies:

  • What are the leading causes of death for 2020 and 2021?
  • How many of those who died were vaccinated vs. unvaccinated?

Reinsurance Group of America, for example, reported a profit in Q4 2020 when the most of the population was unvaccinated and amid a deadlier strain of Covid-19, yet they registered a loss in Q4 2021 with more than 60% of the country fully vaccinated (and around 75% who have received at least one dose).

Perhaps this is why Pfizer is now actively fighting to suppress research data submitted to the FDA for approval - while the pharmaceutical giant and its peers continue to enjoy legal immunity from vaccine injuries.

In closing, some tongue-in-cheek non investment advice from Dowd:

Long funeral homes short life insurance. Not investment advice but illustrates my point. One industry is growing the other is not.

 

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/steve-kirsch-blockbuster-embalmer-richard-hirschman-reveals-bizarre-clotting-in-65-of-deaths/

Steve Kirsch Blockbuster — Embalmer Richard Hirschman finds ‘novel, bizarre clotting’ in 65% of deaths…

Richard Hirschman has been an embalmer for over 20 years. In 2021, he started noticing very odd blood clots that he had never seen before. In Jan 2022, 65% of his cases exhibited these clots. The only rational conclusion is that the clots, which are deadly, are all associated with the COVID vaccines. Nobody from the mainstream media or medical community wants to touch this story. It’s not just Richard who is seeing this; it is everyone in the industry he’s talked to about it. They are all seeing it, but Richard is the only person in the US (so far) willing to speak out about it.

This 53 minute video may prove to be one of the most important videos of the year.

STEVE KIRSCH SUBSTACK

Over half the deaths seen by this funeral director were likely caused by the COVID vaccines

Fifteen embalmers are all seeing odd fatal clotting in people that first started in 2021. As many as 65% of cases are affected. Here are some of the most important things I learned from Richard:

  1. He started noticing the strange clots around May or June 2021. He’d never seen anything like it before in his life. However, he admits they could have started much earlier and he just never noticed them before because he was very busy.
  2. He is not aware of any cases where the strange clots were seen in unvaccinated cases (except for one unvaccinated person who received a transfusion)
  3. He started formally tracking the number of patients with the strange clots in late 2021.
  4. He says currently over 50% of the bodies he embalms have the strange clots which he uniquely associates with the vaccines/boosters. This is the bombshell. The CDC says deaths from the vaccine are 0% and this embalmer, who has no conflicts of interest, says it is now over 50% of the cases he sees. They can’t both be telling the truth. One of them is lying.
  5. In Jan 2022, 37 out of 57 (65% of all cases) had these suspicious clots. That’s huge.
  6. His embalming volume varies by day. Sometimes it is one a day, other days it can be up to 6 or 7. He estimates he does an average of 2 per day, which is over 600 bodies a year. So while these aren’t huge numbers, the numbers are large enough that it is unlikely that the effect they are seeing is just due to small numbers.
  7. He contracts out his services to a variety of funeral homes. In 2020, he’d see a lot of COVID deaths because other embalmers didn’t want to touch those cases. Richard is COVID recovered so he had no problem handling those cases. Now, however, that fear has greatly subsided so now he is seeing more of a representative sample (i.e., unbiased) of people who die. So his “over 50% of deaths” figure is only slightly exaggerated from an embalmer seeing an “unfiltered” set of people.
  8. Younger people tend to be cremated, so he won’t see those cases.
  9. His peers (he’s discussed with 15 of them) see the same thing he does but won’t speak out publicly. I see this in other areas such as school officials being afraid to reveal high rates of myocarditis in their schools. For example, Nikki Daniels, Head of School at Monte Vista Christian School, isn’t speaking out about the four myocarditis cases at their small private school (which translates into a rate of myocarditis that I’d estimate is more than 1 in 100).
  10. The mainstream media, mainstream medical community, and HHS agencies are all ignoring Hirschman and others like John Looney. Only alt-media has reached out to him to write an article.
  11. PolitiFact reached out to try to discredit him but ended up not writing an article presumably because they failed to find anything to attack him on.
  12. There is no other explanation for this that we can figure out. It pretty much has to be a novel injectable product, first used in 2021 that results in blood clots and is injected into well over 50% of the population. There is only one drug that fits that bill: the COVID vaccines.
  13. None of his embalmer friends who have seen the data are planning on getting any more COVID vaccine shots.
  14. Richard is not alone. See this compilation: People who would know.
  15. Fewer than 1% of people who get the shots will die. As Dr. Mike Yeadon points out in the comments below, whether you die or not is likely a combination of how well you “take up” and “replicate” the mRNA, how dangerous the batch is, and other factors....[more at link, including video]
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22 hours ago, Tom Nolan said:

 

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The protesters should leave their children at home; using them as some sort of tool in a unstable environment is disgraceful. 

You don't honestly think that child has political views do you?

 

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15 hours ago, TailingsPond said:

The protesters should leave their children at home; using them as some sort of tool in a unstable environment is disgraceful. 

You don't honestly think that child has political views do you?

 

 

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On 2/10/2022 at 10:06 AM, TailingsPond said:

The protesters should leave their children at home; using them as some sort of tool in a unstable environment is disgraceful. 

You don't honestly think that child has political views do you?

 

While TailingsPond doesn't deserve Freedom and Liberty, but only a Nazi Collectivist Ruling Tyrant, the only threat to stability and civility at Ottawa is from the Tyrants who wish to dictate the lives of others and who wish to be their rulers.  The Ottawa demonstrators and "Freedom Convoy 2022" only desire freedom and liberty. 

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Wee bit of an age difference there. Try harder.

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1 hour ago, Tom Nolan said:

While TailingsPond doesn't deserve Freedom and Liberty, but only a Nazi Collectivist Ruling Tyrant, the only threat to stability and civility at Ottawa is from the Tyrants who wish to dictate the lives of others and who wish to be their rulers.  The Ottawa demonstrators and "Freedom Convoy 2022" only desire freedom and liberty. 

They are pissing everyone off - including right wing parties.

Doug Ford is coming for blood if they don't leave quick. (e.g. take away their class 1 licences).   He already got a court order to stop GiveSendGo from transferring them funding.  This is not the Feds / JT, it's the province. 

Funny thing is omicron has pretty much run it's course so the mandates will go away and it will have nothing to do with the truckers.

People are super pissed at them, you would be too if someone blocked your driveway and honked all night for days.

 

Ah Tom, always wrong yet keeps trying despite constant evidence of failure.   You didn't stop anyone from getting the vaccine... you are powerless. Nobody cares what you think - accept reality for a change.

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3 hours ago, TailingsPond said:

They are pissing everyone off - including right wing parties.

Doug Ford is coming for blood if they don't leave quick. (e.g. take away their class 1 licences).   He already got a court order to stop GiveSendGo from transferring them funding.  This is not the Feds / JT, it's the province. 

Funny thing is omicron has pretty much run it's course so the mandates will go away and it will have nothing to do with the truckers.

People are super pissed at them, you would be too if someone blocked your driveway and honked all night for days.

 

Ah Tom, always wrong yet keeps trying despite constant evidence of failure.   You didn't stop anyone from getting the vaccine... you are powerless. Nobody cares what you think - accept reality for a change.

TailingsPond, You hate for others to be free.  By the way, you are wrong about GiveSendGo which basically told the Premier to "fuck off".  I am watching the demonstrators, not the mainstream news who you worship and bow to because they have enslaved your mindset.  I watch ordinary citizens who have become the media showing on-the-ground interactions.  You love the corporations who fuel your press and your overlord tyrants. 

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TailingsPond, You hate for others to be free.  By the way, you are wrong about GiveSendGo which basically told the Premier to "fuck off"I am watching the demonstrators, not the mainstream news who you worship and bow to because they have enslaved your mindset.  I watch ordinary citizens who have become the media showing on-the-ground interactions.  You love the corporations who fuel your press and your overlord tyrants. 

GiveSendGo will listen to the courts, or pay for it dearly.

You are not watching the demonstrators... you are watching biased alt-media. I actually live in Canada and people are mad.

 

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I actually hope GiveSendGo ignores the court order. That makes any attempted money transfers illegal and the money could be seized for good (or at least tied up in courts for years). 

No pity for terrorists.

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On 2/11/2022 at 5:43 PM, TailingsPond said:

I actually hope GiveSendGo ignores the court order. That makes any attempted money transfers illegal and the money could be seized for good (or at least tied up in courts for years). 

No pity for terrorists.

TailingsPond, You support Tyranny.  Back in the 60's when I was in the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-War Movement, I met your kind.  You hate freedom.  You call Civil Disobedience a terrorist action.  You support the mad dogs who came for Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi.  Your ilk helped to raise fascist Italy and Hitler's Germany and Stalin's death camps.  Live with it.  I know you will never, ever be able to recognize the evil you support, because you would crawl away in shame for suppressing the natural God-given human rights of individuals.  Live with it.  You have destroyed your soul because you suppress the innate rights and freedoms of the individual.  Your collectivism will swallow you.  Live with it, if you can.  Label your shirts "I despise Freedom and Liberty".

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Funeral Homes are noticing very high death counts as a result of vaccines. 

Incredibly weird clots!

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/exclusive-embalmer-reveals-93-of

[VIDEO interviews are also on Steve's Substack.]

The big news is that she found the unusual clots in 93% of the last 30 people who she embalmed. This is significant because she isn’t selective about who she embalms.

Not all embalmers will see a 93% clot rate. Richard Hirschman only sees these clots in 65% of his cases.

Either way, we have identified what is the #1 cause of death in America today; a killer that is much bigger than COVID.

This is a massive health issue since it is killing a huge number of people. Her embalmer friends have noticed it as well and have never seen it before in their careers.

The clots are only associated with people who have been vaccinated. They were only observed after the vaccines rolled out.

The clots are life threatening and are almost certainly the root cause of death in all of these cases.

I’ve written 4 Substack articles on embalmers and clots that started appearing after the vaccines rolled out:

  1. News today: Embalmers confirming most everyone are noticing these telltale clots since Jan 2021 (posted on a private chat with 14,000 embalmers) (Feb 11)

  2. Over half the deaths seen by this funeral director were likely caused by the COVID vaccines 65% of cases seen by Richard Hirschman have these clots (Feb 7).

  3. Embalmer reveals 93% of cases died from the vaccine. Anna Foster reveals that 93% of the cases she has seen recently have the telltale clots (Feb 11).

  4. Embalmers find veins and arteries… A link to the Jane Ruby interview (Jan 27)

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Nearly 24,000 Deaths After COVID Vaccines Reported to VAERS, Data Show

VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,119,063 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 23,990 deaths and 192,517 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and Feb. 11, 2022.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released new data showing a total of 1,119,063 reports of adverse events following COVID vaccines were submitted between Dec. 14, 2020, and Feb. 11, 2022, to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). VAERS is the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S.

The data included a total of 23,990 reports of deaths — an increase of 375 over the previous week — and 192,517 reports of serious injuries, including deaths, during the same time period — up 4,382 compared with the previous week.

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