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Government Gaslighting
Wikipedia defines gaslighting as follows:
 
“is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment.
 
It may evoke changes in them such as cognitive dissonance or low self-esteem, rendering the victim additionally dependent on the gaslighter for emotional support and validation.
 
Using denial, misdirection, contradiction, and misinformation, gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim’s beliefs.”
 
Psychologist Bryant Welch (in his 2008 book State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind) stated the following:
 
“To say gaslighting was started by the Bushes, Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, Fox News, or any other extant group is not simply wrong, it also misses an important point. Gaslighting comes directly from blending modern communications, marketing, and advertising techniques with long-standing methods of propaganda.
 
They were simply waiting to be discovered by those with sufficient ambition and psychological makeup to use them.”
 
Climate Change
 
On Dec 9/20, the United Nations produced the Emissions Gap Report 2020.
 
 
The document outlines the need to reduce global emissions in order to ensure that earth’s temperature does not increase by 3 degrees Celsius in order to overt climate catastrophe. 2030 is the date of no return according to the UN.
 
An AP News article (dated June 29, 1989) stated the following from Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program:
 
“Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”
 
“Governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.”
 
 
The United Nations has been stating that the world is going to end for the past 30+ years if drastic action isn’t taken immediately.
 
Do you believe that Liberal Party’s plan to increase the Carbon Tax over the next 10 years will save the planet?
 
Or is this merely a wealth distribution tax that shifts income from rural residents to those living in urban centres?
 
 
Clean Drinking Water
 
The Liberal government made a promise in their 2015 election campaign to end all long-term drinking water advisories on First Nations before March 2021.
 
On December 2, 2020, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller advised that the government would not meet this promise.
 
A new timeline for completion has not been given.
 
 
A recent report from Cooperation Canada highlighted the need for the government to increase foreign aid spending.
 
This goes beyond the billions already given on an annual basis and additional funds earmarked for COVID-19 support.
 
 
Is the government of Canada really interested in ending the long-term drinking water advisories or are these promises merely publicity stunts?
 
War on Small Business
 
Effective December 13, 2020, thousands of Alberta small businesses were again forced to close their doors as a result of new government imposed COVID-19 health restrictions.
 
 
These closures come despite the government’s lack of detail to support such closures, most notably, the compete failure of the track and trace system in the province.
 
 
Additionally, the closures come two weeks after Premier Kenney apologized for arbitrary lockdowns in March.
 
 
Where is the evidence that points to barbershops, massage therapists, gyms and other now restricted businesses as being the main driving factor of COVID-19?
 
Are the closures truly warranted or are small business owners being gaslighted by their own government?
 
COVID-19 Vaccines
 
Canadians have, for the most part, accepted restrictions on their personal freedoms in the name of the greater good throughout 2020.
 
The underlying belief in March was that we gain an understanding of the virus, find treatments or a vaccine and go on to live our normal lives again.
 
Recent articles suggest that light at the end of the lockdown tunnel may not be as close as we thought.
 
This is highlighted in an article by CBC that suggests that vaccines alone will not be enough to end pandemic measures quickly.
 
 
Given that we are nearly a year into this pandemic now, why hasn’t the government pushed all of its resources to long-term care facilities?
 
Why after the most vulnerable are vaccinated, could the general population, who are not largely impacted by this virus, unable to return to a normal life?
 
Why do the goal posts keep moving?
 
Either the health measures (including vaccines) work or they don’t. Right?

I have recently made the decision to seek nomination as a candidate in the federal electoral district of Red Deer - Mountain View. As a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), I directly see the negative impacts of government policy on business owners and most notably, their families. This has never been more evident than in 2020. Through a common sense focus and a passion for bringing people together on common ground, I will work to help bring prosperity to the riding of Red Deer – Mountain View and Canada. I am hoping to be able to share my election campaign with your viewers/readers. Feel free to touch base with me at the email listed below or at jaredpilon.com. Thanks.

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‘We’re Going To Lose’: Steve Bannon Warns Withholding Epstein Files Would Doom GOP

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Jason Cohen

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon warned on Friday that Republicans would suffer major losses if President Donald Trump’s administration does not move to release documents related to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and associations.

Axios reported on Sunday that a two-page memo showed the Department Of Justice (DOJ) and FBI found no evidence Epstein kept a “client list” or was murdered, but public doubts have continued. Bannon said on “Bannon’s War Room” that failure to release information would lead to the dissipation of one-tenth of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement and significant losses for the Republican Party in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election.

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“It’s not about just a pedophile ring and all that, it’s about who governs us, right? And that’s why it’s not going to go away … For this to go away, you’re going to lose 10% of the MAGA movement,” Bannon said. “If we lose 10% of the MAGA movement right now, we’re going to lose 40 seats in ’26, we’re going to lose the [presidency]. They don’t even have to steal it, which they’re going to try to do in ’28, because they’re going to sit there and they go, ‘They’ve disheartened the hardest-core populist nationalists’ — that’s always been who governs us.”

Bannon also demanded the publication of all the Epstein documents on “Bannon’s War Room” Thursday. He called on the DOJ to go to court and push for the release of the documents or for Trump to appoint a special counsel to manage the publication.

Epstein was arrested in 2019 and charged with sex trafficking. Shortly after, he was found dead in his New York Metropolitan Correctional Center cell shortly after. Officials asserted that he hanged himself in his cell.

However, Epstein’s death has sparked years of theories because of the malfunctioning of prison cameras, along with guards admitting to falsifying documents about checking on the then-inmate. The DOJ inspector general later confirmed that multiple surveillance cameras outside of his cell were inoperable, while others captured the common area outside his door.

Both Bannon and Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson have speculated that Epstein had connections to intelligence agencies.

Former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta allegedly indicated that Epstein was tied to intelligence, according to Vicky Ward in The Daily Beast.

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FBI’s Dan Bongino may resign after dispute about Epstein files with Pam Bondi

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From LifeSiteNews

By Emily Mangiaracina

Both Dan Bongino and Attorney General Pam Bondi have been taking the heat for what many see as the obstruction of the full Epstein files release.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino took the day off on Friday after an argument with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s case files.

One source close to Bongino told Axios that “he ain’t coming back.” Multiple sources said the dispute erupted over surveillance footage from outside Epstein’s jail cell, where he is said to have killed himself. Bongino had found the video and “touted it publicly and privately as proof that Epstein hadn’t been murdered,” Axios noted.

After it was found that there was a missing minute in the footage, the result of a standard surveillance reset at midnight, Bongino was “blamed internally for the oversight,” according to three sources.

Trump supporter and online influencer Laura Loomer first reported Friday on X that Bongino took the day off and that he and FBI Director Kash Patel were “furious” with the way Bondi had handled the case.

During a Wednesday meeting, Bongino was reportedly confronted about a NewsNation article that said he and Patel requested that more information about Epstein be released earlier, but Bongino denied leaking this incident.

“Pam said her piece. Dan said his piece. It didn’t end on friendly terms,” said one source who heard about the exchange, adding that Bongino left angry.

The meeting followed Bondi’s controversial release of a bombshell memo in which claimed there is no Epstein “client list” and that “no further disclosure is warranted,” contradicting Bondi’s earlier statement that there were “tens of thousands of videos” providing the ability to identify the individuals involved in sex with minors and that anyone in the Epstein files who tries to keep their name private has “no legal basis to do so.”

The memo “is attempting to sweep the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal under the rug,” according to independent investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger in a superb analysis published on X.

“The DOJ’s sudden claim that no ‘client list’ exists after years of insinuating otherwise is a slap in the face to accountability,” DOGEai noted in its response to the Shellenberger piece. “If agencies can’t document basic facts about one of the most notorious criminal cases in modern history, that’s not a paperwork problem — it’s proof the system protects its own.”

Carlson offered the theory that U.S. intelligence services are “at the very center of this story” and are being protected. His guest, Saagar Enjeti, agreed. “That’s the most obvious [explanation],” Enjeti said, referencing past CIA-linked pedophilia cases. He noted the agency had avoided prosecutions for fear suspects would reveal “sources and methods” in court.

Investigative journalist Whitney Webb has discussed in her book “One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein,” how the intelligence community leverages sex trafficking through operatives like Epstein to blackmail politicians, members of law enforcement, businessmen, and other influential figures.

Just one example of evidence of this, according to Webb, is former U.S. Secretary of Labor and U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta’s explanation as to why he agreed to a non-prosecution deal in the lead-up to Epstein’s 2008 conviction of procuring a child for prostitution. Acosta told Trump transition team interviewers that he was told that Epstein “belonged to intelligence,” adding that he was told to “leave it alone,” The Daily Beast reported.

While Epstein himself never stood trial, as he allegedly committed suicide while under “suicide watch” in his jail cell in 2019, many have questioned the suicide and whether the well-connected financier was actually murdered as part of a cover-up.

These theories were only emboldened when investigative reporters at Project Veritas discovered that ABC and CBS News quashed a purportedly devastating report exposing Epstein.

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