As I write this there’s a convoy of trucks that are effectively blockading Ottawa, Canada. It has been brewing for a week now and has been pretty hard to miss but then, I don’t take any of my news from local news sources.
On Friday I worked with my business partner who is a very clever Elec Eng who takes his news from ABC, Ch7 or Fairfax. When I asked what he thought of the Canadian truckies, he just looked at me with a complete blank.
He’d never heard of it … not even a whisper.
So today I did some Googling (for what that’s worth) and confined the searches to Australian sites. Tried Microsoft Edge too but I got nothing except for a single mention from news.com.au
Media blackout.
How is it that such a significant event is effectively wiped from the Australian consciousness?
All of them … all at once?
CBC News in the US reckons it’s the Russians of course.
So how does everybody feel about being lied to on a national scale?
Are we feeling safer yet?
Try saying to him “Has the penny dropped yet?” and walk away.
The Great Reset has been going on for some time.
it isn’t on fox news or CNN either.
Just did a search using Bing (on MS Edge). Lots of mentions, including video.
PS, but generally o/s sites.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=405491391346853
https://www.rt.com/news/547737-canada-police-anti-covid-trucker-convoy/
I pretty much go to Breitbart first thing in the morning to find out what’s going on in the world. The Canadian trucker convoy, amongst other world issues, has been covered for days.
Pretty certain “Outsiders” on Sky featured the truckie convoy this morning.
Just added a couple of hours ago. How really, really slack.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/hundreds-of-truckers-pour-into-ottawa-to-protest-vaccine-requirements/news-story/216998524c4ae4812bfa01aaa955a618
PS. This is the entire article. Weak as p1ss.
There’s a convoy on its way to Canberra as we speak, due to arrive there tomorrow morning (Monday). I daresay there’s nothing about that on the MSM either. The numbers are smaller, as are the crowds cheering along the road, but they are there.
What impressed me about the Canadian convoy, is that the drivers are doing this in their winter, with unpleasant road conditions (to say the least!), and the public supporting them in what look to be tens of thousands along the way are also out there in clearly freezing conditions – but they’re there and cheering days and night, waving flags and signs that have obviously taken a lot of work in many cases.
Graham Hood, the former Qantas pilot who quit or was sacked rather than take the jab, is posting updates on his farce book page. He’s going along as a private citizen, not involved in the protest or any part of the oraganisation. He’s just going along to be there. Apparently a lot of truck drivers are not in trucks, as they’re not owner-drivers so don’t own the truck, so less trucks than the Canadian outfit.
Apparently there are similar convoys getting together in other countries as well. Again, you’d not know about it if you didn’t follow alternative media. Same with the Freedom Day rallies around the world. Lotus Eaters had a segment overnight about those.
“Hundreds” of truckers???? There might be only “hundreds” in the immediate vicinity of their parliament, because they can’t fit them all in – the apparently tens of thousands of trucks that made up the convoy.
Lying bloody media! And of course, no comments allowed on that very brief story. Cowards!
Protest in Aus as well as Bushkid highlighted. Craig Kelly has picked it up:
https://twitter.com/CraigKellyMP/status/1487636841557725193?cxt=HHwWksCo_er0kqUpAAAA
I saw references to it last night by someone who commented the organisers have a non public facebook page and are on Telegram. Strange as it’s as if they don’t want the coverage or simply expected the media to not ignore them.
I’m surprised you’re surprised MT! This media blackout encapsulates perfectly the MSM in 2022….they refuse to report on anything that goes against their preferred narrative and if they do, the smears immediately begin…..far-right, white supremacist, fascist, neo-Nazi, anti-vaxxers, Covid deniers etc…these are all the MSM’s go to descriptors. It is no different here. Remember how only last year the MSM covered the Melbourne protests and remember how they smeared the protesters.
It is no different in the UK and Europe.
I often wonder what to do with the MSM. In Canada the boy who likes to wear blackface PM has bailed out the CBC and other media organisations so that now these corporations are servants of the leftist state and they’re media mouthpieces for the Canadian Liberal government. Before the last Canadian federal election back in September 2021, the Canadian MSM refused to give any airtime to Maxim Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada…the only true opposition in Canada, the so called “Conservative Party of Canada” makes our Liberal/National parties look positively right-wing. The only alternative MSM in Canada is Rebel News. It does God’s work but everyday it’s smeared by the left and even fools on the right who should know better. I suspect the fools on the right are jealous of Ezra Levant….who’s been fighting the progressive left for almost two decades.
I no longer read much of the MSM, I’ve even given up on the Oz newspaper. I do read the Daily Telegraph, I get the local news from the Telegraph and it doesn’t annoy me as much as the Oz, which is going fully woke.
But the MSM in general needs to be destroyed, obliterated, disappeared. Almost all journalists are now “activist” scum. The only solution is to stop buying/subscribing and then the Marxist journalist scum, who now dominate journalism at the various MSM outlets, will see just how dependent they’re on market forces because they’re bleeding readers.
The MSM is the enemy of the people.
Been that way for a while. One example:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SFhUfRSH8os
Ottawa current
https://www.facebook.com/AliciaHenryLovesYou/videos/624629822082273
Are they being blamed for rampant inflation as well?
Sadly, it is not just mainstream media that neglects the full spectrum of information available in this modern age. These days you have to go searching for data (let alone “the truth”) yourself. And in this age of the pursuit of trivia, few do.
Maybe I am getting old and grouchy, but reading even Quadrant today I found cause to vent my spleen at the failure of well educated people to examine data themselves. In a comment on an article which seemed to me to underrate the damage of the last two years to freedom of speech, I wrote the following:
Tim Blair:
mighty 70-kilometre truck convoy has arrived in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, where it has been joined by thousands of people opposed to vaccination mandates…..
The Washington Post, as you might expect, condemned the drivers as fascists…..
Whatever. This seems a little closer to fascistic:
Nova Scotia bans gatherings along highway in support of trucker freedom convoy…..
Justin Trudeau has run away:
Amid security concerns, Trudeau and his family have been moved from their home to an undisclosed location in the nation’s capital, sources said…….
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/great-northern-antimandate-convoy/news-story/f71fe6019a4c17102c53d77c3328dfa2
RE the Canadian Truckie Fightback:
This inspiring note to Heather Heying (Bret Weinstein’s wife) from a follower in Ontario describes this Truckie Cavalcade which might just change history:
I did my own search today (prior to even seeing this article) and came to the same conclusion. 100% local censorship. Clearly with Dan’s new proposed third, forth and fifth booster mandates (march, may, august) its important not to let any of the people know that others around the world are not putting up with this shit any longer. Its important too that we don’t know that there’s a smaller convoy of trucks heading to canberra. Imagine that. It the people found that out. Clearly the australian press and the various governments have a nice cosy mutual arrangement. Its almost as if when the government says a story is not to be covered then it is not covered.
“Ivan Denisovichsays:
January 30, 2022 at 4:29 pm”
Just checked Tim Blair’s site (I comment there).
I’ve left a comment…
I’ve heard a rumour that Justin Trudeau is hiding away in black face?
This is why I didn’t replace my TV when it expired last March. The television news was useless, it failed to cover anything important and usually lied about the stuff it was covering. The information content was negative. The ads were the most honest things on it.
Fortunately there are many other news sources that I can go to, and if advertisers want to sell me stuff they can advertise on those sites. (Hint: don’t use Google Ads).
A message to the MSM: “you can’t handle the truth!”
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That didn’t work. Was supposed to be lol.
andrew
Clearly the australian press and the various governments have a nice cosy mutual arrangement. Its almost as if when the government says a story is not to be covered then it is not covered.
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the media were outraged by the very existence of the “D Notice” system, which blocked publication of matters affecting national security adversely. Now they are willing participants in a much tighter system of censorship.
A functioning democracy requires an objective media and journalists that try to be objective. Now journalists proudly proclaim their leftist activism. They don’t even try to hide their ideological biases. They don’t report, they opine and pontificate. Everyday they choose their political sides….one side…..the left. They cover for progressive and leftist politicians. We see this everyday with our own MSM here…their ABC, SBS, the free to air channels, they don’t try and hide their bias towards the left. They ignore the sexual scandals and indiscretions on the left, but happily and rigorously focus on the sexual scandals and indiscretions of the right….be it Barnaby, Porter, Tudge and so on. The double standards are unbelievable.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki style, including of course, the frigging ALPBC and fringe collectivist lunatic outfits (BIRM) such as the (taxpayer funded) Conversation and the Gauirnad.
I make no apology for holding this view.
P.S. As for that loathsome blackface self fellating soyboy buying off the canuckistanian braindead lamestream meeja, that fat li’l narcissistic knobgobbler Rudd pulled off the same stunt in 2008. He gifted tens of millions of taxpayers’ money to the braindead commercial FTA TV channels, all of whom were financially on their last hind trotters at the time.
all of which, FFS …
Bruce, the one use of the MSM on TV is that it makes you ANGRY. VERY ANGRY. And although it is not good for my general health and love of life, it MOTIVATES me against this crap.
Initially Lenin exercised broad editorial control but by the late ’20s, Pravda had become Stalin’s personal weapon.
Canada, UK, France, Germany, etc.
Did you hear of any of them on the Australian MSM?
Seems AAP has it on the wire: https://www.examiner.com.au/story/7599627/canadian-truckies-lead-jab-mandate-protest/
but of course your media outlet may choose what it wants. Home and Away ructions are more newsworthy.
Over the last two years, I have heard a few times “my friend was so sick, never been so sick” bu tI never met anyone I know who had been sick at all, gone to hospital, or died. but everyone was afraid.
They were driven to fear by the virus.
But that fear has changed course, and now they are afraid of the jab, because people actually know or know of people how have died or become seriously ill from the jab.
Sticking the children was a bridge too far, and the ramifications of number three are frightening
The jab numbers for third dose and kids have both stalled in the mid 30%’s.
The media and the politicians will have to face it soon. They cannot continue. Every Day fewer people are prepared to listen to them.
Even the rabid believers only believe because they are terrified, and Chinese Whispers are more terrifying than lies.
So keep telling of deaths and illnesses. If you have names, use them.
Force the believers to reassess their fear of death.
They will die at their own hand from the Jab
They are hearing about the jab failure and are in denial, but they will turn.
Terrify them.
As the convoy is around 45 MILES long, I’m surprised they can’t see it from space. Not easy to miss.
Today I thought about this while pushing some drill lines through hard country. It
is a boring job so my mind wanders here and there.
I used to think the MSM were deliberately down playing or just plain denying these sort of stories because they are evil lying sacks of shit. I still think they are all of that however I now think they are doing it to protect the delicate Karen’s of the world from having to face the reality of their own subservience to the Covid cult. They cannot be allowed to see any thing that doesn’t fit the narrative, lest they momentarily blink and see the real world that most of us inhabit.
Oddly enough, New Daily has a decent story:
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/coronavirus/2022/01/30/canada-truckies-covid-convoy/?breaking_live_scroll=1
I think this summarises the entire matter and our universal responses to it quite nicely.
And it’s done by a Canadian band, to boot! 😀
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sKWLFX8UcZ4
Today I thought about this while pushing some drill lines through hard country. It
is a boring job
Sorry, but this couldn’t pass unremarked.
One hearty Guffaw to you, Bill from the Bush. Whether it was unintended or not. 🙂
ScuMo has given the MSM a 100% tax rebate and he effectively pays for all the ads, directly or de facto.
Bought and paid for by you.
AAP.
That’s the real problem with the media these days – papers got rid of 95% of their journalists.. they now just have activist monkeys pulling stuff off the wire.
Until there are real world consequences for politicians beyond simply not being re-elected, there will be no change in how they simply laugh with contempt at the population.
Until our ‘dear leaders’ suffer punishments of a Mussolini style, there will be no change in their attitude towards the general population.
The most fake news is the news that’s not reported.
@Lee:
“A message to the MSM: “you can’t handle the truth!””
They are utterly adept at molesting it, though.
Reported by self titled “journalists”.
Rex Anger says:
January 30, 2022 at 8:06 pm
Today I thought about this while pushing some drill lines through hard country. It
is a boring job
It may be boring, but necrophilia is dead boring…
Plasmamortar
When they got away with Subprime they believed they could do whatever they liked. After that, no moral hazard, no moral anything; And they are doing it to us over and over.
Rabz Vicki (wicki) i too scream at the gaybc news channel 10 show with the clowns, – my wife tells me I am hard to live wif , so I go for a walk, when people ask me somefin and I reply I don’t watch the news they say I should get real and out of my bubble.
As I edited my three thumb typing I noticed that, but I decided WTF and left it as is.
Media is now the running dog of the fascists.
Yes, it is. Tucker Carlson had a major feature on the Canadian truckies protest on Friday (US time — Saturday in Australia), including the attempt by the Washington Post to gaslight the US with its now-infamous cartoon accusing the protestors of “fascism”. Link.
I have no doubt the Australian media is trying to gaslight the Australian public as the Australian news media’s coverage if the US is one long press release from the Democratic Party.
For example, the Seven network’s smear of the weekend Trump rally in Texas (carried on Sunday night Australian time) was so inaccurate it was comical.
More on the Washington Post‘s gaslighting here.
I rarely look at FTA TV but when I do it seems that over half the ads are either direct gov ads or semi gov bodies ads. When half your revenue is from the gov you’re not going to upset them. There needs to be strict limits placed on all gov funded advertising no matter whether it’s directly or indirectly funded. Can’t see it happening.
Gave up on Australian media nearly two years ago. Pretty sure they are paid not to report anything against the government narrative. I want to know why Australia, New Zealand and Canada are going in the opposite direction to the rest of the world. Even WHO says boosters do nothing yet we have Danger Dan pushing them and as for the PM, well any porky isn’t big enough.
I get my information from USA ad Britain on conservative websites like Whatfinger, Wayne Dupree, Breitbart, Daily Dispatch etc. They tell me far more than the complicit MSM in Oz.
Miss Anthropistsays:
January 30, 2022 at 11:05 pm
Media is now the running dog of the fascists.
Use thge correct Maoist language.
“Running dog lackeys of the reactionary fascist establishment.”
Those of you wanting up to date anti lefty Canadian commentary go to a great site, Small Dead Animals.
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/
“This is why I didn’t replace my TV when it expired last March.”
TV’s make good computer monitors – cheaper too.
“A message to the MSM: “you can’t handle the truth!””
They covered this story – with a pillow, until it stopped breathing.
Ditto the UK removal of all COVID restrictions starting 1st Feb.
Ditto Denmark doing the same thing (maybe a different date though).
Did they cover Neil Young vs Joe Rogan, including Spotify’s removal of Neil Young’s songs from Spotify?
Ditto Joni Mitchel? (no result yet that I know of though)
Did any of them bother to watch the podcast itself? FFS, Malone said he was vaxxed himself! That he also had had COVID. That he doesn’t think mandates are a good idea, but the vax should be used for the at risk (elderly and infirm). That vaxxing kids should be stopped immediately. He was very specific and very careful about what he said, to the point where he even said he didn’t want people to get the wrong idea and that he was very concerned about this stuff. Not saying “No, you must resist”, but rather “This data is concerning”. Misinformation? From a man who has been involved in vaccine development and virology for decades? From the man who invented the mRNA vax tech itself? Yeah – don’t listen to him, listen to Fau-Xi – the man who ignored the rules about gain-of-function research, who made investments in China in this area, who said “don’t mask”, then “mask”, then “double mask” then “single mask”; who lied to congress; who is somehow avoiding being taken to task for said lying.
Piano wire and light poles are too good for ’em – crucifixion’s the go. Or buried up to their necks in wet sand below the hide tide line. In either case, the carcass left to birds and insects. It needs to be very, very clear that this sort of crap will never be accepted and that those who try it on will die very slow, painful and nasty deaths.
…below the hide high tide line.
FFS.
Anyone know what the court invasion at the tennis last night was about ?
No, me neither.
“We’re not gonna show that type of thing.”
I was speaking with a friend this morning and I asked him if he was aware of the Canadian truckies’ protest. He occasionally watches the TV news and reads the MSM news websites and had not heard a single thing about it. He sounded surprised when I described how big the protest was, so I asked him why has the Australian media ignored it and he said “I don’t know why”. I said to him that bias is not just in what the media says but in what they don’t say.
I was going to point you to Small Dead Animals as well, but I was beaten to the punch. It is absolutely epic here in Ottawa, and today was a sunny -12 C so it’s warming up. Local news broadcasts are openly hostile, creating lies out of whole cloth in attempts to label them. Meanwhile it’s a huge party, spirits are up.
“… if he was aware of the Canadian truckies’ protest. He occasionally watches the TV news and reads the MSM news websites and had not heard a single thing about it.”
The previous record for length of a vehicle protest was 5 miles.
The current one is in excess of 45 miles.
So if nothing else, should be in Guinness Book of records soon…
I’d ban governments from using social media for anything and all government advertising in the mainstream media be restricted to a notice of a website address.
Kneel:
The Fargo solution; but done “live” and slowly?
SDA is on my after-dinner list of daily sites to visit
:bigThumb
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/game-changer-us-military-data-shows-shockingly-high-vaccination-injuries/
Daily Mail has had good coverage of Canadian Freedom Convoy
Justin Trudeau says he WON’T meet ‘Freedom Convoy’ because of their ‘hateful rhetoric’ and would rather go to a BLM rally: Covid-positive PM speaks from undisclosed location as truckers blockade US border in Alberta
Nothing in the Australian online