(FREE) PAINE IN THE MORNING: 10 things you need to know this Monday – January 31, 2022

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Video Of Massive Freedom Convoy Protest: ‘The Place Is Packed’ – Video of the massive Freedom Convoy 2022 rally in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, illustrate how people showed up in massive numbers from daylight through night to protest against the Canadian government’s vaccine mandates. Those mandates would force unvaccinated Canadian truckers crossing into the United States to quarantine once they’ve returned home. – READ MORE

‘Tyrant On The Run’: Internet Blasts Trudeau For Fleeing Capital As ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protest Heads His Way – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took heat online this weekend after the leader reportedly fled Canada’s capital for a “secret location,” averting any confrontation with the numerous truckers in a “freedom convoy” protesting the nation’s vaccine mandates.

Trudeau, who days ago dismissed the protesting truckers and their supporters as a “small, fringe minority,” was ripped online as a “coward” and fleeing “tyrant” over his escape from Ottawa. – READ MORE

Nova Scotia outlaws support on highway for ‘freedom’ truckers days after massive protest – The Canadian province of Nova Scotia made it illegal for people to gather along a highway ahead of the “Freedom Convoy” of truckers that made their way across the country in protest of vaccine mandates.

The local government issued “a directive under the Emergency Management Act prohibiting protesters from blockading Highway 104 near the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border.” – READ MORE

‘Freedom!’ Dutch Truckers Join Canadians in Convoying Against Lockdown Measures –Truckers in the Netherlands formed a convoy on Sunday to protest their nation’s lockdown measures, following the lead of their fellow road hauliers in Canada.

A convoy of trucks, tractors, and cars formed in Leeuwarden on Sunday to protest lockdown measures in the Netherlands. – READ MORE

Here’s Why US Truckers Staging Convoy To DC Will Face Soaring Diesel Prices – U.S. truckers celebrate the recent Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) canceled vaccine mandate and their Candian counterparts who have rolled into Canada’s capital, Ottawa, this weekend, demanding an end to cross-border vaccine rules. Truckers are on the frontlines fighting against medical tyranny as the next convoy could be soon headed to Washington, D.C.

A Facebook group called “Convoy To DC 2022” has more than 63k members and is preparing a convoy of truckers to ride from California to Washington, D.C., to tell the Biden administration and progressives they’re are done with overreaching health mandates. – READ MORE

Public Health ‘Experts’ Have A New COVID Boogeyman Called “Stealth” Omicron –Deaths involving patients infected with COVID have risen in the US recently, even as case numbers have continued to decline. But what’s even more concerning is that a growing percentage of overall deaths are being attributed to ‘breakthrough’ infections involving vaxxed & booster patients). It’s just the latest example of how narratives pushed by the government change as they are confronted with contradictory evidence (this time, it’s the notion that the vaccinated would escape death, something we now know to be untrue).

Despite this, it seems like people across the US and around the world are growing more bold as the longing to return to “normal” intensifies. In northern Europe, Denmark and the Netherlands are abandoning COVID restrictions even as the outbreak has persisted. – READ MORE

Nation declares: ‘No clear’ benefit to COVID shot for kids under 12 – After determining there would be virtually no medical benefit, Sweden’s government has decided not to recommend vaccinating children under 12 years old for COVID-19.

“With the knowledge we have today, with a low risk for serious disease for kids, we don’t see any clear benefit with vaccinating them,” said Britta Bjorkholm of the Public Health Agency of Sweden at a news conference on Thursday, Reuters reported. – READ MORE

More Than $6.4 Billion In US Pandemic Aid Sent Abroad, Including China – Some 2,000 foreign contractors and nonprofits in 177 countries received more than $6.4 billion in United States’ federal pandemic response assistance between the spring of 2020 and the fall of 2021, according to a report by the U.S. Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC).

Most of the “prime recipients” are based in the United States and distributed the funds overseas. The $6.4 billion in foreign payments came from two pandemic relief packages passed by Congress in March 2020 and March 2021 totaling $4.1 trillion. – READ MORE

Report: Federal Infrastructure Funds Were Not Allocated for Collapsed Pittsburgh Bridge – The Pittsburgh bridge that collapsed early Friday was in poor condition, and the state did not allocate federal infrastructure funds for its improvement, according to a report.

The bridge that collapsed near Frick Park injured ten, several of whom were transported to a hospital, Breitbart News previously reported. – READ MORE

Trump says he will pardon supporters who stormed US Capitol on Jan. 6 if he wins in 2024 – Former President Donald Trump on Saturday night held a Save America rally in Texas, where he took shots at several Democrats and teased a 2024 presidential candidacy by saying he will give “pardons” to his supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year if he runs and wins in 2024.

Trump made the comments in front of thousands of supporters, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Conroe, Texas. – READ MORE