FRIDAY [Part - ONE]
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FRIDAY 8 -[21]-26
[PART – ONE]
SPIRITUAL:
New International Version
By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
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CANADIAN:
Conservative MP Dean Allison, Launches Canada's First Vaccine-Injury Inquiry
The government created a program to compensate Canadians injured by the COVID shots. Then it spent years burying those same Canadians in paperwork, delays and silence.
But one Conservative MP has finally had enough of watching them wither away. And for the first time in this country, a sitting MP is putting their stories on the record.
Now, these vaccine-injured Canadians finally have a public platform to tell their stories.
Beginning September 8, Allison is spearheading a four-day inquiry on Parliament Hill, giving roughly 50 of the more than 1,000 injured Canadians who have applied the opportunity to tell their stories.
The response, he told me, has been “overwhelming.”
These aren’t fringe members of society, as the mainstream media would have you believe.
They’re ordinary Canadians who put their faith in a government that told them they were doing the "right" thing. And it cost them dearly.
Nearly 60,000 injuries reported. And by Allison's account, just 252 people have actually been compensated.
The consulting firm hired to run the program walked away with tens of millions and took nearly three years to get it off the ground, leaving the victims stranded.
"This was your freaking program," Allison told me of the MPs now questioning whether the injured were injured at all. "You introduced the vaccine injury support program because people were injured."
Canadians finally have a chance to speak. For five years, the silence held.
On September 8, that silence will break.
Yours truly,
Tamara Ugolini
Rebel News
P.S. CPAC still has not confirmed whether it will broadcast a single minute of these hearings. If the legacy networks won't carry it, independent media is the only way these voices reach you. Please share my report with someone who needs to see it. And if you value this work, please click here to chip in a donation. I'll have much more once the inquiry is underway.
The REBEL News
More Than Half of Canadians Struggling to Meet Financial Commitments: Federal Memo
More Canadians owe more money than ever before and use debt to survive, with millions of people having “no margin for error” if a financial crisis strikes, a new document suggests.
“Many Canadians are under financial strain … over half of Canadians (53%) report that they struggle to keep up with financial commitments,” the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) said in a recently released memo, which was first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter.
FCAC acquired the findings from Monthly Financial Well-being Monitor questionnaires that it had commissioned. That data showed household debt trends had worsened since the pandemic.
The survey found that one-quarter of Canadians said they “spend more than they earn,” 50 percent had used savings over the past year to cope with expenses, and 33 percent borrowed to cover regular expenses, according to the April 13 memo.
Figures from 2025 showed that 40 percent of Canadians had seen their debt increase since 2021, up four percentage points. Meanwhile, 26 percent were spending more than they earned, also up four points, while 33 percent were borrowing to cover regular expenses, an increase of two points.
Further, 50 percent of Canadians reported using their savings due to economic conditions, up 10 percentage points. Nearly half (48 percent) had no emergency savings, while 53 percent struggled to meet their financial commitments—an increase of seven percentage points.
“Having more types of debt, or having increasing amounts of debt, is strongly associated with lower financial well-being,” the memo said.
In 2025, 65 percent of all Canadians had non-mortgage debt, including 39 percent with credit card balances, 30 percent with personal loans or lines of credit, 26 percent with vehicle loans, 14 percent with a home equity line of credit, and 10 percent with student loans, the document noted.
Meanwhile, bankruptcy trustees told the House of Commons’ finance committee on April 23 that household debt nationwide is $3.2 trillion, with more than $2 trillion in mortgages.
Grant Bazian, president of MNP LLP in Calgary, testified that more Canadians are borrowing to cover essential expenses and “to survive,” with housing costs being the largest driver of household debt.
“Many Canadians have no margin for error, and even a small shock—a job loss, an illness or a rate increase—can trigger a crisis,” he said. “Inflation has slowed, but the cumulative rise in prices has permanently stretched budgets, especially when wages have not kept pace.”
Bazian added that more Canadians are turning to high-interest credit that can become a long-term burden. By the time they contact an insolvency trustee, they often have maxed-out credit cards, taken out high-interest loans, used payday-style products or refinanced their homes—sometimes multiple times.
MNP has compiled seven years’ worth of data through its Consumer Debt Index survey that has identified recurring and concerning trends, Bazian said.
These trends include declining confidence after repeated economic shocks, increasing reliance on credit for essentials, a shrinking financial cushion with many within $200 of insolvency each month, growing emotional strain, and seasonal improvements that no longer lift sentiments.
“Canadians are adapting to chronic strain rather than recovering from it,” Bazian said, adding a future “tipping point” could negatively affect people’s cash flows.
Sheri Aberback, senior vice-president of MNP LLP, told the committee that four recommendations to address this issue include increasing public awareness of federally regulated debt relief options, strengthening consumer protections around high-interest credit, addressing the housing-debt connection, and supporting practical financial education.
The EPOCH Times
TRUMP:
Long Island man arrested for allegedly Threatening to Shoot U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro
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A New York man who allegedly posted videos to X threatening to "put a bullet" in U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's head, and suggested he might kill President Trump, has been arrested on federal charges.
Daniel Kretsinger, of Hauppauge, New York, was taken into custody August 11 after a federal criminal complaint charged him with transmitting a threat to injure a person across state lines, a charge that carries up to five years in federal prison. A magistrate judge then released Kretsinger to an inpatient psychiatric treatment program over the government's objection, a decision that drew sharp criticism from Pirro's office.
The case centers on two videos Kretsinger allegedly posted to X on June 30. In one, the New York Post reported, Kretsinger appeared shirtless and visibly agitated, directing profanity-laced threats at Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in the nation's capital.
Kretsinger told investigators he traveled three states looking for Pirro
The criminal complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, quotes Kretsinger's alleged words directly. In the first video, he allegedly said:
"Because you're such a lying despicable piece of s***, I'm specifically targeting you when I come to Washington, D.C., and put a bullet directly between your eyes c***."
He allegedly added: "And if Trump keeps up his bulls*** I may kill the president too."
Minutes later, a second video followed. In it, Kretsinger allegedly stated:
"I'm gonna come to DC very f***in soon sweetheart and I'm gonna put a bullet in your f***in head. I love you, you evil lying dirt bag thieving f***ing b***!"
Law enforcement located Kretsinger on July 9 and interviewed him. He acknowledged the X account where the videos were posted was his. He also acknowledged he had previously traveled to Washington, D.C., Florida, and Long Island in what the complaint described as efforts to find Pirro.
That detail, a suspect who not only made graphic threats but admitted to crossing state lines to track down his target, elevates the case beyond a run-of-the-mill social media outburst. Federal prosecutors clearly agreed. An arrest warrant was issued August 7, and the U.S. Marshals Service took Kretsinger into custody four days later.
Judge released Kretsinger over prosecutors' objections
Despite the severity of the alleged threats and Kretsinger's admitted travel history, a magistrate judge released him to an inpatient psychiatric treatment program. The government objected to the release. Kretsinger must remain in the program as a condition of his release.
The decision to release a defendant who allegedly threatened to shoot a sitting U.S. Attorney, and who admitted to traveling across multiple states searching for her, raises obvious questions about pretrial detention standards. Prosecutors wanted Kretsinger held. The judge overruled them.
A spokesperson for Pirro's office responded firmly:
"No one should ever be threatened or targeted for violence. Public officials are no exception, and we commend the United States Marshals Service for its swift action."
Kretsinger did not respond to a request for comment from the New York Post. It remains unclear whether he has retained legal counsel.
Five years in prison is the maximum, if the case goes that far
The federal charge of transmitting a threat to injure a person across state lines carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. The criminal complaint was filed earlier in August in the Eastern District of New York. The specific federal statute cited in the charge was not identified in public reporting.
Several questions remain unanswered. The content of the Pirro X post that Kretsinger allegedly replied to has not been disclosed. The specific dates and circumstances of his alleged travel to find Pirro, spanning Washington, Florida, and Long Island, have not been detailed beyond his own acknowledgment to investigators. And the name of the magistrate judge who ordered his release has not been made public.
Threats against public officials have become a persistent problem in American political life. But when a suspect doesn't just rant on camera, when he admits to traveling state to state looking for the person he threatened, the system owes the public more than a psychiatric referral and a release order over the government's own objection. Accountability starts with taking the threat seriously enough to keep the accused where prosecutors say he belongs.
The AMERICAN Almanac
FBI agents seize Eric Swalwell's Phone and Electronics at San Francisco Airport in Sexual Misconduct probe
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Federal agents armed with a search warrant met former congressman Eric Swalwell at the gate when he stepped off a plane in San Francisco, seizing his cell phone and electronic devices as part of a criminal investigation into sexual misconduct allegations.
The confrontation happened Saturday at San Francisco Airport, where FBI agents were waiting for Swalwell as he arrived on a flight from Washington, DC. They served him with a court-approved search warrant and took his phone along with other electronic devices. Swalwell, a former Democratic congressman from California, cooperated with agents, according to well-placed sources who spoke to the Daily Mail.
The next day, FBI agents executed additional search warrants at Swalwell's residence in northeast Washington, DC, and seized undisclosed potential evidence. Neither Swalwell nor his wife, Brittany Watts, was home when agents entered the property.
The warrants stem from a federal criminal investigation the Department of Justice opened in April into allegations of sexual misconduct against Swalwell. At least four women have accused him. Both the DOJ and the FBI declined to comment.
Four accusers, allegations spanning six years
The accusations against Swalwell are serious and span from 2018 to 2024. One woman alleged he drugged and raped her in 2018. A former staffer in his congressional office alleged he raped her twice, once in 2019 and once in April 2024, when she was too intoxicated to consent. Two of the women said he sent them unsolicited explicit photographs of himself.
The former staffer gave her account to CNN. She described the April 2024 incident as occurring after a night of heavy drinking in New York City, saying she woke up to Swalwell having sex with her in his hotel bed. The incident took place after she had stopped working in his office.
In her own words:
"I was pushing him off of me, saying no. He didn't stop."
Swalwell has denied any wrongdoing in connection with the sexual assault and misconduct allegations. He acknowledged making "mistakes in judgment" and apologized to his wife. He has not been charged with a crime as of publication.
Declassified files revive the Chinese spy scandal
The FBI's move on Swalwell came the same week the White House Transparency Task Force released declassified government records about his past interactions with Christine Fang, a Chinese national widely described as a suspected Chinese spy. The documents were released Monday under the title "Rusty Thumbs", another moniker given to Fang, whose real name is Christine Fang but who was commonly known as "Fang Fang."
The records show that Swalwell admitted to the FBI he "occasionally hooked up" with Fang. Fox News reported that the declassified FBI files detail Swalwell meeting Fang in 2012 and having physical contact with her on multiple occasions. Swalwell acknowledged the physical relations but denied having a romantic relationship with her.
Fang spent years cultivating relationships with rising California Democrats. She helped bundle donations for Swalwell's 2014 re-election campaign and placed an intern in his congressional office, a level of access that raised alarms among counterintelligence officials. Swalwell has not been accused by law enforcement of any wrongdoing in the Fang Fang matter, but the timing of the declassified records landing in the same week as the FBI search warrants added another layer of scrutiny to a former congressman already facing a criminal probe.
Multiple agencies now investigating Swalwell
The federal probe is not the only investigation bearing down on Swalwell. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department have also been investigating him, according to the New York Post. The convergence of federal and local investigations across multiple jurisdictions underscores how broadly the allegations have spread.
Swalwell's political career has already collapsed under the weight of the accusations. He dropped out of the California governor's race, which he had once led, and resigned from Congress. He has kept a low profile since.
A marriage under strain, photographed in public
The fallout has extended into Swalwell's personal life. His wife, Brittany Watts, 41, was photographed by the Daily Mail in May stepping out of their DC residence without her wedding ring. The couple was introduced by mutual friends in 2015, and the state of their nine-year marriage is now openly in question.
A friend of the family captured the mood plainly:
"Eric has been accused of horrible things. How do you live with that?"
The Daily Mail reached out to Swalwell for comment but did not report receiving a response.
Court-approved warrants signal prosecutors mean business
Search warrants of this kind require a federal judge to find probable cause that evidence of a crime exists in the places to be searched. The fact that agents obtained warrants for both Swalwell's person at the airport and his residence in Washington suggests prosecutors have assembled enough evidence to persuade a court, twice, in two locations, that the investigation warrants this level of intrusion into a former member of Congress's private life.
No charges have been announced. The specific court that issued the warrants and the full scope of what agents sought remain undisclosed. What was seized from the DC residence beyond what the Daily Mail described as "additional undisclosed potential evidence" has not been made public.
Swalwell spent years on the House Intelligence Committee lecturing the country about accountability, transparency, and the rule of law. He built a media career on demanding that powerful men answer for their conduct. Now the FBI has his phone, prosecutors have his files, and four women say he owes answers of his own. Accountability, it turns out, is not just for the other side.
The AMERICAN Almanac
GLOBAL:
Chinese Dissident Rescued to Canada Urges Vigilance Against CCP Interference, Transnational Repression
Activist Zhang Xinyan, shown on Wednesday, was elected last year to the Toronto-based dissident ‘Hong Kong Parliament,’ which claims to represent Hong Kongers in exile. Authorities in the Chinese territory placed a bounty on her head for subversion.Jimmy Jeong/The Globe and Mail
A Chinese activist who was living in Thailand and detained there for three months, after facing persecution for years by China’s Communist Party, says she plans to keep speaking out in Canada to draw international attention to what she says are the regime’s efforts to silence dissidents abroad.
Zhang Xinyan, 55, arrived in Vancouver on Monday after a co-ordinated effort from Ottawa, the United Nations refugee agency, Thai lawmakers and international human-rights groups. She recounted her experience in a lengthy Cantonese-language interview with The Globe and Mail on Wednesday.
“My story is an example of CCP persecution – of transnational repression,” she said. “If we don’t draw international attention to it, it’s saying that the CCP can do whatever it wants.”
Ms. Zhang, a long-time practitioner of the controversial spiritual movement Falun Gong, said she fled to Thailand in 2014 to evade persecution from China, where it is banned and heavily suppressed. Two years later, she was recognized as a refugee by the UN Refugee Agency.
Ms. Zhang was also among 15 people elected last year to the Toronto-based dissident “Hong Kong Parliament,” a group comprising exiled, pro-democracy Hong Kongers, prompting authorities in the Chinese territory to place a $36,000 bounty on her head for subversion.
China’s embassy in Ottawa did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Sheng Xue, a Toronto-based activist, said Ms. Zhang’s last-minute detention raised concerns about Beijing’s “long-arm jurisdiction” and had echoes of the case of Dong Guangping, a Chinese human-rights activist who in 2015 was also prevented from travelling from Thailand to Canada.
Mr. Dong was forcibly returned to China before travelling by rubber boat to South Korea and eventually flying to Toronto where he reunited with his family last month.
Ms. Zhang arrives in Canada as Ottawa recalibrates its approach to Beijing. Amid deteriorating relations with the U.S., Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is pursuing closer economic ties with China as part of a broader global effort to diversify trade.
Canada diverged from U.S. trade policy in January by reaching an agreement with China to replace its 100-per-cent surtax on Chinese-made electric vehicles with a quota of 49,000 vehicles a year at a 6.1-per-cent tariff rate. The quota will increase by 6.5 per cent annually. In exchange, China agreed to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers affecting Canadian agriculture, including canola products.
In the interview, Ms. Zhang said she has been a practitioner of Falun Gong for nearly 30 years. While teaching at a middle school in Shenzhen, she said she wrote on a bank note that “Falun Dafa is good” – a tactic used by practitioners who put the notes back into circulation to bypass state censorship and spread information about their movement. Falun Dafa is another name for Falun Gong.
A student brought the note to the headmaster, who lambasted her at a school assembly and said he would be reporting her to the police, she said. She fled to Thailand shortly after.
“For sure, I would be arrested,” Ms. Zhang said. “I would be put in jail and subject to torture. And then sentenced.”
In Thailand, she says she worked for a Falun Gong news outlet covering the Hong Kong government.
On May 7, Ms. Zhang said she was leaving her apartment when she was approached by officers who asked if she had her passport. She did not; it had been seized by authorities at the Chinese embassy when she sought to renew it, she said.
Ms. Zhang insisted that she held protected refugee status with the United Nations, to no avail. Officers took her to an immigration detention centre in Bangkok, where she faced possible deportation to Hong Kong or mainland China.
As Ms. Zhang sat in detention, pro-democracy activists worked to draw attention to her case and international human-rights organizations underscored the risk of harm she faced should she be transferred to Chinese custody. Ms. Sheng, the activist, co-ordinated efforts to secure her resettlement. Ms. Zhang obtained legal counsel.
Canadian embassy officials in Bangkok interviewed Ms. Zhang, and completed medical examinations and biometric data collection at the detention centre, eventually finalizing her flight itinerary from Bangkok to Vancouver for July 8, Ms. Sheng told The Globe.
Ms. Zhang said her understanding was that an officer would meet her at 3 a.m. to take her to the airport for her early-morning flight. But when the time came, no one showed up.
“I was in tears, begging police to take me to the airport,” Ms. Zhang recalled. “I showed them my plane ticket. But their hearts were not moved. They told me the ticket had already been cancelled.”
She said she was given no explanation why and was not allowed to make a phone call or watch the news to determine what had happened. Her lawyers petitioned the South Bangkok Criminal Court for a hearing under the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act after they were unable to contact her.
Questioned by a judge at a July 16 hearing, a representative from Thailand’s Immigration Bureau said the plane ticket had been cancelled at the behest of Chinese embassy officials in Thailand because she was wanted by Hong Kong police, Ms. Zhang said.
“It was the Chinese embassy’s instruction for the ticket to be cancelled, after which I was supposed to be taken back to China,” she said. “They even showed evidence of the instructions given by the Chinese embassy – documents.”
Ms. Zhang said someone assured her in English that she could not be returned to China. She was sent back to the detention centre, where she says representatives from the UN regularly checked in on her, until her Aug. 3 flight to Canada.
She said she was taken to the airport where she was met by UN representatives who didn’t leave her side until she boarded the plane.
In Vancouver, Ms. Zhang has since met with two members from the “Hong Kong Parliament” who say they will continue to advocate for her in the pursuit of freedom and democracy. She said she plans to take some time to rest, then hopes to connect with other Falun Gong practitioners and resume her activist work.
Ms. Zhang said she believes she was only able to evade persecution because of the international attention on her case, and the efforts of many. She said she is grateful to be in Canada.
“I eventually was able to breathe the air of freedom,” she said.
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Patrick Bestall’s INPUT:
#1.
Joseph Z shines Light on the next ten years
A solid comprehensive overview of what to expect over the next ten years (God willing and a Rapture don't com). Very impressive combination of prophetic insight and insider knowledge. It's 1 hr 45 min. but you can stop at 1 hr. 15 minutes. He adds something to do with Esther at 1 hr. 37 min mark, (a 5 minute vision).
.PB
#2.
DMSO
DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) is known for its anti-inflammatory properties and ability to relieve pain, particularly in conditions like osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. It is also used to enhance the absorption of other medications through the skin.
Please share this video with the group from last night...next meeting i will bring this book and dmso for those intereested in using it...as per linne's suggestion each small bottle will cost 8 dollars cash. This is a very reasonable price as I had not intended to sell, but why not?
Thanks, Ida
.PB
#3.
Trump's Venezuelan gold trick
.PB
#4.
Someone do this here [LONDON]
Berta Proud Dad, an Alberta political influencer, launched a website for parents and students to report teachers who may attempt to circumvent provincial law and push ideology in schools.
The site, ReportATeacher.ca, allows users to submit photos, along with a teacher’s name and school. Magee says he plans to bring the reports to Alberta’s education minister for follow-up.
The initiative follows concerns about teachers allegedly finding ways around restrictions on political and ideological displays in classrooms. Magee says the effort is not specifically about Pride flags, but about keeping political symbols and ideology out of classrooms. Keep Reading
.PB
#5.
Indian Garbage Catastrophe spreading around the world
Even if you don't look at all the videos, please skim down the web page to the bottom.
"The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant" (Isaiah 24:5)
.PB
#6.
A song from my Jesus People days
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