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bbernardini

(9,939 posts)
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 10:47 AM Feb 2022

Website documenting truckers, businesses, etc. involved in the Ottawa occupation.

https://convoytraitors.ca/

"Our mission is to document and shame every business that is identified as being involved in the 2022 Truckers Convoy occupation of Ottawa. This includes truckers, supporting businesses, hotels, and restaurants. Please submit clear photographic evidence with the name clearly visible to contribute. By naming and tagging we hope to ensure that any future internet searches reveals the true nature of these businesses."
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Website documenting truckers, businesses, etc. involved in the Ottawa occupation. (Original Post) bbernardini Feb 2022 OP
There's a lot of chatter about dark U.S. money funding the convoy, and connections to chia Feb 2022 #1
+1, there are so many ways these groups can get money funneled to them uponit7771 Feb 2022 #3
Go Fund Me isn't, anymore azureblue Feb 2022 #6
Not Bannon, he was indicted, he learned his lesson. gab13by13 Feb 2022 #5
LOL I see what you did there Takket Feb 2022 #8
Thanks for the link to the Nat Observer article jmbar2 Feb 2022 #7
You're welcome. Wonder if Putin's continuing ops to sow strife here to take attention from Ukraine chia Feb 2022 #13
Has Putin's fingerprints all over it. Irish_Dem Feb 2022 #2
American oligarchs fund it, gab13by13 Feb 2022 #4
Definitely another Russian campaign Takket Feb 2022 #9
More people in Canada believe in ghosts then are supporting this. Farmer-Rick Feb 2022 #10
The M$M loves the ratings sensationalism provides. n/t MarcA Feb 2022 #21
Likely there are a few petro-dollars from the outfit that wants those tar sands pipelines... Ford_Prefect Feb 2022 #11
More evidence that this is likely a Russian op jmbar2 Feb 2022 #12
Thanks for that link chia Feb 2022 #14
Yep, and it's mostly non-truckers, too. GoCubsGo Feb 2022 #23
So who's printing up the flags? Shouldn't be too hard to figure it out. flying_wahini Feb 2022 #15
More evidence of a Russian op jmbar2 Feb 2022 #16
Is It Legal In Canada To Run Them Down? FrankTC Feb 2022 #17
It would be a real shame if Crazy Horse Stonegrill Steakhouse & Saloon were to receive a bunch yaesu Feb 2022 #18
Just about when truckers had the world's empathy BlueIdaho Feb 2022 #19
Yo, Canucks. Take pictures of maskhole truckers and add to website. BlueWavePsych Feb 2022 #20
Confederate battle flags in Canadian protest? halfulglas Feb 2022 #22
#GoHomeFluTruxKlan L. Coyote Feb 2022 #24
FluTruxKlan brilliant. nt crickets Feb 2022 #25
Anal First L. Coyote Feb 2022 #26

azureblue

(2,158 posts)
6. Go Fund Me isn't, anymore
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 11:45 AM
Feb 2022

That got shut down. And there was 10 Million in it! I seriously doubt a but of small donors did that.. GFM is returning the money to the donors, BTW.
Hm - I wonder if GFM would share a censored list of donors - no names just a list of amounts

jmbar2

(4,920 posts)
7. Thanks for the link to the Nat Observer article
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 11:51 AM
Feb 2022

This thing stinks to high heaven. External funding of more insurrectionists. I wonder how many of the "demonstrators" are foreign cutouts?

chia

(2,244 posts)
13. You're welcome. Wonder if Putin's continuing ops to sow strife here to take attention from Ukraine
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 12:05 PM
Feb 2022

Takket

(21,706 posts)
9. Definitely another Russian campaign
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 11:55 AM
Feb 2022

Supported by American money.

At some point the great powers of the world are going to have to band together and decide to stop Putin from waging this war against Democracy he has been fighting pretty much unopposed for the last decade.

Farmer-Rick

(10,240 posts)
10. More people in Canada believe in ghosts then are supporting this.
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 11:56 AM
Feb 2022

Acting crazy stupid always gets more media attention then acting responsibly.

Money can only buy so many stupid people.

jmbar2

(4,920 posts)
12. More evidence that this is likely a Russian op
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 12:02 PM
Feb 2022

Just read an article on Russian disinformation ops (can't remember where) that identifies four tactics that they use frequently with videos

The State Dept has already warned that they will try to do a false flag video of supposed atrocities in Ukraine as a pretext to invade.

Other tricks they like to use:
- Misdated videos - taken earlier and elsewhere
- Misidentified actors
- Different locations
- Mischaracterized motives

Reuters has already found such evidence in videos of the truckers.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-truckers-video/fact-check-video-does-not-show-u-s-truckers-travelling-to-freedom-convoy-in-canada-idUSL1N2U63FX

flying_wahini

(6,706 posts)
15. So who's printing up the flags? Shouldn't be too hard to figure it out.
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 12:08 PM
Feb 2022

I think It has Bannon/Stone’s fingerprints all over it.

If GoFundMe is so sure maybe they should publish their names, too.
That would probably show the trail of money.

jmbar2

(4,920 posts)
16. More evidence of a Russian op
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 12:16 PM
Feb 2022

Last edited Sun Feb 6, 2022, 01:32 PM - Edit history (1)

One of the chief donors is linked to the separatist movement in Canada, and the yellowvests in France.



CTA (Canadian Trucking Association) president Stephen Laskowski condemned road blockades and essentially advised anti-vaccine truckers to grow up and get vaccinated. The governments of Canada and the United States, he said, “have now made being vaccinated a requirement to cross the border. This regulation is not changing so, as an industry, we must adapt and comply with this mandate.

“The only way to cross the border, in a commercial truck or any other vehicle, is to get vaccinated,” he concluded.

It was Menzies who connected the dots between the fundraiser and the political interests of organizer Tamara Lich, who has what he described as “a history of association with radical groups, including the recently formed federal separatist Maverick Party in Alberta.”

“In her past, Lich was regional co-ordinator for Wexit in southeastern Alberta, and was member of the board for Wexit Alberta,” TruckNews.com reported. It said she later joined the board of Wexit Canada, which has been rebranded the Maverick Party.

He reported that Lich, whom he said has no direct connection to the trucking industry, also had past links to the so-called Yellow Vest movement, which has many documented connections to extremist groups.


Right wing politicians are also involved

Ever since a grinning former Conservative leader Andrew Scheer turned up at a large truck rally that snarled traffic around Edmonton International Airport on Dec. 19, 2019, and then made sure his face was plastered all over social media aboard some of the rigs, the Conservatives have been linked to truck protest organizers in the minds of Canadians.
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Whether the federal Conservative party still supports such efforts to bring commerce to a halt by disrupting highway traffic might be an interesting question to ask its current leader, Erin O’Toole.


https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/01/24/Truckers-Protesting-Vaccine-Mandates/

I think it would be useful for DUers to become disinfo sleuths to expose these ops. I will contribute as much time as I can to debunking.

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
18. It would be a real shame if Crazy Horse Stonegrill Steakhouse & Saloon were to receive a bunch
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 12:33 PM
Feb 2022

of pickup orders that never showed up on top of feeding all those tRump truckers for free, a real shame.

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
19. Just about when truckers had the world's empathy
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 12:41 PM
Feb 2022

They get involved in this stunt. So stupidly counterproductive - they’ve been had.

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