* Paper Newsletter on Hiatus

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I’ve been asked why the Lillooet Gazette newsletter, in paper format, is on hiatus. The easy answer is after 18 months I need a break and some time to refocus and recharge. Each one-page issue costs nearly $700 (printing and Canada Post charges) and though money has been offered I don’t accept donations since that could compromise my ability to speak freely and/or exert expectations/influence over editorial choices.

The complicated answer to the question is that it’s lonely out on the edge. As other citizen journalists will tell you, most of the time you’re going blind, which requires endless internal motivation, not unlike faith. When you’re working online you can see your stats, how many views and visits, how many followers, how many comments, etc. But paper format is different. You gather information that you know is important, you publish and distribute it as best you can, then pray it makes a difference. 

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How much difference it makes is debatable. The reality is, many people (too many) are chained to mainstream “news” and are oblivious to what’s happening. They just want to believe that those in power are good and carry on living their lives. I don’t blame them; acquiring knowledge takes its toll, there’s a sacrifice involved. I know because I’m living it. Six years ago I sat in front of the TV news and believed every word they said. Then, one auspicious day, it was like I had a bag ripped off my head and I realized I had to stop trusting. Gradually, with lots of research, I learned that they were betraying us, either unwittingly or by design. And by “they” I mean, the so-called elites and all the institutions they own and control, including the dinosaur media. The extent of lies and corruption is breathtaking and stinks something fierce. Learning how the world really works is hard on the soul. And very destabilizing.

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But knowledge gradually brings inner growth and strength. It’s crucial to be able to see clearly and not be numb and dumbed down. They’re adept at keeping us brainwashed, confused, exhausted and obedient. The only way out—and a great way to regain your mental health—is to yank our attention away from mainstream media. We have the internet, it’s still easy to find high quality sources of information from the people with integrity who have our backs. Many of them are highlighted here in this blog. 

I’ll continue working and posting articles and I’ll continue to carefully watch what’s going on in Council and what the town’s administration is doing. As we all know, sunlight is the best disinfectant; without public oversight or media spotlight the people who manage things can lose perspective. The demise of the historic Bridge River Lillooet News (83 years!) started by the infamous, irascible, truth-loving Margaret (Ma) Murray came as quite a shock. And it’s a dangerous time to be without a newspaper.

For those of us trying to raise awareness and doing the hard work on behalf of everyone else, it’s best to remember the wise words of anthropologist, Margaret Mead: Never doubt that a small group of committed and thoughtful citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. 

* The Toxic Brotherhood

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Throughout history there’s always been the so-called “elite” who wield power and are spectacularly wealthy. Our survival often depends on them, but we’re at an impasse: our survival is now threatened by them. Colossal decisions are being made about our future, mostly without our knowledge and definitely without our consent.

Comprehension requires us to recognize the existence of a global toxic brotherhood but many people are reluctant to do so. Perhaps the participation of a scant few females inhibits perception; yes, there are women within toxic brotherhoods (who get no pass for being there) but they’re a micro-minority playing by the rules. Without a doubt the world is run by men—bad men, mostly, who behave in predictable ways. 

To be clear, this article is not about misandry. Most men are caring, loving, protective, non-violent, benign, benevolent, honourable, wise. But their power and influence has devolved, is being driven to the periphery, even underground. Earth and humanity are being overwhelmed by a transnational mob of sociopaths, psychopaths and violent alpha males who are not seen by anybody, not loyal to anybody and not held accountable by anybody.  

Let’s briefly sketch their primary behaviours, which interact for mutual advantage inside a closed  matrix.These five elements define a toxic brotherhood who are deeply embedded in all social, political and economic systems.

Paranoia. Intelligence agencies and, in America, their over 52,000 contractors. CIA, FBI, spies, deceit, espionage. Subterfuge and suspicion. They always have enemies; their enemies are always making something bad and/or planning something bad so we’d better be doing it, too. Their enemies are supposed to be our enemies.  

Secrecy. Classified information, privileged access, invisible partnerships. Devious long-term planning, racketeering, quietly trying to put authoritarian laws on the books like Bills C-8 and C-9. Inventing fiscal laws that protect a black, or covert, economy. Legitimizing theft of taxpayer money—U.S. $21 trillion according to Catherine Fitts, an economist in the Bush Jr. White House whose integrity got her kicked out of the club. The capture of global health organizations, owning “the science” from molecule to market. Information blackouts and media collusion. Wargame conferences brainstorming the militarization of vaccinology and subversion of democracy. Robert F Kennedy Jr from The Real Anthony Fauci : “Dark Winter, Atlantic Storm, and Global Mercury were only three of over a dozen Germ Games staged by military, medical, and intelligence planners leading up to COVID-19. Each of the Kafkaesque exercises became uncanny predictors of a dystopian age that pandemic planners dubbed the ‘New Normal’.”

Competition. It produces some fine results for humanity but we’re talking about the toxic kind: becoming the richest and most feared. Conquest. Carving up the world. Too much is never enough. Willfully ignoring harmful downstream effects of their inventions and activities; denying culpability, deploying teams of lawyers to make their responsibility disappear. Social costs, loss of family/community, loss of livelihoods, not their problems to fix. Rigging elections, locking people out of home ownership, hiding wealth, money laundering, assisting global drug cartels, perverting justice, trampling human rights, assaulting earth’s atmosphere, destroying ecosystems, not their problems to fix. Winning is their addiction and obsession.  

Domination: Subtle or brute force. Manufacturing truth. Silencing opponents, squashing alternate visions. A culture of bald-faced lying. Manipulating the masses with dark psychology we never agreed to, nudging for desired results, brainwashing and propaganda. Strict management of all information flows through corporate-owned and government-funded “news”. The worshipping of violence. Bringing the hammer down on dissent. In its extreme form, domination is the capture, torture, and/or killing of anyone who threatens them, hence the lack of intervention by the good guys.  

Warring: Forever wars. Youth are cannibalized, inculcated with patriotic fervor, and sacrificed to trumped-up enemies. They (we) are not fighting enemy Russians, enemy Ukrainians, enemy Iranians, enemy Iraqis, enemy Israelis, enemy Tutsis, enemy Communists, enemy Viet Cong,  enemy whomevers! Since warring is such bloody good business you can never have enough enemies. The war machine is essentially a global franchise of toxic brotherhoods.

The wrong guys are in charge, the worst guys are designing the future and COVID revealed their true intentions: the militarization of everything. Physician and biological warfare expert, Meryl Nass, MD: “Coercion should be the last strategy to consider in a pandemic. If you have a remedy that works, people will flock to it. It’s troubling that the first and only option was creating a police state.” 

Stronger language from respected journalist, Sasha Latypova, at Due Diligence and Art on Substack: “Covid operation was not a public health event, although it was presented as such to the world’s population. It was a global operation, coordinated through public-private intelligence and military alliances and invoking laws designed for CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) weapons attacks.”

Indie reporter Laura Dodsworth nailed it. Author of A State of Fear ~ How the UK Government Weaponised Fear During the COVID-19 Pandemic: “The ‘war on terror’ bridged an arc of exploitable fears between the Cold War and COVID. The weapon we find ourselves at war with has reduced in size from nuclear bomb behemoth, to weapons concealed on the body, to the body itself. The enemy shifted from a foreign government, to foreign terrorists, to every single one of us. In 2020, we became the enemy.”

We became the enemy. 

Mainstream media journalists don’t get this. And the few who’ve identified the existence of the toxic brotherhood have partisan blind spots. For example, Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Anne Applebaum, who calls them ‘Autocracy, Inc.’. In her article for the Atlantic, The Bad Guys are Winning, she writes: 

“Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services (military, police, paramilitary groups, surveillance) and professional propagandists. The members of these networks are connected not only within a given country, but among many countries. The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another. The police in one country can arm, equip, and train the police in another. The propagandists share resources—the troll farms that promote one dictator’s propaganda can also be used to promote the propaganda of another—and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America.”

Applebaum concludes that America’s network of bad guys are all in the Trump camp; the Democrats are essentially still good, she claims, but must be on guard because that goodness is eroding. Laughable, really, if it wasn’t so delusional. She does not believe that “the new autocratic alliance have a unifying ideology” so she cannot see their unifying motivations. The Panama Papers, the Epstein files and many other scandals make it plain that greed and depravity are thriving everywhere, including America. Political loyalty is performance; ideology is irrelevant; toxic brotherhoods join hands and lean into their skillsets. They do what works and they do it with impunity.  

Since many people have had enough of their insanity, the toxic brotherhood are rapidly building the tyrannical infrastructure required for their safety. The confluence of global digital ID, central bank digital currency, and artificial (fake) intelligence could herald the end of human freedom. AI is the theft of all human knowledge repackaged and sold as Official Truth; AI’s long play is China-style cognitive capture. Ai Wei Wei, Chinese artist and author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, lives in exile due to lifelong persecution: “When authority determines meaning, independent thought does not exist, and everything is an extension of the discourse of power. Young people in China today have no knowledge at all of the student protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, and if they knew they might not even care, for they learn submission before they have developed the ability to raise doubts and challenge assumptions.”

Cognitive capture might be difficult to assess, but not so with institutional rot. So much money has migrated into biotechnology and bio-warfare that the institutions we’ve relied upon for hundreds of years are languishing. How much more inattention and entropy before they fail? We’re seeing chronic malfunction, incompetence and corruption in healthcare, medicine, food production, supply chains, education, science, environmentalism, community policing, communications, media reportage, banking, etc. Experts in their fields are in performance mode—pretending normalcy, prevaricating and obfuscating. They’re happy to deceive us, and themselves, as long as they keep benefitting.

Buckle up, a center this weak cannot hold. On the upside, we can reasonably predict that a One World Government will not transpire. Their strengths are also their weaknesses: paranoia, secrecy, competition, dominance and warring means they’re incapable of getting along. And without a redeeming vision for humanity, they’re likely to fail. But in the meantime, as they fumble toward power-sharing, our logical conclusion must be that they’re going to make some colossal mistakes.

Advice from the intrepid Whitney Webb: “If you’re aware of where they’re trying to take us, you can plan things to not have to comply. For example, plan to be as independent as possible so that nobody can wreck your sovereignty the way they started doing in COVID. Set up your life to be independent of controls. Reading is important. We’re in a cognitive war. Critical thinking, think for yourself, the more we outsource our thinking to AI, [the worse it gets]. People need to not be so easily influenced. Avoid the rage bait. The more upset and irrational people become, the closer we are to becoming slaves. What to do? Networks of local resistance, off grid living, lean into family and community.” 

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* Coming Clean

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by Catherine Fitts of Solari.com

For those who don’t yet know about Catherine Fitts, it’s time! She’s a tour de force and super-positive change agent.

Catherine is the publisher of The Solari Report, and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC and Sea Lane Advisory, LLC. Catherine served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration.

You can click on the link above to get to the Coming Clean PDF or read some of it below.

“As we manage increasing levels of complexity in our lives due to new technology and globalization, we are also dealing with rising levels of political and economic uncertainty and an ongoing effort to build a digital control grid with digital IDs, digital money that can be programmed with a social credit system, and an expensive AI, data center, and telecommunications infrastructure. In this environment, thinking strategically about what we need to know, how to access and acquire that knowledge, and how to build collaborative networks to help us do so can provide a steady flow of new energy. There is a reason why nations have intelligence agencies and why companies have lifelong learning programs and investigative firms. When we look back through history, how did our ancestors deal with periods of high spiritual and financial stress? What worked? Surely, nothing that we are dealing with today is tougher than what Native Americans, slaves, or immigrants and settlers dealt with during the past 300 years. Some cultures have evolved a high degree of knowledge as well as protocols for surviving great levels of stress. We can identify and learn from those who have this knowledge.”

“Build a high-integrity network of trusted people who are willing to “conspire” and watch each other’s back.”

A NEW UNITY IS PERCOLATING by Catherine Fitts

In her 2002 article “Solari and the Rise of the Rule of Law” (solari.com/hibt), Catherine told the story of one of her partners, an entrepreneur who grew up on a small island. He once explained why small islands produce a much higher percentage of people who are good at starting and building successful businesses. Someone who grows up on a small island sees how everything is connected, so it is much easier for that person to learn how to take responsibility for the whole — to see how all time and energy is precious and to never waste anything. People who grow up on small islands, he said, understand that “a penny saved is a penny earned.”

He had been taught from the time he was a small child to connect the behavior of individual people with how everything worked around him. He said that he had learned to adjust his behavior so that it contributed to the system working in the way he hoped it would. His family, his school, and his church all encouraged him to take responsibility for the whole in practical, concrete ways. People who grow up on small islands understand that “what goes around comes around.” He said that America is just a very big island, but most Americans do not know this — nor do they understand that the planet is also just an even bigger island. They cannot connect how the system works — particularly the aspects of the system they do not like — with their own choices and actions. They do not have even simple maps of how things connect. They do not understand their own power to vote with their prayers, their thoughts, their choice of friends and spouse, their actions, and how they spend their money every day. In contrast, people who grow up on small islands “see the world whole.”

The point of this story is that many of us look at our situation only from our own point of view. From every degree of the circle, there is a different definition of what ails us, of why our system isn’t working, and what the solutions are. Often, what we perceive as our own individual problems are really just the symptoms that each person experiences of the deeper problems that we all share. Many times, we think that the solution is to blame or attack someone, or to propose that more government or private capital be spent in a (futile) attempt to keep the wolf from the door. 

Without a simple map of where we are, of the tapeworm that we are feeding, and of how to withdraw and shift our energy, we forget that what we do counts and that, at the simplest level, you simply can’t eat what you don’t grow. Our society has encouraged and participated in tremendous speculative financial activity at the expense of the concrete productive sector of our economy. The impact on our economic productivity has been predictable. The deterioration of our living equity — our neighborhoods, infrastructure, and environmental resources — can be seen in every place — north, south, east, west — and it touches everyone, rich and poor alike. The dumbing down of the workforce grows as daily television and social media consumption reach frightening levels and teach counterproductive behavior. What is happening in our neighborhoods parallels what is happening around the world. 

The people who feel that their biggest problem is their financial equity — falling yields on their investment portfolios — have yet to see that they cannot enjoy capital gains unless they preserve their living equity. That is, our neighborhoods and children need to be kept safe, and we need to understand that the very things that will contribute to their safety — an increase in real human productivity, honest feedback systems, and a restoration of personal accountability — will also lead to huge increases in collective investment capital in the economy. The people who feel that their greatest problem is living equity — that they and their children are not safe and that our environment is being destroyed, or that we are committing genocide in other parts of the world (or down the block) — also have yet to see what the real issue is. We cannot achieve personal safety when yields for both retail and institutional investors are dependent on profits from organized crime, trickery of the investing public, and government guarantees that promote unproductive investment and personal behavior. Only when we achieve real economic growth based on concrete increases in productivity, accounted for and disclosed on an honest basis, can we be both safe and wealthy.

Coming clean is about reconciling these different points of view and creating a new energizing unity of people, places, and money. Coming clean begins one person at a time. As the lotus blossom opens out of the mud, coming clean begins with you and me — from the inside out. As we come clean, we find that we can live more joyously and profitably, even amid spiritual and economic warfare. As we withdraw the energy that we give each day to the people and organizations destroying our world, we discover that we have new energy to give to each other and to the people and organizations leading the creation of the new world that is percolating. As each of us comes clean, the world we envision emerges.

Our existing leadership believes that the only way to change is to institute a digital control grid — in essence, a 21st-century slavery system. We reject this vision of total central control by the few. It is a hypermaterialist vision and contradictory to how life and intelligence work in the universe. We are confident that an economic model is possible that aligns with life as it is; such a model can bring explosive wealth-building capacity while also addressing necessary risk management. A free world is possible — indeed, it is the only world we wish to create and live in.

Coming clean — we invite you to join us on a journey in support of a world committed to freedom and a human future.

*Epstein: Tip of the Viceberg

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‘Viceberg’ since it’s likely these cretans are going to sink civilization. Or let’s Imagine a pyramid upside-down, the top now at the bottom. Epstein is at the bottom, above him is a vast network comprised of the so-called “elites”, most of them male, some of them absolute evil monsters. Their financial networks intertwine with military and intelligence networks, political and social networks. Their names are mostly unknown to us and rarely make the news because they own all news outlets and carefully protect their invisibility; we’re told only what they want us to know and that information usually takes a form of propaganda and brainwashing. They are not bound by ethics, morals, or the social codes we live by, which is the polite way of saying they’re a bunch of self-interested fukkers who don’t care about the planet, human society, or the well-being of women and children. 

They’re ultra rich, powerful and protected from laws; they move in rarified circles which never intersect with ours. Here’s one article describing them. They could care less about right wing/left wing politics, Democrats or Republicans; those are manufactured categories used to keep us distracted and divided; they care about politics only to the extent that it does not impinge upon their wealth and power. 

Three of six million pages in the Epstein file have been released. Thick-skinned researchers are diving into them and gradually revealing what they find. I’ve listened to podcasts and watched videos (listed at the bottom of this post) but done so judiciously. Some of it is so dark it wounds my soul. But I’ll mention a few things and if you’re sensitive you can scan past the next paragraph to the rest of the article.

UGLY EVIL. From emails to/from Epstein there are comments like “love that torture one” and “a baby will suck harder if it hears the sound of its mother’s voice”. Very young girls and boys are regularly trafficked among men. One man, a famous American senator, bought himself a sex slave, a girl of 13, and brought her to his home where she lived as if one of the family. There is so much more but I cannot bring myself to write it down here. They are Psychopaths, Pedovores, Sociopaths, Scum. James Corbett calls them the Pathocracy–government by psychopaths, for psychopaths and by psychopaths.

Some of Epstein’s club of monsters will surprise you, like Deepak Chopra, ersatz spiritual guru who wears diamond studded glasses, who writes in an email to Epstein: “God is a construct, cute girls are real.”

Elon Musk in a Christmas day email to Epstein: “What day/night will be the wildest party on our island?” 

We, the people, have no presence in that upside-down pyramid—at our peril. We keep them in place through our willingness to be their subjects and through our ignorance of their activities, let alone their existence. The world is a sick mess and when you learn about some of these guys you realize why that is. Among that pyramid are lesser men (yes, there are plenty of women involved, too) who are infected with anti-human, soul-dead ideas.

Many have to be on a sociopath-psychopath spectrum. Curtis Yarvin, popular in some right wing circles, believes in a “humane alternative to genocide”. Yuval Noah Harari, who advises many powerful people, predicts that rapid advances in computing technology will “make humans redundant”. Harari claims that “humans are now hackable animals”. Technology will create a “massive class of useless people” who will need to be kept happy with “drugs and computer games”. He tells TED talk audiences, “We just don’t need the vast majority of this population in today’s world.” And human rights are “just like heaven, and like God, just a fictional story. The whole idea that humans have this soul or spirit and nobody knows what’s happening inside them, and they have free will, that’s over…” 

Or how about Klaus Schwab, founder of WEF (World Economic Forum) and now notorious for his edict, “you will own nothing and you will be happy”. Like all would-be despots, his ideas about a total human surveillance state are grotesque and grandiose: “In this new world we must accept transparency. Everything is going to be transparent and you have to get used to it, you have to behave accordingly. It becomes, how should I put it, integrated into your personality but if you have nothing to hide you shouldn’t be afraid.” 

Schwab is the father of Davos, the annual schmoozefest where the so-called “elites” gather each year to discuss the world’s future. Author Peter S. Goodman, author of ‘Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World’ writes, “I saw billionaires engage in simulations of the Syrian refugee experience—led around in the dark while blindfolded as angry officials demanded their papers—before savouring truffles at dinners thrown by global banks. Outside conference rooms featuring discussions on human trafficking, I watched venture capitalists fist-bumping over having scored invites to the bacchanal thrown by a Russian oligarch who flew in prostitutes from Moscow. Davos Man has pillaged the global economy, exploiting workers, plundering housing and health care, and dismantling government programs while transferring the bounty to his personal bank accounts tucked in jurisdictions beyond the reach of any pain-in-the-ass tax collector.”

To read more about these modern-day Gollums, see my article ‘Club of Sociopaths’, published in Druthers.

The release of these 3 million Epstein files has generated some optimism among the commentariat that the public outrage generated by the release means that significant change is coming, there will be jail time for criminals and justice for victims. I say, unfortunately, don’t hold your breath. Which part of what we’ve been seeing (for decades) indicates an interest, desire, or even ability, to successfully create a better world for all? They have no other tools in their toolbox. What we’re seeing is what will continue—the world getting more degraded and unstable by the month and the corporate-owned media telling only what the pathocracy wants us to know and react to. The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour. 

Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General: “If we prosecute everybody, the system will collapse.” 

It’s so damned rotten, their system should collapse. 

A few podcasters who have covered the Epstein pyramid:

James Corbett on Corbett Report

Whitney Webb in interview with Redacted

Elizabeth Nickson on Absurdistan on Substack

Some research resources if your skin is thick and you’re inclined to dig into the 3 million files. 

U.S. Department of Justice

Jmail

EpsteinSecrets.com

*Teens are Talking About Epstein

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Here’s the first few paragraphs of a well-written piece about the effect of the Epstein revelations, by a parent whose child informs him that the kids at school are all talking about what it means.

The Thinning ~ Notes from Inside the Veneer

by Joshua Stylman (full article on his Substack page here)


My kid came home from school the other day and told me the Epstein files are lunchroom conversation. Not among teachers (at least that they’re aware of), but among students in the hallways, between classes.

What a crazy thing for a child to be talking about. I mean think about that – children casually discussing whether the people who run the world have been raping and trafficking other children.

My son was telling me this the way he’d tell me about the all-star game and I’m standing in my kitchen trying to figure out what to even say. Because the weight of that – what it means that it’s entered the consciousness of our children – is so heavy. The gap between the world we thought we lived in and the one that actually exists has become so thin that even teenagers can now see through it. And yet, that’s where we are.

Anyone close to me knows that I’ve been railing about our fake reality for the last few years. That the politicians, the entertainers, the captains of industry, the media, and the philanthropists – some of them, most of them (all of them?) – have been looting and pillaging the place. Literally. And now our kids are learning it too.

*Demise of historic Bridge River Lillooet News?

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Quick, important note from the Feb. 3, 2026 Council Meeting

Joni L’Heureux, Chief Financial Officer (she’s back, FYI): “Community charter outlines the District’s requirement for advertising, public notices, rezonings, elections notices, things like that have to be published in the local newspaper two consecutive weeks. Recently, the availability and reliability of the Bridge River Lillooet News has been questionable. So being proactive about this, particularly because we have an election year coming up that will require a lot of public notices. We’ve drafted an alternative public bylaw [#2026-035].”

Alternative means of publications being put forward: REC center notice board and Facebook. Council briefly discussed bringing in a municipal app but the CFO said the cost of doing so would be prohibitive. Another place to post community information ought to be the Post Office. This blog will try to help by posting important information here. There will be more discussion at the next council meeting on Feb. 17th.

Here’s the notification that was inserted into the Jan. 15th, 2026 newspaper.

Notice to Readers and Advertisers

Regretfully, it will be necessary to pause publication of the Bridge River Lillooet News for several weeks while a series of technical issues is attended to. A malware or other hacking incident late last year has triggered cascading system failures and it’s simply no longer possible to find work-arounds while subsequently trying to fix these problems and continue to publish a newspaper every week. 

I don’t take this decision lightly; it’s a tremendous privilege and also responsibility to publish the Bridge River Lillooet News every week. That said, it’s irresponsible, at this point, to try to continue until the situation is properly in hand. It’s simply impossible to provide reliable service to readers and advertisers under these circumstances. 

I apologize for the inconvenience this will cause, and look forward to returning to regular publication as soon as it’s possible to do so. All subscriptions will of course be extended for all missed deliveries, and then some. 

Thanks for your patience and understanding. 

Dennis Stranack, Publisher

Bridge River Lillooet News

January 15,2026

* Winnipeg Lab Breached by Chinese Scientists

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This article was written by the brilliant forensic investigator, Andy Lee, who is on the X platform. This greatly complicates what we’ve been told about COVID, bringing into clear focus the complex web of deceit that surrounded the public messaging about the so-called vaccine. And it implicates Canada in a startling and disturbing way.

Chrétien Family Linked to Chinese Scientist Involved In Winnipeg Laboratory Breach

~ Michel Chrétien, the brother of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, carried out research studies on deadly viruses with a Chinese-Canadian scientist removed by the RCMP.

By Andy Lee 

She was a brilliant scientist, credited as one of the researchers who helped cure Ebola. Then came the news of her sudden removal, followed by reports of virus shipments to China. No one knows where she is now, but we do know where she has been. One thing is for certain – the story of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu is a mysterious one.

The problems appeared to start in 2019.

It was that summer the news broke that Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, along with her husband Keding Cheng and a number of unidentified Chinese students, had been escorted out of the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg, Canada by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The sudden removal of Qiu on July 5, a prominent virologist who was at one time the head of the Vaccine Development and Antiviral Therapies department in the Special Pathogen Program of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), sent shockwaves through the international community. The NML, a biosafety level-4 laboratory (BSL-4), is Canada’s only laboratory equipped to contain and deal with the world’s most deadly pathogens. One of only about 50 worldwide, it is operated by the Government of Canada through PHAC. The removal of Qiu and her colleagues was described as a “policy breach,” and assurances were given to the public that there was no safety risk. Those assurances however felt meek, particularly after Covid-19 hit in December of 2019. Qiu’s work, though centred mostly around the Ebola virus, also crossed into coronavirus research. Her husband had published research on Covid-19’s predecessor which hit Canada in 2003: Severe Acute Respiratory Virus (SARS). It had further been discovered in August of 2019 that Qiu had been collaborating with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the BSL-4 lab theorized to have been the source of a lab leak resulting in the Covid-19 pandemic. Much speculation followed. Charges were never laid in the matter however, and after having her security clearance revoked and being placed on administrative leave for almost two years, she was finally officially fired in January 2021.

The reasoning behind her firing remains murky. Access to information requests obtained by CBC showed that she had been shipping live viruses, including Ebola and Henipah, to Beijing, in March of 2019, preceding her removal from NML. Any shipments would have required the approval of PHAC however, who insisted that all relevant protocols were followed. It was never confirmed if the shipment was a part of the RCMP investigation.

While we may never know the exact reason why Qiu was escorted out that day – theories ranged from espionage concerns, to intellectual property infringement, to technical policy missteps – we do know one thing now. She united with Michel Chrétien, the brother of former Prime Minister of Jean Chrétien, to expand their joint research interests. And that research was later used in work done on novel Covid-19 therapies by Michel Chrétien in further collaboration with China down the road.

Qiu’s breakthrough came in 2013. After years of experimental research with monoclonal antibodies, a combination of three which she dubbed “ZMab” showed immense promise in protecting against oft-lethal Ebola infections. Her research paper on the subject stated “We previously demonstrated that the administration of ZMAb within 24 hours after exposure [to Ebola virus] completely protected all treated NHPs (non-human primates)” – an incredible claim against a pathogen with a mortality rate approaching ninety per cent. That Chrétien would want to work with her is hardly surprising. Her study was nothing short of a miracle.

The title of the paper detailing their joint research efforts is “Dr. Chrétien’s Love Affair With China,” and it is fascinating.

Chrétien, a researcher at the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM), made headlines in early 2020 after it was postulated whether there may be a “made-in-Canada” solution to the coronavirus outbreak. Michel’s prior work using quercetin – a popular supplement – drew broad attention, particularly from China. His former studies had involved studying quercetin’s effectiveness in treating Ebola, which were done in conjunction with NML during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. What was not known at the time is that Qiu – the virologist later removed by the RCMP – was the scientist at NML running the experiments for him. The article details how Chrétien contacted Qiu in 2014 to run tests for him using quercetin on Ebola at the NML. After finding success in those trials, they later conducted similar investigations on Zika virus, claiming that the results were “beyond their expectations.”

There were beliefs that quercetin may also work on Covid-19, and the clinical trials commenced in China before Covid-19 was even declared a pandemic. Chrétien, an accomplished scientist who has won many awards in his field, had studied at Berkeley, and trained with Dr. Choh Hao Li. He maintained high-level connections to Chinese researchers afterward, having been granted an honorary professorship at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in the 1980s. He is also credited for bringing Chinese students to the IRCM to train at the prestigious institution. He later used those connections to contact researchers in Wuhan in February of 2020, asking if he could help by sending samples for clinical trials to test quercetin’s efficacy in treating Covid-19. A million dollars was donated by the Lazaridis Family Foundation to commence the study in February 2020. The WHO declared Covid-19 a global pandemic shortly after, on March 11, 2020.

The study was quietly scrapped and cancelled in late 2020, citing a lack of clinical subjects to test the remedy on. The claim was that the virus had been “quickly brought under control,” in China, rendering the study irrelevant as “the number of patients needed to set up clinical trials was no longer available there [in China].” Of course, today, after witnessing years of brutal-but-futile lockdowns in China put into place in a misguided government effort to mitigate the spread of the virus, we know that wasn’t true at all.

We will never know definitively what transpired at the Winnipeg NML. The Liberal government has made sure of that, taking the extraordinary step to kill any investigation by suing the House Speaker to block the release of records regarding the firing of Qiu and her husband.”It appears that what you might well call Chinese agents infiltrated one of the highest prized national security elements when it comes to biosecurity and biodefence,” said Christian Leuprecht, a security expert and professor at the Royal Military College.

We know that Qiu, originally from and trained in China, sent live viral samples to Beijing, and that she was a key asset in building relationships with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Her trips to China were well-known and documented, and hardly clandestine in nature. She took five trips to the Wuhan Institute of Virology through 2017-2018 alone, following its approval as a BSL-4 facility in 2017. PHAC and the Government of Canada were certainly aware of her activities and were encouraging not just her, but others to forge closer ties to Chinese researchers. Was she releasing information to scientists working for the Chinese government during those trips? Almost certainly. They were research partners. Was she doing it without the full knowledge and grace of PHAC, and running afoul of protocols or treading into espionage territory? Difficult to say. Only she, and maybe a handful of others, know.

One thing that we can say for certain is that her investigations in her field were invaluable, likely changing millions of lives, and that it appears that the groundwork she helped to lay not just in Ebola, but in quercetin research, conjointly with Michel Chrétien, had immeasurable potential that was unfortunately never realized. We will never get answers on why his study in China, later confirmed to show promise in treating Covid-19, was cancelled, just as we will never be told why CanSino abandoned early trials on vaccine research with Canadian scientists.

The other lesson to be learned is that we have to be more cautious with how we approach research and development projects with the Chinese government. Stricter protocols and guidelines are necessary to define intellectual property boundaries. Qiu’s name appeared on numerous research papers done in conjunction with the Academy of Military Science in China, as well as on several patents submitted to the China National Intellectual Property Administration. Is this where the trouble started? Projects and partnerships need to be carefully monitored by PHAC going forward to defend national security interests, and even while PHAC was acutely aware of Qiu’s work with with Chinese researchers, she still somehow ended up barred from one of our top laboratory facilities. Did she get caught up in an intellectual property battle by transferring research to the Chinese government? And Chrétien’s cancelled quercetin trials – which barely even made the news – should certainly serve as an advisory notice for Canadian workers who carry out research with China, only to have those projects inexplicably shelved for dubious reasons.

As for the the sad story of Qiu, an incredible Chinese-Canadian virologist who helped to cure Ebola, it appears that the answers to those questions will remain tightly locked in the vault of Covid-era secrets, along with many others. It should be the strongest precautionary tale to Canada of them all however; whatever else she may have been, she was a genius in her field, and it is hard to argue that what happened to her should be described as anything other than a tragic loss for all. 

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* Black-pilled? Action Your Outrage

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~ tips, tactics and strategy 

So, after gathering a great deal of information, what if you’re so black-pilled you’re becoming anxious or pessimistic, or worse? How to action those feelings in healthy, effective ways?

Citizen Ninja: Stand up to Power by Mary Baker is an excellent primer and a quick read (free limited preview online). “A guide for budding activists—of any age—who want to engage but don’t know how to start, what to do, or how to think about political activism.” During a lengthy, enjoyable interview, Baker describes how to become efficient activists, how to manage emotions, maintain composure and self restraint, how to recognize bully techniques, and how to respond instead of react. She describes four types of people (uninformed, informed, misinformed and partisan) and how to assess each one. The confident public speaker knows that engagement is strategic and preparation is key; the effective influencer employs a variety of methods which build respect, rapport and positive civil discourse. When disrupting obedience one does so in the kindest way possible. And so much more. (1)

Speaking out loud isn’t for everyone—just ask Banksy. Pepper a community with quickie hits of information, there are plenty of downloadable resources online. (2)(3)(4). Or, with basic computer skills and a printer, make your own. Place leaflets on windshields in busy parking lots. Or staple them to wooden telephone poles. Photocopy memes and pin them on community notice boards, their visual messages are impactful and often very funny.  

Dollar stores sell washable coloured chalk: write on sidewalks where there’s lots of foot traffic, streetcorners where people wait for the green light, places where drivers have to sit idle in heavy traffic. Chalk it up at key locations: media outlets, post offices, shopping malls, libraries, bus stops, hospitals and clinics. Some phrases to consider: TheyLied.ca – Expose Bad Pharma—Bring Our Normal Back—Corruption Ends Now—Stop Being Complicit—Blow the Whistle—Stand Up—Truth Matters. If you have some disposable income, place an advert in the local paper or rent a billboard on a busy highway. 

If working alone isn’t your thing then find a buddy; efforts are easily synchronized and trust levels are high. Or if your motto is “the more the merrier”, organize into a freedom pod. (5) Whatever your preference, experienced activists have uploaded plenty of resources to guide the way. (6)(7)(8) Meet weekly to share progress and set goals.

We know that the Commons, that big majority, are often apolitical. Even when life gets really hard, many cling to the status quo. They’re disinterested and unmotivated and some are even antagonistic. But with the right tactics and nimble strategy they can be moved to care. This is what happened in the 1990s during the Otpor! movement in then-Yugoslavia (Otpor! means Resistance). Under the guidance and leadership of Srda Popovic, a 25-year-old student, Serbians peacefully ousted long-term strongman, Slobodan Milosevic. Popovic has written a book about it (9) and now teaches other democracy movements around the globe. (his email: psrdja@gmail.com) 

Some of his advice: 

~ When you have a vision for tomorrow, you can’t pick the big cataclysmic fight as your first confrontation. Start by picking easy fights, building a reputation and a name. 

~ Pick battles big enough to matter but small enough to win. Success is a series of small acts done well with goals achieved. 

~ Proper revolutions are not cataclysmic explosions, they are long, controlled burns. 

~ Show how the state’s propaganda is ridiculous. Public speeches were given by youth and grandmothers who were being called terrorists.

~ Listen to people, find out what they care about and fight your battle in that general vicinity. 

~ Make your movement relatable to the widest number of people at all times.

~ You know you’re on the winning track when two or more groups that have nothing to do with one another, or are normally antagonistic, decide to join together for their mutual benefit. 

Notes from the documentary about Otpor!, Bringing Down a Dictator : 

Popovic: “Everything we did must have a dose of humour, because I’m joking and authorities are only getting angry. They’re only showing only one face—anger—and I’m always, again, with another joke, with another action, with another positive message to divide their audience…” (10)

Humour—also called laughtivism—offers a satisfying, low-cost point of entry for everyone. Some tactics that have been used: Russians placed toys holding protest signs in the streets; Syrians poured buckets of red dye in all their fountains; Poles buried loudspeakers, which played anti-government messages, in piles of excrement requiring police to dig into them in order to silence them; Syrians wrote messages critical of Bashar al-Assad on hundreds of ping-pong balls and let them loose on steep streets requiring police to scurry after them. 

The only thing that trumps fear is laughter. Laughter is power. Police forces spend time training on how to deal with violent people and zero time on how to deal with funny, laughing people. 

Pit your strong points against your enemy’s weak points.

~ Sun Tzu 

A topical example: the weakest point of globalism is its obsession with digital enslavement; without cyberspace, tyranny is impossible to accomplish; information which can be passed hand to hand—like Druthers, pamphlets, leaflets—is a strong point because it evades surveillance, censorship and cancellation. 

Audacious slogans captivated the general mood with remarkable effect during Otpor!. “He’s finished” caught on like wildfire and soon the phrase was everywhere, on t-shirts, bumper stickers and hand-held flags. Even though the dictator was still in power, the slogan contained determination and optimism and became a lucky talisman. 

In its early days, Otpor!’s numbers were small so they created some mystique to give the impression of an extensive organization by making a simple logo of a solidarity fist. 

To introduce themselves, they tossed hundreds of stark, black and white leaflets bearing their logo from the tops of hi-rises which rained down on busy streets below, and videotaped it. The leaflets bore simple messages: Fight the System; Resistance because I love Serbia; Freedom.

Cities such as Belgrade were black holes—hard to penetrate because telecommunications had everyone captured. But small towns turned out to be big supporters so Otpor! focused efforts there. The movement grew from the outside in. And though Otpor! had a leader, operations became so decentralized that tyrannical forces didn’t know who should be attacked. 

Popovic: “I think we succeeded because we simply love life more than them. Generally, those guys were the preachers of death. Their hatred, their propaganda, their language, smelled like death. And we won because we love life more. We decided to love life and you can’t beat life. So this is what Otpor! did, we were a group of fans of life.” 

Otpor!’ is now global. CANVAS, the Center for Applied Non-Violent Actions and Strategies, has worked with pro-democracy activists in over 50 countries. CANVAS emphasizes the importance of “unity, nonviolent discipline and planning” as the keys to success: “Power in society is not fixed, and can shift very swiftly from one social group to another. It can become fragile and can be redistributed, especially in non-democratic regimes. Ultimately, power in society comes from the obedience of the people. And those people – each of whom is individually a small source of power – can change their minds, and refuse to follow commands.” (11)

When it comes to globalists trying to push paradigm shifts that will consolidate their power, exclude voters, and drastically harm humanity’s future, the fact that they are ignoring Newton’s 3rd Law is a profound weak point: “Whenever one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object exerts an equal and opposite force on the first. For every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction.” 

Whether action is taken by the individual citizen ninja, or the action is collective like Otpor!, there is no time to waste. Get offline and get out into the real world. When you channel outrage in safe, healthy and effective ways it brings a great deal of relief, hope and energy. Which is far better than worry and anxiety! 

Work local and start now.  

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Sources and Resources

(1) Mary Baker interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJc54EksdBw

(2) https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/printable-resources/ 

(3) https://theylied.ca/TakeAction.shtml

(4) https://www.resistcbdc.com/billofrights

(5) https://freedomcells.org/

(6) https://www.citizenshandbook.org/get_rid_of_a_dictator.html

(7) https://canvasopedia.org/videos/

(8) Download letters to send to politicians 

https://www.kiclei.ca/new-page

(9) Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World by Srda Popovic

(10) Documentary on the Otpor! Movement, Bringing Down a Dictator

(11) CANVAS https://canvasopedia.org/

T.A.

* COVID WAS A PLANDEMIC

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Did you know that tabletop wargaming has been going on for decades? Or that sociopathic so-called ‘scientists’ are busy beavering away in military-funded labs around the world, including Wuhan, China, making bioweapons because ‘their enemies’ might do it first? And did you know that over the decades the pharmaceutical industry has been captured by militaristic paranoia? If your answers are ‘No’ then it’s time to do some research.

You could start here with Whitney Webb’s timely article providing background and context.

TWO MONTHS BEFORE COVID WAS ANNOUNCED, key players gathered for Event 201 to make plans to manage a global pandemic. Two months later, like magic, a “deadly” virus arrives, coordinated global lockdowns roll out smoothly, and world’s people were terrorized into compliance. We had to take an experimental jab filled with ‘new technology’ junk they sold as “safe and effective”.

The following are excerpts from ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Exhaustively researched and annotated, scrupulous attention to facts and documentation, it’s the kind of revelatory book that only comes along once in a century. I read the 450+ page book TWICE so you don’t have to.

“Participants included a group of high-ranking kahunas from the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, Bloomberg/Johns Hopkins University, the CDC, various media powerhouses, the Chinese government, a former CIA/NSA director, vaccine maker Johnson & Johnson, the globe’s largest pharmaceutical company; finance and biosecurity industry chieftains, and the president of Edelman, the world’s largest PR firm.

“War games became instruments for imposing obedience. Dark Winter, Atlantic Storm, and Global Mercury were only three of over a dozen Germ Games staged by military, medical, and intelligence planners leading up to COVID-19. Each of the Kafkaesque exercises became uncanny predictors of a dystopian age that pandemic planners dubbed the ‘New Normal’.”

“The consistent feature is an affinity for militarizing medicine and introducing centralized autocratic governance. Each rehearsal ends with the same grim punchline: the global pandemic is an excuse to justify the imposition of tyranny and coerced vaccination.

“The panelists role-played strategies for co-opting the world’s most influential political institutions, subverting democratic governance, and positioning themselves as unelected rulers of the emerging authoritarian regime. They practised techniques for ruthlessly controlling dissent, expression and movement, and degrading civil rights, autonomy, and sovereignty. The Gates simulation focused on deploying the usual psyops retinue of propaganda, surveillance, censorship, isolation, and political and social control to manage the pandemic. The official eighty-nine page summary is a miracle of fortune-telling—an uncannily precise month-by-month prediction of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.”

“After 9/11, “the War on Terror triggered a tectonic shift in global security priorities and elephantine ripples in defense spending patterns across the globe as open democracies began shifting to a security state footing. The revival in US government interest in germ warfare opened new opportunities. The US bio-defense budget went from $137 million in 1997 to $14.5 billion for 2001-2004. Between 2001 and 2014, the US spent around $80 billion on bio-defense. Since germ weaponry was still illegal, vaccines became a critical euphemism for the revival of the multi-billion dollar bioweapons industry.”    

“The Pentagon could not get into compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention which limited the Pentagon’s freedom to undertake new research programs, particularly those referred to as “the leading edge of bio-defense”. So then-VP Dick Cheney transferred the Pentagon’s research to the National Institutes of Health, specifically to NIAID. By 2004, the transfer was complete and NIAID was transformed into an arm of the defense sector. This made NIAID Director Anthony Fauci a  major player in biodefense and germ warfare.” 

[During his first term] Trump’s Health officials complained “that they found themselves marginalized as Operation Warp Speed devolved into a partnership between the military and the pharmaceutical industry.”  Physician and biological warfare expert, Meryl Nass, MD.: “Coercion should be the last strategy to consider in a pandemic. If you have a remedy that works, people will flock to it. It’s troubling that the first and only option was creating a police state.”  

 

* KICLEI UPDATE

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Regular readers will recall the Gazette report that CAO McCulloch agreed to have a conversation with KICLEI’s Maggie Hope Braun. It was hoped she would inform him about sneaky globalist plans: climate action disguises systematic dismantling of democratic governance to weaken municipalities. Unfortunately, as soon as KICLEI was making some headway, it was attacked by the McMedia, in particular the National Post, which maligned and smeared using falsehoods, a common silencing tactic these days. Braun refuted the falsehoods but the stress took its toll. Long story short, for now, no conversation with the CAO. 

Braun reported: “At the FCM [Federation of Canadian Municipalities] conference, an ICLEI session labelled our message as “misinformation”. When councillors asked for a response to our documented concerns, ICLEI refused—saying even acknowledging our questions would “give them attention.” Let that sink in. “Elected officials are being told not to examine questions of jurisdiction, consent, or cost—because the answers might empower their communities. But it’s not working. Across the country, councillors are stepping up. 

“In Alberta, our issues became election issues. We are breaking through. And they know it. Wheatland County the Town of Vermilion and others withdrew from FCM, setting a precedent for others to follow. Lethbridge challenged PCP/IPCC targets, recommending a 20% GHG reduction instead of 40%–saving $63 million in projected carbon credit costs. In B.C., we exposed the truth: the Net-Zero Action Charter frameworks are voluntary, not mandatory. That opens the door for respectful withdrawals and local debate. 

Reflecting on 2025 challenges, Braun said, “If you’re feeling burnt out or behind—so am I. But none of us are alone. Every email, delegation, and conversation you had this year helped lay a foundation for something powerful.” 

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