Never forget what the Australian government did to Novak Djokovic for having natural immunity and refusing the jab. They detained him and deported him to prevent him from playing in the 2022 Australian Open. Then he returned in 2023 and triumphed, winning his record 10th Australian Open and 22nd Grand Slam: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-play-like-a-champion-part-018
The Government also waited an entire week to release their decision on Djokovic - why? Because they were polling all week to see if they could ascertain the most politically popular decision. That really sucked. But I admire the dignity of the man. He took it on the chin and got on with his life.
As I said when The Twitter Files first broke, the real story isn't really The Twitter Files -- it's the fact that there's also an ABC Files, a CBS Files, a New York Times Files, a UK Government Files, and now an Australian Ministry of Truth Files.
They want to control everything you're allowed to say, and it's NO SURPRISE that once an entity is allowed to determine what speech isn't "allowed" that dissent quickly gets shoved under that umbrella.
I frequently do comparisons of Google and DuckDuckGo searches. I think DuckDuckGo may have been compromised some, but still a world of difference. Google hides so much.
Yeah, I agree totally. Is Brave better? I know that is a browser, I think it has search as part of it, but not sure. Over the past couple of years DDG results are looking more and more like Google's. The other thing is most search engines of any kind basically are using Google.
The Anglosphere countries are experiencing a top-down Color Revolution, similar to the ones tried out first on former Eastern European Soviet bloc countries. The telltale signs are:
Behind-the-scenes coordination of Government—NGOs—Tech cos—media to craft and enforce narratives and then to police these narratives;
Vilification of all opponents in the most florid terms possible: they can't just be wrong or have a different perspective, they must be Nazi racist genocidal extremists;
Encouragement of a civil war-type schism in societies (You're either with us or against us), where citizens are prompted to attack those on the other side of the divide, spy on them and rat them out to authorities;
And then one more special twist: Denigration of the cultural heritage of all Anglospeshere countries, in the hope of making all prior political arrangements appear illegitimate at best or evil at worst, with the goal (as in all successful takeovers) of replacing all prior leaders, systems and beliefs with those of the new rulers, who install commissars at every institutional chokepoint, to make sure their narratives are blasted out of every megaphone, and competing narratives muted.
As the overseas Color Revolutions were just a beta test for what's happening here, Covid was another test to see how docile our populations are and how far they can be molded and manipulated by steady applications of fear and propaganda.
And in this regard, Covid was a smashing success and a blueprint for future "Emergency" takeovers, with more to come soon.
You’ve summed up my thoughts masterfully. The whacked-out period we’re living through now is in no way organic. Color Revolution is an apt description. Our government has been subjecting other countries to them for so long that we can’t even recognize it when it’s being foisted upon us from within. Qui bono?
The image that I have in my head is of a castle drawbridge going up: of course the nobility inside is safe and sound, and whoever enters will be ok as long as they pledge and display eternal loyalty. They will all receive the benefits of status, patronage, various awards and sinecures that are now doled out based upon fealty to the sacred narrative du jour.
But everyone outside the castle (apostates, dissenters, opponents etc) will be tarred as the dangerous intolerable Other who must be delegitimized, denounced, banished and attacked.
I guess this is the civil war aspect of the Color Revolution: now Who/Whom answers every question.
With any luck. It would be poetic justice for them to suffer in the sanctity of their self-imposed safe spaces while thinking that they’re insulated from the outside world.
“Covid was another test to see how docile are populations are and how far they can be molded and manipulated by steady applications of fear and propaganda.” - could not be better stated
I agree with everything you said, but I think Covid was not quite the smashing success that they hoped here in the U.S., particularly in red states. The governors of red states sued and got the mandates overturned, and there has been a mass migration from blue to red states in the past few years. I think we need to redo the 2020 census!
Despite the admirable Red State pockets of resistance, I think it's possible to have smashing success without total, comprehensive victory.
What they achieved was: 2 weeks to flatten the curve became 2 years; the media propagating and policing all the preferred narratives to the point where they actually doxxed citizens who refused to comply and erected an electrified taboo around the lab-leak theory (thus with the biggest story in years, journalists insisted that it was evil to investigate it—or racist! LOL); 8ish out of every 10 people proudly lining up for a barely-tested Pfizer product and willing to denounce and cut off their own friends and family members for refusing; the same people putting masks on their toddlers (!) and even making their kids wear useless masks for years and ruining their educations...etc etc...
I'd say as someone who grew up in a free country, this was a shocking, astounding success heralding a New Normal (see CJ Hopkins) of global corporate control of our culture, discourse and govt.
Love CJ Hopkins! (Recommend for anyone who hasn't read him.) I was looking on the bright side. For instance, I think it's 7ish out if every 10 people. 😉
The good news is that many have flipped on the vaccines due to their poisonous nature. This has generated a fair amount of disillusionment with institutions, and not just those in the medical sector.
It ain't over until it's over and we ain't over. Our Constitutional Republic was founded on the still breathing corpse of the English Monarchy. We aren't Communist's or Capitalist's we're Americans. As long as The Constitution and the Bill of Right's stand so do we. Our shared concern for the state of our nation is fully justified. And, the danger is real. We are surrounded by the human damage, chaos and social/cultural disintegration of a six decade class war that, as intended, left our country a divided and ever more dangerous wasteland. We all felt and witnessed the slow tightening of the economic noose as more and more American's fell into poverty and the globalist DNC/CCP/WEF juggernaut cried out for austerity and sacrifice. But, ultimately it isn't the money. And ultimately, it isn't them. It's us!! The free citizen's of the Republic.
One consequence of the psyop (as so adequately outlined by Señor Pseudonym) appeared in Wes Yang's YEAR ZERO this week. Written by an educator reporting on the disintegration and collapse of education in the Black American community, it illustrates the consequence of a looted economic system and the evasion of responsibility by the perpetrator's. The psyop is a bomb. We may personally escape the blast but it's impossible to escape the human damage surrounding it. In the case of Black America the psyop simply weaponized the blowback by funding and inserting propagandist "race hustlers" into the tragedy and aiming the violence at Middle America. Fear, suspicion, chaos and crisis. Meanwhile the looting of America continues. They win!! The world loses.
After living inside a DNC lie (weaponized Covid) inside a DNC lie (Russiagate) for a decade and watching the DNC resurrect the threat of atomic war "we the people" should accept that a real (-BUT NOT ALL!!-) portion of elected American political leadership is bat shit crazy beyond the lines of moral demarcation. At this point it isn't politics it's pathology. This is a new age. It's time to get clean. Time to get clear. And it is time to get well.
There is a mighty sucking sound coming from the gravitational psyop of the capitalist, communist hybrid created by the Davos driven, would be, DNC/CCP/WEF monarchy and the "woke" commissariat it employs. It's clearly retrograde. Fk'em.
They will try again, and soon. And I think especially down under, they will violently overthrow their overlords. I'm pretty sure they've had enough. We should be so brave.
Brilliant and exactly what I am feeling. All this cannot be some organic happenstance. The common link I see in Covid, Critical Race Theory, Gender Madness, is targeted at dividing us as a country. Why? To give way to the Global Society. This was all hatched in Davos by the Gulfstream crowd.
I have said elsewhere, it is "fortunate" that the vaccines fell so far short of expectations. if they had delivered, there would be no stopping them in rolling out the next lockdown. (Climate change crisis with internal passports, carbon emissions rationing and you name it.) I think this is where all of the bitterness towards the skeptics came form. "You are ruining all our plans with you malinformation!"
I come from the land down-under! Where the government spies and cabinet officials use cloth masks for plunder! You’d better run, you’d better not mention ivermectin….whooooaaaa….
This is the most amazing part to me: "The Australian stereotype of mocking self-important authorities was tepid at best during the crisis."
Aussies used to be merciless in ridiculing self-important scolds but now that trait seems to be disappearing from the Australian character. Such a shame, for 'twas highly admirable!
I don’t know what country you live in, but where I’ve lived from coast to coast cops have been choking the shit out of people for my whole life and I’m 72 years old.
I hate that my imaginary land of the descendants of cool convicts and rabble rousers has been overtaken by people who took the guns and became tyrants. I stand with the people of my ideological 80s imagination. Really. This is not a joke post. I hope you're still down there.
I could not believe it when the Australian people put their tail betwixt their legs and agreed to disarm. Wtaf? And here we are, recently watching Aussie thugs beating defenseless people for not wearing a face diaper. Putting them in camps. Yeah.
I know John Ralston Saul has many fans in Australia. It gives me hope that Australia can escape the fascism that has taken over the English speaking world. I am hoping my Quebec can save Canada from fascism but even linguistic nationalism clouds human judgement.
better ideas cant win anymore. The governments, and there agencies are captured by the technocrats and corporations. They control the money and the narrative. Since both canada and australia have ceded the right to bear arms, they have relegated themselves to serfdom. Only an armed uprising can defeat the evil we see. Elections and supposed politicians sympathetic to the cause cant do it. The US still holds a sliver of hope because our citizenry is heavily armed, but im not sure what it would take for a real anti-governement movement to organize. I do feel we are closer to that possibility as each day passes however. And if it comes to that, it will be a very ugly outcome for all involved.
Pray tell against whom would this armed uprising be directed and what man's militia would be spearheading the "armed" uprising? I'd love to be able to set up a lawn chair with a cooler full of cold beverages at the ready, Civil War Reenactment style, and watch the Proud Boys & Co. skirmish with the 4th Division and 101st Airborne.
It will be directed against people like me who know there is no conspiracy. The battle lines are drawn and the United States is a failed experiment.
One side believes in conspiracies the other knows conspiracies of that scale are well beyond our specie's abilities.
The Freemasons are a secret society. They are so secret they dress up in strange costumes drive around in tiny cars and wear fezes. George Washington was a Freemason how secret is that?
I lived in America for two decades and I know there is no such thing as race or gender and religion is something we create of our own volition.
We want Americans, Canadians, Quebecers to be special but there is nothing special about being special. We are who we are. What we are is out of our control.
There is no such thing as an antigovernment conspiracy. There is no such thing as antigovernment. Anti government is pro your government anti their government. In Quebec there is liberal democracy and there is only our government.
Jordan Peterson is a lunatic we are all Marxists; it is what God made us.
We teach Darwin in school because the human genome tells us Darwin's creation story is real and the story of Noah the town drunk is literature and is allegorical truth.
I am about as Jewish as a 75 year old Jew can get and you are mad believing all the bullshit you have been fed all your life. There is no Cabal or conspiracy. There never was there will never will be. There is no God nor Satan whether or not there is a Supreme Being is a knowledge I will never know. I do know our species is far too limited to create the structures you say are taking over.
In his 1755 Dictionary of the English Language the conservative philosopher Samuel Johnson defines cabal thusly
The Jewish Rabbins have kept it so secret that even they have never heard of it.
Nobody has ever heard of it. Not bureaucrats, politicians, priests, police or fireman has ever been a member. It is impossible to control the world and be secret about it. Tyranny by definition is not an act of secrecy.
I don't live in the English Speaking World but I am comfortable speaking my mother tongue. The easiest way to censor isn't to hide it from public view but to hide it in plain sight
If you want to know about censorship PEN International is a good place to start.
The Canadian historian, writer and Socratic Philosopher John Ralston Saul served consecutive terms as the President and is the foremost authority on Journalistic freedom on the planet and is invisible in the US mainstream media.
I am 75 and I was two when George Orwell died. He is the greatest literary giant known in my lifetime.
His essay on Nationalism talks about why Israel is a fascist state even as Israel was founded by democratic socialists like my grandfather and great grandfather and Orwell who understood all forms of nationalism even Christian Nationalism.
Why is the Orwell Library in Russia not in England or America?
Obviously Putin knows Orwell and has adopted the dark side just like the English speaking world. Australia is fascist just like Putin.
John Ralston Saul told us in his 1995 opus The Colapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World. That is why he was twice elected head of PEN International.
I traveled pretty extensively in my 20's and once spent almost a month in Australia. My impression of the people there at that time (and most of the Aussies I have met since that time) was that the typical Australian citizen was as similar to a typical Texan (me) as anyplace else that I had been in the world. What happened to that country? Like Texans, they all appeared to possess a great deal of national pride, but also were as irreverent to authority as anybody in the world. It appears to me that they have slowly and willingly conceded some of their basic rights to the government. Not really my intent to get into the whole 2A debate, but please recall that Australia had a terrible mass shooting event (35 people killed) in Tasmania in 1996. In the passion of that moment Australia quickly passed and enacted a ban on certain types of "assault" weapons. The subsequent data shows that the laws did indeed reduce mass shooting events, but at what cost? Their political leadership seems to have gotten more repressive since that time and there appears to currently be no serious and effective opposition to the erosion of their civil liberties. Is this a coincidence? I don't know. I am not saying that more guns are the answer, but I do also firmly believe that a government that has no fear of the governed will trend toward more repressive behavior. It is the immutable law of bureaucracies to accumulate and wield more power, regardless of where the bureaucrats are located. Since the political and media reactions to each new mass shooting event in the USA are so obviously canned and premeditated, I would assume that the anti 2A folks in the USA are using Australia as a model of what they hope to accomplish here. No one wants more mass shootings in America, but what are the unintended (presumably unintended) consequences of enacting such a ban here? Sure, Australia can always vote the little fascists out of office, but removing already enacted and restrictive legislation regarding free speech and gun rights from their law is vastly more difficult. Like it or not, the 1A and 2A freedoms that we enjoy in this country are inexorably linked. If the entrenched leadership in this country completely melted down over a couple of thousand old white dudes wearing MAGA hats marching in and around the Capitol building for a couple of hours to the point that they incarcerated and subsequently suspended their basic civil rights, while none were visibly carrying firearms, what do they really fear? A government that has a little fear of the citizens is not an all bad thing. This is basically the same dynamic that has led to zero nuclear exchanges in the nearly 80 years since they were first put on display in Japan. You do not have to actually use nukes to achieve political objectives. Everybody just has to understand that you possess them. The little functionaries (in Australia or anywhere else) that try and restrict jokes or cockamamie medical theories on the under the guise of "global health crisis" are not fearful of their citizens. Maybe they should be?
“Social cohesion” reminds of “sowing discord” and other bullshit that implies we’re all one big loving family, instead of a society in which minorities of rich and powerful people take advantage of the majority. Like take any collective bargaining process with lockouts vs strikes. You can’t tweet that managers want to crush workers to keep a greater share of company profits because that harms “social cohesion”. What’s next, goose stepping in unison?
Constant mocking like this seems like the best way to end this type of government behavior. Keep up the jokes and good cheer about this where you can, Matt.
Here's what's really troubling: what's going to happen during the next "pandemic" or other "emergency"? Governments have learned how and what to say to control the populace. How are thoughtful, mindful citizens going to fight back?
Michele Backmann's report yesterday from Geneva, where the WHO is meeting, said one of the attendees was emphatic that there be a simulation this fall to make sure all of their treaty amendments were tight and would actually work before they voted on them next February. Michele’s reporting came via a website that not all people would watch. But here is the Noor Bin Ladin & Nick F Cerutti website: https://wehurtothers.com/home/
I can confirm as a voracious letter-writer to The Age newspaper during 2020 and 2021 (I'm thinking of publishing a book there were that many) that the newspaper's journalist and letters editor consistently ignored any evidence to the contrary of what appeared to be an accepted narrative.
In the state of Victoria, the lockdowns were particularly egregious. We were limited to travel within a 5km radius of our homes, even if we lived in semi-rural areas where the nearest store was 7km away. Fortunately, I live in such an area and took little notice of the outdoor mask mandate whilst retailers cracked open their doors to offer "click and collect" in an attempt to help purchase items for the home, clothing or gifts.
Once vaccines were introduced and poorly taken up, mandates were put in place, limiting access to anything other than food and alcohol sales (no clothes for that growing young child to try on, no re-soling of shoes for mum).
So many business destroyed, so many mortgage defaults. Developers who relied on a steady stream of immigrant first home buyers are only now feeling the reverberations of dreadful isolationist policy that did more to divide the country than unite it. But there was no forethought by policy makers on what this future glut of first homes would do to the economy in 2020; the building industry was exempt from working-on-site or in-person restrictions. There was no forward planning regarding any of the devastating decisions made.
Today, I'm left to reflect with despair on all the money leaving my country, on entire communities in the Victorian Alpine regions that can't get bush fire insurance (or flood-prone areas of Queensland for that matter) or the overly bureaucratic gymnastics and costly investment of time and money required to meet the requirements to operate a business in accordance with regulations that are often mired in a mush of contrary legislation.
We were a largely middle-class country where most held a passport and used in many times. Now, it's become increasingly cost-prohibitive to travel, even within our own country.
Thanks for posting Stellabella! Not gonna “ like” because not anything to like about the devastation you describe. A lot of the same shite happened in the state I live in (America)
Never forget what the Australian government did to Novak Djokovic for having natural immunity and refusing the jab. They detained him and deported him to prevent him from playing in the 2022 Australian Open. Then he returned in 2023 and triumphed, winning his record 10th Australian Open and 22nd Grand Slam: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-play-like-a-champion-part-018
Beautiful triumph with Bill Gates seething in the stands.
The Government also waited an entire week to release their decision on Djokovic - why? Because they were polling all week to see if they could ascertain the most politically popular decision. That really sucked. But I admire the dignity of the man. He took it on the chin and got on with his life.
I admire him.
I think his true crime was being from Russia-aligned Serbia.
What has happened to Australia. They used to quirky individualists.
As I said when The Twitter Files first broke, the real story isn't really The Twitter Files -- it's the fact that there's also an ABC Files, a CBS Files, a New York Times Files, a UK Government Files, and now an Australian Ministry of Truth Files.
They want to control everything you're allowed to say, and it's NO SURPRISE that once an entity is allowed to determine what speech isn't "allowed" that dissent quickly gets shoved under that umbrella.
And almost certainly a Google Files.
https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/googlegov-part-1
https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/googlegov-part-2
100% percent. A YouTube Files, a Facebook Files, a Reddit Files.........if it's got any reach at all, government was up in there.
I frequently do comparisons of Google and DuckDuckGo searches. I think DuckDuckGo may have been compromised some, but still a world of difference. Google hides so much.
I still use DDG but I was so disappointed in them for hiding Ukraine results -- and so soon after their "it's none of our business" commercials.
Yeah, I agree totally. Is Brave better? I know that is a browser, I think it has search as part of it, but not sure. Over the past couple of years DDG results are looking more and more like Google's. The other thing is most search engines of any kind basically are using Google.
I use DDG inside the Brave browser. I think it now has a search but I haven't used it.
Here is a great link with why Brave rocks. I love it. https://requestly.io/blog/switch-to-brave-from-chrome#:~:text=Brave%20Browser%20does%20not%20require,extensions%20across%20your%20synced%20devices.
That is a great article, thanks.
The Anglosphere countries are experiencing a top-down Color Revolution, similar to the ones tried out first on former Eastern European Soviet bloc countries. The telltale signs are:
Behind-the-scenes coordination of Government—NGOs—Tech cos—media to craft and enforce narratives and then to police these narratives;
Vilification of all opponents in the most florid terms possible: they can't just be wrong or have a different perspective, they must be Nazi racist genocidal extremists;
Encouragement of a civil war-type schism in societies (You're either with us or against us), where citizens are prompted to attack those on the other side of the divide, spy on them and rat them out to authorities;
And then one more special twist: Denigration of the cultural heritage of all Anglospeshere countries, in the hope of making all prior political arrangements appear illegitimate at best or evil at worst, with the goal (as in all successful takeovers) of replacing all prior leaders, systems and beliefs with those of the new rulers, who install commissars at every institutional chokepoint, to make sure their narratives are blasted out of every megaphone, and competing narratives muted.
As the overseas Color Revolutions were just a beta test for what's happening here, Covid was another test to see how docile our populations are and how far they can be molded and manipulated by steady applications of fear and propaganda.
And in this regard, Covid was a smashing success and a blueprint for future "Emergency" takeovers, with more to come soon.
You’ve summed up my thoughts masterfully. The whacked-out period we’re living through now is in no way organic. Color Revolution is an apt description. Our government has been subjecting other countries to them for so long that we can’t even recognize it when it’s being foisted upon us from within. Qui bono?
thx!
The image that I have in my head is of a castle drawbridge going up: of course the nobility inside is safe and sound, and whoever enters will be ok as long as they pledge and display eternal loyalty. They will all receive the benefits of status, patronage, various awards and sinecures that are now doled out based upon fealty to the sacred narrative du jour.
But everyone outside the castle (apostates, dissenters, opponents etc) will be tarred as the dangerous intolerable Other who must be delegitimized, denounced, banished and attacked.
I guess this is the civil war aspect of the Color Revolution: now Who/Whom answers every question.
Apropos description of these “elite”. I can’t think of a more comical adjective to describe our “betters”.
Those inside the castle will suffer the same fate as Prince Prospero's guests in Poe's Masque of the Red Death.
With any luck. It would be poetic justice for them to suffer in the sanctity of their self-imposed safe spaces while thinking that they’re insulated from the outside world.
“Covid was another test to see how docile are populations are and how far they can be molded and manipulated by steady applications of fear and propaganda.” - could not be better stated
hey thanks!
I agree with everything you said, but I think Covid was not quite the smashing success that they hoped here in the U.S., particularly in red states. The governors of red states sued and got the mandates overturned, and there has been a mass migration from blue to red states in the past few years. I think we need to redo the 2020 census!
Despite the admirable Red State pockets of resistance, I think it's possible to have smashing success without total, comprehensive victory.
What they achieved was: 2 weeks to flatten the curve became 2 years; the media propagating and policing all the preferred narratives to the point where they actually doxxed citizens who refused to comply and erected an electrified taboo around the lab-leak theory (thus with the biggest story in years, journalists insisted that it was evil to investigate it—or racist! LOL); 8ish out of every 10 people proudly lining up for a barely-tested Pfizer product and willing to denounce and cut off their own friends and family members for refusing; the same people putting masks on their toddlers (!) and even making their kids wear useless masks for years and ruining their educations...etc etc...
I'd say as someone who grew up in a free country, this was a shocking, astounding success heralding a New Normal (see CJ Hopkins) of global corporate control of our culture, discourse and govt.
Love CJ Hopkins! (Recommend for anyone who hasn't read him.) I was looking on the bright side. For instance, I think it's 7ish out if every 10 people. 😉
im all in favor of optimism ;))
I want to be optimistic also. So I keep thinking what emerges from the ashes? Or what part of the world can I move to to escape it?
The good news is that many have flipped on the vaccines due to their poisonous nature. This has generated a fair amount of disillusionment with institutions, and not just those in the medical sector.
Yup that explains the whole current saga we are living through
It ain't over until it's over and we ain't over. Our Constitutional Republic was founded on the still breathing corpse of the English Monarchy. We aren't Communist's or Capitalist's we're Americans. As long as The Constitution and the Bill of Right's stand so do we. Our shared concern for the state of our nation is fully justified. And, the danger is real. We are surrounded by the human damage, chaos and social/cultural disintegration of a six decade class war that, as intended, left our country a divided and ever more dangerous wasteland. We all felt and witnessed the slow tightening of the economic noose as more and more American's fell into poverty and the globalist DNC/CCP/WEF juggernaut cried out for austerity and sacrifice. But, ultimately it isn't the money. And ultimately, it isn't them. It's us!! The free citizen's of the Republic.
One consequence of the psyop (as so adequately outlined by Señor Pseudonym) appeared in Wes Yang's YEAR ZERO this week. Written by an educator reporting on the disintegration and collapse of education in the Black American community, it illustrates the consequence of a looted economic system and the evasion of responsibility by the perpetrator's. The psyop is a bomb. We may personally escape the blast but it's impossible to escape the human damage surrounding it. In the case of Black America the psyop simply weaponized the blowback by funding and inserting propagandist "race hustlers" into the tragedy and aiming the violence at Middle America. Fear, suspicion, chaos and crisis. Meanwhile the looting of America continues. They win!! The world loses.
After living inside a DNC lie (weaponized Covid) inside a DNC lie (Russiagate) for a decade and watching the DNC resurrect the threat of atomic war "we the people" should accept that a real (-BUT NOT ALL!!-) portion of elected American political leadership is bat shit crazy beyond the lines of moral demarcation. At this point it isn't politics it's pathology. This is a new age. It's time to get clean. Time to get clear. And it is time to get well.
There is a mighty sucking sound coming from the gravitational psyop of the capitalist, communist hybrid created by the Davos driven, would be, DNC/CCP/WEF monarchy and the "woke" commissariat it employs. It's clearly retrograde. Fk'em.
They will try again, and soon. And I think especially down under, they will violently overthrow their overlords. I'm pretty sure they've had enough. We should be so brave.
we see, hope u right
Brilliant and exactly what I am feeling. All this cannot be some organic happenstance. The common link I see in Covid, Critical Race Theory, Gender Madness, is targeted at dividing us as a country. Why? To give way to the Global Society. This was all hatched in Davos by the Gulfstream crowd.
I have said elsewhere, it is "fortunate" that the vaccines fell so far short of expectations. if they had delivered, there would be no stopping them in rolling out the next lockdown. (Climate change crisis with internal passports, carbon emissions rationing and you name it.) I think this is where all of the bitterness towards the skeptics came form. "You are ruining all our plans with you malinformation!"
If claiming the government uses emotionally manipulative language is an offense, how much trouble can you get in for discussing this conversation?
"Rather than doing too much forward signalling, we can roll pitch with the new strain."
Mr Hancock says: "We frighten the pants of everyone with the new strain."
The adviser responds: "Yep, that's what will get proper behaviour change."
The minister then asks: "When do we deploy the new variant."
Mr Hancock announced the new variant the following day.
Sick
I come from the land down-under! Where the government spies and cabinet officials use cloth masks for plunder! You’d better run, you’d better not mention ivermectin….whooooaaaa….
Lying in a den in Sydney, with a slight cough and not much to say.
I said to the man, "Are you trying to vax me?
Because I come from the land of rationality?
He said.....
Touché
Don't look behind the curtain, and DEFINITELY ignore what you see there.
This is the most amazing part to me: "The Australian stereotype of mocking self-important authorities was tepid at best during the crisis."
Aussies used to be merciless in ridiculing self-important scolds but now that trait seems to be disappearing from the Australian character. Such a shame, for 'twas highly admirable!
Where is John Clarke when you need him?
Orwell was never fiction!
In his Collapse of Globalism 2005 John Ralston Saul predicted the English Speaking world would embrace fascism.
The othering has been part of English history since The Crusades.,
In 2023 America is no longer an Island and in the words of John Donne 1572-1631 we know "for whom the bell tolls."
https://www.johnralstonsaul.com/non-fiction-books/the-collapse-of-globalism/
Love your Orwell handle !
I just bought a “ make women female again “ hat !
Remember the cop who was choking the young woman for not wearing a mask, he was never disciplined. Full on abuse of power down under
I don’t know what country you live in, but where I’ve lived from coast to coast cops have been choking the shit out of people for my whole life and I’m 72 years old.
😂 Comrade
NO
I hate that my imaginary land of the descendants of cool convicts and rabble rousers has been overtaken by people who took the guns and became tyrants. I stand with the people of my ideological 80s imagination. Really. This is not a joke post. I hope you're still down there.
I could not believe it when the Australian people put their tail betwixt their legs and agreed to disarm. Wtaf? And here we are, recently watching Aussie thugs beating defenseless people for not wearing a face diaper. Putting them in camps. Yeah.
I totally agree, I said much the same in my comment, you said it better. I went to Australia once, in the early 1970s. My oh my, how they have fallen.
I know John Ralston Saul has many fans in Australia. It gives me hope that Australia can escape the fascism that has taken over the English speaking world. I am hoping my Quebec can save Canada from fascism but even linguistic nationalism clouds human judgement.
better ideas cant win anymore. The governments, and there agencies are captured by the technocrats and corporations. They control the money and the narrative. Since both canada and australia have ceded the right to bear arms, they have relegated themselves to serfdom. Only an armed uprising can defeat the evil we see. Elections and supposed politicians sympathetic to the cause cant do it. The US still holds a sliver of hope because our citizenry is heavily armed, but im not sure what it would take for a real anti-governement movement to organize. I do feel we are closer to that possibility as each day passes however. And if it comes to that, it will be a very ugly outcome for all involved.
Pray tell against whom would this armed uprising be directed and what man's militia would be spearheading the "armed" uprising? I'd love to be able to set up a lawn chair with a cooler full of cold beverages at the ready, Civil War Reenactment style, and watch the Proud Boys & Co. skirmish with the 4th Division and 101st Airborne.
It will be directed against people like me who know there is no conspiracy. The battle lines are drawn and the United States is a failed experiment.
One side believes in conspiracies the other knows conspiracies of that scale are well beyond our specie's abilities.
The Freemasons are a secret society. They are so secret they dress up in strange costumes drive around in tiny cars and wear fezes. George Washington was a Freemason how secret is that?
I lived in America for two decades and I know there is no such thing as race or gender and religion is something we create of our own volition.
We want Americans, Canadians, Quebecers to be special but there is nothing special about being special. We are who we are. What we are is out of our control.
By the way Autism Montreal uses that epigram.
Autistic is not who we are it is what we are.
There is no such thing as an antigovernment conspiracy. There is no such thing as antigovernment. Anti government is pro your government anti their government. In Quebec there is liberal democracy and there is only our government.
Bill21 says we the we the people rule
https://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/travaux-parlementaires/projets-loi/projet-loi-21-42-1.html
the en says it is the English translation
Jordan Peterson is a lunatic we are all Marxists; it is what God made us.
We teach Darwin in school because the human genome tells us Darwin's creation story is real and the story of Noah the town drunk is literature and is allegorical truth.
I am about as Jewish as a 75 year old Jew can get and you are mad believing all the bullshit you have been fed all your life. There is no Cabal or conspiracy. There never was there will never will be. There is no God nor Satan whether or not there is a Supreme Being is a knowledge I will never know. I do know our species is far too limited to create the structures you say are taking over.
In his 1755 Dictionary of the English Language the conservative philosopher Samuel Johnson defines cabal thusly
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=cabal
The Jewish Rabbins have kept it so secret that even they have never heard of it.
Nobody has ever heard of it. Not bureaucrats, politicians, priests, police or fireman has ever been a member. It is impossible to control the world and be secret about it. Tyranny by definition is not an act of secrecy.
We seem to be at the mercy of a generation of hall monitors.
This is what happens when schools become minimum-security prisons.
Maybe we shouldn’t have turned over the rearing of our children to their peers and the government.
I’ve got a 20 and 17 year old. The work it takes to deal with the brainwashing is intense.
They're young with energy and fortitude---they'll get the job done.
If my teachers had done what many teachers nowadays are doing my parents, and all the other parents would have burned the teachers at the stake.
I kid you not.
Hall monitors and, perhaps more frightening, theater kids.
Mercy of a generation of hall monitors——AKA Revenge of the Nerds.
I don't live in the English Speaking World but I am comfortable speaking my mother tongue. The easiest way to censor isn't to hide it from public view but to hide it in plain sight
If you want to know about censorship PEN International is a good place to start.
The Canadian historian, writer and Socratic Philosopher John Ralston Saul served consecutive terms as the President and is the foremost authority on Journalistic freedom on the planet and is invisible in the US mainstream media.
I am 75 and I was two when George Orwell died. He is the greatest literary giant known in my lifetime.
His essay on Nationalism talks about why Israel is a fascist state even as Israel was founded by democratic socialists like my grandfather and great grandfather and Orwell who understood all forms of nationalism even Christian Nationalism.
https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat
Why is the Orwell Library in Russia not in England or America?
Obviously Putin knows Orwell and has adopted the dark side just like the English speaking world. Australia is fascist just like Putin.
John Ralston Saul told us in his 1995 opus The Colapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World. That is why he was twice elected head of PEN International.
https://www.johnralstonsaul.com/non-fiction-books/the-collapse-of-globalism/
Yes Moe: “The easiest way to censor isn't to hide it from public view but to hide it in plain sight”
While you're at it. The great English conservative philosopher defines conservative thusly in his Dictionary of the English Language thusly.
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=conservative
Conservative means believing all men are created equal is blasphemy.
Believing in Darwin is a crime punishable by death.
I know my ancestors fled the Inquisition and the Pogroms.
I grew up in Roman Catholic Quebec a third class citizen under Quebec's Padlock Laws.
Quebec went from fascist to liberal democratic secular humanist in my life time and religion, gender and race are no longer human identities.
Our children know Darwin and science and superstition and ancient literature are not history but literature.
I traveled pretty extensively in my 20's and once spent almost a month in Australia. My impression of the people there at that time (and most of the Aussies I have met since that time) was that the typical Australian citizen was as similar to a typical Texan (me) as anyplace else that I had been in the world. What happened to that country? Like Texans, they all appeared to possess a great deal of national pride, but also were as irreverent to authority as anybody in the world. It appears to me that they have slowly and willingly conceded some of their basic rights to the government. Not really my intent to get into the whole 2A debate, but please recall that Australia had a terrible mass shooting event (35 people killed) in Tasmania in 1996. In the passion of that moment Australia quickly passed and enacted a ban on certain types of "assault" weapons. The subsequent data shows that the laws did indeed reduce mass shooting events, but at what cost? Their political leadership seems to have gotten more repressive since that time and there appears to currently be no serious and effective opposition to the erosion of their civil liberties. Is this a coincidence? I don't know. I am not saying that more guns are the answer, but I do also firmly believe that a government that has no fear of the governed will trend toward more repressive behavior. It is the immutable law of bureaucracies to accumulate and wield more power, regardless of where the bureaucrats are located. Since the political and media reactions to each new mass shooting event in the USA are so obviously canned and premeditated, I would assume that the anti 2A folks in the USA are using Australia as a model of what they hope to accomplish here. No one wants more mass shootings in America, but what are the unintended (presumably unintended) consequences of enacting such a ban here? Sure, Australia can always vote the little fascists out of office, but removing already enacted and restrictive legislation regarding free speech and gun rights from their law is vastly more difficult. Like it or not, the 1A and 2A freedoms that we enjoy in this country are inexorably linked. If the entrenched leadership in this country completely melted down over a couple of thousand old white dudes wearing MAGA hats marching in and around the Capitol building for a couple of hours to the point that they incarcerated and subsequently suspended their basic civil rights, while none were visibly carrying firearms, what do they really fear? A government that has a little fear of the citizens is not an all bad thing. This is basically the same dynamic that has led to zero nuclear exchanges in the nearly 80 years since they were first put on display in Japan. You do not have to actually use nukes to achieve political objectives. Everybody just has to understand that you possess them. The little functionaries (in Australia or anywhere else) that try and restrict jokes or cockamamie medical theories on the under the guise of "global health crisis" are not fearful of their citizens. Maybe they should be?
Well,they learned that a population willing to disarm themselves, is a population just waiting to be ruled. And they were right, until now.
Totally agree Todd. I’m sorry for Australians. They seem to have lost their way.
“Social cohesion” reminds of “sowing discord” and other bullshit that implies we’re all one big loving family, instead of a society in which minorities of rich and powerful people take advantage of the majority. Like take any collective bargaining process with lockouts vs strikes. You can’t tweet that managers want to crush workers to keep a greater share of company profits because that harms “social cohesion”. What’s next, goose stepping in unison?
Very few Americans are in the proper physical condition necessary to goosestep at all, let alone in unison.
Constant mocking like this seems like the best way to end this type of government behavior. Keep up the jokes and good cheer about this where you can, Matt.
Here's what's really troubling: what's going to happen during the next "pandemic" or other "emergency"? Governments have learned how and what to say to control the populace. How are thoughtful, mindful citizens going to fight back?
Michele Backmann's report yesterday from Geneva, where the WHO is meeting, said one of the attendees was emphatic that there be a simulation this fall to make sure all of their treaty amendments were tight and would actually work before they voted on them next February. Michele’s reporting came via a website that not all people would watch. But here is the Noor Bin Ladin & Nick F Cerutti website: https://wehurtothers.com/home/
Sounds like a plant to give legs to get another one of those simulations.
Perhaps the populace learned a lesson or two from their experiment. Do not comply
I can confirm as a voracious letter-writer to The Age newspaper during 2020 and 2021 (I'm thinking of publishing a book there were that many) that the newspaper's journalist and letters editor consistently ignored any evidence to the contrary of what appeared to be an accepted narrative.
In the state of Victoria, the lockdowns were particularly egregious. We were limited to travel within a 5km radius of our homes, even if we lived in semi-rural areas where the nearest store was 7km away. Fortunately, I live in such an area and took little notice of the outdoor mask mandate whilst retailers cracked open their doors to offer "click and collect" in an attempt to help purchase items for the home, clothing or gifts.
Once vaccines were introduced and poorly taken up, mandates were put in place, limiting access to anything other than food and alcohol sales (no clothes for that growing young child to try on, no re-soling of shoes for mum).
So many business destroyed, so many mortgage defaults. Developers who relied on a steady stream of immigrant first home buyers are only now feeling the reverberations of dreadful isolationist policy that did more to divide the country than unite it. But there was no forethought by policy makers on what this future glut of first homes would do to the economy in 2020; the building industry was exempt from working-on-site or in-person restrictions. There was no forward planning regarding any of the devastating decisions made.
Today, I'm left to reflect with despair on all the money leaving my country, on entire communities in the Victorian Alpine regions that can't get bush fire insurance (or flood-prone areas of Queensland for that matter) or the overly bureaucratic gymnastics and costly investment of time and money required to meet the requirements to operate a business in accordance with regulations that are often mired in a mush of contrary legislation.
We were a largely middle-class country where most held a passport and used in many times. Now, it's become increasingly cost-prohibitive to travel, even within our own country.
Thanks for posting Stellabella! Not gonna “ like” because not anything to like about the devastation you describe. A lot of the same shite happened in the state I live in (America)
The most effective censorship is self-censorship, when there are truths, not lies but truths, you cannot bring yourself to say out loud.
Meoooow good one Feral.