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Sun, 09 Aug 2020 12:13:26 +1000

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No more recorded influenza cases in Australia

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 11:45:13 +1000

Letter to the Editor

Government lies, damn lies and statistics

– Victorian Population – 6,359,000

– COVID tests conducted – 1,633,900
– COVID cases – 11,557
– Positive cases to Victorian population – 0.18%
– Positive Case to Test Conducted Percentage – 0.70%

– COVID Deaths – 123
– Positive COVID Case Death rate – 1.06%
– COVID deaths to tests conducted – 0.0075% (read that again…)
– COVID deaths to total Victorian population: 0.0019% (read that again…)
– Median Age of COVID deaths: 82
– Australia’s life expectancy at 2017 – 82.50

There is a highly unusual occurrence in the 2020 influenza data. Based on the included charts , you will see there was a steadily increasing number of influenza cases at the start of 2020 that was almost in lockstep with the 2019 (record-breaking) influenza season. This was until March – at week 11 (when lockdown started), the influenza numbers across the country suddenly dropped off to almost zero at the same time as COVID numbers increased. The flu has remained at almost zero since (nearly 20 weeks later). Now, of course with lockdowns, increased sanitisation and social distancing, this would always reduce the spread of the flu in roughly equal proportion to the spread of COVID.

However (and here is where it gets mysterious), if the trigger for a large number of tests being conducted is people with “flu-like symptoms”, and 1.6 million COVID tests have been conducted with only 11.5k (0.7%) positive COVID cases, then by extension a reasonable portion of the 1.6 million tests should actually be the flu. Right?

Even if we took a rather conservative estimate of only 10% of tests conducted being the actual flu, this would still equate to a bit over 160,000 flu cases (or roughly half of last year’s national flu cases) – that is a lot. It is almost as if the existence of COVID and the flu are mutually exclusive. How is this possible?

Why is it that lab-confirmed influenza reporting has virtually stopped (not entirely but as close to stopped as you can get)?

Influenza has been an increasingly growing concern for the government and health departments over the past 3 or so years (with a record ~300,000 lab-confirmed influenza cases last year – nationally). It killed 902 people around the country, it appears to hit the vulnerable communities in just the same way COVID does.

So questions to be asked that the flu and COVID data raises

1. How did influenza numbers almost immediately stop at lockdown and have virtually remain flatlined since – even mid-way into peak season and even during a COVID second wave?

2. Why does it look as though COVID numbers have directly replaced flu numbers, yet the positive case to test ratio is still so low (0.70%)

3. If COVID remained contagious despite the implemented controls, why has the flu’s contagion rate almost completely fallen to zero?

4. Of all the people who showed “flu-like” symptoms but tested negative, why do they not show up on the flu data? If they had flu-like symptoms but not COVID, then what did they have?

5. Why has flu reporting stopped, and what are the implications of not having continuity in flu reporting, long term healthcare planning and management?

6. Who stands to gain by not reporting the flu during COVID?

7. What agendas are playing out on the absence of flu data as a reasonable and reliable baseline?

8. If COVID cases are still occurring (second wave), should there not be an equal/corresponding spike in regular flu cases (in line with the symptomatic but negative COVID tests) from people moving around?

9. If the flu has almost completely disappeared and has for the most part been replaced by COVID, will we ever be free of COVID? And further, if this is now the case, what is the acceptable target of COVID cases in circulation before we can get “back to normal”?

10. If contact tracing and tracking the spread of a new virus that symptomatically looks like the flu is important, why would the flu not be tested at the same time as covid to map how the flu is transmitting and behaving alongside COVID?

11. Is testing for flu not equally as important and responsible so people who test negative to covid but positive to the flu still operate safely in public?

Flu Data References
2020 Jan to Jul – https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-surveil-ozflu-flucurr.htm?fbclid=IwAR3yGuMtEjjH1xyCdY_W0M2en2ShnNJrmOwho5UYN3PIdxG0JSDAfzD50PU

2019 Data – https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/us-data/?fbclid=IwAR1myF727emKxZWc3yFi7gWfW_ILvToDV4sx2Gg3pQ1Aam0QzIQxhfbvFCw

We also need to know…

1 How many people who tested positive for Covid had had the flu injection ?
2. How many people who tested negative for Covid had had the flu injection?

from Brian Jones,

Melbourne

Farewell to Roy Hogue

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 03:21:00 +1000

Sadly, long time commenter and moderator Roy Hogue passed away this week.

People may not realize Roy spent countless hours moderating as “AZ”. Many thanks to him for his patience — and likewise to all the moderators who make it possible for the conversation to continue here.

After 12,535 comments he will be missed.

Roy’s first comment was in November 2009. As a “computer science type” who lectured at college level, Roy said:

At a lecture for students on AGW the best a pair of professors could come up with to support their alarmism was Al Gore’s movie and the usual statements that it’s a done deal, no more debate, etc., etc., ad nauseam.

Our students have no means of protecting themselves from this proof by authority.

Commiserations to his lovely wife Catharine and family. I know he was much loved.

A good man to the end.

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How to revitaliseAustralia’s economy

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 00:17:43 +1000

Andrew Stone’s important new book lays out an economic agenda that is coherent and comprehensive, yet politically achievable over the next three to five years by a federal government with the resolve to implement it.

Order your copy here.

Addressing immigration, the housing market, higher education reform, federal‑state relations, energy policy, workforce participation, welfare reform, budget repair, monetary policy and financial system regulation, the book demonstrates that good government worthy of the respect and support of the Australian people is not merely possible but vital.

What others are saying of Restoring Hope:

Niall Ferguson: “This is an ambitious program of structural as well as fiscal reform. Let us hope there are politicians willing to take the risks inherent in such a radical strategy.”

Peter Costello: “Andrew Stone reminds us that improving productivity is the key to future living standards in Australia. He identifies a range of areas where this could be examined. The hard work of economic reform cannot be done without explaining the options and building public support.”

John Howard: “Andrew Stone has undertaken the difficult task of arguing in detail for a range of economic reforms. That he has done it at a time when, in the eyes of some, reform is in the doldrums is all the more praiseworthy. His analysis of the housing issue is impressive.”

Australia’s corporate-political elite are overseeing the destruction of Victoria

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 12:04:03 +1000

By Editor, Cairns News

CAIRNS News believes Australian super bureaucrat Jane Halton, who is a key player in the Gates-Rockefeller so-called “global health” network, could help us better understand Victoria’s draconian and insane shutdown and police state imposition.

Halton tops the list of commissioners on the advisory board of the National COVID-19 Coordination Commission, set up to “better coordinate the efforts occurring within and between the public and private sectors following the novel coronavirus pandemic”.

Halton is also chairwoman of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a key player in the Gates-Rockefeller funded global health network that has been heavily involved in planning the “pandemic response” under the watchful eyes of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board.

Naturally, she is all for mass vaccination for COVID-19 and in a Good Weekend interview on June 6 repeated the lie spread about the hydroxychloroquine treatment, saying it was “not safe”. In fact, as we have stated before, this generic medicine has been used for 65 years as a preventative and treatment for malaria and is widely prescribed for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. It has been shown in trials and by doctors using it on COVID-19 patients to be a very effective treatment.

People who know anything about COVID-19 and influenza death statistics will know the Victorian response is beyond stupid, given the actual threat involved and the misleading COVID statistics seen worldwide. But it is also a highly destructive attack on Australia itself, not only from the lockdown health issues, but the damaging effects of business closures and bankruptcies and the disruption of the national economy.

The COVID-19 commission’s advisory board consists of a corporate elite, headed by Neville Power, chairman of Perth Airport and deputy chairman of Strike Energy Ltd. His deputy David Thodey is chairman the CSIRO and EFTPOS banking business Tyro, and accounting software provider Xero. He is also a non-executive director of Ramsay Health Care and Vodafone Group Plc.

Other commissioners include Paul Little AO (transport and logistics), Catherine Tanna (energy retailing), Samantha Hogg (transport, infrastructure, energy), Mike Hirst (banking) and Paul Howes (KPMG). Then there’s the secretaries of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Philip Gaetjens, the Department of Home Affairs, Mike Pezzullo, and The Treasury, Dr Steven Kennedy.

So this corporate-government elite with vast financial interests and power in Australia, who are supposed to be co-ordinating the national COVID-19 response, are quite happy to sit back and watch Andrews drive Victoria and the nation into serious economic decline?

Halton is also linked to “global pandemic response planning” as one of the 15 participants in Event 201, organised by The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. These “public health leaders” were “players” in the simulation exercise around a coronavirus pandemic. On the publicly-accessible Event201 video, Halton is seen pushing the media strategy to “flood the zone” with the “correct messaging”.

Halton is no newcomber to this global health complex. She also chaired the World Health Organization board, was president of the World Health Assembly, and chaired the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) health committee.

Are we truly expected to believe that she and her Australian corporate elite have no sway on Victorian Premier ‘Dictator Dan’ Andrews and PM Scott Morrison? After all, Halton the super bureaucrat was executive co-ordinator of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet before she joined the boards of the ANZ and Clayton Utz lawyers.

Is it a stretch to say she and her colleagues at the COVID-19 Coordination Commission have blood on their hands through the Victorian crisis? These corporate kingpins and bureaucrats should have the influence and power to bring about a sensible response to COVID-19.

We know that COVID-19 is a highly contagious virus that scientists worldwide believe was genetically engineered in a lab to perform that way, but it is nowhere near as lethal as seasonal flu epidemics. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recorded 1255 deaths “due to influenza” in 2017. When combined with pneumonia, which often develops with flu, the number ballooned to 4269 deaths, the 9^th leading cause of death for that year.

As of August 6^th, 2020, the ABS had recorded a total of 336 deaths from COVID-19. Wait a minute! In 2017 more than 4260 people died in Australia from flu and pneumonia. But in 2020 when 336 people died from the COVID-19 virus the entire state of Victoria was put into the most draconian lockdown in Australian history and turned into a police state.

Victorian people have literally been imprisoned in their own homes and, like prisoners in any Victorian jail, are allowed out of their “cell” only for an hour of exercise a day with one trip by a maximum of two people to the supermarket. And you must go through checkpoints manned by police and soldiers, to travel around or out of the city – if you have reason to travel. It’s a totalitarian nightmare.

So why this massive overkill response to a “pandemic” whose numbers are about a third of flu-related deaths in 2017? Does this, as many have suggested, have something to do with the totalitarian government scenario in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development report published in 2010 with the Global Business Network?

The report floats scenarios on how to “bring technology and development to poorer nations”, which is all very charitable and noble. The totalitarian government scenario, called Lock Step, is supposedly the least desirable way to bring about this global objective. So we might indeed ask the question whether Victoria is a trial run in the hands of the social engineers like CEPI, who operate at the global level.
Will they next try the unthinkable in this push for technocratic globalization such as the mass vaccination and data tracking as proposed in ID2020 – another Gates Foundation front group.

The global technocratic state or new world order idea has been pushed by the super-rich Rockefellers the Gates families for at least the past 70 years. With Bill Gates and his Microsoft fortune being funneled into the same cause, there is now a mind-numbing gaggle of global non-government organisations and private-public partnerships around them pushing their globalist projects.

It’s no conspiracy as our stupid media continually tell us. It’s long been publicly available information as is the planning that went into the coronavirus pandemic. Go online and watch Event 201, where Jane Halton joins 14 other invitees, to see how it works.

As shown in the 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report, global elites had decided at least a decade ago, after the SARS, MERS and swine flu outbreaks, to “guide” the entire planet through a corona virus pandemic. In fact US deep state medical bureaucrat Anthony Fauci predicted it would happen within the first term of the Trump administration.

White House bulletin not touched by ABC fake news

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 10:12:27 +1000

White House Seeks Crackdown on U.S.-Listed Chinese Firms
–The Wall Street Journal
“Chinese companies with shares traded on U.S. stock exchanges would be forced to give up their listings unless they comply with U.S. audit requirements under a plan recommended Thursday by the Trump administration,” Dave Michaels writes. “It is the latest step in the administration’s policy of getting tough with China.”

U.S. Economy Adds 1.8 Million Jobs in July, Unemployment Rate Falls to 10.2%
–Breitbart
“The U.S. economy added 1.8 million jobs in July and the unemployment rate fell to 10.2 percent, providing reassurance that the labor market has kept up some of its post-lockdown momentum . . . The economy has added around 9.1 million jobs in the past three months,” beating economist predictions three months in a row, John Carney reports.

MORE: Jobs Numbers in July Beat Expectations for Third Straight Month

Trump Signs Executive Order to Boost U.S. Drug Manufacturing
-Reuters
“President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting U.S. production of medicines and medical equipment, lowering drug prices and protecting the United States against shortfalls in a future pandemic,” Jeff Mason and Andrea Shalal write. “‘We cannot rely on China and other nations across the globe, that could one day deny us products in a time of need,’ Trump said. ‘We have to be smart.’”

President Trump: “We have rejected globalism and embraced patriotism.”

Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure
-The New York Times
“The employees of Bergman’s Lock and Key say they were followed by demonstrators with baseball bats. Cure Cocktail, a local bar and charcuterie, said its workers were asked by protesters to pledge loyalty to the movement . . . The experience of the small-business owners seems a universe away from the rhetoric of Seattle’s politicians,” Nellie Bowles writes.

Countries that use Hydroxychloroquine may have 80% lower Covid death rates

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 04:10:04 +1000

The scandal from the Swamp: Too rich to get a cheap drug?

Poor countries all over the world are using Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and it appears to be very useful.

The new HCQTrial suggests that despite the billion dollar budgets and expert staff, people in wealthier countries are dying from Coronavirus at far higher rates than people are in lands where HCQ is being used. And the effect of HCQ apparently holds even after researchers correct for patients being older, heavier, with higher blood pressure, living in high density apartment towers, or with getting tested more.

If word ever gets out that the Politico-Academic-Corporate-Swamp buried useful drugs because they were unprofitable and out of patent, there will be hell to pay.

The HCQTrial was done anonymously by @CovidAnalysis – who say they are PhD researchers, scientists.

You can find our research in journals like Science and Nature. For examples of why we can’t be more specific search for “raoult death threats” or “simone gold fired”. We have little interest in adding to our publication lists, being in the news, or being on TV (we have done all of these things before but feel there are more important things in [...]

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Quinine recipe treat yourself. Big Pharma and doctors will cry crocodile tears

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 19:08:27 +1000

Home recipe for hydroxychloroquine (hcq) :

The drug that is currently treating this virus…watch below as i show you the recipe and how to make this solution at home, minus big pharma’s fillers and preservatives.

That’s right…this is the real reason that the drug companies were furious about this cure. not only has it proven to eliminate this virus…but others as well. it was supposed to be a big kept secret…but trump blew that for them right away.
What is hydroxychloroquine exactly? It is nothing but quinine. something that anyone can make at home…and something that is being manufactured each and every day in the form of something we have all seen at the grocery and liquor stores…none other than tonic water.
This drug being used to treat the covid virus has. this was never supposed to be leaked out…because even a full treatment regime of pills from the doctor is less than a $100.00 for someone that does not have health insurance in the USA.
Something else you may find interesting is that when they created this virus, they also put a strain of HIV in it. this was to make it even more fatal. but… guess what?
The quinine killed that part of the aids virus as well. can you see now why they were screaming that this was a dangerous drug and not to dare use it. behind the scene studies are now coming forth that show it being effective other diseases as well and even on cancers.
I think in the days to come, we are going to find out a whole lot more than we ever thought we knew. if you listened to our president this week, he said that in one year, every treatment that we are now using in the hospitals will be obsolete . what does he know?
He knows that they have withheld these cures to keep people sick and to make millions off of insurance companies.
Quinine has many uses and applications. it is analgesic, anesthetic, anti -arrhythmic, antibacterial, antimalarial, antimicrobial, antiparasitic, antipyretic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, antiviral, astringent, bactericide, cytotoxic, febrifuge, fungicide, insecticide, nervine,
Stomach, tonic…so you can be sure that big pharma is scared to death at this point and screaming that this drug does not work…when the entire world sees that it is working.
If you ever feel a chest cold coming on or just feel like crap…make your own quinine. it is made out of the peelings of grapefruits and lemons, …but especially grapefruits. I will give you the recipe here and you take this concoction throughout the day…
Or you can make a tea out of it and drink it all day. this should take away all your fears about this virus, because you now have the defence against it and many other things.
If you take zinc with this recipe, the zinc propels the quinine into your cells for a much faster healing.
Here is all you need to do to make your very own quinine……take the rind of 2-3 lemons, 2-3 grapefruits. take the peel only and cover it with water about 3 inches above the peels. Put a glass lid on your pot if you have one, a metal one is fine if you don’t.
Let it simmer for about 2 hours. Do not take the lid off of the pot till it cools completely as this will allow the quinine to escape in the steam.
Sweeten the tea with honey or sugar since it will be bitter. take 1 tablespoon every couple of hours to bring up the phlegm from your lungs. discontinue as soon as you get better.
Please share this with those that need to reduce fear and allow them to see that god in all of his glory, provides us with all that we need
Just for truths sake, let it be known that in addition to this, doctors are also prescribing the antibiotic azythromicin (z-pack). for the record, i am not a doctor of any sorts and only offer this from my own data research.
I am not prescribing this in any way, and it is up to the individual reading this to do with this information what they want, in accordance with our freedom from the united states constitution.

Dr. Betty Martini, d.Hum, founder

Mission Possible World Health intl

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Duluth, Georgia 30097

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more information on www.wnho.net and www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Dangerous Dan should be tipped out on his head

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 16:14:03 +1000

Letter to the Editor

Dear Daniel,

As it is now conclusive that you are a communist to your bootstraps and care nothing for the people of Victoria, Australia or the economy of the Commonwealth of Australia, and are intent in following the dictates of your foreign handlers, particularly the Chinese Communist Party and its insane leader who wants to dominate the world, and as neither you nor your handlers have learned one thing from history, you must surely now realise from the correspondence you receive that your plans of subjugation of the people of Victoria and the Commonwealth of Australia have been doomed from the word go. Go back and re-read the histories of all the empires that have ever existed on this planet and discover what happened to them.

Dangerous Dan keeping the dynamite in his ears while mining for brains

In case you do not understand, or are incapable of understanding, the people of the Commonwealth of Australia, not your communist inspired “Australia”, as Gough Whitlam attempted to impose upon the people of the Commonwealth of Australia by way of deception and treachery, do not consent to your treasonist and seditious ways.

You need to understand that evil always destroys itself. A little following of history would have demonstrated that to you. You need to read “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu as your Chinese handlers should have told you to do.

I suggest you stop bullshitting Daniel as the current toll from the corona bacteria as published by the Main Stream Media and governments does not stack up. You need to keep your hand off it. The Italian health Authorities have proven that the corona problem is not a virus but an inflammation infection caused by the corona bacteria and it coagulates the blood and prevents oxygen circulating throughout the body and when the brain is starved of O2 for long enough you die. That is why we saw initial videos from Wuhan showing people walking down the street and falling over dead. No oxygen, no life. Get it?

A petition to remove you from any office of authority or influence over any person is in train and following hard on the heels of that is a Class Action to confirm such requirements.

Quite frankly you are not fit to hold any public office.

You remain our faithful servant, or should do,

L W Clampett

Coburg

Uni’s need more than free speech to free them from Chinese control

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 15:32:27 +1000

KENNEDY MHR, Bob Katter said a review into the Australian education sector’s commitment to free speech and academic freedom, announced by the Federal Education Minister today, doesn’t go far enough.

Mr Katter said he will continue to pursue a full-blown parliamentary inquiry into foreign influence at Australian universities, which will be seconded by fellow maverick MP, Dawson’s George Christensen.

“In the twelve months following the outrageous attack on UQ student, Drew Pavlou, by pro-Chinese Communist Party thugs, nothing had happened,” he said.

“Since George Christensen and I joined in the battle, and the two 60 Minutes episodes went to air, we have had a prosecution launched against the thugs that physically attacked students who were standing up for democracy in Hong Kong.

“And now, the Federal Government has finally acted with an inquiry into free speech in the universities. I think the Government may be trying to hose us down a bit, by backing down from a full-blown parliamentary inquiry.”

Dan Tehan said former Deakin University vice-chancellor Sally Walker will be tasked with investigating whether universities are in alignment with the free speech code devised by former High Court chief justice Robert French.

Mr Katter said his inquiry was still necessary as the issue goes further than free speech, as foreign Communist dictatorships are controlling universities and their leadership – exemplified in the suspension of UQ’s Drew Pavlou.

“I can understand the Prime Minister’s hesitation to go for the whole hog, as 30 per cent of our exports go to China,” he said.

“But maybe the PM should let China think about what life will be like without the iron ore and coal coming from Australia.

“The other issue that needs to be desperately sorted out is our fuel reserves. We need petrol and diesel security. Otherwise our armed forces are a bloody joke. Without fuel for vehicles, are we going to expect our soldiers to carry artillery pieces on their shoulders?”

Mr Katter said he had talked to MPs from both sides of the political divide who were in strong support of the Inquiry into foreign interference at Australian universities, and he believed he had the numbers to get it through parliament.

Dan Andrews: ‘Don’t focus on conspiracy theorists’ | Video

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 06:33:00 +1000

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has called out the "appalling behaviour” of people flouting Melbourne's strict coronavirus restrictions. Recently speaking to the press, Andrews pleaded with the public to ‘ignore conspiracy theorists’ who "have no basis in science, fact or law".

Dan Andrews: ‘Don’t focus on conspiracy theorists’

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 06:33:00 +1000

Major report by MPs in UK found Open Border was a ‘serious mistake’

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 03:24:52 +1000

Do 10,000 extra infections matter?

JoNova — cheaper and faster than a Parliamentary Report — said two months ago that it was baffling that the UK locked everyone down, but kept flying in the virus. Now British MP’s are saying the same.

No 10′s ‘inexplicable’ decision to lift quarantine at height of pandemic: MPs’ damning report condemns ‘serious mistake’ that allowed 10,000 infected people into the UK

David Barett, DailyMail

Delaying quarantine measures at the border was a ‘serious mistake’ that allowed 10,000 infected people into the UK accelerated the virus spread, a major report by MPs says.

The cross-party inquiry is highly critical of the Government’s ‘inexplicable’ decision to lift its initial quarantine measures in mid-March, ten days before lockdown.

Experts from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine calculated that up to 10,000 infected people, largely from Spain, France and Italy, imported the virus into the UK.

Viruses can only survive in people temporarily, so to beat a rogue chemical code, we just stop feeding it new bodies. The cheapest, natural gap between networked, gregarious humans is at international borders. Every smaller border partition is harder, more complicated and [...]

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Petition to stop mandatory vaccination

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 22:58:09 +1000

NOTICE TO CEASE AND DESIST

Notice to: The Hon Greg Hunt MHR – Minister for Health

Agent to Principal/Principal to Agent – from YOUR NAME and the wider community of……………………………………….

Re: Cease and Desist any and all mandatory, recommended, forced or coerced vaccines including, but not limited to, any and all forms of influenza vaccine for any and all men, women and children, persons and entities, corporate, living, or otherwise, for all childhood related vaccines, aged care related vaccines and health care related vaccines in the current schedule, including, but not limited to, any and all vaccine mandates, vaccine legislation, vaccine legislative acts, and health acts, legislative or otherwise across Australia.

Petition Greg Hunt to obey the Commonwealth Constitution of Australia and forbid compulsory vaccination

Served on:

The Hon Greg Hunt MHR – Minister for Health as representative of Agent to Principal/Principal to Agent on Tuesday, 26th May 2020, You are hereby put on notice as the Agent to Principal/Principal to Agent to cease and desist any and all mandatory, forced, or coerced vaccines across this country for any and all men, women and children, persons and entities, living or otherwise in Australia immediately, until all the below points, statements and questions are addressed and answered in full, and in writing to the below contact details, with unequivocal proof of evidence of your claims provided, to be authenticated by a court of competent jurisdiction, as not only has the use of these vaccines been proven to be unsafe, the methods in which the Australian Government is forcing and coercing vaccines upon the men, women and children, persons and entities, both living or otherwise, is unlawful, coercive and in complete violation of the human rights of the men, women and children, persons and entities, living or otherwise of this country.

We are still awaiting appropriate evidence to be authenticated by a court of competent jurisdiction from the Australian Parliament to satisfy Community concerns. Pursuant to the following –

You are hereby required to provide proof of law to be authenticated by a court of competent jurisdiction, that has been passed or enacted in Australia granting the authority and jurisdiction implementing such mandates, acts, legislative acts, or laws on the men, women and children, persons and entities, living or otherwise of this country forcing or coercing them to receive the flu vaccine, and or any other vaccines by way of a copy of the Royal Assent, Proclamation Certificate, commencement date, and dates of readings in parliament of any and all acts, legislative acts and laws enforcing, recommending or coercing any and all vaccines.
Pursuant to children being required to remain up to date on the childhood vaccine schedule in order for men, women and children, persons or entities, living or otherwise to receive government welfare payments, access to early childhood centres, access to employment, access to loved ones or family including but not limited to aged care facilities and the ability and rights to play sports, you are also required to provide proof of evidence of your claim, to be authenticated by a court of competent jurisdiction by way of copies of Royal assent, proclamation certificates, commencement dates and the dates of readings in parliament to prove your claim that any of our rights may be infringed upon to enforce or coerce vaccines in any and all forms.
You are required to provide a lawful, medical and scientific explanation about voluntary consent to a medical intervention without ‘pressure, coercion or manipulation’ as stated in section 2.1.3 in the Australian Immunisation Handbook regarding our rights, which no law has the power or authority to remove pursuant to and under the ‘right to privacy’ in the International Covenant on Economic and Cultural and Social Rights (ICECSR).
You are required to provide us with your lawful exemption also to be authenticated by a court of competent jurisdiction from Section 51(xxiii) of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia which prevents the government from forcing people to medicate.

This amendment to the Constitution Sect. 51(xxiii), allows for the granting of various social services but not so as to authorise any form of civil conscription.

This means the government or those acting on its behalf, cannot force any man, woman or child, persons or entities, living or otherwise to have a vaccination or a child to be vaccinated in order to maintain or benefit from payments.

You are required to provide us with your lawful exemption, also to be authenticated by a court of competent jurisdiction of the CHARTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2006 (Victorian) SECTION 10 Protection from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, A person must not be-

(a) subjected to torture; or

(b) treated or punished in a cruel, inhuman or degrading way; or

SECTION 17

Protection of families and children

(1) Families are the fundamental group unit of society and are entitled to be protected by society and the State.

By a court of competent jurisdiction of the Anti-discrimination laws, Section 9(1) of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cwlth) provides:

It is unlawful for any person to do any act involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of any human right or fundamental freedom in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.

(2) Every child has the right, without discrimination, to such protection as is in his or her best interests and is needed by him or her by reason of being a child.

You are required to show us your medical and lawful exemption, to be authenticated by a court of competent jurisdiction that allows you to conduct medical experimentation contrary to Article 7 in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that Australia is a part of.

Under Section 28 of the Federal Crimes Act which states:

“Any person who, by violence or by threats or intimidation of any kind, hinders or interferes with the free exercise of performance, by any other person, of any political right or duty, shall be guilty of an offence”

You are required to provide us with your lawful exemption to be authenticated by a court of competent jurisdiction from Section 109 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia. According to Section 109 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia which states:

“When a law of a State is inconsistent with a law of the Commonwealth, the latter shall prevail, and the former shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be invalid”.

The High Court of Australia in 2006 in FORGE V’S ASIC declared that the Commonwealth of the Australian Constitution (NOT the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA) is still valid and applicable today and OVERRIDES all other Law.

You are required to provide us with the full list of ingredients and the iatrogenic side effects and risks to having any flu vaccines and any and all other vaccines.

Any vaccination that any man woman or child, person or entity, living or otherwise are given must have full disclosure at the time and just before the associated vaccinations are administered and received of any and all potential harm that these vaccinations may cause to the person being vaccinated.

Typically, you may get just a summary – but honourably ask that you MUST see the full insert. It won’t be a simple brochure, failure to provide the above mentioned, is a failure of duty of care.

On any objective view, a flu vaccine is not completely safe and has not been scientifically proven to safe or effective.

Some serious side effects:

inflammation of nerves leading to weakness, such as weakness of facial muscles (facial palsy)
visual disturbance (optic neuritis/ neuropathy)
fainting (syncope)
dizziness
tingling or numbness of hands or feet (paraesthesia)
temporary inflammation of nerves causing pain
paralysis and sensitivity disorders (Guillain Barre syndrome [GBS])
fits (convulsions) with or without fever
severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis)
temporary reduction in the number of blood particles called platelets (thrombocytopenia)
swollen glands in neck, armpit or groin (lymphadenopathy)

Studies which support that a flu vaccine is not completely safe or effective.

What, in fact, is the evidence that vaccinating healthcare workers against seasonal influenza protects their patients? A critical review.

We also refer your urgent attention to matter number C0588/2020 before the U.K. High Court.
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A violation of Article 6 of the UNESCO 2005 Statement on Bioethics and Human Rights; Article 6, section 1:

– Cochrane Library reviews of influenza

– Vaccines. Influenza vaccine effectiveness in the community and the household

– Any preventative, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information.

The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice.

Article 6, section 3:

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Wind Power failure: 100 times a year we get a 500MW outage

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 18:12:47 +1000

On average, every 3 days, wind farms generating as much as one coal fired unit, fail on the Australian grid

TonyfromOz exposes a failure rate so common it’s hidden in plain view. Wind “Farm” intermittency is even worse than we thought.

On average, every three days within a one hour period there’s a sudden failure of 500 MW of wind generation — equal to one industrial coal turbine. That’s four full wind farms or about 250 spinning turbines that stopped spinning.

Every time a coal plant trips out, it’s reported as a problem of relying on our “old coal fleet”. But when the same power output fails from wind, it’s the new clean green future at work (!) , and a sign we need to spend another $20 billion to “upgrade the grid” with interconnectors we don’t need, and Hydro schemes we don’t want.

A few wind farms are bad for the grid. More windfarms is worse.

TonyfromOz (Anton Lang) laboriously finds and documents two different kinds of failure. The largest and longest outages are when wind farms are becalmed. But there are many more short sharp and very sudden failures in high wind conditions where wind farms cut out.

[...]

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Wind Power failure: on average every 3 days, there is a 500MW fail

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 18:12:47 +1000

On average, every 3 days, wind farms generating as much as one coal fired unit, fail on the Australian grid

TonyfromOz exposes a failure rate so common it’s hidden in plain view. Wind “Farm” intermittency is even worse than we thought.

A few wind farms are bad for the grid. More windfarms are worse.

100 times a year we get a 500MW outage

Rating: 10.0/10 (13 votes cast)

Victorian police can enter homes without warrant

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:55:42 +1000

As part of new stage 4 lockdown restrictions announced this week, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has cited harsher penalties for those found not to be… Victorian police can enter homes without warrant

Victorian police can enter homes without a warrant

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:38:20 +1000

As part of new stage 4 lockdown restrictions announced this week, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has cited harsher penalties for those found not to be following COVID-19 directions. At the direction of health officers, authorities in Victoria can now enter any home without a warrant or permission, and take any action they deem ‘necessary’ to ‘slow the spread'. [...Continued]

Windfarms threaten peat bogs and turn them into carbon emitters

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 04:33:10 +1000

More ironies. One fifth of all soil carbon is stored in peat bogs. Unfortunately when industrial wind turbines are built on them, the damage turns them from carbon sinks to carbon sources thus neutralizing the point of building the wind farm.

The headline evokes some supernatural power:

Wind farms built on carbon-rich peat bogs lose their ability to fight climate change

As if the magical whirly totem stick loses the gift of weather control when placed on a peat bog?

But the real damage is not just to wallets for another pointless windfarm. Peat bogs are so much more than carbon sinks — they are also an archive of paleohistory and the ancient climate. Indeed, even though cattle, wind and rain can damage the bogs, the researchers now say the wind farms now pose the “most serious risk” of all. Apparently the vehicle access tracks create artificial streams that drain the peat. The drainage changes are pervasive and “affect the whole peatland” not just the part near the track.

The “blanket bogs” are rare, but occur from Spain to Norway in Europe as well as in Canada, New Zealand and Korea.

The paper is a thinly disguised plea from bog experts to save [...]

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Jim Jones and coming vaccinations

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 23:44:06 +1000

JIM JONES AGENDA DAY

YOU PEOPLE SHOULD REMEMBER

JIM JONES TOWN, GYANA WAY

TRAINED HIS FLOCK TO DRINK POISON

AND 800 DIED THAT DAY

I GOOGLED IT ON “YOUTUBE”

SAW THE PHOTO WHERE THEY LAY

SWOLLEN BODIES EVERYWHERE

THEY SHOT THOSE WHO RAN AWAY

CAN’T SAY THEY DIDN’T TELL YOU

IT WAS IN THE NEWS FOR DAYS

THE C.I.A. WAS IN IT

AND AS USUAL HAD THEIR WAY

SO WHAT WAS IT ALL FOR ?

AN EXERCISE IN PLAY?

A PRACTICE RUN FOR V-DAY

WHEN THEY VACCINATE THEIR PREY?

WHEN VAXXED WITH A NANO CHIP

SYNAPSING IN YOUR MIND

YOU WILL NEVER KNOW IT THOUGH

WITH YOUR MIND LEFT FAR BEHIND

DON’T WANT TO SAY,”TOLD YOU SO”

MANDATORY MURDER DAY

THAT MEANS THEY MADE YOU DO IT

AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS PRAY.

COPYRIGHT FRANKH WILKS

4.8.2O WWG1WGA

Victorian Government plans compulsory vaccinations at end of suburban Covid lockup

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 20:43:43 +1000

Letter to the Editor

It is with a heavy heart that I bring you the news that this Victorian stage 4 lockdown marks the end of life as we know it.

I have been informed today on good authority, third hand from a government source, that the very scenario we have been fearing and trying to warn others about is on its way – very soon.

This news comes from a trusted friend whose acquaintance was told by a person who works for government and is in the know about the plans to return to ‘normal’ life after the current lockdown.

Reader predicts Covid cops will start forcing vaccination on those locked down in Melbourne for six weeks

In 6 weeks when this lockdown is lifted, nobody will be leaving their homes without the vaccine! As expected, this vaccine will have microchip technology (probably nano-chip) for tracking and tracing and be administered with a scannable barcode (I’m assuming quantum dot technology) to check vaccination status.

This is all technology that has been patented, planned and trialed and is headed by Bill Gates and Gavi through the organisation ID2020.

This will be a rushed and experimental RNA vaccine that should not be trusted!

This is the second source I have heard this information from, but I was unsure whether to trust the first leak of information due to lack of transparency regarding the original source. I trust this one, and will provide more details once I hear.

This is all enabled through the declaration of ‘state of disaster’ which ultimately gives police the absolute power to enforce any means necessary to get things ‘under control’ – voiding any previous contradictory Acts of parliament, and essentially stripping all residents of any of their constitutional rights.

We are officially now living in a police state!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-02/victoria-coronavirus-state-of-disaster-explained/12516570

Other states please get ready, because this will be coming to you soon as well.

This may be what they have planned, but together we can stop it and create a different reality for ourselves! Let’s stay positive and live in hope rather than fear!

Common Law is the solution & key, plz be aware of your god given basic rights, which they cannot take away. Knowledge is power!

Common Law Court Meeting August 2, 2020 – Part 1
https://youtu.be/x0J2m8yj7cg

-from Joey Smith,

Melbourne

Unthreaded Explosions

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 17:06:12 +1000

An open thread, with remarkable footage and terrible state of affairs in Lebanon. Prayers for the people of Beirut.

Apparently someone didn’t think much about storing 2,750 tons of fertilizer in one spot in a city for six long ticking years. Two tons of the same was used to kill 168 people in the Oklahoma terrorist bombing. In this case, the worst “terrorist” appears to be bureaucratic negligence. Lebanon is in a dire state, with hyperinflation ruining life savings, and coronavirus at large.

Because there was a smaller fire, many cameras were on when the second explosion started.

Afterwards

Beirut port after explosion.

Fully destroyed. Too much bodies to count. #beirutexplosion @akhbar pic.twitter.com/TYMVx0WZVo

— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) August 4, 2020

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China now has half of the worlds coal power fleet

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 01:28:43 +1000

The global economy has been sucker punched by a world wide pandemic, but ABC propaganda writers don’t miss the chance to push their ultimate fantasy, that coal has turned a magical point in a terminal decline. Global coal fired capacity fell by an awesome 0.14 percent for the “First Time On Record”. Hyperbole knows no bounds.

How excited can someone get over a decline of one sixth of one percent? This much:

The world is now shutting down coal plants faster than it’s opening them

by James Purtill, ABC

The world’s combined coal power capacity has fallen for the first time on record as the closure of generators outstripped stations being commissioned. That’s good news for global emissions.

Note the numbers:

Coal power capacity fell by 2.9 gigawatt in the first half of 2020 — a small though significant drop of about 0.14 per cent, according to US research group Global Energy Monitor, which monitors fossil fuel developments.

By comparison, the global coal fleet had grown by an average of 25GW every six months over the previous two decades, from 2000-2019.

In a nutshell, or just a nut, coal power grew by 50GW [...]

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Samurai Spirit? Japans Immunity To the CovidHoax – ConspiracyOz

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 23:20:40 +1000

Coronavirus: Japan’s mysteriously low virus death rate

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes

https://www.bbc.com

Per capita, Japan has more elderly than any other country in the world

Image copyright Getty

Why haven’t more people in Japan died from Covid-19? It is a macabre question that has spawned dozens of theories, from Japanese manners to claims that the Japanese have superior immunity.

Japan does not have the lowest death rate for Covid-19 – in the region, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam can all boast lower mortality.

But in the early part of 2020, Japan saw fewer deaths than average. This is despite the fact that in April, Tokyo saw about 1,000 “excess deaths’ – perhaps due to Covid. Yet, for the year as a whole, it is possible that overall deaths will be down on 2019.

This is particularly striking because Japan has many of the conditions that make it vulnerable to Covid-19, but it never adopted the energetic approach to tackling the virus that some of its neighbours did.

What happened in Japan?

At the height of the outbreak in Wuhan in February, when the city’s hospitals were overwhelmed and the world put up walls to Chinese travellers, Japan kept borders open.

As the virus spread, it quickly became clear that Covid is a disease that primarily kills the elderly and is massively amplified by crowds or prolonged close contact. Per capita, Japan has more elderly than any other country. Japan’s population is also densely packed into huge cities.

Greater Tokyo has a mind-boggling 37 million people and for most of them, the only way to get around is on the city’s notoriously packed trains.

Then there is Japan’s refusal to heed the advice of the World Health Organization (WHO) to “test, test, test”. Even now, total PCR tests stand at just 348,000, or 0.27% of Japan’s population.

Nor has Japan had a lockdown on the scale or severity of Europe. In early April, the government ordered a state of emergency. But the stay-at-home request was voluntary. Non-essential businesses were asked to close, but there was no legal penalty for refusing.

Many paragons of Covid strategy, such as New Zealand and Vietnam, used tough measures including closing borders, tight lockdowns, large-scale testing and strict quarantines – but Japan did none of that.

Yet, five months after the first Covid case was reported here, Japan has fewer than 20,000 confirmed cases and fewer than 1,000 deaths. The state of emergency has been lifted, and life is rapidly returning to normal.

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption Japan has had a relatively low testing rate compared to places like South Korea

There is also growing scientific evidence that Japan really has contained the spread of the disease – so far.

Telecom giant Softbank carried out antibody testing on 40,000 employees, which showed that just 0.24% had been exposed to the virus. Randomised testing of 8,000 people in Tokyo and two other prefectures has shown even lower levels of exposure. In Tokyo just 0.1% came back positive.

As he announced the lifting of the state of emergency late last month, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke proudly of the “Japan Model”, intimating that other countries should learn from Japan.

Is there something special about Japan?

If you were to listen to Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso, it is down to the “superior quality” of Japanese people. In a now notorious comment, Mr Aso said he had been asked by leaders of other countries to explain Japan’s success.

“I told these people: ‘Between your country and our country, mindo (the level of people) is different.’ And that made them speechless and quiet.”

Literally translated, mindo means “people’s level”, although some have translated it as meaning “cultural level”.

It is a concept dating back to Japan’s imperial era and denotes a sense of racial superiority and cultural chauvinism. Mr Aso has been roundly condemned for using it.

But there is no doubt that many Japanese, and some scientists, think there is something about Japan that is different – a so called “Factor X” that is protecting the population from Covid-19.

It is possibly relevant that some aspects of Japanese mores – few hugs and kisses on greeting – have in-built social distancing, but nobody thinks that is the answer.

Does Japan have special immunity?

Tokyo University professor Tatsuhiko Kodama – who studies how Japanese patients react to the virus – believes Japan may have had Covid before. Not Covid-19, but something similar that could have left behind “historical immunity”.

This is how he explains it: When a virus enters the human body, the immune system produces antibodies that attack the invading pathogen.

There are two types of antibody – IGM and IGG. How they respond can show whether someone has been exposed to the virus before, or something similar.

“In a primary (novel) viral infection the IGM response usually comes first,” he tells me. “Then the IGG response appears later. But in secondary cases (previous exposure) the lymphocyte already has memory, and so only the IGG response increases rapidly.”

So, what happened with his patients?

“When we looked at the tests we were astonished… in all patients the IGG response came quickly, and the IGM response was later and weak. It looked like they had been previously exposed to a very similar virus.”

He thinks it is possible a Sars-like virus has circulated in the region before, which may account for the low death rate, not just in Japan, but in much of China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South East Asia.

Images Image caption Activities like karaoke – which have been branded high-risk – were popular in Japan

Image copyright Getty

This has been met with some scepticism.

“I am not sure how such a virus could be restricted to Asia,” says Professor Kenji Shibuya, director of Public Health at Kings College, London and a former senior adviser to the government.

Professor Shibuya does not discount the possibility of regional differences in immunity or genetic susceptibility to Covid. But he is suspicious of the idea of a “Factor X” that explains the mortality differences.

He thinks countries that have done well in the fight against Covid, have done so for the same reason – they succeeded in dramatically reducing transmission.

Japanese people began wearing face masks more than 100 years ago during the 1919 flu pandemic and they’ve never really stopped. If you get a cough or a cold here it is expected that you will don a mask to protect those around you.

“I think it (a mask) acts as a physical barrier. But it also serves as a reminder to everybody to be mindful. That we still have to be careful around each other,” says Keiji Fukuda, an influenza specialist and director of the School of Public Health at Hong Kong University.

Japan’s track and trace system also goes back to the 1950s when it battled a wave of tuberculosis. The government set up a nationwide network of public health centres to identify new infections and report them to the health ministry.

If community transmission is suspected, a specialist team is dispatched to track the infections, relying on meticulous human contact tracing and isolation.

Japan discovered the Three Cs early

Japan also discovered two significant patterns early in the pandemic.

Dr Kazuaki Jindai, a medical researcher at Kyoto university and member of the cluster-suppression taskforce, said data showed over a third of infections originated in very similar places.

“Our figures… showed many infected people had visited music venues where there is screaming and singing… we knew that those were the places people needed to avoid.”

The team identified “heavy breathing in close proximity” including “singing at karaoke parlours, parties, cheering at clubs, conversations in bars and exercising in gyms” as the highest-risk activities.

Second, the team found that the infection’s spread was down to a small percentage of those carrying the virus.

An early study found around 80% of those with Sars-CoV-2 did not infect others – while 20% were highly infectious.

Image caption The state of emergency did not make staying home compulsory, but rather encouraged

Image copyright Getty Images

These discoveries led to the government launching a nationwide campaign warning people to avoid the “Three Cs”.

Enclosed spaces with poor ventilation
Crowded places with many people
Close contact settings such as face-to-face conversations.

“I think that probably worked better than just telling people to stay at home,” Dr Jindai says.

Although workplaces were left off the list, it was hoped the “Three Cs” campaign would slow the spread enough to avoid lockdown – and fewer infections means fewer deaths.

For a while it did – but then in mid-March infections in Tokyo jumped and the city looked like it was on the path to exponential growth, like Milan, London and New York.

At this point Japan either got smart or got lucky. The jury is still out on which.

Timing, timing

Professor Kenji Shibuya thinks the lessons from Japan are not so different from elsewhere: “To me, it was a timing lesson.”

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered a – non-enforceable – state of emergency on 7 April, asking people to stay at home “if possible”.

“If such measures were delayed, we might have experienced a similar situation like New York or London. The death rate (in Japan) is low.

“But a recent study by Columbia University suggests that if New York had implemented lockdown measure two weeks earlier, it would have prevented tens of thousands of deaths,” Prof Shibuya notes.

A recent report by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found people with underlying medical conditions such as heart disease, obesity and diabetes are six times more likely to be hospitalised if they get Covid-19 and 12 times more likely to die.

Japan has the lowest rates of coronary heart disease and obesity in the developed world. Still, scientists insist such vital signs do not explain everything.

“Those kinds of physical differences may have some effect but I think the other areas are more important. We’ve learned from Covid that there is no simple explanation for any of the phenomena that we’re seeing. It’s a lot of factors contributing to the final outcome,” says Prof Fukuda.

The government asked, people listened

To go back to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s boast of the “Japan Model” – is there a lesson to be learned?

Does the fact that Japan has, so far, succeeded in keeping infections and deaths low, without shutting down or ordering people to stay at home, show a way forward? The answer is yes and no.

There is no “Factor X” – like everywhere else it has depended on the same thing – breaking the chain of transmission. In Japan, though, the government can count on the public to comply.

Despite not ordering people to stay at home, on the whole, they did.

“It was lucky but also surprising,” Prof Shibuya says. “Japan’s mild lockdowns seems to have had a real lockdown effect. Japanese people complied despite the lack of draconian measures.”

Image caption Much of Japan has now re-opened

Image copyright Getty Images

“How do you reduce contact between infected and uninfected people…? You need a certain kind of response from the public, which I don’t think is going to be so easily replicated in other countries,” adds Prof Fukuda.

Japan asked people to take care, stay away from crowded places, wear masks and wash their hands – and by and large, that is exactly what most people have done.

‘You WILL Not Be Self Sufficient!’ – ConspiracyOz

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:27:56 +1000

Menzies council resumes legal action against man in caravan ‘unfit for human occupation’

Jarrod Lucas
https://www.abc.net.au

3rd August 2020

Roland Gopel remains defiant, despite facing legal action and fines of up to $50,000.(ABC Goldfields: Jarrod Lucas)

Legal action against a West Australian man who has been in a standoff with his local council for five years has resumed three months after it was deemed “not reasonable” to pursue during the coronavirus pandemic.

Roland Gopel has lived off the grid in a caravan on property he owns on the outskirts of Menzies in the northern Goldfields since 2015.

But his dilapidated property and caravan continue to fall foul of local government regulations, with two previous convictions for illegal camping.

The 61-year-old found himself back in hot water with the Shire of Menzies last year after building a shade structure over his caravan without a permit.

The steel-framed structure sheltered the leaky caravan from scorching summer temperatures of close to 50 degrees Celsius.

It collapsed during heavy winds but Mr Gopel was adamant he would rebuild, despite potential fines of up to $50,000 for breaching the Building Act.

Mr Gopel says the shade structure took a month to erect and 10 seconds for a willy-willy to knock down.(ABC News: Rhiannon Stevens)

The Shire of Menzies engaged a Perth legal firm in February, but put the action on hold in April amid the coronavirus crisis.

“It was determined that serving the building order just as the emergency management provisions were being implemented due to COVID-19 was not a reasonable thing to do at that time,” environmental health officer David Hadden wrote in a July 30 report to council.

But McLeods Barristers and Solicitors, acting on the council’s behalf, issued Mr Gopel a building order on July 2 to demolish the shade structure and remove the caravan from the property within 30 days.

Stand-off set to continue

Mr Gopel said he would not comply with the order, and said that he had not opened the envelope delivered by council staff.

“The bullies keep pushing and pushing and they will not stop unless more people like me stand up to them,” he said.

Roland Gopel has installed his own solar power system, water tanks and internet.(ABC Goldfields: Jarrod Lucas)

He said he had nowhere else to go, calling the council hypocritical for delaying the legal action.

“One minute they tell me I can stay here, and the next they tell me I must not stay here,” Mr Gopel said.

“It’s the only home I have … if I didn’t have this, I would be homeless.

“What is council saying? It’s mandatory for me to be homeless?”

Caravan ‘unfit’ for human occupation

In a letter to the council, McLeods Barristers and Solicitors said the caravan appeared to be falling apart, with one of its walls having become detached.

The firm described the caravan as “unfit for human occupation”.

Shire of Menzies president Greg Dwyer admitted the legal action would be costly, but said the council had no choice but to enforce local government regulations.

“We’re caught between a rock and a hard place,” he said.

“We have been delegated through the State Government to progress certain regulations, the building code and so forth.

“We just have to progress the law.”

Menzies is more than 700 kilometres north-east of Perth.(ABC Goldfields: Jarrod Lucas)

Round three of legal fight

The shire’s two previous legal battles with Mr Gopel were over breaches of the state’s Caravan Parks and Camping Ground Act 1995.

In August 2017, Mr Gopel was fined $1,000 and ordered to pay $1,745.50 in court costs.

Less than a year later, in March 2018, he was fined $1,000 and ordered to pay $3,000 in costs.

Mr Gopel has refused to pay the fines, while his financial situation has become more dire since he refuses to be part of the Federal Government’s cashless debit card trial for welfare recipients in the Goldfields.

He has been unable to pay his council rates and is concerned the shire may try to seize his land as well.

“It’s hard to pay your rates when you’re getting $20 a week to live on,” he said.

Greg Dwyer admits the legal action will be costly.(Supplied: Shire of Menzies)

Mr Dwyer said Mr Gopel’s refusal to pay fines or comply with any direction of the council or courts could lead to a scenario that ended badly for the grey nomad.

“Maybe eventually he goes to jail over non-payment of fines,” Mr Dwyer said.

“It’s a terrible situation in the long run, but Mr Gopel is sticking to his guns on that.

“I suppose time will tell where it all ends up.”

Fanos Panayides discusses COVID-19, media lies

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:26:14 +1000

Melbourne is now enduring some of the toughest COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in the world, with the state government announcing new draconian rules … Fanos Panayides discusses COVID-19, media lies

The Mask of Discontent – ConspiracyOz

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:12:03 +1000

Michigan face mask row ends in fatal police shooting

https://www.bbc.com

A police officer in the US state of Michigan has shot dead a man suspected of stabbing a customer in a shop, in an altercation over face masks.

Police say the incident began in a convenience store near Lansing, where the suspect – named as Sean Ruis – attacked a 77-year-old man who had challenged him for not wearing a mask.

They say Ruis fled the scene in a car.

He was later pulled over by a female deputy sheriff, who opened fire when Ruis lunged towards her.

Michigan State Police released footage of the confrontation in a residential area in the Lansing suburb of Delta early on Tuesday.

It shows the police car stopping a vehicle and the driver, identified as Ruis, advancing on the deputy who shoots him after a brief tussle.

Police say Ruis, 43, was carrying a weapon. He was taken to hospital, where he was declared dead.

The incident happened 30 minutes after Ruis allegedly stabbed a customer at the Quality Dairy store in Dimondale, about six miles (10km) to the south.

The row is said to have begun when the 77-year-old – who was wearing a face mask – chided Ruis for not doing so. The elderly man is in hospital and said to be in a stable condition.

It is not the first dispute over face masks to end in tragedy in the US.

Last week a security guard in Gardena, south of Los Angeles, was charged with murder over the shooting of a customer who had entered a shop without a face mask.

Dr Judy Mikovits slams Covid testing as “80% false positives”

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:29:06 +1000

by Alexandra Bruce

Dr Judy Mikovits, top-level molecular virologist and author of ‘Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science’ joins Lucas Alexander on the Age of Truth YouTube channel. Mikovits worked at the National Institutes of Health under Anthony Fauci for decades, who she says stole her proprietary research not once, but twice.

Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 psyop, Mikovits has been speaking out against the official narrative that has triggered the global lockdowns and economic collapse, calling it a “plandemic”, orchestrated by agents of Big Pharma.

She first crossed paths with Anthony Fauci in 1980, when she worked at NIH at the National Cancer Institute, where she collaborated with Dr Frank Ruscetti and helped him replicate the work of French virologist, Luc Montagnier to isolate the HIV virus. Fauci, who was her boss delayed publication of their paper for 6 months to let his protégé, Robert Gallo replicate, publish and take credit for their work.

She says the delay allowed AIDS to spread around the globe, which in turn helped Fauci get promoted in 1984 to Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he remains to this day.

In 2006, Dr Mikovits became director of Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease, collaborating again with Dr Ruscetti to search for the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). She discovered that 67% of women with CFS carried a virus—called Xenotropic Murine Leukemia-Related Virus (XMRV), which only appeared in 4% of healthy women.

XMRV is associated with prostate, breast, ovarian cancers, leukemia, and multiple myeloma. Many women with XMRV have given birth to children with autism. Mikovits and Ruscetti published their findings in 2009.

In 2011, their research strongly indicated that the highly-infectious XMRV virus was present in the MMR and Polio vaccines given to American children and in the Japanese Encephalitis vaccines given to US military personnel.

Mikovits says, “We recognized that this mouse retrovirus was causing an alarming national health crisis. That is, the blood supply and the vaccines were heavily-contaminated with mouse viruses of many strains.”

US doctor directing Covid response, Anthony Fauci is a total fraud

Before she could warn the public, Fauci used his power to silence her. When she refused, Dr Fauci stepped in and ordered all her computers and notebooks confiscated and he orchestrated the retraction of their science paper. He then removed all of Mikovits’ funding and prevented her from getting a job in government research from 2012 forward.

She believes that the AIDS epidemic that spread throughout the world was caused by the Hepatitis B vaccine, which was contaminated, “But this information was kept from people, as they spread the disease. They prevented therapies, like Peptide T therapy, which our colleague, the late Candace Pert and Dr Ruscetti had actually designed. It’s a modulated peptide [whereas, Fauci advocated] high levels of toxic AZT…

When Mikovits started her PhD thesis in 1987, it was only known that the molecule called the Helper CD4 T cell was the receptor where the HIV virus entered the cells. Later, it was discovered that Peptide T was blocking the interaction with a different chemokine receptor called CCR5.

She says, “Peptide T blocked the interaction from the monocyte to the T cell and was therapeutic – but they owned the patents on T cell therapy, so the therapies at the time were all targeted towards the T cell…and it was clear they weren’t working. Yet, the FDA prevented Peptide T from ever getting approval.”

Then, as now, she says, “Doctors were asking questions, not unlike today with COVID-19. We are asking questions and our questions are being censored – or our publications, as you’ve seen from what’s happened to me…

“We know now, 30 years later that the vaccines have driven essentially every pandemic and that’s why we’re calling them ‘plandemics’. Just like Zika in 2017, the Ebola outbreak in 2014, clearly was a lab-manipulated virus. I’m not going to say ‘engineered’, I’m going to say ‘manipulated’, because we grew it and that was one of my jobs…and I’m saying the exact same thing right now.

“So this coronavirus was grown in viral monkey kidney cells and spread around the world and the flu vaccines are contaminated with other viruses, other coronaviruses, other retroviruses, bird retroviruses…

“Our work in 2011 should have changed the world and COVID-19 is really a cover-up of those 50 million people, worldwide who they’ve infected now with gamma retroviruses, with contagious, cancer-causing viruses and this is why everything’s called COVID-19, no matter why you die.

“The virus SARS-CoV-2 satisfies zero of Koch’s postulates, meaning everybody with the infection gets the disease. It hasn’t been isolated and shown to be infectious and transmissible, the way we did in our 2009 paper. You take it out of one sick person, isolate it, purify it and then inject it or expose it to another sick person or an animal and get the same disease. That kind of work was done with HIV, was done with the XMRVS but hasn’t been done with SARS-CoV-2…

“I think there’s more than one virus there and I’m sure there are a few viruses there but the work to show the disease association hasn’t been done.”

As for the tests, she says the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests, “contain the RNA, but that’s not the virus that’s just the blueprint of the virus that’s just the RNA…so we don’t know that it’s actually SARS-CoV-2, versus another coronavirus closely related in crosstalk.”

So, when people test positive for SARS-CoV-2, she says it’s not really known what they’re testing positive for, because, “We’re not allowed to see the tests, we’re not allowed to see what they’re testing. We know they’re 80% false positives. All you’ve got is a piece of an RNA from a coronavirus. That’s all you know, is that a piece of that that’s not infectious and transmissible…

“I would say that COVID-19 the disease, is as I said, a ‘plandemic’, intended to take away our rights to – One World Order – to force us into a fear situation…The virus, SARS-CoV-2 exists. It’s not fake, it’s there but it has little to do with the disease, if anything to do with the disease, COVID-19…

“It’s pretty clear now, all the way back to Smallpox, outbreaks on the Spanish Flu of 1918, the Zika…the flu in 1957 and ’58, which was bad in this country was absolutely spread by a vaccination program, whether it be DTP, which is the vaccination program in Brazil, which spread Zika, where we activate expression of viruses that normally do nothing in animals; we jump them into humans with the spraying programs.

“So everything you see around our world that you’re saying; the 5G, the glyphosate, the spraying of Roundup and everything that they’re driving, these pandemics and yes, it’s deliberate because…everything they told us to do is harming our immune system and causing and driving the disease and any potential viruses around the globe.”

When asked if any vaccine was ever any good, she answers, “In my experience, since 1986 never has a safety study or an efficacy study been done on a vaccine. So, the answer is, I can’t say ‘yes’, because there’s no data. There’s no evidence to show these vaccines ever did anything and in fact, there’s much evidence to the contrary, as we look back and and we look at these things.”

-Forbidden Knowledge TV

New certificates at Victorian hospitals record all deaths caused by Covid

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 16:06:33 +1000

https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/australias-draconian-new-lockdown-masks-may-induce-fear-response-o2-suppressionco

New certificates at Victorian hospitals record all deaths as being caused by Covid

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 16:06:33 +1000

https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/australias-draconian-new-lockdown-masks-may-induce-fear-response-o2-suppressionco

A one-sided Conversation

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:45:29 +1000

Friend of Quadrant Les Louis was doing some online slumming and stopped by to inspect the latest pearls at The Conversation, where he found the deep thoughts of Robyn Moore, of the University of Tasmania’s School of Social Sciences, whose research “focuses on examining the enduring nature of race and gender based inequalities” plus “examining constructions of Australianness in Australian history textbooks, the experiences of women of colour in STEMM and girls in action sports.”

That trove of interests would be enough, you might think, to keep an academic beavering happily away at explorations of eurocentrism in education. Redirecting her academic attention from topics such as “Exploring Methodological Challenges of Using Participant-Produced Digital Video Diaries in Antarctica“, Ms Moore somehow found time to gush over the, er, scholarship of fauxboriginal Bruce Pascoe.

Her essay appears beneath the headline “Secondary school textbooks teach our kids the myth that Aboriginal Australians were nomadic hunter-gatherers“.

This was too much for Les, whose attempts to comment were thrice thwarted by The Conversation‘s censors, prompting a note to Quadrant‘s Peter O’Brien, who exposes Pascoe’s misrepresentations in Bitter Harvest (order your copy here), and Tony Thomas, who boasts a sharp eye for cant and nonsense. Les writes:

Would you (as journalists) be interested in joining with me (as a retired associate professor) in a joint approach to all university vice-chancellors to inquire whether they intend to continue contributing to the funding of The Conversation when they will be imposing substantial reductions in expenditure, given that The Conversation imposes censorship that stymies scholarly debate which is the antithesis of the raison d’etre of universities

The rejected comments on Ms Moore’s reverence for Pascoe are below:

A main secondary source for Pascoe is Bill Gammage’s major study, The Biggest Estate on Earth. On how Aborigines made Australia; and the usage is revealing. Pascoe (p.14) reproduces a central theme as formulated by Gammage (p.281):

“People farmed in 1788, but were not farmers. These are not the same…people never depended on farming. Mobility was more important…”

and mobility is repeatedly stressed (eg p. 304) … Pascoe simply employs the material as evidence of agriculture to rewrite a travesty of pre-history. Agriculture is not an entry in Gammage’s comprehensive index”.

His second rejected comment focused on “other ignorant assertions” in The Conversation piece:

The standard text books on the pre-history of Australia were the culmination of many decades of rigorous field work and scholarship by archaeologists and anthropologists of international stature, including John Mulvaney, Isabelle Mc Bryde and Rhys Jones. And in his “The Prehistory of Australia”, Mulvaney is unequivocal,

“They[ Aborigines] practiced neither agriculture nor simpler horticulture as it is conventionally defined and never domesticated any indigenous animals”.

But Pascoe desperately needs some semblance of credibility, so he surreptitiously drops in references to an authority. For example, on pp. 22, 23, he refers to Professor David Frankel, but in his comprehensive study, “Between the Murray and the Sea: Aboriginal Archaeology in South-eastern Australia”, there is no question that Aborigines were other than hunter-gatherers.”

His final attempt at having a conversation with The Conversation:

It is Pascoe who denigrates hunter-gatherers, and this hinders an appreciation of the achievements of Aboriginal hunter-gatherers over such a long time in an old dry continent with limited natural resources. As Geoffrey Blainey in The Triumph of the Nomads (p.225) concludes: a comparison of standards of living in relation to food, health, shelter and warmth, would show that “the average Aboriginal was probably as well off as the average European in 1800”. They certainly had more leisure time. And Stanner reports:

“Their [the Aborigine’s] tools and crafts, meagre — pitiably meagre — though they are, have nonetheless been good enough to let them win the battle for survival, and to win it comfortably at that. With no pottery, no knowledge of metals, no wheel, no domestication of animals, no agriculture, they have still been able to people the entire continent…” (The Dreaming and Other Essays, pp. 234-235).

With the stream of foreign students to our universities all but dried up and unlikely to resume any time soon, those vice-chancellors will have to make some decisions about what and who is to be jettisoned from the ivory tower.

Non-academics might well see some easy choices.

COVID scandal: Treatments denied because TGA ban based on contradictory, false information

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 21:59:31 +1000

Doctors speaking out in Washington DC last week were censored by YouTube and Facebook and vilified by mainstream media.

AUSTRALIAN vaccinator-in-chief Scott Morrison has got some explaining to do about hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), a preventative of, and widely-acclaimed treatment for, COVID-19.
A recent worldwide survey of 6200 doctors showed 32% of those who treated COVID-19 regarded HCQ as the most effective treatment out of a list of 15.
The drug has also been banned for general use in Victoria and Queensland, where doctors can be fined $13,000 for prescribing it.
The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration announced restrictions on hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) on March 24, not long after President Trump raised its possible use as a “game changer” against COVID-19.
The Australian TGA, like the US Democrats, the mainstream media and crooked vaccine pusher Dr Andrew Fauci, raised a chorus of objection and suddenly came up with false information and later three highly-flawed “studies” about how dangerous this drug is – despite it being used for 65 years as a malaria preventative and treatment and more recently as a widely prescribed treatment for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
The most recent study supposedly throwing doubt on hydroxchloroquine’s effectiveness was published in The Lancet medical journal and trumpeted widely in the media. But it was then retracted after it emerged that the data gathering company Surgisphere had fake data collection methods on its website.
When Trump ordered the TGA to make an emergency supply of HCQ available, doctors across the US jumped on board with the treatment and went public praising its effectiveness.
Dr Vladimir Zelenko of New York treated some 2000 COVID-19 patients with the loss of only one patient while Dr Stella Immanuel of Houston said she treated 350-plus COVID-19 patients and “all are well”.
In its statement the TGA said increased off-label prescribing of “medicines containing hydroxychloroquine” had raised concerns it would “create a potential shortage of this product in Australia”.
The statement also repeated the claims that it could cause sudden heart attacks, permanent eye damage and put people into comas. Worldwide studies have rejected these claims.
If supply was the only problem with the drug, it could have easily been ramped up. Clive Palmer reportedly bought up 33 million doses, but no-one wants to talk about that.
Meanwhile Morrison and his Health Minister Hunt are out there with comrade Dan Andrews ramping up the great Victorian “second wave” outbreak, driven by the mass testing that produces all the “shocking” daily “case” numbers.
But what is a case? LA doctor and lawyer Simone Gold recently clarified the situation after the leftist Democrat-run state government of California started doing exactly what Andrews and his regime are doing – ramping up a second wave and shutting everything down.
“It’s not a case it’s a positive test result,” said Dr Gold, who recently appeared on the steps of the US Supreme Court at Washington DC with Dr Immanuel and others speaking out against lockdowns and suppression of hydroxychloroquine.
“Tons of people are getting tested and tons are positive… The majority are asymptomatic or mild and very few get sick and a very, very small percentage of those get very sick…
“Take that word case and throw it away.”
Dr Gold, an emergency room doctors with 20 years’ experience, has been sacked by her hospital employer for speaking out.
She said governors across America were interfering with the doctor-pharmacist relationship by making it difficult for doctors to get hydroxychloroquine and the drug should be available over the counter.
Dr Immanuel has been vilified and mocked in media over her apparently extreme Christian beliefs, and this is supposed to negate the authenticity of her claim to have successfully treated 350 COVID-19 patients.

World Economic Forum to host “The Great Reset”

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 09:38:54 +1000

In a matter of weeks, the coronavirus took over healthcare systems, economies and societies, continuing to impact Australia and the greater world. … World Economic Forum to host “The Great Reset”

Congo doctor and Nobel laureate quits Covid team over false death records

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 06:17:50 +1000

Bitter Harvestnow on sale

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 04:08:57 +1000

The highly readable vivisection of author Bruce Pascoe’s compendium of errors, misrepresentations and misquoted sources depicting Aborigines as sedentary agriculturalists with ‘skills superior to those of the white colonisers who took their land and despoiled it’ is available from Quadrant Books.

With the ABC pointedly ignoring any and all critiques of Dark Emu‘s fantasies as it peddles and promotes Pascoe’s shoddy scholarship, Bitter Harvest is essential reading for those who still believe truth matters.

Order your copy here

Freedom and hard borders are 96% popular — a third of West Australians want to secede

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 01:23:57 +1000

A telling incident in Western democracies about borders

The electoral power of strong borders is vastly underestimated.

Western Australia has hard borders at the moment, and no coronavirus — other than a few cases getting caught in the mandatory quarantine. That’s 2.5 million people who are almost living a normal life. This is not to boast (we wish you could be here), but to point out how politically popular closed borders are in the current pandemic. The Premier is wildly popular, polling close to 90%. To all the people who said “states can’t close borders” the message is that it’s bonkers not to close borders. When the Commonwealth government joined the bizarre High Court push to force them open, the pushback was ferocious. A poll today showed that West Australians are fed up. The West Australian collected 245,000 signatories to a petition supporting the border closure.

Not only do 96% say the borders should stay shut, but when asked, a whopping 34% of Western Australians said the state should secede. How fast did it come to that?

Never, have I seen such vitriol towards the Commonwealth from WA. …the Commonwealth’s decision to effectively join hands with Palmer [...]

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PNG cocaine bust: Italian police say Mafia so entrenched in Australian politics and business it is impossible to stamp out

Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:00:19 +1000

PNG cocaine bust: Australia is a “state of Italy”

Italian police have now classed the mafia in Australia as so entrenched, they believe it would be impossible to stamp out completely with Australian police only able to make busts where they can.

First published February, 2016

by Charles Miranda

ITALIAN police have carried out a series of raids to smash a Mafia-led operation to smuggle cocaine to Australia that police say godfathers have now divided into six zones for trafficking drugs, extortion and money laundering.

And such is the entrenchment of Mafia links to Australia now, authorities say the country is virtually a state of Italy and it would be impossible to ever wipe out.

Authorities have uncovered a treasure trove of intelligence related to the fearsome Calabrian-based ’ Ndrangheta mafia group and their operations in Australia including members’ infiltration of key areas to assist in their trade, including transport and politics.

The police operation last week with raids on more than a dozen homes in Calabria has seen 14 members of clans linked to ’Ndrangheta arrested and charged with “criminal association linked to international drugs tracking”, namely to Australia and Canada.

One of eight refused bail is a police officer tasked with protection of a port but instead was allegedly providing guidance on evading controls and security for drug shipments.

Leading Melbourne mafia figure Rocco Arico was jailed in 2017 for drugs, extortion and weapons offences

The case was the culmination of five years of work by the Central Operational Service of the Italian National Police, a specialist Italian police squad from Calabria and the district’s Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Office.

Despite the success of arrests and uncovering intelligence on international operations through extensive listening devices, taps and surveillance, it may not assist the overall ’Ndrangheta crime fight in Australia.

Italian police have now classed the mafia in Australia as so entrenched, they believe it would be impossible to stamp out completely with Australian police only able to make busts where they can.

“Australia is not a target nation any more, it’s now like a state of Italy from a criminal perspective,” a senior Italian officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told News Corp Australia.

“They are entrenched in their activities and have been for a long time. They have not got an expansion strategy with your country any more, it’s not expansion, it’s consolidation. Australia, Canada, Belgium, United States, Germany are all countries where these crimes are being consolidated.”

’Ndrangheta work as “strictly a family-based enterprise, affiliation having to be through blood relation”.

According to evidence gathered by authorities, the group had designated six “locales” in Australia for Calabrian-linked mafia, not necessarily by state but by powerbase for extended family support and drug importation markets as well as large-scale construction contracts, paying of backhanders and racketeering. Each locale has its own mob boss that reports directly to Italy

Former WA mayor faces accusations he led mafia cell

Court documents from ongoing proceedings in Italy also show Italian prosecutors allege Tony Vallelonga, who is the former mayor of Stirling in Perth, is the local leader of a mafia cell in Perth.

Court files allege that Mr Vallelonga is responsible for “making the most important decisions, imparting orders or imposing sanctions on other subordinate associates”.

The files allege Mr Vallelonga was concerned about a rival who wanted to start his own cell on Mr Vallelonga’s turf with the approval of Calabrian bosses.

Photo: Detective-Superintendent Matt Warren said the mafia was robust and difficult to defeat. (ABC)

Mr Vallelonga was allegedly recorded in an Italian laundromat recounting a conversation with his competitor where he allegedly said: “As long as I’m alive, you don’t get a locale [local mafia cell] … and that’s that!”

To which his rival responded: “You can’t be the man any more … enough!”

It comes after the prosecutors sought to question Mr Vallelonga over his dealings in Calabria with a notorious mafia boss.

Mr Valleonga has always denied the allegations and in a statement sent to the ABC, Mr Vallelonga’s lawyer said any allegation the former mayor had ever been involved in criminal activity was “completely without any foundation”.

Outside of the political arena, Italian police have identified another Australian allegedly working in Calabria who is part of the influential Alvaro family.

Some members of the family were recently subjects of an international anti-mafia operation when authorities seized tonnes of cocaine and made dozens of arrests.

Confidential Italian and Australian police files state that the Alvaro clan has arms in Australia.

They are allegedly headed by Adelaide construction figure Paul Alvaro, 64, and a New South Wales man.

The pair are among figures around the country, including in Griffith, New South Wales.

A police assessment said the individuals operate as “an executive board of directors” for the Calabrian Mafia.

Three quarters of mild to moderate Covid illnesses show heart damage

Sat, 01 Aug 2020 14:58:14 +1000

No wonder the Chinese lockdown a million people with every outbreak. Two thirds of these cases were not hospitalized.

These studies are small and need confirmation, but the medical specialists are asking if it is possible that Covid infections create new cases of heart failure which may trigger problems long after infection?

A startling number of COVID-19 patients suffer lasting heart damage

Fermin Koop, ZME Science

A study from the University Hospital Frankfurt looked at the cardiovascular MRIs of 100 people who had recovered from the coronavirus and compared them with heart images of people who hadn’t been infected.

Most of the patients hadn’t been hospitalized and recovered at home, with symptoms ranging from none to moderate. Two months after recovering from COVID-19, the patients were more likely to have troubling cardiac signs than people in the control group. Up to 78% of them had structural changes to the heart, while 76% had evidence of a biomarker signaling cardiac injury typically found after a heart attack, and 60% had signs of inflammation.

The Puntmann study was based in Germany, and the average age of cases was 49. Troponin is a marker used in standard [...]

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Self-harm in Sicktoria

Sat, 01 Aug 2020 11:43:00 +1000

The Wall Street Journal wonders how, in the middle of a pandemic, the 12 per cent of the US economy represented by health care dropped through the floor, subtracting 9.5 per cent from US second-quarter GDP, itself down on an annualised basis by a staggering 32 per cent.

How does that happen in a pandemic? The answer … is that politicians panicked in March and waited for a surge of COVID-19 patients that the pandemic modelers told them would arrive. Blessedly, the modelers were wrong, and far fewer hospital and intensive-care beds were needed. But the economic harm from stopping all elective surgeries and barring visits to doctors was severe and unnecessary.

It was also a terrible public-health blunder. That harm will play out for years as Americans discover cancer, heart-disease and other diagnoses that were missed or delayed. . . .

As here in Victoria, where the hapless and hopeless Daniel Andrews is reportedly poised to plunge his state into a New Zealand-style Stage Umpteen total lockdown, the US Left and the public health institutions its acolytes control and direct want more masks, more shuttered stores, stiffer penalties, more lost jobs — and another massive decline in GDP. There’s a presidential election in November, and it’s a fair assumption that Democratic strategists are figuring a broke, miserable and fearful nation is more likely to back Joe Biden than the incumbent.

The Journal continues:

The lockdown-as-miracle-cure is a fantasy, as the World Health Organization has now acknowledged. The economic and public-health harm is too great and the virus is too easily transmissible.

The public is smarter than the media and can adjust its behavior when flare-ups occur. Hospitalizations and cases in hot spots in the South and West are trending down. They’ve fallen by a third in Arizona from a peak two weeks ago and are down 8 per cent in Texas. Deaths have increased, but the rate is far below those on the East Coast in the spring.

At least the worst economic news is over, or it should be without a second lockdown. Orders for motor vehicles and capital goods are rising, and housing is strong. The service economy will take longer to come back, but it will do so when the public feels confident enough to venture out. What no one needs is another catastrophe like the second-quarter lockdown.

All of which makes sense. Victorians can therefore be confident Premier Andrews will do the exact opposite.

The first interview of the US president where he’s treated like a human being

Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:20:15 +1000

A guy called Dave does his first interview ever, with another guy called Donald Trump.

Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports achieves something none of the Pullitzer prize winners have.

What are the odds the ABC would play this?

“It’s the retweets that get you in trouble.”

Dave wonders if Trump regrets winning because he was living the dream — he had a great life.

“The best day in my life in terms of business and life and everything was the day before I announced I was running for president,” Trump said. “Everything was good…Now I’m really glad I did but I was treated very unfairly.”

Trump recalled a time soon after announcing his presidential bid when he was publicly booed, saying he had “never been booed before”.

“[Before that] I had a popularity rate … I was close to 100 percent popular.”

How much does he want to win in 2020? A billionaire could walk away and holiday for the rest of his life.

As for “delaying the election???” — Bait. Distraction. He wants to talk about mail in voter fraud.

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The Targets of the N.W.O. not just the Old and Feeble…. – ConspiracyOz

Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:03:23 +1000

Black people four times more likely to die from Covid-19, ONS finds

Robert Booth and Caelainn Barr

https://www.theguardian.com

Fri 8 May 2020

Official figures show that wide disparity not just due to health and economic differences

Why BAME people may be more at risk from coronavirus – video explainer

Black people are more than four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white people, according to stark official figures exposing a dramatic divergence in the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in England and Wales.

The Office of National Statistics found that the difference in the virus’s impact was caused not only by pre-existing differences in communities’ wealth, health, education and living arrangements.

It discovered that after taking into account age, measures of self-reported health and disability and other socio-demographic characteristics, black people were still almost twice as likely as white people to die a Covid-19-related death.

Bangladeshi and Pakistani males were 1.8 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white males, after other pre-existing factors had been accounted for, and females from those ethnic groups were 1.6 times more likely to die from the virus than their white counterparts.

The risk of Covid-19 death for people from Chinese and mixed ethnic groups was found to be similar to that for white people.

“These results show that the difference between ethnic groups in Covid-19 mortality is partly a result of socio-economic disadvantage and other circumstances, but a remaining part of the difference has not yet been explained,” the ONS said.

Guardian research last month confirmed suspicions that minority groups faced the greatest risk from the coronavirus and showed that areas with high ethnic minority populations in England and Wales tended to have higher mortality rates in the pandemic.

Zubaida Haque, the deputy director of the Runnymede Trust, a race equality thinktank, described the findings as alarming. “We cannot ignore how important racial discrimination and racial inequalities, for example, in housing, are, even among poorer socio-economic groups,” she said. “These factors are important but are not taken into account in most statistical modelling of Covid-19 risk factors.”

While only 2% of white British households experienced overcrowding from 2014 to 2017, 30% of Bangladeshi households, 16% of Pakistani households and 12% of black households experienced this, according to a study of the English Housing Survey.

These groups are more likely to work in frontline roles in the NHS in England: nearly 21% of staff are from ethnic minorities, compared with about 14% of the population of England and Wales. Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani populations have been shown to face higher levels of unemployment and child poverty than white groups.

Helen Barnard, the acting director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said the findings were “a stark reminder that although we are all weathering the same storm, we are not all in the same boat”.

“With the Bank of England now forecasting the deepest recession on record, we must ask ourselves what kind of society we want to live in after the virus passes,” Barnard said. “It doesn’t have to be like this. As a society that prides itself on justice and compassion, we can and must do better.”

The figures, covering deaths from 2 March to 10 April, are the first official snapshot of the way Covid-19 has affected different ethnic groups in England and Wales. There has been widespread concern that pre-existing health inequalities between black and minority ethnic populations – particularly in relation to cardiovascular disease and diabetes – are being amplified during the pandemic.

To try to understand how much of the difference in Covid-19 morbidity was to do purely with ethnicity, the statisticians adjusted for age as well as region, rural and urban classification, area deprivation, household composition, socio-economic position, highest qualification held, household tenure, and health or disability as recorded in the 2011 census.

“The fully adjusted results show differences in risk between ethnic groups that are specific to those ethnic groups and are not caused by any of the factors listed on which members of the groups might differ,” the ONS concluded.

After all these factors were accounted for, Indian men and women were less likely than people from Bangladeshi and Pakistani background to die from Covid-19, but were still 1.3 times and 1.4 times more vulnerable than white people.

Chinese women were the only group to be less vulnerable than white people, after adjusting for other differences, while Chinese men were 1.2 times more likely to die from the disease than white people.

The ONS also checked to see if, within ethnic groups, socio-economic class made a difference. They found that the differences in risk of Covid-19-related death across ethnic groups were of similar magnitudes within all three socio-economic classes.

The differences in the risk of dying from Covid-19 could be driven by factors not included in its model, the ONS acknowledged.

Some groups may be over-represented in public-facing occupations and could be more likely to be infected by Covid-19 . About 12.8% of workers from Bangladeshi and Pakistani backgrounds work in public-facing transport jobs such as bus, coach and taxi driving, compared with 3.5% of white people. The ONS said it plans to conduct further work to identify occupations that are particularly at risk.

A study released on Thursday analysing the NHS health records of 17.4 million UK adults gave further insights into the possible causes of the increased risk for people from BAME backgrounds. Like the ONS data, the study found that people of black and Asian backgrounds were at higher risk of death, and it ruled out the idea that this was largely due to higher rates of underlying medical problems in these groups.

“People have very reasonably speculated that the increased risk among BME people might be due to people having higher risk of cardiovascular disease or diabetes,” said Ben Goldacre, the director of the DataLab in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, who co-led on the study. “Our analysis shows that is actually not the case. That is not the explanation. We’ve been able to exclude one of the current preferred explanations for why BME people face higher risk.”

The authors called for further research on the contribution of occupational risk and whether people from BAME backgrounds were placed at increased risk of exposure and infection. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, found that people from deprived social backgrounds were also at a higher risk, and again this finding could not be explained by other risk factors.

Meanwhile, Wasim Hanif, a professor of diabetes and endocrinology at University Hospital Birmingham, said the ONS data was not robust enough to give the full reasons for the difference in the likelihood of dying from Covid-19.

The research accounts for health problems reported by people who filled in the 2011 census, but Hanif said differences in the extent of other underlying diseases in different ethnic groups in Britain – so-called co-morbidities – which have not been accounted for by the ONS, may be significant.

For example, in the UK people of Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent are three to four times more likely to get diabetes earlier in life than white people, and the ratio is between two and three for black and Indian-origin people, he said.

However deprivation, which is a strong predictor for ill-health, was factored into the ONS analysis, so it remains unclear how much the inclusion of co-morbidities would change the results.

The Department of Health and Social Care said: “This virus has sadly appeared to have a disproportionate effect on people from BAME backgrounds. It is critical we find out which groups are most at risk so we can take the right steps to protect them and minimise their risk.

“We have commissioned Public Health England to better understand the different factors, such as ethnicity, obesity and geographical location that may influence the effects of the virus.”

The Fake Reality – ConspiracyOz

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 23:51:24 +1000

Notice the similarities…go figure, fudging the figures mmm.– Mick Raven

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/14-12-2017-up-to-650-000-people-die-of-respiratory-diseases-linked-to-seasonal-flu-each-year

Pandemic Look at 2017 Reports (Not Fake News!) from C.D.C etc Flu Deaths Worldwide etc – ConspiracyOz

And miraculously the latest news says seasonal flu way down this year, ha! but of course! the Flu stats have gone to CovidBS stats, uh! – Mick Raven

Flu deaths prevented as cases plummet amid coronavirus lockdowns, AMA says – ABC News

Flu deaths drop in Australia as coronavirus restrictions save hundreds of lives – ABC News

Australia sees huge decrease in flu cases due to coronavirus measures New Scientist

Department of Health Australian Influenza Surveillance Report – No 05 – week ending 14 June 2020

Plus they (Powers that be) can booster the numbers up and down at will, its a fake numbers game that you are afraid of in this ‘New Normal’ – Mick Raven

Member Circle: The World Cult | July 2020

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:13:36 +1000

Humans have been trained to comprehend information with appeals to authority and mass consensus, particularly when it comes to the scientific priests of our time. From vaccinations and GMOs, to COVID-19 and fables of the past, the cult of scientism has become a sole authority over the human mind. [...Continued]

Censorship is Weapon #1: Trump orders online Tech Giants to stop

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:10:08 +1000

Censorship trumps everything else. Without free speech, there are no free elections, and no progress in politicized science. The base temptations of the human condition thrive in the dark.

Ten years too late, the House Judiciary Hearing on antitrust laws is on:

Republicans tear into big tech CEOs

Katelyn Caralle, Nikki Schwabm, The Daily Mail

For more than five hours the world’s richest man, Bezos; fourth-richest, Zuckerberg; CEO of the world’s most valued corporation, Cook; and its key search engine, Pichai; were repeatedly ripped as copycats, liars, bullies, drug dealers and traitors.

…big tech’s out to get conservatives. That’s not a suspicion, that’s not a hunch. That’s a fact,’ Representative Jim Jordan asserted at the top of his opening remarks.

‘We’re 97 days before an election, and the power – as the previous chairman and ranking member have said – the power these companies have to impact what happens during an election, what American citizens get to see before their voting, is pretty darn important,’ he said.

Trump issued an Executive Order to prevent social media giants from altering or editorializing free speech. He declared that if Congress won’t act, he [...]

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Synchromysticism and the Mind Virus

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:14:45 +1000

Examination into esoteric phenomena concerns interpretations of communication from a conscious universe, unconsciously drawn into the human mind … Synchromysticism and the Mind Virus

First Melbourne, Now all of Victoria to Suffer Mask Mandates and More

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:22:49 +1000

Despite medical professionals and scientific studies proving masks have ZERO ability in the prevention of viral transmission, Premier Daniel Andrews issues a mandatory mask directive and more. By General Maddox. The Orwellian Doublespeak and Doublethink flowing out of the Victorian government authorities is overwhelming to say the least. At first it was the Premier himself […]

Thursday Open Thread

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Peter Ridd will take the fight for free speech to the High Court

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 23:06:29 +1000

For Peter Ridd, it would have been so much easier if he had gone quietly. This battle is not for him, but for our Australian Universities. He shouldn’t need to take this to the High Court, or even the Federal Court. The Scott Morrison government could turn off the tap to every institution which won’t guarantee free speech and enshrine it in their employee contracts. Dan Tehan is reviewing the university model code, but they don’t need a review. They know, we know, everyone knows, without free speech our universities are just Big Government advertising agencies, or victims of the latest FashionThink trend. Those funds could be frozen tonight, and watch how fast the universities can rewrite their contracts. At the speed of light…

Donations are already flowing in for the High Court Battle. Thank you to all who can help his GoFundMe Campaign.

From John Spooner, The Australian.

Peter Ridd Seeks High Court Appeal

Charlie Peel, The Australian

Sacked James Cook University professor Peter Ridd will go to the High Court over his controversial sacking for publicly criticising the institution and his colleagues over their climate change science.

A week after the Federal Circuit Court overturned [...]

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