The People's Project Season 6 Episode 11: Corruption, Transgender Bathrooms, and Nudge Units
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The People's Project Season 6 Episode 11: Corruption, Transgender Bathrooms, and Nudge Units
1hr 18min
In this week’s episode of The People’s Project:
VICTORIA – THE CORRUPT STATE
We hear from the IBAC Commissioner who condemns Daniel Andrews presiding over a corrupt culture for generations of politicians
REAL POLL RESULTS
Emily explains the difference between polls that contradict themselves. How many seats need to change in Victoria to see a change?
TRANSGENDER BATHROOMS
Bernie Finn’s replacement for the Victorian Liberals is Moira Deeming, a conservative candidate who ‘will never support rates being used to promote radical policies like banning Australia Day, drag queen storytimes for toddlers, or letting biological males who identify as female use female toilets and change rooms.’
The Dangers of NUDGE
With the World Health Organisation appointing Prof Susan Michie to head up their Nudge unit, we explore her communist background and desire to have masks stay ‘forever’.
NEWS WITHOUT NOTICE
Voice for Victoria turns 2 and has a party, and a Discernable viewer success story starting their own business.
DISCERNABLE’S BUSINESS TOWN HALL
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/newincome
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Proof of government/Big Tech collusion
https://www.aflegal.org/news/afl-lawsuit-reveals-damning-cdc-documents-proving-government-collusion-with-big-tech-to-censor-free-speech-and-promote-biden-administration-propaganda
Untangle Politics
https://www.instagram.com/untanglepolitics
The VIC Nudge Unit
https://www.vic.gov.au/behavioural-insights
UnHerd interviews WHO Nudge Director Susan Michie
https://youtu.be/crXTM0woga0
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The People's Project Season 6 Episode 10: Choose Your Own Adventure
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The People's Project Season 6 Episode 10: Choose Your Own Adventure
1hr 17min
In this week’s episode of The People’s Project:
BE VERY AFRAID
Australia just isn’t getting the message, so we do our best to roll out more fear and shining examples of appropriate fear responses.
THE THOUGHT POLICE
We explain how the UK Police now fight ‘non-crime’, and how it could eventually affect Australians during job applications.
MOULDY RENTALS
This is the story of a Gold Coast family who were forced out of their rental due to mould 5,000x higher than the maximum safe level, and are still paying rent. Insurers and tribunals don’t seem to care.
COORY FIRES UP
Damian Coory returns with a regular segment! This week he takes aim at the careless ‘culture warriors’ who are pushing the mainstream toward confrontation as we see ‘centre right’ figures push back in the USA.
PAY ATTENTION TO THE FRENCH
Is the French parliament a shadow of Australia’s future? Given our collapsing primary vote for either Liberal or Labor and our embrace of minor parties and independents, we could end up with a similar style of politics. Matt explains Macron’s first failed parliamentary vote, and how any expression of authoritarianism in France or Australia can only be built up over decades, not any one crisis.
NEWS WITHOUT NOTICE
Legacy media and unengaged Australians realise what we’ve known all along – Daniel Andrews has created a corrupt state in Victoria, as revealed by the joint report handed down by IBAC and the Ombudsman.
Matt recounts his run in with bin chickens and a giant snail.
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2019 Interview with Harry Miller on Thought Police https://youtu.be/iCxQI9U_xHE
Andrew Doyle on GBN https://youtu.be/YfVi4dfiK5Y
Mouldy Rentals Victim https://www.instagram.com/chrissiejbutler
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Jeffrey A. Tucker - The Birth of The Great Barrington Declaration
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Jeffrey A. Tucker - The Birth of The Great Barrington Declaration
1hr 23min
Jeffrey A. Tucker is a prolific author who has written many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He founded the Brownstone Institute which is the self-described ‘spiritual child of the Great Barrington Declaration’ where you can find a cacophony of rational voices spanning the entire political and academic spectrum. His books are widely published in multiple languages on topics of economics, technology, cryptocurrency, social philosophy, capitalism, Covid-19, government bureaucracy, and culture.
Jeffrey was responsible for the founding of the Great Barrington Declaration and, in my estimation, sits at a nexus of the world’s greatest minds who have the courage to speak truth in the face of overwhelming opposition.
Today he speaks with Discernable about how his worldview has radically changed over the last two years as we all come to realise the extraordinary lengths of time that a crowd madness can last, and the ease with which governments can manipulate their citizens for political gains.
We covered:
- How the response to Covid-19 blew up our worldviews
- The marionettes called ‘politicians’ and how real power is in the bureaucracy
- Who journalists and the media go after and who they ignore
- Gangs of people with the monopoly on violence
- Australian ‘fake science’ that the world laughs at
- Safety and gun culture in the USA
- Australians have a weird and dangerous trust of their government
- Why propaganda works
- How the religious stood firm
- Scott Morrison’s demonisation of non-compliance
- Government propaganda that invades pop culture
- The Libertarian ‘apostates’ who sold out to government
- Revisionist history
- The evolution of viruses and battle between severity and prevalence
- Australian and New Zealand delaying the inevitable
- The birth of the Great Barrington Declaration
- Regrets of the great covid panic era
- The only early voice against lockdowns
- 3 ways humanity destroyed data on the severity of Covid-19
- The perfect setup to manufacture a panic
- Imagining a super virus that would actually justify tyranny
- Hollywood imaginations of pandemics
- Trading freedom for safety
- The most dangerous threat to humans in history: naive immune systems
- Australian and New Zealand leaders are negligent
- The laptop class and the return of castes
- Isolation and self preservation is the height of immorality
- The revolution before us and the spectre of a right-wing dictatorship
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The People's Project Season 6 Episode 9: Straight Talking with the Liberal Party & The Victorians Party
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The People's Project Season 6 Episode 9: Straight Talking with the Liberal Party & The Victorians Party
1hr 31min
In this week’s episode of The People’s Project:
STRANGLING THE SELF-EMPLOYED
Is there really a war against small business and the self-employed in Australia?
VICTORIA IN CRISIS
Once again the ambulance and health system are in crisis. But this week we explore the crisis in Victoria Police that is leaving 24/7 ‘open’ stations CLOSED 24/7!
THE RISE OF THE INDEPENDENTS
Do the Liberals really ‘stand for nothing’? Can this explain the rise of independents and minor parties across the nation?
UNMASKING MISINFORMATION
From the UK to Australia, Commonwealth countries are increasingly fighting against misinformation by destroying free speech.
NEWS WITHOUT NOTICE
- The Victorian Labor Government suddenly decides to reject ‘the health advice’.
- 53,000 person international survey reveals that ‘Anti-lockdown’ is now the majority view and held by billions of people.
- Tennis champion Novak Djokovic wins Wimbledon (without being vaccinated) leaving Australia with egg on its face as a ‘backwater country’.
- Elon is forcing Twitter to reveal its real bot numbers.
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RYAN SMITH MP
https://www.ryansmith.com.au
INGRID MAYNARD
https://www.vicparty.com/our-team
https://thesalesdr.com.au
VICTORIA POLICE EMERGENCY CLOSURE
https://caainc.org.au/a-victoria-police-emergency
RESULTS OF THE 2022 DPI SURVEY
https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/vast-majority-in-world-say-they-lost
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Prof Paul Frijters: The Madness of Crowds
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Prof Paul Frijters: The Madness of Crowds
1hr 6min
Paul Frijters is a Professor of Wellbeing Economics at the London School of Economics: from 2016 through November 2019 at the Center for Economic Performance, thereafter at the Department of Social Policy. He writes extensively on the realities of lockdowns and the ‘why’ behind the madness of crowds.
In this interview we explored:
- The loud voices for and against lockdowns, and where those voices go after a madness dissipates
- The reaction of the crowd during a madness
- How a group madness collapses and what the crowd thinks in hindsight
- Forces that accelerate the collapse of a crowd madness
- Institutions that defend against or slow madness
- Opportunistic concentrations of power in the WHO, WEF etc
- What nationalism really is
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Peter Fam: Understanding Human Rights in Australia
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Peter Fam: Understanding Human Rights in Australia
1hr 17min
What are human rights? Do our laws create our human rights or do they simply recognise rights that pre-exist government?
Human rights lawyer Peter Fam joins us to explore the state of human rights in Australia and how the period 2020-2022 confirms the fears of many pracitioners: that human rights are not well understood by Australians.
Peter’s law firm Maats Method is making a submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission stressing the duties and functions of the AHRC to investigate potential human rights abuses by governments around the country. You can read the full submission at: https://www.maatsmethod.com.au/post/australian-human-rights-commission-failed-to-perform-their-statutory-function-during-covid-19
In this discussion we explored the history and basis for human rights law in Australia, the realities of human rights advocacy in the legal profession, and the general misunderstanding of human rights principles.
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VicPol Apologises to Rebel News Australia
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VicPol Apologises to Rebel News Australia
1min read
It seems you must either ‘stand with Avi’ or ‘stand with PRGuy17’ (choose a side) but there are a number of us who may not personally like the way either of them choose to go about their work but believe they both play a very important role in our public discourse.
The way Victoria Police treated Avi is wrong and we should celebrate this apology. I hope they back up their apology with action moving forward.
Like many, I’m not a fan of Rebel News but why does that even matter? They do important work that most (including myself) do not have the courage (or let’s be honest – temerity) to do. If you don’t like it, then do a better job. If you think they’ve made a mistake, then gather some facts and call it out.
As we watch journalists in a dying legacy media pander to powerful corporate and government interests, it increasingly falls to independent media to fill the role traditional journalists have abandoned. Peter Hitchens described it to me thusly: ‘The appropriate relationship between journalists and governments should be of that between a dog and a lamp post.’
So if you’re looking for a completely unbiased journalist or media outlet, you will die of exhaustion. But quality of journalism is, in the end, decided by the people. It’s not for Victoria Police or a government to decide who is and who isn’t a journalist.
Institutions should be answering questions from anyone who dares to ask them – whether those questions are asked respectfully or otherwise.
I note that the pandemic years has given rise to a number of new voices (there are many with small followings under 5,000 subscribers) and some are not happy about it. Yes there’s misinformation. Yes there’s bias. But the cultural reflex to smear and censor dissenting voices leads to a dangerous end.
I say increase the number of voices! On all sides, on every side, on no sides. More, not less, speech combined with an increasingly savvy audience, is preferable to the censorious, mushroom approach we currently live under (mushrooms are kept in the dark and fed excrement).
It’s messy, sure, and it takes courage to walk through the noise but we are better off with a cacophony than with a submissive euphony.
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Emeritus Professor Thomas S. Harrington - The Worldwide Milgram Experiment
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Emeritus Professor Thomas S. Harrington - The Worldwide Milgram Experiment
1hr 11min
Thomas Harrington, Senior Scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is an essayist and Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford (USA) where he taught for 24 years. He joins Discernable to discuss what appears to be a worldwide repeat of the infamous Milgram experiment where ordinary people are pushed to commit extraordinary atrocities by authority figures.
As an expert in the formation of identity, culture and language he often sheds light on the rhetorical ‘framing’ techniques used to influence broad populations. An example of is the rise of modern ‘Nudge Units’ within governments known by various names such as ‘Behavioural Insights Unit’ et al. The Professor believes that once a suitably convincing ‘frame’ is established, a subject can be made to accept any proposition contained within that frame even if that proposition is antithetical to the frame itself.
This demonstrates the immense power and danger of ‘framing’ techniques employed by politicians and corporations throughout the globe to achieve their desired end. Thomas shows how this was successfully deployed to recruit a pliant population of ‘police citizens’ or ‘karens’ who zealously enforce the policies and propaganda of governments beyond what is legally stipulated and into the realm of cultural norms.
In this discussion we also looked at identity making vs decision making, the religious impulse of humans and what can replace it in a secular age, the reliability of rationalism and science and parallel societal structures.
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Alex Washburne: 'Fauci Trees' That Kill the Saplings of Science
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Alex Washburne: 'Fauci Trees' That Kill the Saplings of Science
1hr 33min
Alex Washburne has undergraduate degrees in biology and applied mathematics from University of New Mexico and a PhD from a Princeton University studying competition in ecological, epidemiological, and economic systems. He’s actively researched COVID epidemiology, the economic impacts of pandemic policy, and stock + capital market responses to epidemiological news.
In this interview we explored:
- Covid-19 policy monism in a world of plurality
- How decentralisation and competition can create better solutions
- The strangling of new ideas by powerful incumbents
- The desire to kill anything that is ‘not the same’ as you
- The intolerance of some scientific fields
- Predictions of endemicity and profitable stocks
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The People's Project Season 6 Episode 8: Selective Human Rights and Why Sport is Better Than War
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The People's Project Season 6 Episode 8: Selective Human Rights and Why Sport is Better Than War
1hr 22min
In this week’s episode of The People’s Project:
RAIN RAIN GO AWAY
With more floods in NSW the panel wonders why we keep protesting against natural disaster mitigation measures in favour of climate change action
SAVERS ARE LOSERS
Interest rates are up for mortgage holders but not for self-funded retirees or those with savings
EMERGENCY FOREVER
Media and government are testing the waters for masks mandates to return. But will Australians cop it again? And why are so many triple boosted healthcare workers refusing a fourth dose?
SELECTIVE HUMAN RIGHTS
Who interfered with Victoria Police’s decision to drop charges against BLM protest organisers? Do they speak for themselves or for the government? Whether Assange or Aussie freedom protestors, we seem to apply human rights selectively.
SPORT IS BETTER THAN WAR
The psychological need in humans for war, conflict and comradery…is sport a viable alternative?
NEWS WITHOUT NOTICE
Massive protest in the Netherlands by farmers in their tractors after their government turns the screws on them with climate change
Boris Johnson resigns and his cabinet sets the example for removing bad leadership
Stan Grant writes a fantastic article on Christianity’s decline in Australia and what will replace it
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TOM MCDONALD
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KRYSTLE MITCHELL
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Article: Sport and the Decline of War
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/out-the-darkness/201403/sport-and-the-decline-war
Article: Stan Grant writing on Christianity in Australian Census Result
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-03/census-religion-christianity-no-religion-god/101201640
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