Matt Wong

Bhaskaran Raman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has a particular interest in data analysis and has been on a mission to ‘unscare India’ since witnessing what he describes as the ‘destroying of society for our children’.

In this interview we explored the pandemic in the Indian context. I specifically wanted to hear a first hand account of Indian lockdowns, mandates, compliance, sickness and immunity, especially in the context of the poorest who suffered disproportionately.

We also discussed the class/caste system, the politicisation of data, and the psychology of the Indian population.

BHASKARAN RAMAN
https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~br/webpage/covid19/u5india/index.html
https://twitter.com/br_cse_iitb

Edward Hore is the founder and President of Australian Cycle Alliance, an organisation that advocates for safe and inclusive riding for anyone who decides to ride a bicycle, for any reason.

We discussed:

0:41 What is the Australian Cycle Alliance?
3:06 Programs to help people start riding
6:45 How popular is riding a bike?
10:20 Drivers vs Cyclists
16:03 When your workmates abuse you when you’re cycling
18:11 Sympathetic driving
21:00 Police attitudes toward cyclists
22:06 Edward and his son attacked by an angry driver
27:07 Dehumanising cyclists
29:40 Cycling makes better drivers
30:48 Bike riding effects on mental health
37:30 The hardest part of any ride
38:30 200km rides and a custard slice
41:40 Recreational riding
47:55 Bike share
48:49 How Matt started cycling
49:28 Getting your first bike
53:10 E-bikes
57:53 Cyclists on the road and in the way?
1:00:20 Shared bike paths and feeder routes
1:06:58 NYC prioritises people over cars
1:09:47 The downsides of cycling
1:12:16 The best way to get potholes fixed
1:18:58 Advocacy for families who have lost loved ones

AUSTRALIAN CYCLE ALLIANCE
https://cycle.org.au
https://twitter.com/auscycle

EDWARD HORE
https://www.instagram.com/edhore

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

JEFFREY A. TUCKER
https://brownstone.org
https://twitter.com/jeffreyatucker
https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-Tucker/e/B00MB6KY3E

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

PAUL FRIJTERS
https://brownstone.org/author/paul-frijters
https://www.amazon.com.au/Great-Covid-Panic-What-Happened/dp/1630692778
https://twitter.com/FrijtersPaul

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.

PETER FAM
www.maatsmethod.com.au
https://t.me/thepeterfamtelegram
https://www.instagram.com/maatsmethod
https://www.facebook.com/maatsmethod
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-fam-9b724315a