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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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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Sam Russell: The Realities of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and NFTs
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Sam Russell: The Realities of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and NFTs
1hr 33min
Sam Russell is the founder of Klef and has spent years working with blockchain technologies. Having seen the rise (and fall) of so many blockchains he joins Discernable to explain how to make sense of cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
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Jab Injuries Australia - Real Australians Tell Their Stories of Post-Vaccine Injury
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Jab Injuries Australia - Real Australians Tell Their Stories of Post-Vaccine Injury
49min
Many Australians have experienced injury after a Covid-19 vaccination and had their cases sidelined, minimised or ignored. jab_injuries_australia has carefully curated a feed and a community that puts the spotlight purely on the victims and their stories…not on the science and not on the politics.
Ultimately we are witnessing the creation of a qualitative dataset that documents what others refuse to document, and what some pages sensationalise for their own political agendas.
Matt from Jab Injuries Australia joined Matt from Discernable to explain the types of stories that are being sent to him, the pushback he’s received, and the patterns evident in their data. Discernable was also interested in exploring motivations, dangers of censorship, false reports of injury, and conflicts of interest.
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Tim Cudmore: Living with a Traumatic Brain Injury and Predicting the Future
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Tim Cudmore: Living with a Traumatic Brain Injury and Predicting the Future
1hr 41min
Tim Cudmore suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in childhood and now lives with a unique brain structure. Tim is sought out by organisations and government departments in a consulting capacity to understand human behaviours and lived experiences.
In this interview Tim shared his thoughts on behavioural foundations in humans, and how he extrapolates those observations to make future predictions. We then went on a deep dive into a horror flu season in the southern hemisphere, the next world war, and athletes collapsing on the field.
Along the way, Matt challenged Tim to substantiate the logic behind his predictions and explored the realities of addiction and childhood trauma.
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Kirsten Finger: 20 Year Registered Nurse and Paramedic Goes from Hero to Zero
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Kirsten Finger: 20 Year Registered Nurse and Paramedic Goes from Hero to Zero
1hr 17min
Kirsten is a 20 year veteran in the Victorian health system. Her dream was always to become a paramedic, and after 7 years as a registered nurse in critical care she achieved her goal and went on to serve as a paramedic for a further 13 years.
In late 2021 she was given an impossible choice – submit to Ambulance Victoria’s vaccination mandate for Covid-19 and risk serious consequences due to her pre-existing medical condition, or be fired from the organisation that she loved.
Leading up to the launch of Covid-19 vaccinations in Australia, Kirsten chose to undertake additional training to be ready to assist in the vaccine rollout but despite 20 years of dedication and passion, her termination was cold and sudden.
This is her story.
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Kate Wand - The Planned Collapse of the Old World
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Kate Wand - The Planned Collapse of the Old World
1hr 12min
Canadian social commentator Kate Wand joins Discernable to discuss the decline of old world values and systems in favour of a ‘Brave New World’ where human autonomy is sacrificed in pursuit of a utopia dreamed up by societal elites and bankers.
Her creative work in Canada interviewing prominent figures and producing short films highlights historical similarities between the current moment and dark periods in history.
Her work is of unusually high quality and intellectual depth and therefore comes highly recommended by Discernable.
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Tom Goodwin: We Are Addicted to New Technology
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Tom Goodwin: We Are Addicted to New Technology
1hr 11min
Why are humans so addicted to new technology? We race to embrace that latest technological development even when it makes a task more difficult. We ignore the inefficiency we just created whilst marvelling at our engineering prowess!
Tom Goodwin points out and corrects these errors in judgement in his work as a consultant, speaker, author and presenter to organisations where the C Suite are at risk of burning resources on adolescent implementations of technology. In a way it’s understandable because being more outlandish is the only way futurists and technologists gain enough attention and they have captured boardrooms of companies everywhere.
Tom has a foundational belief of ‘human first’ and in this discussion we explored:
- The attraction of technological hyperbole
- Media is geared for attention seeking and outrage
- Commonwealth countries resist following the USA into divisive politics
- The road-centric society
- When a technology succeeds too rapidly
- Techno geeks and their brains that took over the world
- Building empathy into technology
- Restaurants that ruin themselves with technology
- Covid-19 excuses in call centres
- Are cryptocurrencies just technological indulgences?
- Elon Musk’s enormous ego and dedication to free speech
- Twitter is not a traditional ‘public square’
- The New Normal
- The pandemic lasted for different lengths of time for different people
- Questioning reality – are we all just Sims?
- The importance of working in an office (not from home)
Fashionable ‘tolerance’ - Beauty, difference and class structures
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Clive spent $100m for what?! Julian Fayad explains the UAP result.
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Clive spent $100m for what?! Julian Fayad explains the UAP result.
50min
What exactly did Clive Palmer get for his near $100m spend on the Australian Federal Election?
In this interview we explore:
- Craig Kelly’s failure to be re-elected
- Clive Palmer’s failure to be elected to QLD’s senate
- $100m burned without a seat to show for it
- Labelling UAP and minor party voters as ‘deplorables’
- The political momentum that is not going away
Julian Fayad thrived in software development in his teens and after working in finance as an adult he saw innovation possibilities for artificial intelligence. He now has multiple businesses operating in the world of data science, artificial intelligence and finance, all while living in Western Sydney.
Julian breaks the Legacy Media narrative of UAP candidates and supporters being ‘low information voters’ or ‘deplorables’ manipulated by Clive Palmer’s simple slogans and promises. There is clearly a new political momentum forming in Australian politics and whilst proven to be a minority at the recent election, it is a momentum that is not going away as professionals such as Julian join the ranks.
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