Naked Media - evidence of manipulative, misleading and increasingly fake news

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Naked Media - evidence of manipulative, misleading and increasingly fake news

24min

Time to explore just how misleading, manipulative and fake our news media can be. Let’s dive into:

1. CNN Technical Director admits to the campaign to remove Trump, the upcoming pivot to climate change fear campaigns, CNN interviewers are manipulating their guests…

2. The ABC doctors footage of the twerking dancers in front of the Royal Australian Navy Ship (the ABC have released a public apology).

3. The ABC fabricates footage of Scomo storming off a press conference.

4. Sky News lies that there were only a few hundred people attending the Nov protests in Melbourne, and that they were violent.

5. Victoria Police incite violence at a protest but selective editing reverses the narrative.

And finally, an analysis of the Australian media landscape and the antidote to media manipulation.


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How Victoria Voted for Lockdowns (again) and Voted Against Fresh Air

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How Victoria Voted for Lockdowns (again) and Voted Against Fresh Air

30min

An early Merry Christmas to all: the VIC State of Emergency Extension passed by 1 vote.

In this explainer we look at:
1. What actually changed in the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008
2. How the MPs voted and what deals were made?
3. WHY did they vote that way (reading Hansard)?
4. The Liberal push to make it month by month
5. Victoria ‘the most transparent state’ in Australia
6. The Ombudsman report on what happened to the housing commission towers in July 2020
7. The MPs that voted against FRESH AIR


All MPs who voted against fresh air (source: Hansard 2Mar21):

Fiona Patten MP (Reason Party, formerly Sex Party) fiona.patten@parliament.vic.gov.au
Samantha Ratnam (Greens) samantha.ratnam@parliament.vic.gov.au
Andy Meddick MP (Animal Justice Party) Andy.Meddick@parliament.vic.gov.au
Jaclyn Symes MP (ALP, Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council) jaclyn.symes@parliament.vic.gov.au
Nazih Elasmar MP (ALP, President of the Legislative Council) nazih.elasmar@parliament.vic.gov.au
Gayle Tierney MP (ALP) gayle.tierney@parliament.vic.gov.au
Enver Erdogan MP (ALP) enver.erdogan@parliament.vic.gov.au
Jane Garrett MP (ALP) jane.garrett@parliament.vic.gov.au
Mark Gepp (ALP) mark.gepp@parliament.vic.gov.au
Tien Kieu MP (ALP) Tien.Kieu@parliament.vic.gov.au
Shaun Leane MP (ALP) OfficeMinLeane@ecodev.vic.gov.au
Cesar Melhem MP (ALP) cesar.melhem@parliament.vic.gov.au
Jaala Pulford MP (ALP) jaala.pulford@parliament.vic.gov.au
Harriet Shing MP (ALP) harriet.shing@parliament.vic.gov.au
Ingrid Stitt MP (ALP) Ingrid.Stitt@parliament.vic.gov.au
Lee Tarlamis MP (ALP) lee.tarlamis@parliament.vic.gov.au
Sonia Terpstra MP (ALP) Sonja.Terpstra@parliament.vic.gov.au
Kaushaliya Vaghela MP (ALP) Kaushaliya.Vaghela@parliament.vic.gov.au
Sheena Watt MP (ALP) sheena.watt@parliament.vic.gov.au

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Explaining the Facebook Ban on News

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Explaining the Facebook Ban on News

19min

This is a meta view – a wide perspective and simplified explainer of the Facebook News Ban in Australia.

What is it? Why is it? What does it mean?


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VIC Omnibus Bill Neutered

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VIC Omnibus Bill Neutered

49min

The Omnibus Bill in Victoria has been neutered. In this FB live we discussed the latest changes to the Omnibus Bill before Victorian Parliament, the upcoming council elections and the COVID Medical Network.


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Prosecution of the Victorian Government Pending

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Prosecution of the Victorian Government Pending

46min

The Covid-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry wrapped up this week with counsel assisting submitting that the Government’s failures were responsible for 768 deaths and the entire second wave in Victoria. Ken Phillips from Self Employed Australia has triggered a prosecution request by writing to the OHS authority – WorkSafe – under section 130 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic).

They are now required by law to take action or detail reasons why they failed to take action, by late December 2020.

Ken asked me to conduct this interview so the true and balanced story could get out. It’s a doozy.


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Pre-emptive and indefinite detention in the new Victorian Omnibus Bill

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Pre-emptive and indefinite detention in the new Victorian Omnibus Bill

26min

The Victorian Government is trying to pass laws that allow pre-emptive and indefinite detention for those who are ‘likely’ to break a law.

  • What is the COVID-19 Omnibus Bill?
  • How will it affect Victorians?
  • What is this about ‘pre-emptive, indefinite detention’?

Here is a breakdown of the Bill which is not due to be passed by the Legislative Council until early-mid October.


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Case Study on how NOT to police a population

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Case Study on how NOT to police a population

3min

Whether in the workplace, your family or in society, policing by consent actually generates the greatest overall compliance.

Victoria is a helpful study on how to get this very wrong.


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Victoria Redefines Covid-19 and Lowers the CHO's Burden of Proof

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Victoria Redefines Covid-19 and Lowers the CHO's Burden of Proof

4min

The length of time for the State of Emergency extension in Victoria is not the problem! In this report Matt details the definition changes to Victoria’s laws that redefine Covid-19 and cement emergency powers, as well as the lowering of standards for the Chief Health Officer (Brett Sutton) in the case of his directives being questioned in court.

Victoria is full of hardworking, decent, trustworthy citizens…as Dan Andrews himself has repeatedly described us. So why not treat us like adults?

Or are we simply all ‘bat-sh*t crazy’ as Victoria Police assistant commissioner Luke Cornelius described us today?

I made this video to be a weapon. Not a political weapon, but an education weapon that clearly lays out the facts of the proposed legislative changes before parliament. Share it to help people, not to attack them.

I am tired of listening to politicians divide us when, in fact, we are a united, beautiful tapestry of citizens with all sorts of different beliefs but we do all agree on one thing – that we should be given a fair go. Give us a chance to get this right. We are not children.


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What's wrong with extending a State of Emergency?

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What's wrong with extending a State of Emergency?

9min

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis

This is the problem with the new, proposed section 3(4) in the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 (Vic). With the greatest of intent, we are about to chain ourselves into an unscientific merry go round of lockdowns that are now being discredited by mainstream infectious disease epidemiologists like Professor Mark Woolhouse.

The exposure draft bill at DHHS website

Update
I’ve been advised by an MP that the Andrews Labor Government has included this new sub-section to ‘protect’ Victoria when it has no cases but other neighbouring states might have many cases. This is to allow lockdowns and other measures to continue to prevent COVID-19 re-entering the state.


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