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Alex, as a Federal Member of Parliament in Australia, I can tell you that the situation in this country is frightening. Politicians have either ceded decision-making to unelected health bureaucrats or are displaying "hard man"-style leadership by being tough on the citizenry to "defeat" the virus. The police are being used against the citizenry like I've never seen before. The media is fanning the flames in all of this, turning Australian against Australian with scaremongering over the virus and promoting vaccine discrimination. COVID-19 might only have an IFR of 0.27% according to epidemiologist Dr John Ioannidis but it has claimed the life of one very big victim: my country. I almost cannot recognise it anymore.

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i can tell u from Melbourne, its easy to sit on the sidelines and say, why arent they protesting in the 10s of thousands, but right now, for the moment, the cops and dictators won - its not easy to think oh well, i might get beat the fk up and jailed, but i'll do it anyway .. i suspect after this week if we still have no light, people will go again ... if anyone has any idea how to fight strategically without guns, let us know, we are simply not that kind of people.. we've never had to be

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Guns in Australia are a red herring.

The reason places like Australia and Canada are collapsing into tyranny is simple: they have rejected God. Western Civilization was built on a Judeo-Christian foundation. The bien pensants (virtually none of whom has the intellectual depth required to account for their own epistemological axioms -- think New Yorker magazine) has scoffed at this for 200 years. Bovine atheism has spread among formerly god-fearing people's over the past 50 years. This will necessarily result in collapse into something akin to China, where the worth of an individual life is measured solely in the number and quality of political connections. If America has even the slightest chance at survival, it will come because enough Americans hold fast to the ancient union of God and Man.

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America's Frontline Doctors group put out this video on mass psychosis and how it used for totalitarian control. It's a perfect description of what is going with the Western democracies:

https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/frontlinenews/mass-psychosis-how-an-entire-population-becomes-mentally-ill/

Mass "menticide", the killing of the mind. "Fear is the mind-killer" (from Dune, I think).

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As an Australian....

one of the reasons why many Australian living in NSW decided to give up freedom or agree with the gov with regards to lockdowns was $$$$$

in 2020 Employees and Employers both were given $$$ on a fortnightly basis around $1500

in some cases $3000/m was more than some ppl were getting under normal working hours

than again the system also failed some people as they missed out on payments etc or didnt get enough $$ to meet their normal expenses .

Also most businesses were able to survive the lockdown, as Gov was still giving assistance till Jan 2021 well after the lockdown had finished.

in 2021 during the 2nd major lockdown in NSW (sydney) and still going, similar payments are being given on weekly/fortnightly basis but slightly less compared to 2020 and a few more rules which means less people qualify for the payments.

Hence why you never saw Freedom protest in 2020 or earlier in 2021 in NSW.

vaccination started around March 2021, things started of Slow, our PM Scott Morrison saying it wasnt a Sprint but a Marathon ("no rush") to get the vaccination but after he visited G7 in June, things changed when he came back.

June 26 Sydney (NSW) went into lockdown and things have gone downhill every quick from there. It went from Marathon -> Sprint -> light speed, than we started to see health orders ... mandates, certain areas going under strict lockdowns etc.... though still today PM Scott Morrison says vaccination is not mandatory, yet in nearly every day to day activity you require vaccination to gain access, instead of Gov pushing vaccination, it was pushed on to Employers to force vaccination.

Main stream media is not reporting everything, its censored, Sky News that i watch mostly ... i could see the narrative change over night... i now have to watch FB, YouTube and twitter to get news from independent news sources. Hence came across Alex on twitter few weeks before he was suspended

I am not a anti vaxxer, have taken most vaccination all my life but everything about how things are being done in Australia doesnt seem right.

By Gods grace i havent taken the vaccination and pray stays that way.

The Western part of Sydney , i feel really sorry for, I cant believe that we have treated fellow Australians in the manner we have, and Western Sydney would be the place the protest would start from so the NSW Gov knew it was best to lock them down the hardest.

Victoria (Melbourne) is even worse than Sydney..:(

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I see the "Spartacus document" has now made ZeroHedge in full. I read this a couple of days ago -- I think Robert Malone tweeted it out (funny, they haven't banned him yet, but they may be working on that):

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/damn-you-hell-you-will-not-destroy-america-here-spartacus-covid-letter-thats-gone-viral

Who is "Spartacus"? Well, he or they obviously know a damn bit about actual Covid-19 disease, and how basically, we're just killing people who get sick enough to go to the hospital. He/they also know a bit about the vaccines and treatments.

He/they also cannot speak under his/their real names.

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Based in Melbourne and looking to connect with anyone else in this city who thinks it's not OK to force an experimental treatment onto those who don't want it. People I've known for years and care about are saying things I never thought they'd say and, while I appreciate the seductive power of the MSM, I think it's time to make new friends for the sake of my own sanity. Would appreciate hearing from you.

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As a Melbournian I feel I should have an interesting take, not sure if I do though.

In Australia the police work for the government, most people are wealthy enough to have a lot to lose and most people believe in big government.

A subtle psychological difference to Americans is that much more Australian migration was government sponsored, the government recruited and paid people to migrate. This may work itself out in the Australian attitude of government as a generous father figure.

The political situation is also perverse with a weak and foolish PM afraid to confront state leaders for fear of prioritising money over lives. State leaders, on the other hand, have been adept at selling the fear narrative and do not have to pay the bills as this is the Fed's job. State leaders are mostly Labor and seem to see an opportunity to white ant the Liberal Fed government.

I wonder if an election loss by the federal government may provide some relief if the states believe their political goals have been met.

For myself I suspect the control the states have on the narrative makes street protest counter-productive, I have switched off all media other than this Substack and try to live my life with as little reference to the government as possible.

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It seems Australian is the testing ground for a totalitarian police state, new world order

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"What will change that passivity - in Australia and everywhere else?"

Nothing. The majority is content to live under authoritarian rule in exchange for perceived safety. The entire world will live under something very close the Chinese model by 2030. A tiny but unimaginably powerful global trillionaire class will live a parallel existence in unimaginable luxury.

This has been the state of the world since the dawn of civilization. The difference is that whereas a remote king had little day to day impact on the life of a peasant in 1230, advanced technology will permit the global elite to control every aspect of everyone's lives by 2030.

This is what the world's population wants. Don't imagine Americans are all that different than Australians. It will just take a bit longer.

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Does anyone remember how the Tiananmen Square protesters were quashed & all communication to rally the masses failed because of government control? Could not happen in Australia could it?

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I am sorry to go off topic, but it appears that Biden met the Indian Prime Minister Modi last Friday, and THE SAME DAY, India stopped recommending Ivermectin as a therapeutic for its citizens. Do I have my facts right?

What the heck is really going on?

Perhaps someone here can shed some light on this.

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The march that went down Flinders Street and onto the Westgate Bridge last Tuesday I estimated was at least 20 000. Mostly, but not only, tradies in hi viz.

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"Doctators" - I'm gonna use that!

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Being prepared to risk being pepper-sprayed, hit with rubber bullets, roughed up and arrested takes courage, but in the end I suspect that it tends to rally support behind the authorities. Individuals who are prepared to lose their often very secure and quite well-paid jobs rather than be jabbed are at least as courageous and probably give more people in the compliant majority pause for thought. This may be a situation in which Terence MacSwiney’s words will prove apt: ‘It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most who will prevail’.

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What will change that passivity - in Australia and everywhere else? Well, if 70% of the population agreed to this madness they are getting what they voted for. Now, as some have voiced, this is why, perhaps, the 2nd amendment was enshrined into the constitution though not much a AR-15 can do against a tank.

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