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Tuesday 15 June 2021

Australian Conservative Monthly

 

What’s Been Happening this Month

One of the many challenges of climate science in Australia is lack of long term data since white people settled here only in relatively recent times. We have barely 120 years of instrumental climate records. However a breakthrough occurred recently as researchers looking at tree rings in 700 year old native cypress trees in Western Australia made a startling discovery. The tree rings showed evidence of mega droughts in previous centuries lasting 30 years. By comparison the twentieth century was relatively wet. Of course, that will not stop the ABC or climate alarmists blaming the next big dry on the Australian coal industry and conservative governments. 

 


ABC Watch

This month saw hundreds of thousands of people world-wide break curfew and take to the streets demanding freedom. Depending on which side of the fence you are on, these people are either irresponsible ‘super spreaders’ or guardians of the freedoms our forebears fought for and won over the last eight centuries since Magna Carta. Either way, you have a right to know that this is happening. The ABC reported local protests in Melbourne in 2020 but appears not to have noticed recent world-wide marches.

 

Organisation/Campaign Profiles

Advance Australia formed in 2018 as a conservative, or perhaps we should just say ‘sane’ counter to GetUp! and has been going from strength to strength ever since. InsightPolicy was pleased to speak with Chief Executive Officer Matthew Sheahan and has every confidence that Advance Australia will be powerful voice for ordinary Australians. Below is a screen shot of their current campaigns.  See further: Advance Australia – A movement of mainstream Australians fighting for a fair go




Think Local, Act Global

War in the Pacific

The drums of war are beating in the South Pacific. China has openly threatened to bomb Australia should we get involved in any conflict involving Taiwan or (by implication) maintaining freedom of passage in the South China Sea. Such a threat is unprecedented in peacetime and must be taken at face value. It is one rung below a formal declaration of war. InsightPolicy has previously published an analysis in several articles, of Australian military capability in the event of a regional conflict. That analysis was subject to expert review by Australia’s only truly independent defence think tank Air Power Australia. The only thing that has changed since those articles were written is China’s development of genuine stealth combat aircraft and long range missiles.While regional leaders including Prime Minister Scott Morrison are scrambling to form a military coalition the US navy has removed all of its aircraft carriers from the Pacific


Journalists who do not understand military matters unsurprisingly interpret this as a lack of resolve. Speaking of the USS Ronald Reagan’s impending departure from the waters off Japan, Rabobank noted:

"For the first time in a long time, the US has no aircraft carrier in the Pacific. The symbolism is clear: and it leaves some wondering what might happen if push comes to shove."

In reality USN aircraft carriers exist to project power against third world countries and remind middle power nations who’s boss. In the event of an actual shooting war with Russia or China, or even a middle power nation that won’t back down, the USN will remove their aircraft carriers from harm’s way post haste because they are too vulnerable to modern weapon systems

Removing carriers from the Pacific could be a conciliatory action or sign of weakness. More likely though, US Admirals have done the maths and assessed the likelihood of losing their big platforms in the near future as unacceptable risk.

 

The Biden Administration Responds

Responding to these global threats, the Biden administration has encouraged embassies to fly the Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag. To put that in perspective BLM is a Marxist organisation that preaches the violent overthrow of capitalism and democracy, the suppression of religious faith, the persecution of white people, the cultural ‘year zero’, and the dissolution of white Western nation states. 

 



 

The US Military Responds to Biden

In developing countries it is not uncommon that the military sees itself as the guardians of stability and of the constitution. Such is the case for example in Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia. In developed countries this should not be necessary. Hence you know the fabric of civilian society is being stretched when the military begins making statements on public life. In the United States more than 165 retired military leaders have issued a powerful warning that their constitution is under sustained attack:

 

We are in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776. The conflict is between supporters of Socialism and Marxism vs. supporters of Constitutional freedom and liberty. Without fair and honest elections that accurately reflect the “will of the people” our Constitutional Republic is lost. Election integrity demands insuring there is one legal vote cast and counted per citizen. Legal votes are identified by State Legislature’s approved controls using government IDs, verified signatures, etc. Today, many are calling such commonsense controls “racist” in an attempt to avoid having fair and honest elections. Using racial terms to suppress proof of eligibility is itself a tyrannical intimidation tactic. ….

 

Aside from the election, the Current Administration has launched a full-blown assault on our Constitutional rights in a dictatorial manner, bypassing the Congress, with more than 50 Executive Orders quickly signed, many reversing the previous Administration’s effective policies and regulations. Moreover, population control actions such as excessive lockdowns, school and business closures, and most alarming, censorship of written and verbal expression are all direct assaults on our fundamental Rights. We must support and hold accountable politicians who will act to counter Socialism, Marxism and Progressivism, support our Constitutional Republic, and insist on fiscally responsible governing while focusing on all Americans, especially the middle class, not special interest or extremist groups which are used to divide us into warring factions.

 

This the context in which General Flynn apparently noted that a counter coup would be one option to restore electoral integrity (although this has since been withdrawn and denied).


While the rest of the world looks on, someone with a sense of humour and purpose put US vs Russia Military recruitment advertisements side by side and the results went viral. You may laugh, you may cry, or you may do both at once. Not to be outdone the CIA has gone WOKE with a new recruitment ad. It mentions everything except competence. The Russians and the Chinese must be terrified…. In Australia, Peter Dutton who has good reason to fear China, has told the Australian military to forget the WOKE nonsense and get on with the job.

 

Islam Watch

In France a group of retired military leaders published an open letter to the effect that excessive immigration from the Islamic world has put France on the brink of civil war. The French government responded by trash talking their former generals.

 

The French military countered with another open letter, this time from currently serving officers, many of whom have seen combat against Islamic extremists.

 

While the mainstream media works hard to ignore or downplay the impact of mass Islamic immigration, the facts on the ground are, well, facts really. These include entire parts of cities now under Islamic law where security forces don’t go or are routinely attacked, and from which white citizens have been expelled. Rape gangs, grooming, rioting and crime continue unabated. In France a church or synagogue is attacked on weekly, some claim daily, basis. Meanwhile the liberal intelligentsia prefer to focus on ‘diversity’. This example of diversity is from Hyde Park London.

 

Get Smart(er)! - alternative news and information

In the Westminster system we have a separation of powers. Actually we are supposed to have several separations. The legislature, executive, and courts should be separate. Church and State should be separate. The ‘fourth estate’ should be separate from the Government. So should the police. Journalists should seek out and report truth. Corporations should not dictate policy. The secret services should act in the national interest not against the citizenry. When these separate branches of society become too close a one party State, albeit with different factions, begins to emerge. That essentially is what is now happening at multiple levels. Key to this process are the media corporations that act as mouth pieces for the unitary State. This analysis by independent journalist Matt Taibbi is recommended reading.

 

COVID Corner

Things are moving so rapidly in this space it is hard to keep up. First let me be clear. As citizens we are responsible for our own health and the health of our loved ones. No one wants anyone to die. We all want to do the right thing. You have every right to take a vaccine or refuse a vaccine. Many conservatives are over 50, have ageing parents, and are understandably concerned. The official narrative is clear: vaccines are safe and effective and are the only path out of lockdown and back to normality. ‘Just do the right thing and get the jab.’

 

In a functioning society official narratives are subject to critique and analysis. Counter arguments are considered and discussed. That has not happened. Instead there has been wall to wall censorship and ‘messaging’. Contrary voices are silenced. When that happens we need to look deeper. This magazine will continue to dig and parse available reports to present other relevant information on COVID so that we can make truly informed choices.


This short video sums up the issues around the jab.

Contrary to many media claims, the mRNA injection does change your genetic code. This novel bleeding edge technology is now seen as the future of medicine. Hear it for yourself from Moderna’s Chief Medical Officer.

 

In many jurisdictions including Victoria, lockdown has become the tool of coercion to force people ‘volunteer’ for what is in reality a mass vaccine trial. However, the lockdown narrative is increasingly challenged by reality. In contra-distinction to liberal states like California, Texas has managed COVID very well without a hard lockdown. Dire predictions of mass deaths in the conservative State were unfounded. Nevertheless hard lockdowns continue and have devastated communities and economies around the world. In this interview Dr Anne McCloskey talks about the medical and social impacts of lockdown and resistance to the lockdown in Ireland. Dr Paul Craig Roberts discusses the agenda of fear and control. Can people, should people, rise up?

 

Meanwhile the media has descended on India as a show-case of modern COVID catastrophe. Certainly people are dying; but how true is the catastrophe story? In this article, writer Jayant Bhandari explains the catastrophe that is medicine in everyday India and how COVID is exposing what was already present.

 

In better news, some authorities in India are breaking from the official orthodoxy and using HCQ and Ivermectin as safe, cheap, and reliable alternatives to the vaccines. As predicted by Frontline Doctors and others, they are getting wonderful results. There is a message in this for all of us, but not it seems, for the World Health Organisation now being sued by the Indian Bar Association for campaigning against Ivermectin.

 

You would think all this would all be front page news, hotly debated between medical professionals and peppered all over social media. Alas no. Project Veritas has released internal Facebook documents detailing their campaign to censor any discussion or debate on the vaccines on their platform. The mainstream media are sticking to the official government line that contemplates no alternative to policies that maximise profit for vaccine manufacturers.

 

To be fair to Facebook they really are having a difficult time with COVID. First they censored any suggestion that HCQ could work for COVID; presumably because then President Trump said it might. Then after more than 200 studies confirmed the effectiveness of HCQ they were forced to change tone. Facebook and the rest of the liberal media were quick to denounce the notion that COVID leaked from a bio-warfare lab in Wuhan as crazy conspiracy theory. Now they are scrambling to cover their tracks as evidence for the ‘lab Leak’ theory mounts. What a tangled web we weave when first we start to censor and deceive. Now that Biden is taking the ‘lab leak’ theory seriously, Australia’s ABC is starting to ask questions. Clearly they are a long way behind the alternative press which was doing investigative reporting into COVID origins as early as April last year and appear to be largely vindicated.  


While investigations into the origins of the virus continue, links between Dr Fauci, gain-of-function research, and the lab in Wuhan, continue to surface.

Watch Senator Rand Paul shred Dr Fauci here. Watch Peter Daszak describing ‘Chinese Colleagues’ developing killer coronaviruses here. How inconvenient to some then that one Chinese authority has stated publicly that China won both the economic war and the biological war against the United States. (Note: this twitter link may fail as material is purged from the net. Try pasting this into your browser: https://twitter.com/i/status/1394691764741627907  – Ed).

 

While awkward questions continue to be asked about who funded, who approved, and who conducted ‘gain of function research’ on corona viruses, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced that a new ‘more deadly’ pandemic is on the way. Given that Tedros is widely regarded as a mouth piece for the regime in China, the same regime that largely funds the WHO, and which was conducting gain of function research on coronaviruses, that is….interesting.

 

What’s Happening in Culture

Bill Gates, the nerd we all knew and …. Well, maybe not loved, but at least used Microsoft products…. has been a naughty boy, and indeed, his long term marriage is now over even as he seeks to become the vaccine king.  Perhaps, given Gates’ extensive knowledge of such things, his next project will be funding research into vaccines to cure sexually transmitted disease.



 

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation however will continue even as they stand accused of using vaccination as a cover to covertly sterilise African women.  Some humour:



Quote of the Month

Western culture, which developed organically over at least the two and half millennia, starting from Greco-Roman philosophers, is not easy to duplicate. This culture requires thrift, honesty, hard work, liberty, individuality, dispassionate reason, objective justice, loyalty, honour, stoicism, a desire to rise above oneself, and many other factors that perhaps cannot be seen or isolated but must be absorbed subliminally in all their complex interactions. These are reflected in social, religious, and political structures of the West – the three independent branches of government, the rule of law, compassion for others, charity, family system, etc.

Jayant Bhandari June 24 2020 https://acting-man.com/

 

The Sealed Section (for God Botherers and the Curious)

To everything there is a time….


The persecution of faith is a natural and inevitable consequence of the progressive take-over of society. After-all, Karl Marx wrote candidly about the necessity of using violence to eliminate the bourgeois classes and nations, and the church, in order to force equality. In socialist Finland quoting scripture can now be a criminal offence. It is pleasing to see calls for sanctions against the Finnish Prosecutor.

 

The same may also be true in Canada, but the excuse for persecuting Pastor Pawlowski is his refusal to close the church during Canada’s extensive and draconian lockdown. The campaign against Pawlowski is instructive because it provides an operational model for attacking other dissidents and is thus likely to be repeated. First media smears are used to create an atmosphere of hysteria. Then the target’s friends, family and faith community are publicly denounced and harassed. This may lead to acts of vigilante violence that are tacitly encouraged. Then the target is arrested on either genuine or embellished charges. Whether the charges stick is largely immaterial. The personal and financial trauma inflicted will serve as an example to other potential dissenters.

 

Ironically Pastor Pawlowski fled Communist Poland to escape exactly this kind of treatment by the government. I recommend both interviews in which he goes into his family background and former life, and also more recent events. Stand with Ps Pawlowski!

 



 

 

Editorial Policy

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