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Erik is a public policy professional and owner of the online training course in democracy and civic action: www.3ptraining.com.au The Blog …explores ways to create a sustainable and just community. Explores how that community can be best protected at all levels including social policy/economics/ military. The Book Erik’s autobiography is a humorous read about serious things. It concerns living in the bush, wilderness, home education, spirituality, and activism. Finding Home is available from Amazon, Barnes&Noble and all good e-book sellers.

Tuesday, 1 February 2022

Australian Conservative Monthly January 2022 - The Cancellation Edition

 

What’s Been Happening this Month

Jordan Peterson is Uncancelled

Cambridge University cancelled Jordan Peterson ostensibly because he was photographed standing next to someone wearing a t-shirt that might offend Muslims. After a hard-fought campaign Peterson was back…a great outcome, and a victory for decency, free speech, academic enquiry and common sense. See here at Spiked online.





The Australian Government Cancels Novak Djokovic

This month Novak Djokovic became the first sportsman in history to be thrown out of a championship match for refusing drugs. This despite being cleared by two expert panels and approved by the relevant sporting authority. To suggest that Djokovic, one of the fittest people on the planet, was somehow a health risk to Australia is laughable. What isn’t funny is the extent of the Minister’s powers. In essence, Djokovic was thrown out of the country for his dissenting opinion on mandatory vaccination. It was thought that his example might encourage others to question the tightly controlled narrative around the vax.


Irrespective of your views on vaccination, the fact that a Minister can, on their own whim, eject a person from the country because said Minister forms the opinion that their views might challenge a tightly controlled narrative, sets an appalling precedent.

Even worse, the Minister overruled the judiciary. So even if you are not breaking the law, you can still be thrown out because…. the government doesn’t like you. Civilised countries are ruled by laws. Uncivilised countries are ruled by rulers.

On the upside, it showcased the Australian Government to the world as an authoritarian, ignorant and bigoted collective of second-rate paper pushers and wannabe petty dictators. That after-all, is the truth of it.

 

Jordan Peterson Cancels Himself

Peterson has given up his tenured academic position because he could not in all conscience play along with the diversity trope or see his best students cancelled simply because they are his students. He left with a tightly argued polemic against the diversity mantra. This message will resonate with the manosphere which has been saying for years that straight white males should shun the universities. Why hand over tens of thousands of dollars to institutions that hate you?

 

The Americans Try to Cancel Russia, Germany, Nordstream, and probably Ukraine.

There is this thing called ‘historical context’. Remember when this guy was ‘our son of bitch’? George Bush senior was CIA director at the time, and supporting Saudi Jihadi’s was then all the rage. Pity about 9/11.


Yeah, so back to Washington and Ukraine.

In 1991 the same George Bush, now President, agreed with Soviet President Gorbachev that NATO would “not move one inch East” if the Soviet’s disbanded and disarmed. This they did. Since that time NATO has bombed Serbia and recruited the Baltic States into NATO bringing US troops right to the Russian Border, and US coast guard vessels no less, into the Black Sea. More significantly, NATO (read USA) has ringed Western Russia with early warning defence radars and missile stations, upsetting the nuclear balance. These facilities are dual use and can facilitate a conventional or nuclear strike on Moscow with under four minutes warning. Think 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

Then Victoria Nuland ran a soft coup/colour revolution in Ukraine and kicked out the legal and pro-Russian (if very corrupt) government, taking away Russia’s historic wheat lands and subjugating ethnic Russians to a campaign of violence and terror at the hands of Ukronazi death squads so comprehensive that the Easter part of the country broke away. Not to be deterred, NATO promptly claimed Crimea for a naval base. Crimea is the gateway to Western Russia and has been Russian for three centuries. Russia held a free and fair referendum in Crimea in which a clear majority voted to stay with Russia. The Russian troops who were already stationed there pursuant to a care-taker agreement with Ukraine simply stayed. Putin never ‘annexed Crimea’. Every media outlet who claims he did, is lying. They all claim that he did. See further here.

These are straight forward and readily obtainable facts. Compare them to the utter hysteria playing out in the Western press. Of course, this is really all about NATO expansion but also about Nordstream 2 – a major gas pipeline under construction from Russia to Germany and from there to the rest of Western Europe. The Americans are desperate to sabotage Russia’s economic growth and growing cooperation with Europe. The British policy of ‘keep the Americans in, the Russian’s out and the Germans down’ explains the BBC’s frenzied speculation of an imminent invasion by the Asiatic hordes. The US/Brits desperately need an excuse to impose sanctions and force the Germans to cancel Nordstream. Don’t worry, the fifty thousand US troops in Easter Europe are not going into harms way, but the Americans and British are prepared to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian. Hear it from a Russian here.

 

Minister Dutton Tries to Cancel Putin

Speaking of second-rate paper pushers, Defence Minister Dutton just saw fit to verbally ‘shirt front’ the leader of a country that hasn’t lost a war since 1215 (to Ghengis Khan) and owns the most powerful nuclear forces on the planet. In so doing he further damaged Australian business interests and helped retard the chances of a peaceful settlement in Europe. There are no words for how dumb that is. Presumably he is taking orders from Washington. Let’s hope he didn’t come up with that idea on his own.

If you are wondering what this has to do with a big island at the bottom of the Pacific think of a number between zero and zero…except that if Russia does finally run out of patience and obliterate the relevant NATO infrastructure in Eastern Europe, there is a risk of escalation, which may embolden China in the Pacific.

 

China Threatens to Cancel Australia

Not that they are not already bold. Having already described Australia as a piece of dog shit on China’s shoe, and having sent a war ship to stock up on baby formula and leave, China’s Ambassador has threatened us for even thinking about taking back the port of Darwin.

 


Sooo… back to Australia. For decades Defence has been a cesspool of corruption, failed projects, and poor decisions. Rivers of ink have been spilt on this. I won’t repeat it all here. However, it looks like someone picked up the phone from Washington and got told to get their proverbial in one place. Dutton is finally taking some steps in the direction of actually preparing for war, and war on our soil. We are now buying the kind of stuff real wars are fought with – tanks, armoured fighting vehicles, armoured recovery vehicles, and mobile armoured artillery. It is basic kit. Plus long range UAVs. We are finally scrapping our failed helicopter projects and buying off-the shelf units as we should have always done. We had already upgraded and hardened our transports and updated our infantry fighting kit. Interestingly, the mobile artillery units are too big to transport. This stuff is used for breaking up tank formations and obliterating forward enemy positions. They are not going to be used in some light weight Pacific ‘peace keeping’ operation.

Of course, there are still major gaps, particularly in air and sea power. Our decision to purchase the Joint Strike Fighter is a disaster. This is not a combat capable aircraft. See here, here, here and here. A couple of years ago Insight Policy wrote a series on what would happen in a real conflict with Indonesia. That series was reviewed favourably by defence expert Dr Karlo Copp. See here. Nevertheless, recent purchases are toddler steps in the right direction. We can only encourage…

 

The Chinese Communist Party Cancels Morrison

Sooo the Chinese Communist Party through a business intermediary bought the PMs WeChat list and cancelled them. Whoops.

 

The Police Surveillance State Fails to Cancel Crime – Cancels Freedom Instead

I recently spoke with a person who happened to fly over the NSA server building out in the Nevada desert. In a light aircraft. Speed and time calculations made the building 8 kilometres long. Every internet based communication in the world is monitored by the NSA. How then can it be, that with all the resources of the total surveillance state, the NSA, the FBI, all the secret services, they have not cracked a single paedophile ring? Particularly when, in the words of John McCains widow ‘we all knew about Epstein’.

The mantra is always that more powers are needed to solve crime yet there has never been an uptick in solving crime as a result of intrusive State power. In reality these powers are about political control. Nevertheless, the powers that be in Australia want even more power to snoop and steal. I will let Russell Brand do the talking.

 

Neil Young Tries to Cancel Joe Rogan – Gets Cancelled

Neil Young gave Spotify an ultimatum to cancel Joe Rogan or he will leave the platform. The cause of his ire seems to be Mr Rogan’s interview with scientist Dr Robert Malone regarding the dangers of the Wuflu vaccines and the phenomena of mass formation psychosis that seems to be key to imposing the current policy. Spotify stuck with Rogan and Young is off! Not to be deterred, Joni Mitchell echoed the same threat. Perhaps she won’t know what she’s got ‘till she’s gone…

 

The Medical Establishment Cancels Dr Malone, Ivermectin, and Medicine – Fails to Cancel COVID

Dr Robert Malone is co-inventor of the mRNA technology used in the COVID vaccines. He is likely the foremost expert in the field with a highly distinguished career, is broadly pro-vaccination, and rejects ‘conspiracy theories’. Basically, he is a scientist doing his job.

Since speaking out against population wide use of the mRNA vaccines, and warning of their dangers to children, he has faced a well orchestrated campaign against him that recently included getting kicked off twitter and Linkedin. 


Here he speaks compassionately but passionately about the process of mass formation that has moved people past any form of reasoning. In his words “evidence no longer matters”. That said, the same process can occur on either side of the debate. Mass formation is a historical and human phenomenon which notably occurred in Germany in the 1930s. No one is immune. This is an introduction

Dr Malone is however in good company. Get the best from 16,000 doctors and scientists on Global Summit. Oddly, as far as the mainstream media is concerned, they don’t exist.

Meanwhile Ivermectin continues to cancel COVID while the vaccines continue to cancel the vaccinated. In better news, Sweden is not pushing the jab onto kids because there is no reason too, and they are following the science. This at the same time that Australia is being psychologically abused into injecting children, currently ages 5-11, but soon from six months old. Need I mention that this is insane? Both policies cannot be right at the same time, so which is it? Sweden is meanwhile experimenting with microchipping everyone. I am sorry, the conspiracy theorists were right.

The great irony in this is that, having persuaded governments to ban their competition, Pfizer have now produced an oral prophylaxis pill that, when chemically analysed, is basically Ivermectin. Call it Pfizermectin if you will. Having spent two years mocking Ivermectin, the ABC is very gushy about it.

…and then there are the Amish. They just didn’t bother having a COVID pandemic. They got sick, got well, got immunity and moved on. They probably lost some elders but at least those elders died at home surrounded by loved ones, rather than alone. Their society and economy is now doing just fine.

 

ABC Watch

The ABC continues to takes its role in COVID propaganda seriously as it transitions seamlessly from ‘you will die without vaccination’ to ‘vaccination is safe effective and free’ to ‘vaccination will stop you getting COVID’ to ‘OK it won’t stop you getting COVID or spreading it but you will have fewer symptoms’. Now the argument is that if you do end up in ICU your chances are better if you are vaccinated. Even assuming those statistics are correct, the ABC never ever acknowledges vaccine injury or death as a real thing that people are experiencing, even when officially reported. By framing only one narrative and reporting only one set of data, the ABC is conveying a false reality.


Will a Giant Rubber Duck Save Sydney?

Seriously, things are so crazy in this country right now that to come up with anything similar you would have to float a giant rubber duck in Sydney harbour. No…wait!

 



Film/Book Review

‘The Battle for Melbourne’ documents the struggle of the freedom movement against the Andrews’ government’s draconian lockdown and general overreach. The film is made by one of the leaders in that movement and does not attempt dispassionate or objective journalism. What it does do is report what actually happened from the perspective of the people who were actually there. 

It is compelling and sometimes disturbing.

 

Quote of the Month

The harder the struggle the sweeter the victory – Thomas Paine

 

The Sealed Section (for God Botherers and the Curious)

To everything there is a time

Are you concerned with feelings and tired of old-fashioned truth? Do you want to be the centre of your own spiritual world? Do you feel that the ten commandments are due for an over-hall?

The Reverend Rowan Trendworthy (aka my mate Kev) is here to help from All Shallows Anglican Church!

On a more serious note, it seems I am not the only one calling for an urgent re-think of Romans 13 in light of current government over-reach and a propensity among many church leaders to reactively obey government without considering the proper relationship between secular authority, the mission of the church to ‘disciple all nations’, and their moral obligations to their congregations. This is an insightful and carefully considered discussion.

 


Jesus Cancels Sin – Doesn’t Cancel Sinners

The good news is that Jesus still cancels sin. Indeed, without the shedding of blood, there is no cancellation for sin, and all have sinned. So come, all ye unfaithful. You will not be cancelled.

It is pleasing to know that, prior to the pandemic, the church began a movement to sing God’s blessing over each and every country. In this compilation hear 154 nations sing God’s blessing in 257 languages; and be blessed.