From the gain of function research funded by Fauci and his mob, from the regulatory capture of everything from the World Health Organisation, the acronym WHO now familiar worldwide, to the deranged egotistical grandstanding of vaccine manufacturer in chief Bill Gates, who described his investment in vaccine manufacturing and the creation and damage and lies and falsehoods that came with it as one of the best investments he had ever made, netting him, who would know, perhaps an extra $100 billion on the back of so many damaged lives and destroyed reputations, from the capture of medical journals to academics to the Gates and Chinese funded Peter Doherty Institute in Australia, from the politicians bought and sold in order to parrot a terrible mantra, all of it was true. And the breadth of it, the scale of the scam, just took his breath away.
Leaving 66% of the world's population, by one estimate, injected with an experimental gene therapy for which the entire process was now under intense scrutiny, and alarm. Everyone knew now the fraud at the heart of the so-called "science". Everyone knew how it had happened. Everyone knew that our own health maestros and political opportunists had herded the Australian population into a treatment for which the long term consequences were unknown, and the short term consequences were proving dire for a significant cohort.
That made it dangerous. There had never been a more politicised and therefore more disastrously managed disease. The old mantra still stood true.
The political leaders were out on the hustings now.
A daily scandal or another shot of point scoring spread across the media pages. Almost no one, from his general experience, was even remotely engaged.
The entire battle was being fought on foreign ground; on a ruined battlefield, on an entirely separate plane to that on which most people lived.
He could feel them settling into the lattice of things, a bird fluffing itself deep within the bushes in the dark of night, safe in its alcove, while around other eyes watched, some friendly, bored or exasperated, some simply annoyed and hostile.
It was the Easter weekend. The world was quiet, or on holidays. A religious festival so very old. He did not relate. Worship not. As Marcus Aurelius put it, in truth we should not pray at all. Spend time with nature and the gods.
Beware your books. Abandon them.
Well he was not going to abandon a code which had stood for so many centuries; but yes, there was something else entirely gong on, a different form of capture, a different manufacture, a movement in the species; so when they had warned of the end of the world, it was, in fact, the end of an historical epoch.
We come at the end of Empire.
And there it was. They really did move upon the water. They really did clone themselves inside humans. They really did see the process as beyond any human, or individual, as something to be discussed and sought in historical terms.
And so it was, and so it will come to pass.
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ABC
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is sticking by his controversial pick for the seat of Warringah after the NSW Treasurer said "she's got to go" over her comments about transgender people.
Key points:
Deves had likened her lobbying to keep transgender athletes out of women's sport to standing up against Nazis
NSW Treasurer says there's 'no place for that vile bigotry in a mainstream political party'
The current Warringah member called for her opponent's disendorsement earlier this week
New South Wales Treasurer Matt Kean has called on Liberal candidate for Warringah Katherine Deves to be disendorsed over a series of comments she made online.
Ms Deves has apologised on multiple occasions this week, including after revelations she likened her lobbying to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's sport to standing up against the Holocaust.
Ms Deves is the hand-picked Liberal in the seat once held by former prime minister Tony Abbott. She was pre-selected at the last minute after bitter factional infighting within the party.
Mr Kean, who is a leader of the moderate faction in New South Wales, told the ABC there should be no room for her views inside the Liberal Party.
"She's got to go," Mr Kean said.
"There is no place for that vile bigotry in a mainstream political party or quite frankly anywhere.
"I am sick of people turning a blind eye to it."
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Billionaire Clive Palmer was rushed to hospital after falling off the stage during a rehearsal of his United Australia Party campaign launch on the Sunshine Coast on Good Friday.
Palmer has a nasty gash on his head after slipping and landing awkwardly from a stage set-up at his Coolum resort.
First aid was administered on site and he was transported to hospital where he was later discharged.
About 1000 people will attend the UAP launch and Palmer said they knocked back about another 10000 who wanted to attend.
"I think people are looking for an alternative. Australians are losing their homes. They are really worried about interest rates going up ... and UAP has a solution for that," he said.
"We're tackling the issue about repaying our national debt by having Chinese and Japanese pay for it when they buy our iron ore ... and we want to bring our budget balance back to zero."
Enacting a Bill of Rights outlawing lockdowns protecting the right of all Australians to choose medical treatment and preserving freedom of speech would be the UAP's first tasks if elected to government.
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Julia Banks: When voting for ‘the devil you know’ isn’t good enough
In all my corporate experience of crisis management I know that nothing will reveal good or bad job performance in a leader as much as a crisis.
And it’s revealed first to those who work closely with them. Someone who will see at close range the real person, whether they can be trusted.
Someone who will show up, act quickly, accept that perfection is the enemy of the good. Be accountable and not duck and weave, spin or blame shift.
During the Black Summer bushfires just over two years ago, our country burned. Vast expanses of our cities and regions were engulfed in smoke.
We despaired at the reports and images, while photos emerged of Morrison in full holiday mode in Hawaii, giving a thumbs up, standing next to his friend with beer in hand. When he grudgingly returned, he said “I don’t hold a hose”.
“Lives are at stake today and he [Morrison] is just obsessed with political point scoring.”
“Morrison is a horrible, horrible person. He is actively spreading lies and briefing against me re fires” [and he is] “more concerned with politics not people”.
There’s the backgrounding, the lies, the ducking and weaving, the announcements and platitudes which go nowhere. And zero accountability.
When he’s challenged, his brazen response will often be along the lines of, ‘it’s not my narrative’, or ‘that’s the narrative others put on you. It’s not a narrative that I share’.
But the ‘others’ Morrison is referring to are more often than not from within his own party, not his natural opponents in the Labor Party.