Stealth
There was a white sheet across the sky, symbolising treachery.
The Australian government was busy pursuing the globalist agenda of shutting down everything in the name of climate change; of vaccines; of uber surveillance, of population wide compliance.
He did not like being bullied, harassed, lied to, he did not like Watchers on the Watch threatening to intimidate him. The trust had been destroyed. These things, the time eddies which could not be ignored; far below an ice flow, a scree river, a sharp shadow, a wall of incompetence, these things were barely a blink in time and yet annoyed him; for all was not lost, little mattered, an imperial swish, a tilted head, eyes which had not been alive for some 2000 years, perhaps more, time was a difficult thing even on a good day, these flows, these manipulations, these agencies beyond the comprehension of standard humans cognitive capacity, or even the capacity of the evolving neural nets, as smart as they were.
These things barely registered in a greater sequence.
The white sky, blinking out, that sky full of treachery and deceit, would vanish into a "rosy fingered dawn", as Homer put it, and here on this freezing stretch of coast, well, freezing for him who much preferred the warmer climes and the warmer months, oh deceit, where art thou? Or more exactly, why art thou?
The rise of Fascism Australia style was clear for all to see now; the subterfuge, the deceit. The Australian government was stuck with the residue of 225 million does of vaccine; that is, nine doses for every man, woman and child, at the same time as the government had been running the "SAFE AND EFFECTIVE" line to the general public. Nine doses? How did that even make sense?
Where was the outrage. In alternate media, for sure, David Oneeg once again going feral in his own delightful, blunt way, garnering a substantial following as he went, with a lively commentary section the envy of any legacy pundit.
Ah, the legacy media, what a tragedy it had become.
A ceaseless stream of derogatory messages.
Fantasist. Personal Hygiene. Abusive, dishonest elements within the agencies. Thick as bricks, without intellectual finesse. Morons, not to put it too precisely.
So, in the end, we were all afflicted with idiots.
And with jingles: Stand tall, stand straight and look the world right in the eye.
The Rise of Australian Fascism.
Yes, it was.
They watched everything, they and their piffling, frightening technologies; those, who, drunk on power and the sense of their own importance, the generals stirring and consulting deep within their bunkers, the pontificating, the handwringing, the lying; all of it behind a screen, all in a middle distance, all designed to disorientate and disrupt; well, then, where the truth?
The truth lay well beyond this realm.
And he wasn't about to explain it; not for these assholes.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
TAXPAYER FUNDED MICHELLE GRATTAN IN THE CONVERSATION SINGING THE MESSAGE
Anthony Albanese received his fourth COVID jab this week. A commendable example to the community, now that eligibility for the “winter shot” has been widened.
Well, commendable up to a point. Noticeably, neither Albanese nor the health worker wielding the needle was wearing a mask, and the prime minister quickly came in for some flak.
Masks are currently a front-line topic in the debate about how we deal with the new COVID wave that is seeing an average of 45 deaths a day, taking deaths this year alone north of 8,000.
Earlier this week Victoria’s acting chief health officer recommended mandating masks in a number of settings, only to be rebuffed by the state health minister, Mary-Anne Thomas. She said it “was not the most effective way to get the message out about the importance of mask wearing”.
Masks have been a political and ideological football throughout the pandemic.
We have reached a hinge point in the pandemic, and the weeks ahead present a huge challenge for political leaders. The community has moved on from COVID. But COVID has not moved on from the community. It has dug in.
A mind reset is needed. But that’s hampered by many in the public and in the political class being unwilling to accept that we haven’t “pushed through” to “live with COVID” in a safe sort of way. To the extent we are “living with COVID” we are accepting a crisis in the hospital system and a level of deaths that, if it had occurred in 2021, would have generated a massive reaction.
The earlier wisdom was that when the population was highly vaccinated, the situation would be under control. But it hasn’t worked out like that.
SKY
Liberal leader Peter Dutton is calling for a more civilised level of debate, arguing social media is a large contributor to the current standard.
Speaking to Sky News Australia from Washington DC, Mr Dutton spoke of his need to have a full-time security detail because of the online abuse he has received.
“I think that applies to members of the Parliament, members of the public, to members of the media,” he told host Kieran Gilbert.
“I think it particularly applies to social media companies that facilitate some of the things that are said online.
“I have a full-time security detail because of many of the absurd, dangerous, and reckless things that people say online that they would never say to your face.
“There are a lot of people out there in the modern age who live through social media and believe what they read online - and it’s a less safe place.”
Mr Dutton said although he vehemently disagrees on a number of issues with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the pair still have a good friendship which dates back two decades.
“We can disagree in a respectful way, which we do, but we should be able to express our views again without the absurdity of some of what you see on social media,” he continued.
“It’s reprehensible and it’s something that as a society we should push back on.”
THE SPECTATOR
Europe (and parts of Asia) are in the middle of an energy, food, social, and economic crisis exacerbated by ‘green’ initiatives that have seen governments toppled and the near-total collapse of society.
These countries have gone from wealthy, stable, and democratic to hotbeds of civil unrest, poverty, and supply chaos in a matter of months. The myth of permanent stability embraced by political leaders and the majority of citizens has been well and truly debunked.
Our economies are fragile, and green policy is breaking them.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has either spent too much time ‘offline’ 45,000 feet in the air, or he’s fallen into a bit of political S&M – stumbling about in a blindfold while renewables barons, clickbait press, and activists whack him in the direction of UN climate goals.
Labor’s Climate Change Bill and supporting policy is the formalisation of energy recklessness and the victory of radical ideology over reality.
It lays out a regime of emissions reductions and system of punishment for those who refuse – including politicians. Said Albanese of those who intended to oppose him, ‘[Those who do not support climate targets will] be held accountable for it’.
The implementation of this Bill is set to financially benefit a range of large ‘green’ corporations and destroy industries primarily comprised of family businesses and ordinary individuals. Normally we would call this type of behaviour ‘interfering in the market’. Given the obvious consequences, it brushes awfully close to a thinly-veiled class war implemented under the excuse of ‘saving the planet’ despite experts admitting that Australia’s complete shutdown would make ‘almost no difference’ to the climate.
The Greens and some independents aren’t happy. They are pushing to make Labor’s plan more extreme.
The Liberals must share blame for lending credibility to the ‘Climate Change’ rhetoric. It is unlikley the Teal movement would exist if the previously blue-ribbon voters in rich, waterfront seats, had not been assured by Liberal MPs that the world was ending. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has a narrow window to side-step this toxic ideology and stand with Menzies’ ‘forgotten people’. He can use the rising tide of anti-globalism to float him into power – or sit and tarnish himself in the swamp.
Chris Bowen, Minister for Climate Change and Energy (two portfolios that should never be mixed), called the Bill, ‘simple yet powerful’ in its promise to cement Labor’s Net Zero target of a 43 per cent reduction by 2030.
‘This is extremely important. It is what every sensible government is now saying around the world. Yes, we have some short-term challenges – but renewable energy is more secure, there is no geostrategic crisis that can impact the supply of sun to our land and wind to our shores.’
Bowen might want to look again, on two counts.
First, ‘sensible’ governments are being swarmed by furious citizens as their food production and energy costs reach unlivable levels.
Second, Bowen has forgotten that Australia requires solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries to capture that ‘free’ energy. Where are those made? Let us think. It wouldn’t be a communist aggressor famous for human rights abuses and violations of international trade conditions that has spent the last few years punishing Australia for questioning Covid…?11
The costing of the changing energy policy was not debated because it was not an election issue. Nor was the potential harm to standards of living for almost all Australians.
The Labor government does not wave a magic wand and gift us a different energy infrastructure. There is a costly and onerous transition period that will have significant economic ramifications.
THE GUARDIAN
South-east Australia is set to shiver through a winter cold-snap this week, with some areas experiencing sub-zero temperatures and others up to 8C below average .
Bureau of Meteorologist senior meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said the bitter air mass moving across the region would bring daytime temperatures “several degrees” below average across large parts of Australia until the end of the week.
“We are expecting a return of very cold mornings with minimum temperatures expected to drop to four to eight degrees below average from Tuesday onwards across large parts of Victoria, Tasmania … parts of New South Wales and eastern South Australia,” she said.
“Widespread frost is expected with possibly severe frost across some inland parts where temperatures are likely to drop below -2 degrees.
“These very cold nights may even to extend to Central Australia by Wednesday and Thursday morning as well.”
THE NEW DAILY
Previously, Australian prime ministers have mounted careful campaigns to become the Secretary-General of the United Nations after leaving office.
Scott Morrison wasted no time in giving it a kicking.
The concluding notes of a sermon the former prime minister delivered at a controversial church on Sunday have revived questions about whether he had flirted with far right tropes and conspiracies, which, since the pandemic, have centred on the claimed threat from international institutions.
Mr Morrison closed his address with the observation that nothing was more important than God, a train of thought that seemed to suddenly veer off course to set up a punchline.
“We trust in Him. We don’t trust in governments,” he said.
Attention was stirred after Mr Morrison made a show of seeming to break down in laughter and struggle to conclude the next line.
“We don’t trust in the United Nations (thank goodness),” Mr Morrison said.
The well-heeled Perth congregation split their sides.
A political foundation
Mr Morrison’s rise to the Prime Minister’s office began with Christianity and a factional alliance in the Liberal Party that leaned on outer suburban Sydney Pentecostalism for values – and voters.
In office questions were often asked about whether Mr Morrison was subtly playing on the far right motifs and conspiracies that had become especially popular among American Pentecostals and key to Donald Trump’s campaign.
In his first major foreign policy speech in the top job Mr Morrison took aim at “globalism” – a term President Trump made central to his world view, and most often used to describe a sinister international movement undermining America.
The then-new Australian PM pitched his narrative in far more reasonable terms but the similarity struck many as uncanny.
Mr Morrison would later be awarded the Legion of Merit by President Trump and face criticism for refusing to criticise his actions during his final days in power.
It later emerged Mr Morrison was friends with perhaps the most prominent Australian follower of the QAnon conspiracy, Tim Stewart.