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July 22, 2022 The People's Project Season 6 Episode 10: Choose Your Own Adventure
In this week's episode of The People's Project:

BE VERY AFRAID
Australia just isn't getting the message, so we do our best to roll out more fear and shining examples of appropriate fear responses.
THE THOUGHT POLICE
We explain how the UK Police now fight 'non-crime', and how it could eventually affect Australians during job applications.
MOULDY RENTALS
This is the story of a Gold Coast family who were forced out of their rental due to mould 5,000x higher than the maximum safe level, and are still paying rent. Insurers and tribunals don't seem to care.
COORY FIRES UP
Damian Coory returns with a regular segment! This week he takes aim at the careless 'culture warriors' who are pushing the mainstream toward confrontation as we see 'centre right' figures push back in the USA.
PAY ATTENTION TO THE FRENCH
Is the French parliament a shadow of Australia's future? Given our collapsing primary vote for either Liberal or Labor and our embrace of minor parties and independents, we could end up with a similar style of politics. Matt explains Macron's first failed parliamentary vote, and how any expression of authoritarianism in France or Australia can only be built up over decades, not any one crisis.
NEWS WITHOUT NOTICE
Legacy media and unengaged Australians realise what we've known all along - Daniel Andrews has created a corrupt state in Victoria, as revealed by the joint report handed down by IBAC and the Ombudsman.
Matt recounts his run in with bin chickens and a giant snail.

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2019 Interview with Harry Miller on Thought Police https://youtu.be/iCxQI9U_xHE
Andrew Doyle on GBN https://youtu.be/YfVi4dfiK5Y
Mouldy Rentals Victim https://www.instagram.com/chrissiejbutler
1 hr 17 min
July 19, 2022Jeffrey A. Tucker - The Birth of The Great Barrington Declaration
Jeffrey A. Tucker is a prolific author who has written many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He founded the Brownstone Institute which is the self-described 'spiritual child of the Great Barrington Declaration' where you can find a cacophony of rational voices spanning the entire political and academic spectrum. His books are widely published in multiple languages on topics of economics, technology, cryptocurrency, social philosophy, capitalism, Covid-19, government bureaucracy, and culture.

Jeffrey was responsible for the founding of the Great Barrington Declaration and, in my estimation, sits at a nexus of the world's greatest minds who have the courage to speak truth in the face of overwhelming opposition.

Today he speaks with Discernable about how his worldview has radically changed over the last two years as we all come to realise the extraordinary lengths of time that a crowd madness can last, and the ease with which governments can manipulate their citizens for political gains.

We covered:
How the response to Covid-19 blew up our worldviews

The marionettes called 'politicians' and how real power is in the bureaucracy

Who journalists and the media go after and who they ignore

Gangs of people with the monopoly on violence

Australian 'fake science' that the world laughs at

Safety and gun culture in the USA

Australians have a weird and dangerous trust of their government

Why propaganda works

How the religious stood firm

Scott Morrison's demonisation of non-compliance

Government propaganda that invades pop culture

The Libertarian 'apostates' who sold out to government

Revisionist history

The evolution of viruses and battle between severity and prevalence

Australian and New Zealand delaying the inevitable

The birth of the Great Barrington Declaration

Regrets of the great covid panic era

The only early voice against lockdowns

3 ways humanity destroyed data on the severity of Covid-19

The perfect setup to manufacture a panic

Imagining a super virus that would actually justify tyranny

Hollywood imaginations of pandemics

Trading freedom for safety

The most dangerous threat to humans in history: naive immune systems

Australian and New Zealand leaders are negligent

The laptop class and the return of castes

Isolation and self preservation is the height of immorality

The revolution before us and the spectre of a right-wing dictatorship

Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/jeffrey-a-tucker-the-birth-of-the-great-barrington-declaration

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JEFFREY A. TUCKER
https://brownstone.org
https://twitter.com/jeffreyatucker
https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-Tucker/e/B00MB6KY3E
1 hr 24 min
July 15, 2022The People's Project Season 6 Episode 9: Straight Talking with the Liberal Party & The Victorians Party
In this week's episode of The People's Project:

STRANGLING THE SELF-EMPLOYED
Is there really a war against small business and the self-employed in Australia?
VICTORIA IN CRISIS
Once again the ambulance and health system are in crisis. But this week we explore the crisis in Victoria Police that is leaving 24/7 'open' stations CLOSED 24/7!
THE RISE OF THE INDEPENDENTS
Do the Liberals really 'stand for nothing'? Can this explain the rise of independents and minor parties across the nation?
UNMASKING MISINFORMATION
From the UK to Australia, Commonwealth countries are increasingly fighting against misinformation by destroying free speech.
NEWS WITHOUT NOTICE
The Victorian Labor Government suddenly decides to reject 'the health advice'.

53,000 person international survey reveals that 'Anti-lockdown' is now the majority view and held by billions of people.

Tennis champion Novak Djokovic wins Wimbledon (without being vaccinated) leaving Australia with egg on its face as a 'backwater country'.

Elon is forcing Twitter to reveal its real bot numbers.

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RYAN SMITH MP
https://www.ryansmith.com.au

INGRID MAYNARD
https://www.vicparty.com/our-team
https://thesalesdr.com.au

VICTORIA POLICE EMERGENCY CLOSURE
https://caainc.org.au/a-victoria-police-emergency

RESULTS OF THE 2022 DPI SURVEY
https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/vast-majority-in-world-say-they-lost
1 hr 32 min
July 14, 2022Prof Paul Frijters: The Madness of Crowds
Paul Frijters is a Professor of Wellbeing Economics at the London School of Economics: from 2016 through November 2019 at the Center for Economic Performance, thereafter at the Department of Social Policy. He writes extensively on the realities of lockdowns and the 'why' behind the madness of crowds.
In this interview we explored:
The loud voices for and against lockdowns, and where those voices go after a madness dissipates

The reaction of the crowd during a madness

How a group madness collapses and what the crowd thinks in hindsight

Forces that accelerate the collapse of a crowd madness

Institutions that defend against or slow madness

Opportunistic concentrations of power in the WHO, WEF etc

What nationalism really is
Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/prof-paul-frijters-the-madness-of-crowds
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PAUL FRIJTERS
https://brownstone.org/author/paul-frijters
https://www.amazon.com.au/Great-Covid-Panic-What-Happened/dp/1630692778
https://twitter.com/FrijtersPaul
1 hr 6 min
July 12, 2022 Peter Fam: Understanding Human Rights in Australia
What are human rights? Do our laws create our human rights or do they simply recognise rights that pre-exist government?
Human rights lawyer Peter Fam joins us to explore the state of human rights in Australia and how the period 2020-2022 confirms the fears of many pracitioners: that human rights are not well understood by Australians.
Peter's law firm Maats Method is making a submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission stressing the duties and functions of the AHRC to investigate potential human rights abuses by governments around the country. You can read the full submission at: https://www.maatsmethod.com.au/post/australian-human-rights-commission-failed-to-perform-their-statutory-function-during-covid-19
In this discussion we explored the history and basis for human rights law in Australia, the realities of human rights advocacy in the legal profession, and the general misunderstanding of human rights principles.
Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/peter-fam-understanding-human-rights-in-australia/
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PETER FAM
www.maatsmethod.com.au
https://t.me/thepeterfamtelegram
https://www.instagram.com/maatsmethod
https://www.facebook.com/maatsmethod
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-fam-9b724315a
1 hr 17 min
July 11, 2022 Emeritus Professor Thomas S. Harrington - The Worldwide Milgram Experiment
Thomas Harrington, Senior Scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is an essayist and Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford (USA) where he taught for 24 years. He joins Discernable to discuss what appears to be a worldwide repeat of the infamous Milgram experiment where ordinary people are pushed to commit extraordinary atrocities by authority figures.

As an expert in the formation of identity, culture and language he often sheds light on the rhetorical 'framing' techniques used to influence broad populations. An example of is the rise of modern 'Nudge Units' within governments known by various names such as 'Behavioural Insights Unit' et al. The Professor believes that once a suitably convincing 'frame' is established, a subject can be made to accept any proposition contained within that frame even if that proposition is antithetical to the frame itself.

This demonstrates the immense power and danger of 'framing' techniques employed by politicians and corporations throughout the globe to achieve their desired end. Thomas shows how this was successfully deployed to recruit a pliant population of 'police citizens' or 'karens' who zealously enforce the policies and propaganda of governments beyond what is legally stipulated and into the realm of cultural norms.

In this discussion we also looked at identity making vs decision making, the religious impulse of humans and what can replace it in a secular age, the reliability of rationalism and science and parallel societal structures.

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PROFESSOR THOMAS HARRINGTON
https://www.thomassharrington.com
https://trincoll.academia.edu/tharrington
https://brownstone.org/author/thomas-harrington
1 hr 12 min
July 08, 2022 Alex Washburne: 'Fauci Trees' That Kill the Saplings of Science
Alex Washburne has undergraduate degrees in biology and applied mathematics from University of New Mexico and a PhD from a Princeton University studying competition in ecological, epidemiological, and economic systems. He’s actively researched COVID epidemiology, the economic impacts of pandemic policy, and stock + capital market responses to epidemiological news.

In this interview we explored:
Covid-19 policy monism in a world of plurality
How decentralisation and competition can create better solutions
The strangling of new ideas by powerful incumbents
The desire to kill anything that is 'not the same' as you
The intolerance of some scientific fields
Predictions of endemicity and profitable stocks

Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/alex-washburne-fauci-trees-that-kill-the-saplings-of-science/

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ALEX WASHBURNE
https://twitter.com/WashburneAlex
https://www.alexwashburne.com
https://www.selvaanalytics.com
https://brownstone.org/author/alex-washburne
1 hr 7 min
July 08, 2022 The People's Project Season 6 Episode 8: Selective Human Rights and Why Sport is Better Than War
In this week's episode of The People's Project:

RAIN RAIN GO AWAY
With more floods in NSW the panel wonders why we keep protesting against natural disaster mitigation measures in favour of climate change action

SAVERS ARE LOSERS
Interest rates are up for mortgage holders but not for self-funded retirees or those with savings

EMERGENCY FOREVER
Media and government are testing the waters for masks mandates to return. But will Australians cop it again? And why are so many triple boosted healthcare workers refusing a fourth dose?

SELECTIVE HUMAN RIGHTS
Who interfered with Victoria Police's decision to drop charges against BLM protest organisers? Do they speak for themselves or for the government? Whether Assange or Aussie freedom protestors, we seem to apply human rights selectively.

SPORT IS BETTER THAN WAR
The psychological need in humans for war, conflict and comradery...is sport a viable alternative?

NEWS WITHOUT NOTICE
Massive protest in the Netherlands by farmers in their tractors after their government turns the screws on them with climate change
Boris Johnson resigns and his cabinet sets the example for removing bad leadership
Stan Grant writes a fantastic article on Christianity's decline in Australia and what will replace it

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TOM MCDONALD
https://twitter.com/tommcdonald92
https://www.instagram.com/tommcdonald25

KRYSTLE MITCHELL
https://twitter.com/Krystle_LibDems

Free Utilities Concierge Service: https://www.sfeloans.com.au/services/utilities-hub

Article: Sport and the Decline of War
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/out-the-darkness/201403/sport-and-the-decline-war

Article: Stan Grant writing on Christianity in Australian Census Result
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-03/census-religion-christianity-no-religion-god/101201640
1 hr 23 min
July 07, 2022 Sam Russell: The Realities of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and NFTs
Sam Russell is the founder of Klef and has spent years working with blockchain technologies. Having seen the rise (and fall) of so many blockchains he joins Discernable to explain how to make sense of cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/sam-russell-the-realities-of-blockchain-cryptocurrencies-and-nfts
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SAM RUSSELL
https://www.klef.app
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samueljamesrussell
https://www.uxnetwork.io
1 hr 33 min
July 02, 2022 The People's Project Season 6 Episode 7: Uncomfortable Speech, Weak Liberals, Roe v Wade...
In this week's episode of The People's Project:
UNCOMFORTABLE SPEECH
PRGuy17 and Aussie Cossack - do they both deserve our protection? Praise? Condemnation?
ARE LIBERAL'S WEAK?
Why is it that the left wing of politics in Australia continually win the policy war? Do Liberals need to show the same arrogance as the ALP and just refuse to quit even in the face of scandal?
THE LEGALITY OF ROE v WADE
We cover the simple legal reality of federalism both in the USA and in Australia, and why the ROE v WADE decision may be good no matter your view on abortion
POLITICIANS MOVE WHEN YOU MOVE
The true power of a tyrant is in the people. We the people actually have incredible power over our politicians, but we are collectively condoning their conduct.
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VOICE FOR VICTORIA
https://www.instagram.com/voiceforvictoria
https://www.facebook.com/Voice-For-Victoria-108629514667151
https://www.patreon.com/voiceforvictoria
1 hr 3 min