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‘OPEN YOUR CHURCH’ is the bold cry from Christian pastor, Jesse Newman from Eternity Church in Iowa, USA. Jesse is an Aussie who grew up in Queensland, NSW and Victoria and is dismayed at the lack of courage displayed by Australian churches.

In this interview he delivers something Australians don’t often get – outside perspective – and we currently are looking very weak indeed.

We covered the police and governmental response to Covid-19 and the binds it places on churches because of the way their faith clashes with vaccine mandates, extended lockdowns and any form of segregation.

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/qmp9zPc8mi0

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2:16 Why Jesse opened his church against government restrictions

6:33 The community reaction to the opening

8:43 Valuing freedom

10:26 Speaking against “THE science”

14:12 The Church in Australia and its response to the pandemic

16:49 The Western Church vs the Persecuted Chinese Church

19:58 Preach what is true, not what people want

22:42 Cops at the front door of Eternity Church

24:13 American cops will stand against bad laws

27:00 Victoria Police lies, again

32:13 Australian protests compared to US protests

35:43 Australian churches should be peacefully, civilly disobedient

37:03 Jesse’s experience of Covid-19

39:31 Australia churches need to OPEN

41:02 The theology against exclusion and segregation in church

49:10 Discriminating by vaccination status in the US would segregate white and black

53:00 When churches remove politics and stand on Biblical truth

57:36 Why online church is not church

1:05:49 The irrational logic of the Australian Government

1:09:10 Vaccine mandates forcing people out of jobs

1:14:12 Be a person of conviction

1:16:15 What does the USA think of Australia?

1:18:24 The solution to all the fear

This is a comprehensive overview of the Melbourne protests on Saturday 18th Sept 2021, Victoria Police inciting violence and punishing a 70 year old woman, the violent CFMEU protests on 20 Sept 2021, and the state of Victoria as Australians tear apart the fabric of their society.

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Self Employed Australia's Campaign for a Worksafe investigation into Dan Andrews:

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The Hon. John Anderson AO, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia now hosts an incredible podcast where he hosts guests such as Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, Dan Crenshaw, Prof Stephen Hicks, Helen Pluckrose, and so many more.

We talked about many things but unfortunately ran out of time before I could get to the second part of my questions which we will hopefully cover in another interview: how he chooses guests, what makes a good interview, the monetisation of podcasting…

Since recording Australia has announced the acquisition of United States designed nuclear submarines. National security was a pressing concern of John’s in this interview and I suspect he would be pleased after the submarine announcement.

Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/MW9H96fo-4o

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Hon. JOHN ANDERSON AO

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1:00 John’s 2021 failed run for the Australian Senate

3:01 The importance of conversations – John’s Podcast

5:24 Australia needs to be an ‘outward looking nation’

8:25 Is there a diminishing appetite for deeper conversations?

11:31 The celebrity effect in John’s podcast

15:47 Young people love quality content

18:22 How does Australian culture compare?

21:43 Australia’s ‘lucky’ ride

25:22 Can Australia rely on luck?

29:44 The outworking of ideas

36:00 Preserving the wisdom of previous generations

38:07 Socialist policies hurt young people in the long run

40:20 Australia has become soft in its decision making

43:48 Australia’s response to Covid-19

48:06 The ethics of vaccine passports and the need to allow conscientious objection

55:33 Governments to give up emergency powers gained through Covid

59:18 Resisting the corruption of power

1:04:06 John’s ethos to approaching being an interviewer

1:06:11 The cycles of history

1:09:53 Trading feeling for thinking

In Episode 9 (Season 5 Finale) of The People's Project:

1. Bogut goes on a rant and starts a fire for the working class

2. The elite cement their privileged place in society

3. Influencers get paid to support government lockdowns

4. Reversing the onus of lockdowns - isolate the sick, free everyone else

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/bCg2vNti3ec

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Andrew Bogut

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Richard Riordan MP

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Matthew Guy MP has been elected as the leader of the Liberal Party in Victoria, replacing an often criticised Michael O'Brien.

That means it will be Matthew Guy vs Dan Andrews in a David and Goliath battle in November 2022 for who rules Victoria.

I'm keen to see the electorate (and Matthew Guy) wake to the fact that we no longer want to be 'ruled', and we simply want a supportive government who puts us first by allowing us to go about our lives.

Interesting part of this exclusive conversation with Richard Riordan MP on the leadership spill, is that voting for all of the minor parties we love ahead of Liberals is fine in his view - as long as we put Labor last.

This makes sense - with our preferential voting system the only real win the Liberals need is for people to put them above the ALP - even if that's putting Liberals second last, and Labor last. Personally, I will enjoy giving minor parties a whole lot more power in the next Victoria election to break the duopoly.

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/NYwl2nVD1LU

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How do you determine right from wrong? It's a question of normative ethics. This is a critical conversation that nobody is having and yet it is critical as we approach a world full of vaccine passports, government mandates, segregation and a 'new normal'.

Background:

After an Instagram scandal over whether the word 'Retard' can EVER be used, it raised an interesting point. Why are people arguing so fervently over the right thing to do? 

Is it possible that we have different ways of measuring morality?

In this special on ethics, we look at the two main perspectives of answering this question: deontological ethics vs teleological ethics.

It gives rise to utilitarianism which explains exactly why and how authoritarian governments around the world are crushing populations in the quest to save them.

It also led to considerations around language, offence, Hollywood, The Trolley Problem, and autonomous driving.

Watch this special if you want a framework on which to hang all of those arguments you keep hearing about and how to find a way through the fray.

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Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/sAnflZz6Vqs

Previously, we asked the question 'What Is Legal?' in our exploration of Natural Law vs Positive Law: https://youtu.be/GT6lQLeHGCY

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In episode 8 of The People's Project:

1. Political Policing - is VicPol really just an arm of the Labor Party?

2. #LetUsPlay WINS - but what it really did was teach civil disobedience to millions of parents

3. Victoria's CHO Brett Sutton is unravelling - and it's not just his handling of Covid-19

4. The Media Turns on Dan Andrews - the pressure mounts on a failed Premier

5. Australia is lost. Paul Dimattina's cry to restore what she was.

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/6my7bg43vNQ

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Paul Dimattina

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Emily from Voice for Victoria

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Dr Cameron Murray is an expert in environmental economics, corruption and property markets. As a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Henry Halloran Trust at the University of Sydney, Cameron’s PHD on the economics of corruption reveals how endemic and emergent it is to the human condition, which explains so much of the Covid-19 response we are seeing around the world today.

Most startling about this interview was his game theory experiments testing and demonstrating corrupt behaviour emerging through social pressure and group/tribe dynamics. In conversation we analysed social conformity to lockdowns through the lens of his research findings.

I particularly enjoyed exploring the manipulation of groups and how politicians and other leaders take advantage of populations.

His book ‘Game of Mates: How Favours Bleed the Nation’ will ‘open your eyes to how Australia really works’.

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/snIj6AZ7gP0

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DR CAMERON MURRAY

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www.fresheconomicthinking.com

https://gameofmates.com/

His appearance on QandA: https://www.abc.net.au/qanda/2021-10-06/13376618

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1:15 What economics really is

5:38 Economics is about human welfare and money is only an indicator

8:40 Politicians are shopping around for advice that matches their agenda

9:20 The Health and Wellbeing Cake

13:55 Overcoming the ‘Let It Rip’ stigma

16:23 Myth Making – facts don’t matter in politics

19:12 Why people follow the mass groupthink we are seeing

23:15 How people justify corruption

30:40 Social pressure doesn’t alter corrupt behaviour

33:00 Breaking down tribal groups of loyalty

34:08 Democracy isn’t what we think it is

36:56 Our anti-corruption strategies are only reinforcing corruption

38:05 How conspiracy theories emerge

39:55 the 4 ingredients of corruption

47:04 How institutions have lasted so long

49:05 The social signalling of mask wearing

52:24 The 4 ingredients of corruption summary

55:26 What is the real-world antidote to corruption?

58:26 What happens to group dynamics when they reach snapping point

59:36 Politicians do what is best for their group

1:05:16 The best way to counter groupthink is to create a counter group

1:08:00 How to create a successful movement

1:08:55 Competition between groups

1:11:18 Real-world examples of groupthink mastery

1:14:55 gameofmates.com – Dr Cameron Murray’s book

1:16:02 House prices booming through Lockdown

1:23:43 Real house prices or hidden inflation?

1:26:50 House prices for future generations

While everyone is arguing the surface issues (support for lockdowns, vaccine passports, illegal playgrounds, protests) we are ignoring the underlying warring perspectives.

When people claim 'I have human rights that no law can abridge' they are appealing to a Natural Justice perspective, which has informed much of our historical development in the West - certainly in the field of human rights.

Modern human rights stances can be traced to Thomas Aquinas, and his ideas underpin everything from Occupy Wall St protests to Black Lives Matter protests and now to the anti Lockdown protests and anti vaccine passport protests. Even though politically disparate, they all rely on a Natural Justice narrative.

When people claim 'I'm just following orders/doing my job' they are appealing to a Positive Justice perspective, which arose with Thomas Hobbes and his ideas of 'Social Contract Theory'. Jeremy Bentham furthered Hobbes' work on Positive Justice (and hatred of Natural Justice) in setting our culture of government surveillance, fines, community policing one other, and Chief Health Officer directives.

This momentum of replacing Natural Justice with Positive Justice is seen in our legal systems where legislation increasingly usurps common law and politicians, media and voters all clamour to 'create a new law' to fix the latest problem.

It is also mirrored in economics where the well accepted ideas of Adam Smith (supply vs demand etc) are replaced with Modern Monetary Theory and various other ideas with inductive reasoning.

It is further mirrored in the decentralisation of truth ('your' truth), gender and race identification by intent only, moral relativism and other movements which seek to 'create' rather than 'discover'.

Not that Positive Justice is wrong, or doesn't deserve a place at the table, but we must be aware of the underlying friction to understand why people are so partisan on human rights, lockdowns, mandatory vaccinations etc.

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Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/GT6lQLeHGCY

NB: for the purposes of this brief and narrow explainer video, histories and details have been compressed and narrowed and I fully acknowledge the unexplored depths of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Aquinas, Hobbes, Bentham, Locke and Smith.

For your own research, search the phrase 'Natural Law vs Positive Law'.

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Matt Fox is a former pro athlete, personal trainer and 'Fitness Influencer of the Year 2020'. He publicly threw away a council 'play ground closed' sign to much applause but unfortunately QLD Police turned up on his doorstep the following morning and have now charged him with 'stealing' which carries a maximum sentence of 5 years in jail.

I interviewed Matt to find out why he did what he did, whether he regrets it, and the ramifications. We also explore fitness and diet during lockdowns.

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/T98-dzAly4g

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Discernable's report into the crashing mental health of children in Australia due to Lockdowns: https://youtu.be/ukjlCTaSdL8

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1:45 Matt Fox has been liberating playgrounds

2:20 The offending video

3:35 Speaking up for the children

5:00 Charged by QLD Police

5:46 Police rummaging through our bins

7:06 10,000 calls to Kid's Helpline

8:54 #LetUsPlay is about more than playgrounds

10:54 Matt Fox did not pull down the sign

12:00 Up to 5 years in prison

15:00 The world is laughing at Australia

15:40 People fleeing Melbourne

18:15 The upcoming court case

20:51 Why is Matt still fat?

21:43 Giving up on gyms

24:15 Eating what you want to eat

25:22 Diet vs Exercise

26:38 Why do people fail their body goals?

28:44 The psychology of going from overweight to shredded

33:13 An example of real fatherhood