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September 07, 2022Free Julian Assange! With Julian's father John Shipton and ADF whistle-blower David McBride
Father of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, John Shipton, and whistle-blower David McBride join Discernable for an exclusive deep dive into government secrets.
Do we still believe that Western governments are more noble than Chinese, Russian and other world governments? Who exactly are 'the good guys' and 'the bad guys' on the world stage? Are government secrets and warmongering the price to pay for our free democracies?
David McBride served in both the British and Australian armed forces and is currently facing jail for leaking classified information to the ABC and alleging war crimes by Australian soldiers in the Middle East.
John Shipton continues to fight for his son's freedom, and notes massive cross-party support in parliaments around the world calling for his freedom.
In this joint interview we discussed:
How governments are incentivised to start and prolong wars

How governments use fear and anxiety to sell their policies

The war crimes in the leaked 'collateral damage' video and other leaked cables

War crimes committed by Australia and the USA targeting civilian water supplies and using depleted uranium rounds

Allied air strikes designed to cover evidence of war crimes

When media won't report against government

Why are the crimes Julian Assange revealed not being prosecuted?

The duty to report a crime

Why will Australia not defend an Australian citizen?

All political parties are adopting a 'free Assange platform'

The cult of 'Five Eyes' controlled by the USA

David McBride reveals war crime cover-ups

Do Aussies care about principles or not?

Refreshing and renewing parliaments with cross-party groups

The future for Millennials and GenZ fighting for truth

FriendlyJordies behind the scenes
Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/free-julian-assange-with-julians-father-john-shipton-and-whistle-blower-david-mcbride/
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1 hr 44 min
September 02, 2022The People's Project Season 6 Episode 16: Cook Versus Crook
In this week's episode of The People's Project:
DAN HAS A PROBLEM #CookversusCrook
Daniel Andrews, Brett Sutton and Dandenong council have created a monster! A slug that threatens the Premier's own seat: Mulgrave. Ian Cook founded iCook Foods where a slug was planted by a corrupt Melbourne council with backing from the Labor Party. With a team of retired detectives Ian has defeated all charges and now openly labels the players involved as 'corrupt' with not a single defamation action or threat levied in response. Ian is running in Mulgrave to stand against corruption in Victoria.
CORRUPT COUNCILS
Casey council was dismissed by Labor MP Adem Somyurek in 2020 for some of 'the most corrupt conduct ever seen in a Victorian council' with property developers paying bribes to councillors and Labor MPs. IBAC investigations have since revealed via covert telephone recordings that Premier Daniel Andrews has not only dined with such property developers, but has indeed discussed planning decisions at those dinners.
The CEO of Dandenong Council also goes under the microscope as Ian lays out hundreds of thousands of dollars that have gone missing, bombshell board minutes, implications with Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton, and millions of dollars 'disappeared' by the Labor government in the winding up of Community Chef.
CORRUPT POLICE?
A senior Victoria Police officer made a submission to IBAC with detailed allegations about a cover-up inside the highest levels of Victoria Police. That submission alleges and implicates Shane Patton and lays out evidence of the 'Red Shirts Rort' investigations (into Victorian Labor stealing $400,000) being covered up. The submission was leaked to multiple media outlets, including Discernable.
Former Victoria Police PORT/CIRT officer Chris Burson joins us on the panel to give us a peak into the culture inside Victoria Police.
NEWS WITHOUT NOTICE
Friend of the show Dr Cameron Murray's new book that explains 'grey corruption' and why it keeps popping up like a weed

Sam Harris puts corrupted thinking on display with his appearance on Triggernometry

Discernable is bringing Stanford Professor Dr Jay Bhattacharya to Melbourne!
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1 hr 13 min
August 27, 2022Box Hill to Return to the Liberal Party: Candidate Nicole Werner
Box Hill is the Chinese capital of Melbourne, much like Hurstville in Sydney. Traditionally a Liberal seat (1955-1982 and 1992-2018), it is tipped to return to the Liberals in the Nov 2022 election with Malaysian candidate Nicole Werner.
Daughter of working class migrants from Malaysia in 1987, Nicole is a lifelong local of Box Hill whose career has been managing charities in the not-for-profit sector (foodbanks).
We discussed:
A working class migrant family arrives in Box Hill

Point Cook Rd and why Labor won't double it

How SW-Sydney suburbs were treated differently during lockdown

The 'super station' being built in Box Hill

Mont Albert residents denied access to the secret Union Station plans

Why media won't accept a young, Asian female running for the Liberal Party

Affirmative action and racism in Australia

Is Daniel Andrews popular on the street?

Monte Carlo Pizza in Noble Park

Foodbanks overwhelmed in 2020

How would the Liberals have done any better?

Vulnerable Victorians should leave the state

Media blackouts

Equality of opportunity, outcome and effort

Motivations to work for the community

Where do values comes from?

The foundation of faith

Compromising values for the political party

Friends outside of politics

What Millennials are talking about

Minority groups over represented in media

The personality of Nicole Werner

Great food in Melbourne's eastern suburbs

Crossfit and F45

Participating in school sport

How to use TikTok
Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/box-hill-to-return-to-the-liberal-party-candidate-nicole-werner
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NICOLE WERNER
https://www.nicolewerner.com.au
https://www.facebook.com/NicoleWernerBoxHill
1 hr 28 min
August 26, 2022The People's Project Season 6 Episode 15: The Episode for Parents
In this week's episode of The People's Project:
WHY IS FERTILITY CRASHING
Reproductive epidemiologist Shanna Swan PhD details crashing fertility across all species due to endocrine disruptors in our environment
WHY ARE YOU SENDING YOUR KIDS TO SCHOOL?
We argue out the validity of school. Is it just daycare?
IS UNIVERSITY STILL RELEVANT?
What is the role of universities and are they living up to it?
THE PROBLEM WITH MEN
Single mum raising boys, male depression and differences in gender.
NEWS WITHOUT NOTICE
5th dose for C19 now available in Canada

Scomo gets crucified but with class

Self censorship

CORRECTION: We have since been able to follow up Naomi Wolf's claim at 8:39 (that half of the women in a Pfizer vaccine trial miscarried) and it is false. Her error was to double count incidences of miscarriage. Our episode was recorded in the early hours of Fri 19 Aug before this error was widely discovered. Our confirmation is directly sourced by some of Australia's leading medical professors and professionals who are against mandates and lockdowns, are suspicious of Pfizer in general, but find Naomi Wolf has seriously erred in this case. We are advised that currently available data only shows statistically insignificant variations in miscarriage rates and are within the normal, pre-covid range of up to 20% of detected pregnancies.

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1 hr 45 min
August 24, 2022Robert Barwick: Banks That Run The World
Robert Barwick is the Research Director of the Australian Citizens Party and has been revealing the influence of big banks at the core of our politics for decades.
In this interview we explored:
How lobbyists control the direction of Australia's politics

How Australia's cash ban was defeated

Australia's 'bail in laws' that steal the savings of Australians

The immorality of Uber

The kind of protest that works

Banks have a goal of eliminating cash

Australia won't survive without cash

The true extent of bank branch closures in Australia

How 'bail in' laws work by shifting accountability from the banks to the customers

Glass-Steagall laws and Obama's fake regulation after the GFC

The corporate assassination of AusPost's CEO Christine Holgate

The dysfunction of Australia Post

The machinery of political parties

Decentralised finance and cryptocurrency

Are Australian house prices a giant bubble?

How to keep banks accountable and fix the property market

Choose your medicine: crash, hyperinflation or depression

Are 'renters' still 'losers'?
Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/robert-barwick-banks-that-run-the-world
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ROBERT BARWICK
https://twitter.com/RobbieBarwick
https://citizensparty.org.au
https://www.youtube.com/c/CitizensPartyAU
2 hr 9 min
August 20, 2022 Professor Norman Fenton: Lying With Statistics - The World Has Been Conned
Norman Fenton is a professor of Risk Information Management at Queen Mary University of London and director of Agena - a company focused on uncertainty quantification, probabilistic models and smart data.
He has spoken out loudly and often against 'statistical illusions' that, though convincing, are in complete mathematical error.
The professor believes these statistical illusions have been used by governments to falsely justify many policies, and that even his fellow statisticians who see the error are too afraid to speak out.
Professor Fenton test the voracity of mortality statistics, vaccination statistics, infection/case statistics et al and in this interview he gives both the theory and calculations behind his claims that the world has been conned by bad statistical analysis.
Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/professor-norman-fenton-lying-with-statistics-the-world-has-been-conned
1 hr 31 min
August 19, 2022The People's Project Season 6 Episode 14: Mind Your Own Business
In this week's episode of The People's Project:
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS
Neighbours have turned on neighbours, but will increased surveillance sneak in by stealth? Amazon's Ring cameras partner with police forces to catch the crims...and give you a subsidy.
WHY SHOULDN'T I KEEP IT?
Defeated Prime Minister Scott Morrison is found out to have secretly stashed some powers away for himself. Does power corrupt everyone?
HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN
Ally Langdon (TODAY Show) places her ignorance on display and Heston wonders why she's just so angry all the time.
FEEL SORRY FOR POLICE
Should we feel sorry for our police who always act with 'compassion above compliance' in an effort to keep us all safe?
NEWS WITHOUT NOTICE
President Biden definitely has dementia

The IRS doubles its forces and 6x its budget to catch...average citizens

RawC Coconut water and the fight against commoditisation

Why there's an egg shortage in Victoria

Aldi unveils a cheap dumplings truck in Bankstown, NSW.
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1 hr 34 min
August 18, 2022Mattias Desmet: The Why and How of Mass Formation
Professor Mattias Desmet is the author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism - a book that describes a world in the grips of 'mass formation'.
Under the correct conditions, the professor believes that a specific type of group formation can emerge, and has emerged in 2020. He cites historical examples where masses formed such as 'concentration camps to deal with the Jews, crusades to deal with the Muslims and witch-hunts to deal with the witches' but makes the distinction that in a technocratic era it ushers in totalitarianism.
Professor Desmet notes that totalitarianism, understood as a 'diabolical pact between the elite and the masses', is not the same as dictatorships where power is exercised in one direction. Totalitarianism always starts with an 'obsession and illusionary idea that a new society should be created according to a certain pseudo-scientific theory. It will create a new technologically, scientifically based paradise'.
We covered:
What is the difference between dictatorships and totalitarianism?

Is Trump Derangement Syndrome, or Trump is Our Saviour sentiment, related to totalitarianism?

Will there be future mass formations?

Is the climate change movement a mass formation?

A new, technocratic totalitarianism

Real problems with climate

Criticisms of mass formation theory

Rational, mechanist materialism that creates a new 'elite'

The result of violent revolution

Klaus Schwab, the W.E.F. and the W.H.O

Destroying the elite will not work

Proof that the madness exists

It is never safer to remain silent

Where should ethics come from?

The problem of religions and dogmas

How mass formations end

Non-conformists will bring the solution

The greatest risk of all: silence and violence

How to survive the next mass formation

Who influences Mattias Desmet?

Mattias' message to Australia
Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/mattias-desmet-the-why-and-how-of-mass-formation
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MATTIAS DESMET
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/801001743835
https://bookshop.org/books/the-psychology-of-totalitarianism/9781645021728
https://p-nt-www-amazon-com-kalias.amazon.com/Psychology-Totalitarianism-Mattias-Desmet/dp/1645021726
https://wordery.com/the-psychology-of-totalitarianism-mattias-desmet-9781645021728
1 hr 7 min
August 18, 2022 Amar Singh: Sikhism and Turbans 4 Australia
Amar Singh is the founder of Turbans 4 Australia and a practising Sikh. Growing up in the same area as Matt (Campbelltown, NSW) he sat down with Discernable to discuss what it was like growing up in South West Sydney and his embrace of Sikhism and everything it represents.

Watch the full interview at https://discernable.io/amar-singh-sikhism-and-turbans-4-australia
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TURBANS 4 AUSTRALIA
https://www.t4a.org.au
56 min
August 15, 2022Professor Joseph Camilleri - China, Nuclear War and the Failure of The Academy
Professor Joseph Camilleri is one of Australia's leading International Relations scholars, publishing over 15 books and contributing hundreds of chapters and refereed articles in academic journals.
He joined Discernable to explain where Australia sits in the world, and whether Australians perceive their place in the world.
We explored:
Whether and how China would invade Australia

Why China wants Taiwan back (and what will happen)

Why Australians are unaware of international politics

The influence of UK and USA Anglo-centric culture

The failure of the Academy to educate Australians

The failure of Australian politics

The Doomsday Clock

The spectre of nuclear war

Human rights in lockdowns

Balancing the rights of the individual against the rights of the collective

Chinese society as a cultural role model

The values of competing societies
Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/professor-joseph-camilleri-china-nuclear-war-and-the-failure-of-the-academy
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PROF JOSEPH CAMILLERI
https://www.josephcamilleri.org
1 hr 24 min