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I have been following Senator Rennick for a while and when I saw this Substack I was immediately drawn in. I can honestly say that, I have never been so immersed in reading the comments for any Substack as I have been here. Thankyou to everyone who contributes an opinion. It gives me faith that we have a band of citizens that know what is happening and are fighting for everyone of us. My own story is rather long and full of pain with what I was subjected to because of the policies. I was caught out in the Philippines and unable to get home because of localised lockdowns. My eldest son died and being unable to attend your own child's funeral is devastating. After many months when restrictions eased I made it home through the help of DFAT. Only to be forced into detention for 15 days in a hotel room with no facilities. I couldn't wash my clothes or anything. There wasn't even a towel rail in the bathroom. As for the food, I won't go there. Things were that bad, I had a medical episode and was taken by ambulance under police escort to hospital where I was treated like I had the plague. You watch these scenarios in a good drama movie. You never expect to be the main character.

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Just-Russ, what a terribly sad story, my condolences on the loss of your son.

Absolutely appalling what has gone on the last three years, with people being shut out of their own country, and then imprisoned on their return.

And all this under the guise of a grossly disproportionate and ill-targeted response to a respiratory virus, with original pandemic response plans tossed aside.

Stunning what politicians, ‘health officers’, ‘health practitioners’, conflicted academics, and the mainstream media have been a party to - astonishing treachery against the people.

‘Our’ political systems and institutions have been hijacked - how has this happened?!

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Thankyou Elizabeth.

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Money. Truck loads of it from China, oligarchs and Intel criminals.

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Just-Ross, I am sorry you had to go through all that. My condolences for your son's death. It is horrible the way you've been treated.

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I am so sorry for your loss and for everything you had to endure. This is something that we must make sure NEVER happens again. Really my heart aches for your loss and what you had to go through.

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This blokes a hero. I’ve been following his you tube for a while now. His subscriber numbers stopped going up. Shadow banned to the nines. Please subscribe to his YouTube guys and girls.

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There are three of them (to my knowledge) senators G.R., M.Roberts and A.Antic doing the very best for the last few years, consistently. I should add P.Hanson as well. I appreciate their effort. Absolutely shameful about the rest of them, happily doing the three monkeys, morally and otherwise corrupt imo.

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Thanks Runningonempty, for the suggestion. Though I can watch Rennicks YouTube, now that I do not have a gmail account, I can't 'like' it of course. He would do well to get another non-Youtube platform. (No, I do not want to create a burner account just for that, glad I am off gmail. Now for the world to catch up to using other mail platforms, including my credit union as well. The more the merrier.

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Senator Rennick has been one of the few shining lights in our national parliament. Together with Antic and now retired George Christiansen and ex liberal member Craig Kelly, they were the only members of the liberal party (a Conservative party in Australia) who had the spine to see and tell the truth. Add to them Roberts and Hanson from the One Nation Party. They were the only people who asked real questions and the only ones who introduced and voted for legislation to protect Australian citizens. History is told by the victors and I will fight to ensure history will remember these men and Ms Hanson as hero’s.

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Seeing as you're Down Under and have an affinity for meat, can you please get on this!!! mRNA FMD and Lumpy Skin livestock vaccines, goal to roll out August 2023, millions invested by NSW in US biotech firm. https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/about-us/media-centre/releases/2022/ministerial/nsw-fast-tracks-mrna-fmd-and-lumpy-skin-disease-vaccines I prefer my Aussie beef sans mRNA.

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FTA: "will protect Australia’s $28.7 billion livestock industry"

Really? Bet it destroys the livestock industry! A twofer: fight climate change and reduce human overpopulation at the same time.

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Yes this is frightening. I will review this but my initial feeling is; when all the livestock start dropping dead, the farmers will refuse the vaccine for their animals.

Let’s hope it never gets to that.

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I bet the government mandates it and kills cows who are not vaccinated or makes it illegal to sell unvaccinated cow meat. This is Australia after all we are talking about. There was never an authoritarian idea they didn't love and enact

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I would love to disagree with you, but I can't. I have thought exactly about this scenario ever since I first heard about the mRNA vaccines for cattle.

Animals vaccinated with mRNA will become inedible.

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This is not the stance of the MLA. They have stated that no cattle will be vaccinated unless the disease is in Australia. Jason Strong runs a very tight ship and is very aware that by introducing these types of vaccines, our export market is seriously threatened. There is too much money tied up in the livestock industry and they have far more sway than Toole who IMO is just that.

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Well that's about the best news I've heard in a while. And thank you for giving me some more keywords to search on. I can see now there is ongoing discussion on the subject. I still question the timeline of having mRNA vaccines for FMD and Lumpy Skin ready to go August 2023. Not sure how they plan to have long-term studies completed in a clearly short time period. My concern remains, what an mRNA type of vaccine would do to the animals which humans would later consume. If you hear more, can you update us?

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Just watched Jason Strong answer questions in legislative committee. Senator Roberts did most of the questioning. This from his channel. https://youtu.be/x2AwELN6XT8 I can see it's a tough crowd to please, very opposing views, but in my mind Strong is anything but strong. He came off totally weak. Proper cattle grazing contributes to the economy and to topsoil. He has a strong case if he would only attempt to present it. But he seems bent on also pleasing the climate alarmists who want to cut his throat. Hard to fathom cattle producers being pleased with his performance or weak messaging.

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Support them in upcoming elections!

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Listen to the vague and meandering way the "experts" respond to the questions. Just that alone should cause suspect. If they HAD reports and data, this is where they would cite it to actual study and specific outcomes. But it is the senator who is citing study and data to challenge this word salad from the "experts"; what does that tell you? The grift is so extreme on this topic. We should all be deeply concerned.

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Exactly. This is why these videos are so important. People need to see and hear this nonsense from the experts for themselves.

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It seems clear that they never bothered to look at and evaluate what was coming from CDC, Shizer etc. They've been following the script given at the start.

That is the only explanation since they can not possibly (no one can) be

that stupid and cognitively impaired.

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Of course they never bothered. Their only role is to trust the information they are fed and amplify it.

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The truth is that the “vaccines” are useless, worse - they are dangerous. Everyone was lied to about everything. Now we have to watch these parasites verbally slalom their way out of the crime. Watch in awe as no one gets justice and all those responsible get a bonus.

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Not on my watch!

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I want to be wrong but past performance indicates otherwise.

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Too late:

On 2 November 2020 Murphy was named Australian Capital Territory's Australian of the Year.

In June 2022, Murphy was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours.

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Brendan Murphy lied to the Australian public in February 2021 when he said the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs have "gone through the normal, full range of regulatory approvals for our vaccines...we have been able to do the full, safe, regulatory approval...we have not cut any corners" and "...we decided that to get the confidence of the people in Australia, because we had no community transmission, we were not going to do anything other than our full normal registration process".

This was a lie, because both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs had only been given 'provisional' approval by the TGA - this was NOT made clear to the Australian public.

'Provisional' approval means the TGA will be relying on manufacturer supplied data to judge the longer term efficacy and safety from ongoing clinical trials and post-market assessment. 'Post-market assessment' indicates people being vaccinated in the community are now part of the clinical trials assessing these vaccine products - have people been informed they are part of a vaccine clinical trial?

Have these people given their consent to being involved in a vaccine clinical trial with these provisionally approved vaccine products?

See my email to Brendan Murphy, challenging him about misleading the Australian public, dated 24 February 2021 - I haven't received a response: https://vaccinationispolitical.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/covid-19-vaccines-are-not-fully-approved-by-the-tga.pdf

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It's worse than that even. The TGA didn't even bother looking at the Pfizer trial data before they granted emergency use authorisation.

https://freeaustralia.today/foi-request-reveals-tga-never-saw-pfizer-vaxx-data/

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Don't suppose you got a reply?

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No, I didn't receive a reply...surprise...

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If your in Queensland see if Senator Rennick can follow it up for you. Your local member could help but my guess they won’t be interested.

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Hi Ivo, I send my emails to Gerard Rennick, Alex Antic and Malcolm Roberts.

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Further to my previous comment, and on the subject of lying...

The former Morrison government in Australia lied to health practitioners when it told them they would have specific medical indemnity re administering the Covid jabs.

It's now been clarified by the Albanese government that health practitioners DO NOT have specific Covid medical indemnity under a government scheme. It's also been confirmed that "Informed consent should be obtained for every COVID-19 vaccination, as per usual consent procedures for other vaccinations".

This could get interesting as I very much suspect health practitioners have NOT been getting 'valid informed consent' before each jab, because people aren't being properly informed. For instance, why are so many people (including children) being called to have the defective jabs in the first place, when most people aren't at serious risk of Covid-19?

And then there's the jab mandates...so many people have been bullied to submit to the jabs under mandates...this means they're not giving 'voluntary' informed consent, i.e. without pressure, coercion or manipulation, as stipulated in The Australian Immunisation Handbook.

The health practitioners inserting the needle need to be warned about this, because they probably think they're covered, but they're NOT covered by a specific government Covid medical indemnity scheme...and they really need to think about the informed consent issue...because they're the person wielding the needle.

For more detail, please see my response to Australian Health Minister Mark Butler: Are health practitioners covered for indemnity insurance re the Covid jabs? 21 November 2021: https://vaccinationispolitical.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/response-re_-are-health-practitioners-covered-for-indemnity-insurance-re-the-covid-jabs-.pdf

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They didn’t care less, my sister ticked she didn’t read the pamphlet, and was not made aware of the risks on her forms. They didn’t even read it. Just collected it, too busy jabbing everyone to notice.

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She wasn’t too fussed, she needed to get vaxxed to keep her job. She would have preferred not to but was mostly pissed that she had no real choice.

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'Informed consent' was absolutely impossible. Only blind consent.

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I agree Laine, they should know...

But who is mainly giving the jabs? Nurses and pharmacists mainly do you think? And GPs?

It's been shocking to see health practitioners embrace giving these jabs, and failing to question this mass population jab rollout, against a disease it was known from the beginning wasn't a serious threat to most people, particularly children.

The thing is, in Australia, there's been a concerted effort in recent years to shut down any questioning of vaccination policy, and of course the implementation of the No Jab, No Pay/No Play laws since January 2016. And now we've seen the No Jab concept being used for Covid jabs, e.g. No Jab, No Job.

They planned to cancel out of society people who wouldn't submit to the jabs, by barring them from work, from travel, from entertainment, from shopping...from life...

Is this not the most diabolical situation ever?!

And the medical profession went along with it all - how can these people be trusted for critical thinking?

The people in 'healthcare' now have been trained to be compliant and not to question - this is an extremely dangerous situation.

It's a disaster, a manufactured disaster...

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Interesting that apparently the ‘health practitioners’ were happy to administer the needles when they thought they had Covid medical indemnity? What will people not do if they think they’re covered…?

Interesting how this will pan out now, particularly as it’s confirmed they have to get informed consent…yet how can they do that with the dodgy advice coming out of the government, and jab mandates - and with AHPRA threatening to de-register health practitioners who go against the Covid narrative?

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A prime example is part-time big pharma sceptic Dr Aseem Malhotra (he fully bought into the narrative in 2020/2021) now doing the alternative media rounds preaching how we’ve all been lied to (you don’t say...). Disgraceful character.

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Maybe some but certainly not Malhotra. When sceptics (as he claims to be) were needed most in medicine, he utterly failed to stand up. He's still 100% invested in the 'pandemic' narrative – zero evidence of any pennies dropping there.

If you watch his many interviews you'll see that he never shows any passion or anger over what has happened, he's always very smooth, calm and collected, often smiling and joking. This should be a huge red flag. Compare him with Dr John Campbell who you can tell is seething with how much he's been deceived.

A few astonishing quotes from Malhotra in a single interview:

"I always act from a position of integrity. It wasn’t even conceivable, even people like Robert Malone, that this could do so much harm. many of my friends who didn’t take the vaccine made that decision on intuition, not evidence."

– This is narrative-following Malhotra talking. A completely ridiculous statement. He's supposed to be a highly trained and experienced doctor!

"What’s happened with the covid vaccine is not an anomaly. If you trace things back, this was almost predictable because of an increase in unchecked power."

– now we get sceptic Malhotra talking again.

The guy is all over the place. Doesn't deserve any 'hero' status.

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It's an outrageous thing for him to say. His lack of self-awareness is mind-blowing. Complete lack of contrition. I'm in the process of writing a full substack post on the curious flip-flopping of Dr Aseem Malhotra. There are more examples.

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Have a watch of this interview, and take special note how the interviewer (his friend James Freeman) is at pains to suggest in one of his 'questions' that AM has no need to apologise. Also note how AM craftily shoehorns the word "apologise" into his answer.

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/thanks-to-aseem-malhotra-mps-finally-give-vaccine-dangers-a-hearing/

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Hmmm… Nick Coatsworth… I remember him in the ads with the ‘We’re not safe until we’re all safe’ theme…

And check out what he was saying in August 2020 - Coronavirus Australia: Deputy CMO Nick Coatsworth reveals possible restrictions for refusing vaccine: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-australia-deputy-cmo-nick-coatsworth-reveals-possible-restrictions-for-refusing-vaccine/news-story/cdac44a40f36040128f585da696147cd

Although he has changed his tune…e.g. as reported in July 2022: Stop vaccine mandates NOW: Dr Nick Coatsworth reveals the two fatal flaws in 'no jab, no work' rules that prevent thousands of Aussies from working: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11000647/Dr-Nick-Coatsworth-demands-END-employer-Covid-19-vaccine-mandates.html

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Over Here, Vallance and Whitty are nowhere to be seen, such as telling us about the excess deaths...So much for accredited Chief Scientific Advisor and Chief Medical Officer. Sinecures in the truest meaning of the word!

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I just nod my head at the nothing-new bullshit and lies coming from these leftist puppets. Whatever these turds say, you can most likely bet on the opposite being true. We live in la la land.

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They were appointed by our right wing party when they were in Government. Guess they were puppets of the right, now they’re puppets of the left. Senator Rennick is a member of the same party that appointed these clowns. To his credit he’s been calling them out for a long time. He possibly has more freedom now he’s in opposition.

Kudos to him and the other senators for pursuing this.

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Yup, Left / Right paradigm is useless now. It's Authoritarianism/Globalism vs Liberty/Localism.

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“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”

― George Orwell

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Yup, it's about basic human decency and morality regardless political creed.

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We live with real facts in the real world, they live in la la land full of ga ga.

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It is easier to trick a fool than it is to convince a fool they have been tricked.

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The best salesman and the best bullshit win ha ha!

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Unvaccinated are likely to suffer - because Dr.Kelly will make sure they will!

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Re my recent email to Australian Health Minister Mark Butler re medical indemnity re Covid jabs for health practitioners, and informed consent, I've also forwarded this email to Kamran Abbasi, Editor in chief of The BMJ, noting this is a very serious situation at the heart of medical ethics and that it should be a priority topic on The BMJ, see: Health practitioners, Covid jabs and 'valid informed consent' - a medical ethics disaster, 21 November 2022: https://vaccinationispolitical.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/health-practitioners-covid-jabs-and-valid-informed-consent-a-medical-ethics-disaster.pdf

My email to Kamran Abbasi has also been copied to a number of key people, including Angus Dalgleish, a professor of oncology at St Georges, University of London.

Angus Dalgleish has responded to the email - please see his response below, he has given his permission for this to be shared:

Dear Kamran Abbasi,

I write in total support of Elizabeth Hart.

COVID no longer needs a vaccine programme given the average age of death of COVID in the UK is 82 and from all other causes 81 and falling.

The link with clots , myocarditis, heart attacks and strokes is now well accepted as is the link with myelitis and neuropathy.

( We predicted these side effects in our QRBD article Sorensen et all, 2020, as the blast analysis revealed 79% homologies to human epitopes, especially PF4 and myelin)

However, there is now another reason to halt all vaccine programmes.

As a practicing Oncologist I am seeing people with stable disease rapidly progress after being forced to have a booster, usually so they can travel.

Even my own family and colleagues are developing B cell based disease after the boosters, they describe being distinctly unwell a few days to weeks after the booster

With my brother in law developing leukaemia, my pharmacist NHL, a former PhD student NHL, and now an old school friend who has felt like he has had

Long COVID since receiving his booster who after getting severe bone pain has been diagnosed as having multiple mets from myeloma.

I am experienced enough to know that these are not the coincidental anecdotes that many suggest, especially as the same pattern is

Being seen in Germany, Australia and the USA.

The reports of innate immune suppression after mRNA for several weeks would fit as all these patients to date have melanoma or B cell based cancers

Which are very susceptible to immune control and that is before the reports of suppressor gene suppression by mRNA reports.

This must be aired and debated immediately.

Angus Dalgleish MD FRACP FRCP FRCPath FMedSci

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You're one very impressive lady, Elizabeth. My heartfelt appreciation to you.

I'm not very educated old lady myself and truly grateful for all you've been doing. :-D

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Thanks for your support Marta!

I’ve been investigating vaccination policy for the past 14 years, this is an area mired in conflicts of interest.

This is the real emergency, the ever-increasing vaccine load being imposed on the population, particularly children, but also adults - it’s the womb to tomb schedule, making billions for Pharma, and who knows what damage to natural immunity and general health.

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In my previous comment I questioned why are so many people (including children) being called to have the defective jabs in the first place, when most people aren't at serious risk of Covid-19?

In this regard, I sent an email to Nigel Crawford, the Chair of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), asking why ATAGI recommend COVID-19 mRNA injections for children, as ATAGI acknowledges children are at low risk of Covid.

That's another email to which I did not receive a response...

I've now forwarded the email to Australian Health Minister Mark Butler, asking him to provide a response to my queries, see: https://vaccinationispolitical.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/why-does-atagi-recommend-covid-19-mrna-injections-for-children.pdf

Lots more emails about the Australian situation on my website: https://vaccinationispolitical.net/vax-australia/

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Don't you have a Substack? I think you'd do well.

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No I haven't got a substack, I post my emails on my website: https://vaccinationispolitical.net/

In regard to ATAGI chair Nigel Crawford, see this email I sent to Gerard Rennick re Nigel Crawford and conflicts of interest: Conflicts of interest - Covid-19 jabs - ATAGI / Murdoch Children's Research Institute / News Corp Australia, 3 February 2022: https://vaccinationispolitical.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/conflicts-of-interest-covid-19-jabs-atagi-_-murdoch-childrens-research-institute-_-news-corp-australia.pdf

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It's shocking isn't it Laine - no transparency or accountability...

We're not living in a liberal democracy - considering the grim 'big picture' that's evolving, we seem to be in a globalist technocratic fascist state.

When this was happening in 2020, couldn't believe it! We were disenfranchised, governments became our master instead of our servant.

Unelected 'Chief health officers', and the police commissioner in South Australia where I live, dictated to us when we could leave our homes, demanded we wear masks, be tracked via surveillance/QR codes, be imprisoned/quarantined for having a respiratory virus which it was already known wasn't a serious threat to most people.

And the original pandemic plans were thrown out so they could impose their draconian Covid response.

The damage they have done...to the economy, to society...incalculable.

Time for retrospective critical analysis of this debacle, to investigate and expose this manufactured crisis.

Time for justice...

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One of the only venues I've seen globally (in English) with a lawmaker asking pointed questions directly to a national health authority. Senator Rennick has a finance background, but he's asking questions such as spike longevity juiced with pseudouridine, all cause mortality, etc. Hopeful these meetings will continue with more in depth questions, possibly some experts the Senator brings in to ask the TGA and their minions questions where they can't disregard him for his lack of 'expertise'.

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I don’t think he is allowed to bring in an expert. I suspect he’s being fed these questions by an medical expert you can read for free on substack.

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"One thing I wanted to know from this data was how many total extra deaths there have been so far this year, so I just found the sum of each of the columns using Excel. Australia, for example, has almost 19,000 extra deaths this year alone! And that’s only up until the end of July! Canada is similar at 21,000 excess deaths. UK 27,000. The US 349,000, remembering though, that the US has a much larger population at around 332 million which is around 12 or 13 times the population of Australia, but even so, that’s a lot of extra deaths! But the standout, I suppose, is Sweden with only 158 extra deaths in total, a fraction of the other countries, noting that Sweden has a population of around ten-and-a-half million people. So why would that be? Why would Sweden have so few excess deaths?

Here’s a comparison of the raw data between Sweden and Australia, noting that Australia has about two-and-a-half times the population. But even so, there’s a huge disparity in excess deaths between the two countries. The excess deaths in Sweden, shown in orange, are relatively stable, in that sometimes they’re positive, sometimes they’re negative, but overall, they’re hovering around the x-axis – the zero mark. Whereas Australia in blue has clearly stayed well above historical averages. Depending on the week, there’s been between 400 and 1000 extra deaths every week this year. I mean, that would be like a jumbo jet falling out of the sky every single week.

If we compare the percentage change of excess deaths between Sweden and Australia, which basically takes out the population difference, we can still see that Australia is well above Sweden in terms of excess deaths. They kind of follow the same pattern, but a lot less extra people are dying in Sweden. Let’s add Canada in yellow. It pretty follows the same percentage of extra deaths as Australia, except that by about Week 20, it drops off quite rapidly. Australia though, continues to have significant excess deaths. Let’s add the UK to the mix in green. At the start of the year, it was faring fairly well, but then numbers went a bit crazy in the middle, coming back to some sense of normalcy in the latest reporting period, but who knows how long that will last? And finally, the United States in brown. It seems to be following a similar trend to Australia, although started out with more excess deaths early on in the year, but then dipped below Australia, but seems to have risen in more recent months. Either way, percentage wise, it certainly has more excess deaths than Sweden.

https://youtu.be/vF6wObEWUd0?t=1

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It’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. All we can say for sure is that the vaccines are safe and effective. You heard the video they have no doubt, it must be something else. They’re both doctors, they know the facts.

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Well said!

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www.doctorsagainstmandates.com funded an expert review of the NSW data which supports Senator Rennicks view. It can be found here: https://www.doctorsagainstmandates.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Expert-Witness-Report-Madry-15-Aug-2022-B.pdf

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That's great. But you don't need a funded review to "interpret" a row of zeros?!

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You do when you are trying to get evidence heard in the supreme court. Common sense has gone out the window and the data is presented in ways that hide the reality. They will not listen, but we at least have an evidence trail for the future.

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The thing that gets to me is how authoritatively they speak. Such vehemence, derision and confidence. The references to their expertise.

I know full well that it is all utter BS. I know they are referring high handedly, without shame, to data that is not publicly available and has not been reviewed/contextualised by independent eyes. But the depressing reality is that the tone & presentational style alone would be enough to convince most of my friends/family. Not to do down Senator Rennick’s impressive composure and preparation. But most people I know would not even really hear those questions let alone see anything amiss in the answers.

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And ain't this the truth.

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I think perhaps I am starting to feel the cold hand of despair touching my shoulder! What on earth will it take?!?!

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