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We should all feel safer now for ‘The four foreign ministers of the QUAD nations, Australia, the United States, India, and Japan, met on Feb. 11 in Melbourne for the fourth iteration of the talks.‘
Now, note some of the subjects on the agenda! ‘High on the agenda are issues like regional security—including Russia, China, and North Korea—economic engagement, new technologies, climate change, humanitarian issues, and the response to COVID-19.’https://www.theepochtimes.com/a-world-order-that-favors-freedom-quad-foreign-ministers-meet-in-melbourne-australia_4271409.html
Here you have Sleepy Joe’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken attending which should give all that love freedom a chill up their back. What a farce. Russia and China are not spending billions if not trillions on combating climate change BUT the USA and Australia are. These two nations are destroying their energy base for a non-existent problem.
The answer to this non-sense is at the ballot box. Make sure the elections are fair and vote for those who stand for freedom and liberty for all their citizens!
John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
The Victorian government under Dan Andrews is nothing short of being an arm of the CCP. All Australians, in fact all freedom loving people need to view this video.
‘Australia has a renowned and glorious history in immunological science. In fact, I would go as far as to say that if there is an immunological “city on the hill,” it was Australia.
From the storied Walter and Eliza Hall Institute to the Garvan Institute, to prominent Australian Nobel laureates and founding fathers of immunological science (Sir Macfarlane Burnett, Jacques F.P. Miller and Peter Doherty) to contemporary leaders of immunological science (Jonathan Sprent, Christopher Goodnow and Jason Cyster), Australia has been known as the mecca of immunological thinking and science.
So it is simply shocking to see the nation’s government behaving in such an immunologically ill-informed and authoritarian fashion when it comes to its handling of COVID immunity.
The recent deportation of the world’s top-ranked men’s tennis player, Novak Djokovic, from Australia for refusing a mandated vaccine he did not need and could be harmed by, was shocking to me as an immunologist.
Why? Because I know with definitive certainty Djokovic, who recovered from a COVID infection in December 2021, has quite powerful and robust acquired natural immunity to COVID — equivalent, if not more powerful than that attained from full vaccination and boosters.
In other words, the recently COVID-recovered Djokovic posed almost zero risk to himself or anyone in Australia — yet that liberal western democratic government condescended itself into terrible authoritarianism, irrationally and unethically excluding an international champion from one of tennis’ most prestigious events — the Australian Open. How deplorable!
Any immunologist worth his or her salt knows the most unusual aspect of the global COVID vaccine campaign is that the vaccine is being deployed on a mass scale in the midst of a pandemic outbreak, when many are already infected — either recently or at the time of their vaccination.
This indiscriminate public health campaign is dangerous. Not only does it expose many millions of already immune people to the risk of unnecessary medical treatment, but it also poses a serious risk of harm to recently infected or convalescent persons, in whom viral antigenic epitopes still persist, and in whom an unnecessary vaccination could induce a hyper-inflammatory response.
That prominent immunologists — especially the contemporary Australian pioneers in immunology — are either unaware of or silent about how our scientific discipline of immunology is being corrupted and abused by governments around the world so they can impose draconian mass mandates upon millions of persons with acquired “natural” or “hybrid” immunity has been frankly disappointing and shocking to me.
But I suppose all heroes have clay feet — and even careful thinkers can think carelessly sometimes.
Still, it is shocking to hear crickets from the giants of the world of immunology — especially those from Australia, which truly is the birthplace of modern immunology — when it comes to the topic of mandated vaccination of the already well immune and recently infected.
What a terrible sign of our time — when neither science and reason nor ethics and the western defense of individuality matter any longer in the face of irrational fear and government edicts.
Djokovic’s irrational and unethical deportation from Australia is a stain on the reputation of the many prominent Aussie immunologists and storied immunological institutes in that country.
The government override of the principles of immunological science and medical ethics, in order to achieve population-level compliance, while the western heroes of immunological science stay silent spells disaster for the integrity of western civilizations and self-governing democracies.
Shame on the Australian government for irrationally deporting Djokovic. And woe onto those prominent expert Australians and Aussie institutions, who actually know better but have chosen not to speak up for the sake of political expediency or personal comfort.
It is, indeed, easier not to rock the boat and not to speak up, than it is to stand in the way of unethical authoritarian conduct by a powerful democratic government gone astray.
But that slope is a slippery one and we are all sliding down it. All it takes for a great evil to take hold is for a few good men to remain silent and not speak their truth.’https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/australian-open-novak-djokovic-immune-covid/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=1674b2e3-2312-478b-af9f-9f656b7c3407
‘Australia is set to achieve 180 per cent vaccination now that the evil Novak Djokovic is out of the way.
Djokovic, an anti-vax evangelist posing as the world’s Number One tennis player, snuck into the country last week in a bid to spread non-approved views.
He had planned to hijack the Australian Open and use our premier sporting event as a platform from which to infect the minds of Australians with naughty ideas.
And he almost got away with it.
The sinister Serb’s deadly attack was only thwarted when a fast-thinking government took almost a week to come up with the greatest topspin lob since Ken Rosewell – playing without a Covid jab – won our Grand Slam back in 1972.
The government argued that the unvaccinated Djokovic’s mere ‘presence in Australia may foster anti-vaccination sentiment’ and ‘reinforce views’!
You know, like some of the government’s own MPs!
Cue scary music…
It was unclear how removing Djokovic from the country, when Australians already knew his ‘views’, would stop citizens becoming victims of his deadly wrong-think.
Did the government imagine that if Djokovic had been allowed to stay, unsuspecting tennis fans would lose their vaccine efficacy every time he hit a forehand winner?
Thud! A dozen spectators just became unvaccinated.
Whack! Fifty more just questioned the science.
Smash! A million people watching at home decided to attend a freedom march.
That our government was so terrified of a single tennis player showed just how dangerous Djokovic was; and how little faith the government had in the popularity of mandatory vaccines.
Of course, our Prime Minister had already assured us that vaccination was not mandatory. So, the real problem seemed to be that Djokovic might persuade people to use discretion on a decision the PM had insisted was discretionary. And we couldn’t have that, otherwise people might start thinking vaccination was not mandatory.
Fortunately, our Courts agreed that the government had the power to do whatever it wanted to do to anyone that it didn’t like. Though why we needed the Federal Court of Australia to say what peacefully protesting Melbournians, still sporting bruises from police-issue rubber bullets, could have told us is anyone’s guess.
With The Serbinator expelled from the country, and so unable to spread anti-vax sentiment, our police can now get back to arresting pregnant women for unapproved Facebook posts and dragging grandmothers away for not revealing their vaccination status. You know, to calm sentiment.
Meanwhile, citizens are safe from the corrupting influence of The Joker and free to enjoy the Omicron spread, health system chaos, empty supermarket shelves, and threats of unemployment if they fail to get a booster shot (or five).
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who insisted ‘rules are rules’ before kicking Djokovic out of the country because he didn’t like the tennis player’s vibe, celebrated by declaring: ‘It’s now time to get on with the Australian Open and get back to enjoying the tennis over summer.’
Which, translated, meant: ‘Bread and games everybody, bread and games!’
With the dangerous Novak Djokovic on a plane to someplace earlier this week, Tennis Australia was finally able to get on with running the sporting event for which we are now known around the world … The Australian Fully-Vaccinated, Socially Distanced and With Government Approved Views Open.’https://spectator.com.au/2022/01/bread-and-games-everybody-bread-and-games/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UNFI%20%2020220120%20%20GK&utm_content=UNFI%20%2020220120%20%20GK+CID_e10abeb52d1e1dc5aa4d3275a08b9fc8&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=Bread%20and%20games%20everybody%20bread%20and%20games
‘In the classic movie “The Princess Bride,” the hilariously inept villain Vizzini engages in a “battle of wits” with the hero, Wesley, a.k.a. the Man in Black, over a poisoned glass of wine. As Vizzini attempts to outwit his opponent with what Wesley mockingly calls “a dizzying intellect,” he expounds on the nation of Australia. “As everyone knows,” he says, “Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them.”
Here in our own bizarre reality, Australia is populated by untrusted criminals only because their own government has declared them to be such.
For much of the coronavirus pandemic, the people of Australia have been prisoners of their own government’s tyrannical attempts to reach “COVID zero.” Totally outrageous videos and stories abound regarding people arrested for violating mandates, even when they’re outside and pose no threat to anyone. People are forcibly detained in quarantine facilities (and heaven help them if they escape). Elective surgeries have been suspended. In at least one case, parents were denied the ability to identify their dead son’s body. We could go on and on about the dystopian nightmare that is the Land Down Under.
How’s that working out for stopping the spread? Wednesday’s Reuters headline says it all: “Australia suffers record COVID cases.”
Crikey!
So it’s little surprise to hear the story of Novak Djokovic, the world’s number-one-ranked tennis star, who has been forcibly detained upon arrival in Melbourne to defend his Australian Open title. (He’s won nine Australian Opens and his next Grand Slam title will break a three-way tie for the most men’s titles in history.) Djokovic has refused to disclose his vaccination status as required, but he obtained an exemption thanks to natural immunity from a previous infection and headed to Australia with that understanding. A day after he arrived, however, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared that Djokovic’s visa had been canceled and that he’d be sent home. He’ll be detained until the deportation question is settled on Monday in court.
Another of the world’s best tennis players, Rafael Nadal, didn’t have much sympathy. “If you are vaccinated,” he said, “you can play.” Again, Djokovic apparently chose natural immunity over vaccination. Nadal, who’s been fully vaccinated, caught COVID over Christmas anyway.
Tell us again how the rules make any sense?
As for the tennis world, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) recently stood up to China over Beijing’s treatment of Peng Shuai after her accusation of sexual assault at the hands of a ChiCom official. The WTA pulled out of China until further notice. Perhaps it’s time for other players to boycott the Australian Open — unless, that is, they’re just happy to have an easier chance of winning without Djokovic in the mix, even if an asterisk ought to apply to the eventual winner.
And as for Australia, the nation has already served as a model for American Democrats when it comes to gun confiscation. Citizens there gave up their guns in a “buyback” scheme that Democrats would love to replicate here. We can blame the Australian government all day, but in the end, the people seem to have the government they want and deserve. There is, after all, a cultural zeitgeist that prevails when people are unarmed and defenseless. It allowed them to be disarmed in the first place and now to be effectively imprisoned “for their own good.”
Maybe Vizzini was right.
Update: A native Australian reader writes, “Australia was not disarmed. Australians did not give up their guns. A limited set of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, as well as pump-action shotguns, were confiscated under the banner of the ‘buy-back’ scheme with stringent licensing requirements put in place. Many everyday Australians merely buried their weapons until things died down, and then went about making their own. There are more guns in Australia now than ever before, both legal and illegal. Aussies just don’t openly discuss it.”’https://patriotpost.us/articles/85393-australias-problem-isnt-limited-to-one-tennis-player-2022-01-07?mailing_id=6405&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.6405&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body
Now, my own opinion is that Victoria, Australia is a test case for CCP control and then the whole nation. Why, would I say that?
‘A secret complaint forced our most important Australian website KillTheBill.com.au off the internet today.
On the eve of one of the most controversial bill votes in living memory, which would grant Victorian Premier Dan Andrews dictator-like powers, our domain name was cancelled.
The domain was established to point to our petition which had recorded the will of more than 110,000 people calling on the Governor of Victoria to block Andrew’s outrageous power-grab.
The bill puts Victoria into a permanent state emergency and gives the Andrews’ government additional control over the lives of everyday Victorians already suffering under some of the harshest lockdown conditions anywhere in the world.
It leads us to ask an important question, who would benefit from this action? Well, the answer is secret.
Our domain registrar, a company called GoDaddy, has sold us dozens of websites in Australia with no problem. In fact, Rebel News has over 1,000 domain names for our different projects, like FightTheFines.com.au or YeminiReport.com. The unique domain names make it easier for people to find our different stories. It makes it easy for people to remember them.
And plenty of people remembered “Kill The Bill”. Thousands have been chanting those exact words on the steps of parliament in Melbourne.
Rebel News has a great relationship with GoDaddy — because we have so many domain names they call us a “VIP” client. So it must have to be a pretty powerful person who pressured them to cancel our website.
A few days ago, GoDaddy warned us about what they were going to do. They didn’t say who put them up to it. Or why, out of the 1,000+ websites we have, this was the one they were coming to shut down.
But we didn’t take any chances. When we heard their plans, we hired Australia’s top media lawyer — a Melburnian named Justin Quill — to send a careful letter explaining in detail why we had every right to use that domain name, and showing that whoever was putting GoDaddy up to this was wrong.
Read that letter for yourself below — you’ll be impressed.’https://www.rebelnews.com/scandal_who_forced_our_internet_company_to_delete_the_website_kill_the_bill?utm_campaign=ay_killthebill_domain&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel
‘Paul Dimattina is reportedly recovering in intensive care after suffering a suspected serious reaction to the Pfizer booster shot.
The former Western Bulldogs midfielder had been battling the autoimmune condition ‘myasthenia gravis’ and receiving chemotherapy when he was administered the Covid vaccine booster shot.
He reportedly had a bad reaction to the shot, and then fell gravely ill on November 25 when he also contracted Covid.
“I didn’t have any symptoms and then bang,” said Dimattina. “I had a reaction to the booster jab, but I’ve also now got Covid. I’m fighting with everything I got to get better.”
Preexisting autoimmune diseases are considered one of the risk factors for developing an adverse reaction to mRNA vaccines.
Dimattina has been a vocal critic of the Victorian government’s response to the pandemic, particularly the way in which businesses have been left to deal the enormous cost of continuous lockdowns.
He is the owner of the South Melbourne Lamaro’s Hotel and was fined $10,000 for allegedly trading beyond the 8pm Covid lockdown in August when he had a few friends inside having a drink.
Dimattina is part of the Victorians Party set to take on both major parties at the next election.’https://www.rebelnews.com/ex-afl_star_paul_dimattina_gravely_ill_after_suspected_near-lethal_reaction_to_booster_shot?utm_campaign=rb_11_26_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel
In Queensland, Australia the “CCP” state government has come out saying ‘Those who are fully vaccinated and with proof of a negative test from within 72 hours of travel will be allowed into the state without quarantining, with the state government accepting that it will likely lead to a spike in case numbers.
To help keep a lid on any spread, a government spokesman told The Courier Mail that, from Tuesday, a range of billboards and digital media would feature the message “No jabs? No pubs, no gigs, no footy, no movies and no festivals” for unvaccinated people.
“More and more Queenslanders are getting vaccinated every day, but there is still a long way to go,” he said.
“This campaign will remind people about the rewards of getting vaccinated and direct them to a web page where they can book an appointment. Those who are vaccinated will be able to enjoy more freedoms than those who are unvaccinated after December 17.”’https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/news/no-jabs-no-fun-queensland-targets-unvaccinated-in-tough-new-ad-campaign/news-story/18b2f19543bce6ae5e568a0d3359644f
Then in the CCP state of Victoria the CCP Premier Dan Andrews the craziness over vaccines for the CCP virus is being considered mandatory for children five to eleven. Yes, ‘Victorian children as young as five could face a vaccine mandate — meaning they’re locked out of the state’s hospitality venues and major events.
The dramatic move would see kids aged between five and 11 would be subject to a ‘no jab, no play’ system when the vaccine eventually becomes available to youngsters.’https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/andrews-government-refuses-to-rule-out-vaccine-mandate-for-children-aged-five-to-11/news-story/8194be19ed48cd5c11244a3f27cd4a1c
If the Federal Government doesn’t step in soon these Marxist politicians will continue their reign of terror.
‘A small, violent group of counter-protesters lash out at independent media as hundreds of thousands rally against pandemic powers’ and the Victorian Police move Avi on (for his protection)!
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