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Australian Police Attempt To BAN Reporters From Covering Their Violent Attacks On Anti Lockdown Protesters
enVolve ^

Posted on 09/23/2021 6:27:57 AM PDT by A.M. Smith

Police in Australia have attempted to prevent journalists from reporting the anti-lockdown demonstrations.

On Wednesday, Victoria police announced a no-fly zone over the city center, suggesting that media video would provide demonstrators with intelligence that would allow them to avoid the cops. This, obviously, has nothing to do with the cops being caught on film beating and indiscriminately firing rubber bullets at demonstrators.

After the media pushed back with a court challenge, the police were forced to partially back off the order to keep news helicopters out of the skies.

RT reports: Police in Victoria initially issued a blanket order to keep local news helicopters out of the sky over the Melbourne city center known as the CBD, according to 7 News Melbourne, which reported that it was filing a legal challenge to the rule on Wednesday along with fellow Melbourne broadcaster Channel 9.

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority declared the airspace above Melbourne city center a ‘no-fly zone’ on Wednesday afternoon, encompassing three nautical miles from the district, before police relented after a wave of protest from the news media.

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1 posted on 09/23/2021 6:27:57 AM PDT by A.M. Smith
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To: A.M. Smith

Who had Australia goes full-on totalitarian for 2021!?


2 posted on 09/23/2021 6:30:49 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Video is twitter embed

now on rumble for those of yo that won’t click twitter

Victoria police announce a no-fly zone over Melbourne city center
https://rumble.com/vmv9yr-victoria-police-announce-a-no-fly-zone-over-melbourne-city-center.html


3 posted on 09/23/2021 6:34:34 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: A.M. Smith

Why hide it? Surely they are proud of it. Come on bully cops, show the world what you are made of. Show the world how tough guys beat up old women holding a sign, and when you got her on the ground, Blam, you pepper spray her in the face.

New World Order cops are going to mete out New World Justice.


4 posted on 09/23/2021 6:36:43 AM PDT by dforest
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To: A.M. Smith

Isn’t Australia a parliamentary form of government?

Why hasn’t there been a vote of no confidence in the prime minister. Why hasn’t anyone called for new elections?

Unlike the USA, which has set office terms, parliamentary governments can change at any time.


5 posted on 09/23/2021 6:39:10 AM PDT by Brookhaven (The dystopian future is now!)
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To: janetjanet998

another twitter embed in that article now on Rumble

Australia: Police shooting rubber bullets indiscriminately at peaceful anti-lockdown protesters
https://rumble.com/vmva9l-australia-police-shooting-rubber-bullets-indiscriminately-at-peaceful-ant-l.html


6 posted on 09/23/2021 6:39:51 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: A.M. Smith
Official Mandated Anthem if the Victoria, Australia Government
7 posted on 09/23/2021 6:42:27 AM PDT by BigEdLB (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
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To: Brookhaven

This is being done by the state governments, and not their Federal government.


8 posted on 09/23/2021 6:42:45 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: A.M. Smith

Local police are there to help the political class. That’s a special club. And you ain’t in it.


9 posted on 09/23/2021 6:47:52 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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To: A.M. Smith

Australia is now a dictatorship. Get used to it, Aussies! Once they taste power they never let go of it!


10 posted on 09/23/2021 6:49:06 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Dethrone the ruling elite. Redistribute their wealth. Take away their power. Annul their privileges.)
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To: janetjanet998

No fly zone.
So no one can get drone video of the jackboots in action.


11 posted on 09/23/2021 6:53:19 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Brookhaven

The prime minister is against this stuff. This is all the state governors, and he has no control over them.


12 posted on 09/23/2021 6:54:27 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ClearCase_guy

FWIW, we don’t know that those forces are made up of local police.

I’m betting they aren’t.

Wish to God someone would dig into that.


13 posted on 09/23/2021 6:56:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: A.M. Smith

Does the US really want to sign treaties that commit American blood and treasure to defend what has become of Australia?


14 posted on 09/23/2021 6:58:51 AM PDT by allendale
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To: A.M. Smith

Defund the Police , you have a reason


15 posted on 09/23/2021 7:05:41 AM PDT by butlerweave
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The puppet regime know as “the joe biden presidency” tried the “No Fly” bs with a TFR to stop drone flights showing the 14,000 illegals camped under the bridge in Texas.

It was based on “Special Security” reasons.

When the lawyers finally stopped laughing they blew it out of the water in two days.

The Aussies might take a bit longer...

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16 posted on 09/23/2021 7:09:39 AM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: A.M. Smith

I understand this tyranny is being done by state governments, but I would think the PM and members of Parliament would have some authority to stop this nonsense. If the Aussies hadn’t been disarmed, this rebellion would be taking on a different character.

My brother in law is an Aussie and he and my wife’s sister usually spend part of the year in the states and part in Australia. They have been unable to return to Australia for most of a year and while they plan to return in November, they face a two week quarantine under virtual house arrest at some government hotel not being able to leave their room and have to pay for this virtual imprisonment. Once released from quarantine they again are restricted to their home not being able to go out except for certain approved reasons and must be masked even if alone in their car. Of course they both have been vaccinated for what little good that does in the Aussie penal colony.


17 posted on 09/23/2021 7:16:42 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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How long before our military is dispatched to Oz to help the Downundernazis crack down on their own people?


18 posted on 09/23/2021 7:23:29 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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Drones! How will they stop them? Shoot em?


19 posted on 09/23/2021 7:29:44 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: A.M. Smith

A Reflection on Covid Mania
by Sebastian Rushworth, M.D.

At the beginning of this year I wrote about how the governments of the world had created a collective state of hysteria so intense that the only way they could dig themselves out of the hole they had made was with a magic bullet. That magic bullet was, of course, the vaccines. I wrote that it didn’t really matter how effective the vaccines were in the real world, or whether they prevented transmission. All that mattered was getting every single person on the planet to take the vaccine, after which the politicians would be able to declare victory.

It’s now eight months later, and we can conclude that the prediction has come to pass. In many western countries, 70+ percent of the adult population is now vaccinated. In the early part of this year, hospitalizations and deaths started to drop, and they stayed low all summer. The convenient explanation at the time was that this was thanks to the vaccines, even though the drop started at a time when very few people were vaccinated - the reduction was clearly driven by something else. My guess is that it was due to the onset of herd immunity to the original covid strain. The decline was halted temporarily due to the arrival of the more infectious alpha strain (which raised the herd immunity threshold due to its higher infectiousness), but was quickly followed by a continued trend downwards as the population reached herd immunity even to that more infectious strain. This was helped in part, perhaps, by the vaccines, and then helped even more by the arrival of summer and the effect of seasonality.

As autumn has come along, cases and deaths have started to rise again in many places, in part due to the seasonal effect, and in part, likely, due to the arrival of the even more infectious delta variant (which raises the herd immunity threshold even further). In the official narrative, the increase in cases and deaths is blamed on the unvaccinated, who are supposedly driving the development of vaccine resistant variants. It’s true that the unvaccinated are more likely to end up in hospital with covid than the vaccinated - the vaccine does offer protection against covid, after all. But it isn’t true that the unvaccinated are driving vaccine resistance.

It seems that the doctors and ”experts” who appear on tv and who drive public policy have completely forgotten how evolution works. Let’s take bacteria as an analogy. Bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics when we use antibiotics too generously. Indiscriminate use of antibiotics puts evolutionary pressure on bacteria to develop resistance, since that’s the only way they can survive in the antibiotic saturated environment. Yet, now, we are supposed to believe that the opposite is true for viruses - they apparently develop resistance when we underuse vaccines! We’re suddenly supposed to believe that up is down and down is up.

Just like with bacteria and antibiotics, vaccine resistance will develop in a situation where the vaccines are being overused - if you vaccinate large numbers of healthy young people who don’t really need to be vaccinated then you put strong evolutionary pressure on the virus to become vaccine resistant. Maybe this could be avoided in an imaginary scenario where you can vaccinate every single person on the planet on the same day, thereby stopping the virus in its tracks. But that’s no realistic. It’s taken six months or more to get to 70% vaccinated in most countries, which has given the virus plenty of time to mutate in response to the evolutionary pressure from the vaccines. If we had stuck with only vaccinating the elderly and other risk groups, then we wouldn’t have put as much evolutionary pressure on the virus to develop resistance to the vaccines, and the vaccines might have been more effective for longer.

After a year of massive fear mongering by governments and the media, it would have been impossible not to offer the vaccine to everyone who wanted it. Even those not at risk believed they were in danger and demanded the vaccine. There was thus always going to be a massive vaccine uptake. But that wasn’t enough. Because it couldn’t be. The logic created by the “deadly pandemic” narrative demands that every single person alive be vaccinated. That is why there is no recognition of the effects of seasonality or of the fact that prior infection provides a level of protection to new infection that is at least as good as that provided by vaccination.

We now see an obsession with vaccinating everyone that can only be described as pathological. The tone taken towards those people who have so far chosen not to be vaccinated is derogatory and dehumanizing to the extreme. They are portrayed as ”anti-vaxxers”, tin foil hat wearing loons, and irresponsible “granny killers”. No effort is made to listen to their real arguments, such as that the vaccine has not been shown to be less risky than the disease for healthy young people, or that it’s hard to trust data from pharmacetical companies and drug regulators when they’ve repeatedly been caught lying and hiding data in the past, or that the vaccine is still only a year old and there is no long term follow-up data. These very valid arguments are portrayed as ridiculous, outlandish, and dumb, when they are anything but.

Peter Goetzche argued in his book, “Deadly medicines and organized crime”, that no-one should take a new drug that’s been on the market for less than seven years, in light of the fact that it often takes that long for dangers to become known and dangerous drugs to be pulled off the market. In recent months, we’ve learned that the Astra-Zeneca vaccine can cause deadly blood clots in the brain, and we’ve learned that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines can cause myocarditis. The authorities say that these events are extremely rare, based on the number of events that are reported to the authorities. But this ignores the fact that most adverse events don’t get reported.

In recent weeks, I’ve personally seen multiple cases of myocarditis that occurred days after vaccination. When I’ve suggested to colleagues that we should report them to the authorities as possible vaccine side effects, the response I’ve been met with has been roughly this: “oh, yeah, maybe that’s a good idea… I don’t know how to do that”. I’ve reported the cases I’ve handled personally, but my guess, based on this reaction, is that most other cases have not been reported. Obviously, if you believe that what actually gets reported is an accurate estimate of the reality, then you will grossly underestimate the case rate.

It’s hard to maintain faith in science when it is so wilfully distorted to accord with a political agenda, and when many doctors and scientists so happily go along with what is handed down from on high. I recently learned that an excellent study on the covid vaccines, carried out at a prestigious institution, has spent months trying to get published in a peer-reviewed journal, but has been denied again and again, because its results don’t align with the official dogma. Clearly, the journals are engaging in politically motivated censorship. When this is the case, peer-review becomes a harmful process, whose only purpose is to determine the political acceptability of research, not it’s quality or usefulness. It becomes impossible for the lay person, and even for doctors and scientists, to know what the truth is, because uncomfortable truths remain buried or remain at the pre-print stage, which makes it all too easy to dismiss them - “Oh, that’s just a pre-print, it hasn’t been peer-reviewed”. That is the world we live in.

I will end on a positive note though. The delta variant ravaged through India in a few months in spring, and the population went from 20% to 70% with antibodies. 50% of the population was infected over a two month period. That’s not the positive part, this is: Since then case rates have remained low, even as autumn has arrived. That is in spite of the fact that only around 15% of the population has currently been vaccinated. It would appear that the country has reached the point of herd immunity. And it only took a few months to get there, due to the incredible infectiousness of the delta variant.

The idea that herd immunity can only be reached with vaccines is perhaps the most laughable idea to be heavily promulgated during the pandemic, at least to everyone with even a little knowledge of immunology and history. Eighteen months in to the pandemic, most countries are at or on the cusp of herd immunity, regardless of how effective they have been at vaccinating their populations. There is no need to force the remaining 15-30% of the population to take a vaccine they don’t want. The end of the pandemic is in sight.

https://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/09/23/a-reflection-on-covid-mania/


20 posted on 09/23/2021 7:36:31 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( In your private, business, social and what ever life!: "All ways, ask Cui Bono?"!)
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