What Is Really Going On? - part one

And why won't our local representatives discuss it with us?

“When I entered the Labor Party, it consisted of the cream of the working class; when I left it, it consisted of the dregs of the middle class”.
Kim Beasley senior
quoted in John Quiggin’s The End of Manufacturing in Australia

I am not sure what prompted me to reuse that ‘almost’ cliched line. It might have been the image of Laura Chalmers in her $1,900 Zampatti creation on budget night. It might have been reflections on her husband’s plans to turn everything from homelessness to unemployment and socially induced childhood misery into something measurable, marketed and monetised.

So you’re unaware of Jim Chalmer’s and Amanda Rishworth’s Inaugural roundtable of Investment Dialogue for Australia's Children? You haven’t read Kate Mason’s excellent article where she explains how Social Impact Bonds are dressed up as looking after our children’s wellbeing? Better do so now. It is important to understand the predatory plans these people have for us, especially our children.

An interesting element of the social impact bond approach is that it discourages system improvements. If the focus is on investment, the pressure is to find or create problems to invest in. This carries the attendant risk of corporate and investor capture of social policy. The more homeless, unemployed or children with learning difficulties the better.

What have you been told?

Has the latest glossy brochure from your local political representative told you about this? No? That is probably because there wasn’t room as they needed to tell you, nay warn you, about plans for a national Digital Id and the World Health Organisation’s International Health Amendment deliberations that took place last weekend. You say, you have received nothing on these subjects.

Was there been anything on their Facebook page or perhaps in the local newspaper warning or celebrating these initiatives? There have certainly been some celebrations as this photo attests. Here is our local Federal member, Susan Templeman with the Digital Id tout Katy Gallagher and “your child as an investment vehicle” Treasurer Chalmers.

How happy they look.

A Google search for Susan Templeman and Digital Id or a DuckDuckGo search for the same produces nothing. Searching for “International Health Regulations” produces a similar result.

What is hard to miss is this celebration which appeared prominently in our local newspaper and is probably on a flyer in our letterbox now.

Does anyone have the feeling we are being groomed? I do. Look at the way this happy story is broadcast with that handy QR code. Conversely, on matters our “representative” wants to keep secret, we are atomised as she communicates her perfidious messages privately.

As a member of the Labor / Liberal / Greens triumvirate, Susan has helped to drive up the price of an expanding list of items that make this tax cut of little consequence. Knowing this, I am not feeling the excitement she expects her cheery, publicly funded advertisement to inspire.

This managed secrecy attempts to conceal our entry into an age of extreme neoliberalism. As I have explained elsewhere, neoliberalism IS NOT merely a disparaging term you use to describe the behaviour of greedy billionaires. It was invented by members of the Mont Pelerin Society¹ in the late 1940s and has a very clear meaning.

Its architects, like Friedrich von Hayek, argued that capital was best directed by price signals and that government’s role was to help the market produce them. Put a price on whatever you can and let’s start the bidding.

Neoliberalism has never been about small government. Government must be as big as the market needs it to be.

Where does this lead? Your success or failure is tied to how accurately you read and take advantage of those price signals. All success and failure is personal. The system is perfect. From within the system, there is nothing to correct.

Neoliberalism - a public private partnership

Do you need an example? Can there be a better one than Covid-19. Our government cleared the way for the market to work and it worked beautifully. The World Health organisation was bought off as were all of our major institutions such as ATAGI and AHPRA. They responded to price signals.

Hospitals and doctors did the same. Hospitals received cash inducements to find Covid-19 infected patients and they found them everywhere. Sometimes, price incentives encouraged staff to slip patients Remdesivir on the way to intubation and early demise. It came with a good price. I have first hand experience of this practice being employed at a couple of Sydney Hospitals.

My friendly family doctor received irresistible incentives to dose me up; money he was denied by my lack of compliance.

Employers too were pulled into this game by mandating employees take the jab. Yes, Employers mandated these medical procedures. Isn’t that bizarre? Presumably, this was to protect politicians who had read the price signals. Everyone has to do their bit for the market.

Someone had to take the fall and wear legal costs if all of this was found to be illegal. Who better than a dispensable local business owner? The price signals flashing for those who did not comply was loss of our pay.

Iatragenesis - the new business model

From his press release:
”The Assembly is also considering landmark reforms to strengthen the world’s capacity to prepare for and respond to health emergencies, through a proposed international agreement on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, and amendments to the International Health Regulations.
 
Both instruments aim to ensure the global community, including Australia, acts on the lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and is better equipped for future health emergencies”.

What lessons? Both instruments ensure our slavery. What they are planning is to hand authority over our health and individual rights to bureaucrats in Geneva. What this means is next time there is a pandemic and the orders go out to lockdown, mask up and take the jab, no matter how poisonous, you will do as you are told or the police will be at your door.

Meet Mayor Mark specialising in resident ridicule

This flyer was distributed throughout the Blue Mountains to fill the gap our politicians had left regarding the WHO’s plans.

Our courageous Mayor prefers to communicate to the public via social media. That way he can ensure that the vast numbers of residents he has blocked are prevented from seeing smears such as this.

There is plenty in these articles to show that what I am discussing is no conspiracy theory. Like so many of his colleagues at more senior levels of government, he relies on public ignorance and keeping people that way. This is NOT leadership, it is cowardice. And we note his plea to voters to remain uninformed.

Sadly, outside of a strong commitment to Queer culture and ridiculing of public concerns, our Mayor’s role and purpose are desperately opaque.

The issues described in this flyer are real enough but it is impossible to penetrate the freemasonic-like grip Labor has on the views on its incumbents. What is even less clear is what influence organisations like ICLEI and C40 Race to Zero have over our Council.

A last word on our Mayor, Greenhill’s notorious performance at the Council meeting of 30th April 2022 remains a remarkable example of his gaucheness. Some of his colleagues didn’t come up too well either.

STOP PRESS: THE AMENDMENTS TO THE INTERNATION HEALTH REGULATIONS HAVE BEEN ADOPTED

So despite our Mayor’s denials, this was not a conspiracy theory. James Roguski explains what this means:

The Amendments to the IHR have been adopted

Meanwhile, I have made numerous appeals to Ms Templeman, without getting a reply. People lucky enough to be acknowledged, get pat responses like we received during Covid such as “I trust the science”. What is the price for turning your back on your community? Maybe we will see later this year.

The passing of these documents by the World Health Assembly will provide a justification for bypassing national governments. Our politicians won’t even need to pretend they represent us any more. They will just say: “The WHO made me do it”.

Expand this 100 times for all the other agencies, including ONE HEALTH,² should the Summit of the Future achieve its goals. This will be discussed, briefly, in the second article in this series.

If Susan, Mark and their co-conspirators really wanted to “equip us for future health emergencies”, they could start by making sure any solution cobbled together was a safe and effective one. They could make sure the testing agencies like ATAGI and AHPRA hadn’t been corrupted.

They could make sure we really needed their Big Pharma solution and that there were no safe, effective and cheaper alternatives. They could listen to us when we tell them our family members have been injured or have died and adjust policy accordingly.

There is so much they might do but these people can’t hear us. They don’t want to hear us. They want to pretend nothing is going on as they sell out our interests and read concealed price signals. They clamour for our trust while working to betray it.

I ask again, what is really going on?

We’ve got some homegrown psychiatric disease mongers

Let’s turn to our children. Recently, Ms Templeman wrote, selectively, to young people in the mountains to tell them all the wonderful things she was doing for them. Top of the list was increased money for mental health services.

Is that something you imagine would excite a young person?

How very sad if it does. And despite all the money directed there and the abundance of local services, there seems to be little improvement in public health. What seems to improve are the bank balances of the Headspace and Orygen operations led by a couple of local mental health gurus with links to the World Economic Forum.

Let me introduce you to two very important people to this story. The first is a former state Labor politician from Western Australia, Martin Whitely. He is the author of a book that I strongly recommend, “Overprescribing Madness”³. He is also a man of remarkable compassion, courage and vision.

In this 15 minute clip from 2013, Whitely challenges the funding and focus of the mental health industry provided by the then Gillard government.

Whitely explains how senior people running mental health policy in Australia have tried desperately to have Psychotic RISK Disorder included in the ⁴ (DSM-5). He describes the promoters of this scam as “psychiatric disease mongers”. Ms Templeman should take note of whose work she is celebrating.

Imagine the bounty accruing to people who could pull this off. We’ll medicate you against risk. A decade later, isn’t this that still the promise of the Covid mRNA offerings.

In another talk from a couple of years ago⁵, Whitely explains 1 in 6 Australians were on some sort of mental health drug. Most of these people were taking an SSRI anti-depressant medication making us the biggest users of this medication in the OECD, with the exception of Iceland.

Whitley also points to a correlation between increased SSRI use and an increase in suicide. I guess this is one way of addressing what he calls a “permanent disability model”. A similar policy seems to underpin our national vaccination program.

Please note how this reflects the neoliberal model described earlier where all problems are personal. Whitely makes the point in one of his talks that mental illness can be transitory and caused by external conditions. Not if people’s career depends on it.

Not under neoliberalism. The system is perfect. The answer to a failed market is another market. Plans are to give us a lot of them.

Just before moving on, I might mention Julia Gillard is now Chair of the UK version of the Gates Foundation, Wellcome. She is also Chair of the Global Partnership for Education and Beyond Blue both supporters of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). She has an interest in in Social Impact Investing as a board member of Leapfrog Investments. Lastly, she is Chair of Energy Transition at HMC Capital. What a great networker.

What is really going on?

Meet Kathryn Ecclestone

Maybe Kathryn can help us to understand. I came across the work of this Sheffield University researcher when reading an article by Ben Williamson on psychodata which we will discuss in part 2 of this series.

In her book, “The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education”⁶, she points to some very real dangers related to the model being embraced by governments in OECD countries. She also explains how schools and universities are now at the centre of developing policy responses to mental health issues.

In a fascinating presentation⁷, Kathryn discusses what is called The Vulnerability Zeitgeist. She described a virtually unchallenged consensus that we are facing an apocryphal decline in levels of mental health amongst children and young people.

Her argument is reinforced beyond the 2015 date of this talk and carried into the present time by records of online usage of terms like vulnerability and resilience. When you see this increase in usage, it is obviously not incidental. There are some very influential people and publications leading the debate.

Even in 2015, Ms Ecclestone discussed how the use of vulnerability had changed in conversation and the idea of being too open with other people can make you vulnerable. This frames people you are interacting with as a threat. And the threat can be inflicted by the use of everyday language. Justifiable victimhood and calls for inclusion were on the way.

People are a threat but it is OK to share your deepest secrets on social media because you are contributing to the corporate data capture and its modelling of a bright new future. You might even get a “LIKE”.

Note that vulnerability’s antonym, Resilience, follows a similar pattern. And programs like ⁸ SEL hope to define and shape what it means to be resilient too.

Ms Ecclestone continues that the definition of the vulnerable who needed protection has expanded. Vulnerable once described people who were wounded or at risk of serious harm. It now covers a much broader vulnerability landscape.

Ten years later, it covers people who insist they are in the wrong body and don’t receive sufficient affirmation from us of their mental illness. We who refuse to affirm them may be committing homicide or some lesser but still serious offence.

Another shift she discusses is that vulnerability is increasingly claimed by all levels of society, not merely those of evident social disadvantage. In support of this anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, mental ill-health, emotion wellbeing and depression are all being elided in confusing vague and ever-expanding ways.

Further she describes how, problematically, wellbeing and mental health are linked. Underlying these are what is variably described as skills capabilities, dispositions or attitudes which can be taught.

If they can be taught, there needs to be a teacher. And the teacher needs to be trained to have the right outlook and presumably this would be one that includes an understanding of wellbeing and SEL. According to UNESCO, this also requires extensive sex education⁹. The UK Safe Schools Network’s comments on this toolkit make interesting reading¹⁰.

Along with that comes tremendous opportunities for teaching aids, technologies, programs and methodologies such as the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) framework which is advancing through Australian education. James Lindsay provides a fascinating history of CASEL and its funder, John Fetzer.¹¹

The expansion of Mindfulness is something Kathryn notes along with the expansion of Wellbeing programs into the workforce in the hope they will make us more diligent, focused workers.¹²

Towards the end of her talk she discusses “cultural therapeutic orthodoxies” and psycho-emotional framing of perceived mental health, vulnerability and personal achievement related issues. Framing the problem this way justifies or even demands the state’s intervention. The problem that needs to be fixed is always a personal one.

So where is Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), reframing of vulnerability, overprescribing, over-affirming, ubiquitous data collection and related analysis leading us.

Our political leadership won’t talk to us about it, so it is up to us to figure it out.

We discuss some likely scenarios in part two of this series which will be published on Tuesday.

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1. The origins of neoliberalism and birth of the Mont Pelerin Societyfp
Interview with Philip Mirowskil

2. ONE HEALTH
All the fabricated threats to our health identified in one place

3. Overprescribing Madness
A wonderful book that explains the iatrogenic nature that characterises much of the west’s mental health policies. It names the big players in Australia and the vulnerability of our politician’s to their wiles.

4. Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR)

5. Overprescribing Madness: Australia's Mental Health Epidemic
Martin Whitely interviewed on Journey’s Dream podcast

6. The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education
by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes

7. Mindfulness & the rise of 'therapeutic education': dangerous or progressive?
Kathryn Ecclestone to the Family Education Trust, London, 13 June 2015

8. The NSW Department of Education has embraced Social and Emotional Learning but to date the rollout is patchy and far less advanced than in the United Kingdom

9. Comprehensive Sexuality Education Implementation Toolkit

10. Comprehensive Sexuality Education -
A review of UNESCO and WHO standards

11. WTF is SEL
A talk by James Lindsay on Social and Emotional Learning which includes a fascinating history of its origins, its funder and his undeniable and barely hidden links to the Occult

12. Mind Your Own Business
An article on Mindfulness by Barbara Ehrenreich