Sitting Sydney of City Councillor Angela Vithoulkas explains the marginalisation of small business in the Sydney LGA, despite contributing 80% of the council's income. Specifically, a large majority of the council including the Lord Mayor Clover Moore are against small business voting rights in council elections because they 'threaten the democracy of our residents'. There are 80,000 business owners active in the City of Sydney LGA employing over 600,000 people in the LGA, 75,000 of whom live within the LGA. I grew up (late teens into early adulthood) in the City of Sydney LGA. I started my first 2 businesses there. I know it well. Clover Moore was my mayor the entire time, and still reigns today. I suspect one of the reasons she is seemingly undefeatable is the protectionist policy around residential voters compared to small business voters. I certainly remember being treated with a distinctly different tone depending on whether as a resident or a business owner. I reckon Sydney is ready for a new mayor to lead the rebuild post Covid. Elections are end of this year. ----------------------------------------- Full discussion with Cr Angela Vithoulkas responding to the Sydney protests: https://youtu.be/69kj5jbn10c DISCERNABLE The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable https://www.discernable.io/

Peter Hitchens believes that the increasing power of states across the globe in their citizens' lives is not novel to the current pandemic, but has been happening for over a century. He believes we live in the afterglow of a culture that may persist but has already passed. ------------------------------------ Full interview with Peter Hitchens: https://youtu.be/UhzM5nEsg-A DISCERNABLE The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable https://www.discernable.io/

Specialist Medical Practitioner with post graduate qualifications in biostatistics and public health, Dr Tom Cade, thinks that 'masks in 200 years will be what we think of bleeding [blood letting] 200 years ago'. Laboratory based science and observational studies do not equal real life scenarios. --------------------------------------- This is an excerpt from Season 5 Episode 2 of The People's Project: https://youtu.be/CNmNWVGhMrw DISCERNABLE The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable https://www.discernable.io/ --------------------------------------- The Great Barrington Declaration: https://gbdeclaration.org/ Dr Thomas Cade https://www.drtomcade.com.au/ https://www.instagram.com/drtomcade/ https://www.facebook.com/drtomcade Emily from Voice for Victoria https://www.instagram.com/voiceforvictoria

A disturbing reality has emerged after Sydney's protests. Previously compassionate friends, family and colleagues have summoned their inner 'Mr Hydes' to now wish upon thousands of people: death, incarceration without trial, sickness, accidents and economic destruction. Incensed by what they perceive as a gross act of injustice (protesting during a pandemic and lockdown and thus placing Sydneysiders at increased risk) they have reversed the axiom 'execute justice but love mercy'. They execute mercy but love justice. Taste the vitriol pouring forth from the very same mouths who ordinarily profess compassion and mercy (whether by their religion, or their secular big-heartedness). They have abandoned their principles! But they are not evil. Their hypocrisy arises from confusing the verbs 'execute' [justice] and 'love' [mercy]. We are not called to 'love' justice. And we shouldn't - every society that truly 'loves' justice pursues it with a rigour that casts aside mercy as a weak and inconvenient impediment. Which is odd, considering our society's desire to clothe itself in the most virtuous causes possible: compassion, equality, acceptance, and understanding. Such is society's desire for virtue that we legislate compassion, we erect statues and buildings to equality, we valorise and enforce cultures of acceptance and mercy, but then we discard actions of justice where it competes with mercy. Because 'love trumps hate', 'mercy over justice' or [insert some other platitude here]. So we 'execute' or 'do' mercy, whilst 'loving' justice. It is a disastrous reversal that perhaps feels good for those indulging therein but ultimately it delivers a twisted world where justice is diluted for whatever fleeting wave of righteousness fills our fickle human hearts in that season. Instead, imagine a world where justice is executed. Always. Where corruption is sidelined. Where courts, police and communities never shy away from doing the right thing. Ever. But those same courts, police and communities love mercy. They prefer mercy. They look for mercy within the justice. Their hearts are filled with compassion as they execute justice. This would satisfy the twin hungers of the human heart: for justice to always prevail, but for mercy to always rule. --------------------------------------- DISCERNABLE The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable https://www.discernable.io/

We cannot ignore the alarming rhetoric coming first out of government, then media, and now each other. 'Hunting down' these people to find them and ridicule them? Seriously? What kind of Australia will be left when we've finished crucifying all of these 'selfish freedom protestors'? It's a swelling group that I've watched grow and cross borders for 12 months now. It's not going away. Full discussion with Cr Angela Vithoulkas responding to the Sydney protests: https://youtu.be/69kj5jbn10c ----------------------------------------- DISCERNABLE The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable https://www.discernable.io/

Dr Thomas Cade on the coming 'rough few years' because 'you can scare people easily and un-scaring them is very tricky'. 'It might take a decade or more before people start becoming less scared about viruses in general'. --------------------------------------- This is an excerpt from Season 5 Episode 2 of The People's Project: https://youtu.be/CNmNWVGhMrw DISCERNABLE The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable https://www.discernable.io/ --------------------------------------- The Great Barrington Declaration: https://gbdeclaration.org/ Dr Thomas Cade https://www.drtomcade.com.au/ https://www.instagram.com/drtomcade/ https://www.facebook.com/drtomcade Emily from Voice for Victoria https://www.instagram.com/voiceforvictoria

In this episode of The Other Side Australia: 1. Australia an embarrassment on the global stage 2. The rise of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its role as defacto political opposition 3. Interview with the National President of the LDP Dr John Humphreys --------------------- DISCERNABLE The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable https://www.discernable.io/ --------------------- Michael Knowles on the global embarrassment Australia has become: https://youtu.be/zqcx1X9IenI

Here is an angle on vaccine passports nobody is discussing. Ethics. As the rise of transhumanism continues and we improve our biological capabilities, we must also have a conversation, debate and regulation around the ethics of this new era in human development. 'If the State is going to discriminate against people on this basis, essentially what they're doing is discriminating against people for simply being human'. - David Limbrick MP Maybe people will argue and accept this as being morally good but then we must have the ethics side of the argument. The study of ethics used to be in vogue, you know. --------------------------------------- This is an excerpt from Season 5 Episode 3 of The People's https://youtu.be/uMOwX6_ubQs The VEOHRC Retailer's Guide to Face Masks: https://www.humanrights.vic.gov.au/resources/retailers-guide-face-masks-and-discrimination/ --------------------------------------- DISCERNABLE The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable https://www.discernable.io/ --------------------------------------- David Limbrick MP https://www.ldp.org.au/freedomday Emily from Voice for Victoria https://www.instagram.com/voiceforvictoria

In episode 4 of The People's Project: 1. Australia Returns to a Penal Colony - Australian Army deployed to South West Sydney to enforce lockdown 2. The 2-Tiered Society - Scomo back in extra lockdowns for the unvaccinated 3. Behavioural Bilingualism - protestors are getting more strategic --------------------------------------- DISCERNABLE The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable https://www.discernable.io/ --------------------------------------- Josh from The Looking Glass discernable.locals.com Emily from Voice for Victoria https://www.instagram.com/voiceforvictoria