Chris Needham 🌸 🇦🇺

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire

@AlboMP “Because there's no excuse for increasing profits at the expense of Australians.” Now do mass immigration.

Our new laws to crack down on petrol price gouging have just passed Parliament. We're doubling penalties for companies doing the wrong thing. Because there's no excuse for increasing profits at the expense of Australians.

The green scam always leads here.

@Ryandally08 Ironic that “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance” - Thomas Jefferson

#BREAKING Anthony Albanese again says that we “need to call out” those people who want to “turn back the clock to an Australia who we no longer are” Before adding “we need to be vigilant” Sounds like hate speech.

Labor and Greens opposed a senate inquiry into NDIS waste. A $60bn a year scheme growing at 10% a year cynics say is built to bankrupt the state.

ABC demanding “Secure, Safe & Sustainable jobs” are striking after TURNING DOWN an offer of 10% raise and $1,000 bonus. In the private sector, NO JOBS are secure and sustainable means a reduction. I’m sick of the level of entitlement in govt. SACK THEM

Someone put this diagram together and it deserves to be read slowly. Three of the most disturbing psychological experiments in modern history placed in a Venn diagram with COVID policy sitting precisely at their intersection. They were not wrong. Most people know the Milgram experiment. Ordinary people administering what they believed were lethal electric shocks to strangers because an authority figure in a white coat told them to continue. We wrote about this. COVID replicated it at planetary scale, the doctors, the neighbours, the employers, the family members who enforced mandates with a zeal that had nothing to do with science and everything to do with institutional obedience. But the other two are equally important and far less discussed. The Asch Conformity Experiment demonstrated something even more fundamental. Solomon Asch showed in the 1950s that a significant majority of people will deny the evidence of their own eyes will give an answer they know to be factually wrong, simply because everyone else in the room is giving that answer. Not because they were threatened. Not because they were paid. Because the social pressure of the group was sufficient to override direct sensory experience. This is what masking a healthy population, cancelling Christmas, and demanding that people treat their neighbours as biological threats actually accomplished. It was not about any of those things specifically. It was about training an entire population to override their own perception and defer to the group consensus, however absurd that consensus became. And then the Stanford Prison Experiment. Philip Zimbardo’s 1971 study abandoned early because it spiralled so rapidly out of control, showed that ordinary people assigned roles of authority over other ordinary people will, within days, begin to abuse that authority in ways they would have found unthinkable before the role was assigned. The guards became cruel not because they were cruel people but because the structure gave them permission and the institution backed them up. We watched this happen in real time. The COVID marshals. The border agents turning families away. The hospital administrators barring visitors from dying patients. The teachers reporting parents. The neighbours calling police on children playing in parks. The HR departments gleefully processing terminations for the unvaccinated. Ordinary people, handed a role and a uniform of institutional approval, discovering capacities for cruelty that their pre-2020 selves would not have recognised. Now go deeper. Because the institution at the centre of this, the one that has connected these threads across decades is not an accident of history. Stanford sits at the intersection of centralised medicine, defence research, and the surveillance architecture that has been constructed around human attention and behaviour for the better part of a century. The Stanford Research Institute. The connections to MKUltra the CIA’s mind control programme that ran from the early 1950s and included everything from Mexican mescaline experiments to the weaponisation of LSD on unwitting subjects, overseen by figures who moved seamlessly between military intelligence and the medical establishment. From General Groves who oversaw the Manhattan Project and the deliberate suppression of radiation health data to Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA chemist who ran MKUltra’s most extreme programmes. The through-line is not conspiracy. It is institutional continuity. The same networks. The same funding streams. The same willingness to use human beings as experimental subjects in the service of power dressed as science.

They would prefer to let organised crime, arson and murder proliferate than admit they screwed up.

The Australian Prime Minister's lies don't wash on X. Community note! Good. Sack him.

COVID was a live-action replay of the Milgram experiment. No walls. No laboratory. No electrodes. Just a television, a daily briefing, and an authority figure in a suit telling people what to do. And the results were exactly the same. For those unfamiliar, Stanley Milgram’s landmark experiments in the 1960s demonstrated that ordinary people, when placed under institutional authority and given clear instructions, would administer what they believed to be severe electric shocks to innocent strangers simply because someone in a position of authority told them to continue. The conclusion was uncomfortable and definitive. Obedience to authority, in the presence of sufficient social pressure, overrides individual conscience in the vast majority of people. COVID proved it again. At global scale. In real time. But the truly devastating part the part that I find most difficult to reconcile , was the medical profession. Doctors. Physicians. People who spent years “studying” human biology, pharmacology, immunology, and medical ethics. People who took an oath. People who knew or had every professional obligation to know that mandating an experimental intervention, suppressing early treatment, isolating the dying from their families, and dismissing adverse events without investigation was a profound violation of everything their training stood for. And so many of them did it anyway. Not reluctantly. Enthusiastically. Do as you’re told was not a private capitulation for most of them. It was performed publicly, proudly, wrapped in the language of science and responsibility and care by people who had abandoned all three the moment the institutional authority spoke. Follow the science became the most cynical slogan of the era. Deployed not by people following evidence but by people following orders and using the language of reason to avoid the discomfort of exercising it. Milgram’s most haunting finding was not that monsters do terrible things. It was that ordinary people do when the structure around them makes it easy enough. We just watched it happen again. And the lesson, as always, is the same. An obedient population is only as safe as the integrity of whoever is giving the orders. Think for yourself. Question everything. And never under any pressure, from any authority switch off your conscience because someone told you to.

Hummm, $50 billion a year for the Indigenous $50 billion a year for NDIS $55 billion a year for the defence of Australia. But we cannot ever store 30 days of emergency fuel.

The fuel crisis is an epic failure of government mismanagement and religion-driven climate policy. We didn't even have the 90 day IEA minimum stockpile for peacetime. People who think they're clever getting an electric vehicle might also want to ask how they'll recharge when the very same economic mismanagement impacts electricity prices or we have blackouts. Given what we have under our feet we should have the cheapest and most unlimited energy in the world. That we have the opposite, tells you everything you need to know about our leadership.

🚨 BREAKING: Waste industry warns that waste collection may be paused due to the fuel crisis. The same fuel crisis the retarded Australian government is saying doesn’t exist.

Hard no. The politicians made whatever COVID was going to be substantially worse. None of this. Never again.

Labor and Greens have no intention of properly addressing NDIS fraud. All they’ve committed to is a growth target of 8% in the short term - and now 5-6% in the long term. These little tweaks that lack urgency aren’t in line with community expectations. Shutting down this investigation is protection of a program with fundamental failures.

@AlboMP So you’re cracking down on your own government, then? Pardon me if I don’t hold my breath in anticipation… 🧐

We've just introduced laws to crack down on petrol price gouging with huge fines.

The Federal Government is the real petrol price gouger. No retailer makes margins anywhere close to what the government makes in excise and GST.

Get a load of the absolute tripe Chris Bowen has dropped on Bluesky. He forgets we sit on an abundance of coal, gas and oil here in Australia. We should be energy independent, not dependent on wind. Renewables don't work. Utterly hopeless.

The conspiracy theorists are owed a great apology.

Blaming motorists for diesel shortages. Do they ever correctly identify the root cause of any problem ever?

Australia didn’t have to be this way. 53% of Australians draw their primary income from government. This is the point where that sweet socialist nectar sinks a country because it can no longer support itself. Productivity is shot and we produce almost nothing for ourselves.