We have been handed a load of lies for many decades. I cannot tell which of them is the biggest, but sometimes I feel that we’re back in the USSR! Apologies to Paul, John, and George.

For about 40 years we have been told that man-made global warming is a problem leading to a catastrophe of biblical proportions. That particular lie involved rising ocean levels, which have never been realised. They told us dams and reservoirs would never fill again, but they keep overflowing. They told us if we don’t do something like pay billions of dollars to poorer nations then the global temperatures will rise and wipe out all human life. They say that we are entering a stage of ‘global boiling’, yet satellite data shows only a very small rise in average global temperature.

The truth is that human emissions of carbon dioxide have very little effect on global temperatures. This we know from fundamental physics. The Stefan-Boltzmann equation tells us that the temperature of the planet is proportional to the one-quarter root of the thermal emission from the planet. That is extremely weak. Thus, it is my opinion that they are lying when they talk of catastrophe and tipping points.

Probably the best analogy is a ballast system. If you have an enormous mass of concrete in the bottom of your ship it is extremely difficult to tip the ship over no matter how hard you push. The temperature of the atmosphere due to thermal radiation from the planet’s surface is very insensitive to change. And you cannot casually change physics with a vote at the United Nations. Ironically, the Soviet Politburo did vote to change some laws of physics, but the universe did not get the message and behaved the way God made it to regardless of Soviet orders.

We have been told that there is no difference between women and men. They can both do the same jobs and fill the same roles in society. Now they even say men can have babies and they stock men’s bathrooms and change rooms with female products. This lie was part of the scam that sex and gender are different, which is demonstrably false. That has been known to be so for thousands of years. Just ask a native tribesman. They may not be educated in the Woke ways, but they know basic biology.

A corollary to that lie is another lie that you can change your gender by removing and re-forming body parts, or even thinking and identifying as something else. Some claim there are 57 different genders, or maybe more. But it is anti-science and a delusional statement.

Another lie they tell us is that being ‘white’ (or more broadly European) is bad. Activists pretend fairer-skinned people have a special privilege. The truth is there are no so-called white-skinned people, instead we all have varying levels of melanin in our skin. In addition, the claim of skin colour privilege is an invention of the Woke-Left who hate those who achieved financial success through creativity and hard work. Their explanation for this success is to blame appearance. The Woke want it all for nothing, which really means taking it from the rest of us.

They told us a virus would kill millions of Australians in 2020, but excess deaths only started to rise after the so-called Covid vaccines were rolled out in 2021. They told us the vaccines were safe and effective, even though at most they were tested for only 2 or 3 months and had to use a manufactured emergency to get people ginned up with enough fear to take them. It turned out that even their own test data showed an absolute efficacy of less than 1 per cent. They lied to our faces saying it was 95 per cent but they used relative efficacy. Now we have an unusually high incidence of young people with myocarditis and pericarditis presenting in hospitals. That has never been seen before.

They told us the Covid vaccines stopped transmission and prevent disease but that is not true. More lies the government told related to the effectiveness of mask-wearing. They told us that lockdowns stop the virus, despite a lack of evidence and dire warnings. Instead, the lockdowns drove some people insane, with mental health severely impacted everywhere they were implemented.

Another lie is that private property is bad along with the insinuation that it was gained illegally. All property should belong to the state, they say. The Woke-Left are pushing for confiscation of private property and they are currently using the Indigenous activist bureaucracies to take control of previously shared public land. They blame colonisation and invoke the ideology of arrivalism. This is right out of the Marxist playbook.

This brings me to the most Orwellian topic of all, that is, our own thoughts. All around the world in Western countries, autocratic regimes have either outlawed certain thoughts or they are pushing legislation to do so. Australia has its anti-free speech Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023 hanging around Parliament like a bad smell.

On this Bill, law Professor Augusto Zimmermann wrote for the RT:

The Australian government has recently introduced in Parliament a new law proposal to ban officially unapproved online content. Digital companies are expected to adopt a code of conduct which will see them censor speech based on broad, vague and far-reaching directives.

If enacted that Bill would outlaw any speech the government of the day didn’t like. They say speech that causes ‘harm’ but ‘harm’ covers almost anything. Professors Gabriël A Moens AM and Augusto Zimmermann write:

…the concept of ‘harm’ is a flexible and accordion-like concept that potentially encompasses any type of speech that ACMA deems to be ‘harmful’. As such, the concept has malleable content that expands and contracts depending on ACMA’s prevailing views.

The government communications agency would decide if something is true or false and you could be charged with a crime for what you express. Where have I heard that before?

In this case, the governments can lie but the citizens cannot. Australia already has such a law. The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021 was rushed through Parliament in 24 hours. 

Through this new law, police will be able to modify or delete data, take control over social media accounts, and collect network activity to the extent they feel necessary to further their inquiries.

The law allows some police agencies to invade your social media, delete your speech, and insert speech that is not yours. I heard recently from a guy who had this law used on him and he was charged even though the speech was not his. In court the magistrate would not believe that he did write not the offending text.

That is not the end of it. The Australian federal government is pushing for their Digital ID Bill 2023, which will put everybody on the block-chain. No services will be accessible without that digital ID. You will become a non-person. And who says that it won’t be used for nefarious purposes? Invariably if you give the power they will use it. And eventually move to control all your thoughts and actions.

We are experiencing an era of lies and propaganda. Once we had laws which prohibited the government from propagandising the public. But now all-out propaganda and censorship is the norm. Of course, this is done to save democracy. What else could it be for?

Children in schools are being inundated with Woke leftist nonsense.

Ultimately, if they can convince those children that there are no absolutes they will have achieved total chaos, total confusion, and rampant psychological conditions in mass formation psychosis. They will have created a generation that is emotionally and scientifically confused.

We need to push back against these oppressive regimes. If you question any of these lies, by telling the truth, you may be considered a subversive. And that is for only one reason, your speech goes against government diktats. From what I see now, Orwell’s 1984 has nothing on what our future may look like. Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news, we’re back in the USSR!