Memory Holed News for January 2024

Last month's news stories which you probably didn't hear much about.

Feb 05, 2024

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Australian Stories

The Covid-19 Plandemic & Public Health

A friend in South Australia shared this link with me on Jan 29, 2024. It related to this judgment, delivered on Jan 15, 2024 at the South Australian Employment Tribunal. My initial comment was "The tribunal's decision states that in effect, the obligation of employers under existing workers compensation legislation is known and doesn't preclude the employer foregoing those obligations because of a state government's announcement of directions, regulations or any other lawful order during a state of emergency."

Landmark Covid vaccine injury win - rebekahbarnett.substack.com - Jan 30, 2024. This news spread quickly inside covid dissident and health freedom groups, then it spread around the country. A few good Australian politicians started sharing the news through their social media accounts and email newsletters too. A few days later, this story spread internationally.

And rightly so. The judgment for this Workers' Compensation appeal case is remarkably significant and I recommend everyone reads the full 23 page document for themselves. Deputy President Judge Calligeros exemplified a consideration, impartiality and particularly nuanced understanding of the applicable laws in question, but also of the real-life difficulties of this workers' particular circumstances: human realities, if you will.

On a personal note, this judgment is significant to me and my career. I went through many stages of emotion after reading the document, but the strongest was a feeling of tentative hope. Could it be that law and justice can be upheld by a tribunal who undertakes their duties with a brevity and impartiality befitting the stature of their role? The remarkable importance of their judgment and the arguments cited within that educated us as to how this judgment was decided upon?

It's a slow road we've taken down under. Slow but somewhat clear, shouting yet somewhat somber, shrill yet somewhat sober. We had the commencing of the COVID-19 Senate Committee Inquiry into Royal Commission Terms of Reference (February 1, 2024) to no real mainstream news coverage AT ALL. Yet Australians have news headlines such as this one Crisis in Australia's healthcare system as millions unable to afford GPs and ambulance waits top 50 minutes in one state (February 1, 2024) reported adjacently to the aforementioned news stories.

This selectivity of what's published then allowed mainstream circulation doesn't appear to be questioned by mainstream media players or pundits themselves: at least not on the record. Australian Media works in tandem with the Medical Industry and Political Overseers to co-ordinate and perpetuate narratives which only protect them and their investments. We are poorly served by these groups down under.
Until Australians can admit these basic realities and also admit they are partially responsible in what unfolded, we can expect continuation of disrespect and exploitative behaviour to be directed our way.

Court declares Westpac engaged in unconscionable conduct for interest rate swap, maximum penalty applied

exploitationWestpac is one of the big four big banks in Australia and no stranger with extremely suspicious ways of operating. On 31st January 2024, The Federal Court of Australia declared that Westpac Banking Corporation engaged in unconscionable conduct during October 2016 when executing a $12 billion (AUD) interest rate swap transaction, the largest of its type ever to happen in aussie financial markets. You can read the 46 page long Statement of Agreed Facts here.

Westpac's exposure of lack of ethics when executing financial transactions involved in high-stakes deals means Westpac pay's the maximum penalty of $1.8 million (AUD) in relation to the conduct, together with $8 million (AUD) for ASIC’s litigation and investigation costs. Seems rather a paltry sum, even if the legal costs incurred by ASIC were not included in the penalty.

I first came across this news story by following financemagnates.com, and finding their article shared through social media. A few years ago I would've investigated and sought a deeper understanding of what occurred and why it's not considered important enough for local Australian press to investigate. Today, I'm certain that the article's importance relates to how little exposure this financial fraud story and am assured that financemagnates.com is correct with this opening statement:

"This decision has highlighted the significance of ethical conduct in financial transactions, especially in high-stakes deals."

Financemagnates concludes their article with a brief history of Westpac's history of penalties. Westpac's history is why I took an interest in this latest story. I was stunned when in October 2020 Westpac received a $1.3 billion (AUD) fine, which was the largest civil penalty in Australia's history. And yet there was barely any coverage of this bank's corporate (and I'd suggest criminal) misconduct in the local news.

The depths of Westpac's misconduct that led to the $1.3 billion fine and what sort of crimes they helped facilitate weren't investigated to the degree of thoroughness we should all have demanded. If investigations were completed, they weren't published or made available to us, and once the fact of Westpac's fine was covered by daily headlines, the local press didn't care or let alone speculate upon what the largest civil penalty faced by anyone in Australia could mean for Australians and their country.

Full steam ahead for Macquarie Bank's "Transition" to Completely Digital Payments

I received this email at work and was surprised because I wasn't aware of Macquarie Bank expressing a prerogative to transition all existing banking products & services into digital-only products and services. However, over recent years this was published by Macquarie and a select few media outlets, but it wasn't made news to us. I thought I was fairly up to speed with Australian digital banking initiatives & roadmaps because of following a few local financial news reporting channels, the main one being Walk the World;

The Digital Destruction Of Banking - Nov 18, 2019
A Real Digital Road Map? - Oct 21, 2021
CBDC: Where Are They Taking Us? - June 30, 2022.
More Digital Banking BS... - May 21, 2023

While Macquarie bank isn't well known amongst the public (because it's market focus is on corporate and business clients), it's still a significant financial, investment and corporate player. Macqaurie provide a ton of business-to-business banking services and the regular aussie family will come to know Macquarie due to their "digital-only" transition trickling down to them in one way or another eventually.

So it's concerning to think that the news regarding Macquarie's digital banking only mandate was published & publicly avaiable information for years;

Driving digital transformation in retail banking - April 13, 2021
Macquarie's Banking and Financial Services Group co-innovates with Google Cloud to unleash the next wave of digital banking services - Sep 2021
Macquarie Bank is solving for digital banking, security and customer experience - Sep 1, 2021
Macquarie Bank takes an AI-first approach to digital banking - June 22, 2023
It's the latest phase of its multi-year partnership with Google Cloud

Their partnership with Google Cloud APAC deserves closer scrutiny.

Taylor Swift: US Pentagon's example of TayTay as a peaceful weapon of war, and her A.I "rape"

Taylor swift is mentioned as an example of "influence / influencers" being used as "peaceful weapons of war."
Mike Benz uploaded this video to Twitter where he lost his shit over a Pentagon PsyOps research contractor (Graphika) presenting Taylor's example during CyCon 2019, the flagship event of NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence - Jan 9, 2023

A few days later Jesse Waters of Fox News asks if Taylor Swift is a Pentagon asset - Jan 11, 2024

Then a few weeks later AI generated images of Taylor Swift are bombarded all over the internet, causing outrage and furore in the mainstream media news headlines (Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes - theverge.com - Jan 25, 2024). Twitter is blamed initially (Twitter blocks Taylor Swift searches amid pornographic AI Deep fakes - vulture.com - Jan 27, 2024), not so much as the source but for being the platform where AI images of Taylor Swift can proliferate with ease.

Below are two examples of AI generated images of Taylor Swift;

This article published on billboard.com claims that Taylor Swift Searchable on X Again After Brief Blockage Over Deepfake Images - Jan 30, 2024. So what was the point of Taylor Swift's AI Rape? I don't know, but she's certainly everywhere in the news at the moment, almost daily.

>you generated an AI picture of an imaginary person resembling my likeness in a sexual situation - 4chan/pol thread - Jan 31, 2024. Quoting an anon from this thread and what I think is their accurate prediction.

what's the deal with this? celeb deepfakes been around for years, why did they freak out specifically over taylor swift?
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They need to psyop this now in order to push legislation that lets them lock down access to AI software tools.
They want the state (i.e., glowies) to monopolize these technologies in service of maintaining control over the public.

How Mockingbird Mainstream Media Uses Conspiracy Headlines

To finish off the month of January, there was a bizarre beheading video uploaded to youtube, but only after it was made known about on twitter and probably 4chan. The newsweek.com article's headline made me roll my eyes so hard... and I mean, isn't it kind of obvious what prevailing narrative is attempting be engineered here?

I don't have much more to comment on this. Such events generally uninteresting because they are common and because they do not convincingly argue existence of a reality which people can relate to, let alone believe or be fearful of?

H.R.6981 - Preventing Private Paramilitary Activity Act of 2024 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. - Jan 11, 2024
HAPPENING: /Pol/tard BEHEADS glowie father, SHOWS OFF HEAD ON YOUTUBE - Jan 30, 2024
Justin Mohn Video Sparks 'Anti-Militia Bill' Conspiracy Theories - newsweek.com - Jan 31, 2024
Justin Mohn 4chan User Mystery - Feb 4, 2024

Worthwhile Takes & Useful Insights

Cults - The Art of Conning (We look at the Cults & Cult Leaders who are leading the gullible - Ascending to Oblivion)
An informative video by Mark Windows with several recent examples of cults in operation today - Jan 30, 2024
Kill/Takedown notice ~~~ Kill/Takedown notice - a strange situation remains published on Yahoo!news. A takedown notice requesting that pursuant to a licensing agreement with Australian Associated Press (AAP), AAP requests you to "Please kill story slugged Wright headlined Teen death inquest halted as charges mulled against cop ex-Sydney at 30 Jan, 2024."
My main takeaway was the aggressive-sounding verbiage used; kill, slugged, immediately disabled, kill/takedown and slugline. If I had to guess, i'd say Slugline is the new term replacing "Headline." It's appropriate!
The First Amendment Vs the US Ministry of Truth - a deep exposition upon the fate of the American experiment. The Final of the Four Part Ministry of Truth Series by Robert Against the Machine and it's so Detailed and engrossing that I'll be reading the preceding three parts soon. - Jan 31, 2024
General Paul E Vallely, Retired US Army General's substack post covering the modus operandi of what he calls "The Deep State Structure" is worth a read, just ignore the outdated MAGA-fandom in it. - Jan 31, 2024
I know these are from December, 2023 but they're a fitting soundtrack to introduce the year 2024. Podcast: Cyberspace as the Core of All Domain Maneuver Warfare - peraton.com - 19 Dec, 2023
The Tie that Binds - Cyberspace as the Core of All Domain Maneuver Warfare - keyterraincyber.com - Dec, 2023

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