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May 17, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

It's like having a mass murderer complaining about the blood the victims got on his shirt, with the complicit MSM telling, anyone who will listen, 'It's unforgiveable, those stains will never come out'.

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May 17, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Great article Rebekah, love it. Well done ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ’›

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May 17, 2023ยทedited May 17, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Thanks Rebekah. A great report on how modern 'journalistic reporting' is strong on the 'creative writing', better suited to the making of a dramatic novel or 'Bubble text' for a comic. ;-) To understand the tools of an enemy, is to be well equipped for battle. So according to the old/newly relabeled junkie term, I can now 'Identify' as 'Totally Cooked' and 'Fully Baked'. Love your work my dear. Power On Ms. Barnett

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May 17, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Brilliant expose of the propaganda apparatus!

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May 17, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

It's great time to be "Cooker." Let's see who's right, once & for all, everyone should request the National Cabinet Documents that Justice Richard White ORDERED to be released in August 2021. Why have they been withheld? The answers are within reach.

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May 17, 2023ยทedited May 17, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Very good post, this catch cry of cooker is just another example of manipulative techniques used. A cooker has always been the term for someone cooked on meth but this movement is piggybacking the negative connotations of the term.

I embarrassed him/her badly in another thread but I'm unfortunately banned again so cannot comment reply anymore to this clown who is a self proclaimed "doctor and very smart".

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid034asKcGJMzQZYE98CQhUSZoc3sccCHHGZxMWZ9XT74DgSyqaFVHKXhegPyt54iLrwl&id=100022341096373&mibextid=Nif5oz

We have to be smarter in our approaches and not leave ourselves open for misinterpretion but the people using it have to be addressed as well. If the term isn't nipped in the bud the technique will work and the prothink sides credibility will suffer further.

Almost the entirety of the antithinkers argument is labelling, intelligent ridicule may be one answer.

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May 17, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Great post. I noticed the phenomenon you describe when they started rolling out the jabs but could never put it into words like you have. I could tell something wasnโ€™t right when people raising legitimate concerns and doubts were being dismissed as โ€œcookersโ€ instead of addressing the key points.

I like how youโ€™ve broken it into five simple steps, it really articulates what Iโ€™ve seen happening in the covid debate. Before covid I would have classed myself as a normie and never payed much attention to the manipulation, I always knew it was there but wasnโ€™t aware of the extent. I now find it difficult to watch or read MSM. Itโ€™s like watching a magician trying to convince you that magic is real after youโ€™ve already been shown how the trick is performed.

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May 17, 2023ยทedited May 17, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

The first thing I asked a GP when the mRNA tech was rolled out was 'how long are the naked spikes produced in the body? They never resolved that from the 2013 Baylor study. Is there a poly-A tail? It could theoretically produce spikes for up to 12 months'

His brain shut down. Then McGowan said I was a 'drongo and to grow a brain.'

WTF.

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Can you link me to the Baylor study? I don't know it. Please :)

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Start here. https://www.bcm.edu/departments/pediatrics/divisions-and-centers/tropical-medicine/research/vaccine-development/coronavirus-vaccines

"CoV RBD219-N1 Vaccine

Beginning in 2011, we embarked on efforts to develop coronavirus vaccines becoming one of the first groups to recognize the pandemic threats caused by coronaviruses. We teamed with a leading coronavirus research group at the New York Blood Center (Jiang/Du Lab) and at the University of Texas Medical Branch (Tseng Lab) to develop two recombinant subunit vaccines for the coronaviruses that caused both SARS and MERS outbreaks. The subunit vaccine for SARS, the SARS-CoV RBD219-N1 vaccine candidate, was technology transferred to WRAIR for manufacturing under cGMP and a batch of clinical-grade drug substance was generated. The vaccine remains under investigation at TCH-CVD as a possible component of a multivalent pan-coronavirus vaccine."

(End quote).

Me now: The results were catastrophic and many of the papers said that the technology should never be used in humans and research should "proceed with extreme caution and modification." (para). This was where the research really ended for a while until it was 'suddenly picked up' and rolled out to the public.

Unfortunately I am having trouble finding the papers (no surprises there) but if you find them, let me know and I can probably get them for you. It was mainstream knowledge at the time that the mRNA platform was too dangerous for humans. When the technology was rolled out in 2021 they didn't describe how it had been modified from the Baylor studies which is why I was screaming holy hell at the time.

But in any case, what are more data or studies going to do? It's interesting to look at the history of the technology, but there will be no justice from the same system that is killing people. It's just fiddling around the margins - asking a murderer to 'kindly please consider stopping.' They're dunking on us now. They won. Once people REALLY understand the situation, then we can get the logjam moving. No more fantasies of 'justice' or 'Nuremburg 2.' That ain't happening.

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As Matthew Crawford pointed out (rightly, I think), Nuremberg wasn't justice, it was theatre. We don't want Nuremberg 2.0.

https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/stop-saying-nuremberg-20

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I don't think justice is possible in our current situation without collapsing civilisation. Which is exactly what they are hoping for. A good case study is Sri Lanka, and lookie here the WEF is all over it with their plants installed in the government https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/economic-politics-debt-protest-crisis-sri-lanka/

Bear in mind that when you read the 'events leading up to the crisis' the WEF did all of it.

Edit: Relatedly, if you ever get the chance to go to Nuremburg the architecture of the parade grounds is really something else. It's well worth a visit.

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I have never really had strong opinions about politicians, and I have no doubt there are some decent folk among them, and some despicable ones)...until this debacle. I can't tell you what I think about McGowan. It isn't pretty.

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He knows.

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May 17, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

And he gives zero hoots.

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Yep. They're rubbing it in our faces now.

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Imagine thinking people like us care about being called names. We are not the target audience for this - the name calling is to reinforce in-group identity of those who "did the right thing."

In other words, they are not calling us 'cookers' to hurt US, but to make themselves feel better about taking the jabs as they drop dead.

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May 17, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

And, no offence to Rebekah, or to Rupert Murdoch at 1., but in terms of new.com.au, it's well represented on this list at 3. and 6.

1. CEO

2. Lawyer

3. Media (Television/Radio)

4. Salesperson

5. Surgeon

6. Journalist

7. Police officer

8. Clergy person

9. Chef

10. Civil servant

The Top 10 Jobs That Attract Psychopaths

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/01/05/the-top-10-jobs-that-attract-psychopaths/

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HA!

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May 24, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

As someone who was hyper vigilant during lockdowns in QLD, who watched every press conference and got all my doses of mRNA, I can absolutely say that they call people cooked to frame them as delegitimate and to ward anyone off the same path. I donโ€™t want my peers to see me as a conspiracy theorist, so Iโ€™m not going to talk about any of my concerns. Theyโ€™re very successful at it.

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That's so sad. I'm real glad you are here with us now and can see through their silliness. Remember, you are the most important person who can stop what they are going to be doing to all of us in the future. The government won't save you. Your sneering friends won't save you. Only your backbone will save you.

When they come to throw us 'cookers' in the camp, will you join us or keep injecting? That is the question our fearful fellow 'good Australians' must grapple with. We are depending on you. Read this for some inspo: https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/to-my-unjabbed-heroes

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Nowadays we take sides before hearing the evidence.

We become fans of masks or enemies of masks without reading the original research, mostly by Chinese and Japanese epidemiologists, etc..

And without being aware that there are lies, damned lies, statistics and biostatistics.

Good article on fandom:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n10/william-davies/a-dog-in-the-fight

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Interestingly, you've pointed out why people make decisions before hearing the evidence. Could it be that some of us are only too aware of lies, damned lies, and statistics? I have studied post-graduate courses in the health arena. There's a lot of smoke and mirrors out there.

I also work in healthcare, and I place a lot confidence in intuition, which is based on a foundation of facts, life experience, study, and the input of other people. My intuition held me back from jumping on the covid response package bandwagon.

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Ranks are growing.

Young girl DIES from VACCINE - Her mother has an emotional message to others (Caitlin Gotze))Feb 15, 2022

Starmax News

https://rumble.com/vv1p51-young-girl-dies-from-vaccine-her-mother-has-an-emotional-message-to-others-.html

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: This was filmed at an outdoor protest rally in Canberra, Australia. Raelene Kennedy holds a card with photographs of her daughter Caitlin Gotze, a previously healthy 23 year-old woman who, after her second Pfizer jab, died of an enlarged heart on November 17, 2021. This excerpt is Raelene Kennedy's answer to the reporter's question about how she feels about the government's covering up vaccine injuries and deaths.

TRANSCRIPT - EXCERPT

8:11

RAELENE KENNEDY: I can't believe it because I'm just the most honest, law-abiding, we all are! Taxpayer, hard worker, like, I don't, I'm not an anti-vaxxer, I'm no conspiracy theorist, I'm just a normal person, and then one day, my daughter drops dead and all of this. I just started, I just, the only thing, I wish, I wish, I wish I had of been aware of this before. I wish I had of looked, I wish I had of researched.

If I can do anything, so far in this journey, it's been 12 weeks since Caitlin passed but she has saved lives, just getting her message out, and just so people know that if you have a shortness of breath, if you don't feel right, look up what pericarditis and myocarditis, look up aneurisms, look up everything that they're now putting out, Queensland Health and possibly the rest of Australia, I don't know, putting out, these are the symptoms. Look them up. And if you have that, MRIs are now free. Queensland Health especially has made MRIs free for vaccine-related or vaccine-suspected injuries.

So why would they do that if they've got nothing to hide? Why would they compensate you for vaccine injuries if they've got nothing to hide?

And they're saying it doesn't exist. Like, it it's just unbelievable. I just feel like it's not real, I just feel like it's a dream and one day I'm going to wake up because every other minute, like even here, I'm going, you know, I have to tell Caitlin this, or show Cailtin these beautiful German shepherds that are walking past, or there's a car that looks like Caitlin's car, or I just every other minute I think, because she was my best friend, you know? I think, I'll just talk to Caitlin. And she's not here.

And I think there are so many signs, so many signs. I think this is what she would have wanted, she wouldn't have wanted to have died for no reason. She would want to to save people, to help people, to get the message out that, just be aware and save yourself, and don't take no for an answer. No, don't be the next victim.

10:38

[END OF EXCERPT]

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Also, relatedly--

"Canada Boom This lady is one serious Bulldog....Watch her go as she serves Notices Of Liability to Stop All BIOWEAPON INJECTIONS at clinics around Canada...."

Feb 26, 2023

https://rumble.com/v2b31oy-february-26-2023.html

TRANSCRIPT - EXCERPT

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Handheld camera shows a young woman, presumably a pharmacist, in a blue surgical mask and white coat standing behind a counter.

FEMALE VOICE: I'm serving you with a notice of liability. This notice of liability is a legal document from Taking Back Our Freedoms.* It's been compiled by top experts, scientists, doctors across this country, including the Honorable Brian Peckford, who signed the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.** This document outlines the harms the vaccines are causing, including death in so many, including children. This document now means that because you've been served, this is a legal document, you are either indirectly or directly now legally responsible for harming children. And I am filming because you're going into a data base. And I'm asking you to please stop the shots. You have to stop them. I'm a mother and a journalist and I've spoken to thousands. Look at me please. Please stop. Please stop giving them out.

PHARMACIST: I do not give my permission to film.

FEMALE VOICE: It doesn't matter. I'm serving you. It doesn't matter. Please stop them.

1:08

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

* See https://tbof.ca/mandate/ From the "about" page: "TBOF was originally founded to push back against and secure the full repeal of all COVID-19 vaccination mandates. During our struggle against these immoral and unconstitutional measures, we realized that the pandemicโ€™s mismanagement was merely a symptom of a greater malaise in Canadian society." Its mission is "To engage, educate, and empower Canadians to become catalysts for challenging their institutions, holding their representatives personally accountable, and reclaiming their inalienable rights and freedoms."

** From https://tbof.ca/about-us/brian-peckford/ :

"Statesman Brian Peckford is the Former Premier of Newfoundland-Labrador and he is the last living First Minister who helped negotiate (with 12 other First Ministers of Canada) and sign the Constitution of Canada to include the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982)... In 2008, Mr. Peckford was chair of a federal governmentโ€“appointed expert panel to review federal chronic disease policy, especially diabetes, and to present a report to the federal Health minister. The report was completed on time and on budget. He and his wife, Carol, reside in Parksville on Vancouver Island... In recent years Brian Peckford has returned in a national role as a blogger, speaker and writer especially in the defence of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He is an outspoken critic of the Prime Minister of Canada and all Canadian Premiers who have โ€œcollectively, callously and unlawfully used a โ€˜health emergencyโ€™ to trample upon the most precious of Freedoms and Rights of Canadiansโ€.

See also: "โ€˜Unconstitutionalโ€™: Co-author of Canadaโ€™s 1982 Charter of Rights rebukes โ€˜illegalโ€™ COVID policies" by Jack Bingham, November 18, 2021

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/unconstitutional-co-author-of-canadas-1982-charter-of-rights-rebukes-illegal-covid-policies/

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Informed consent impossible: blank sheet of paper for side effects of covid jab baffles pharmacist

March 22, 2022 [this is a repost so the original video could have been made earlier, possibly in 2021]

https://rumble.com/vy60et-informed-consent-impossible-blank-sheet-of-paper-for-side-effects-of-covid-.html

TRANSCRIPT

[The woman speaking is wearing a body camera and filming inside a CVS pharmacy]

WOMAN:The um, the, ah, the, if you're offering the covid 19 boosters or shots still?

FEMALE PHARMACIST: We are but we're only accepting appointments because it's just been really crazy today.

WOMAN: Oh.

FEMALE PHARMACIST: So you can make an appointment online at cvs.com.

WOMAN: OK. Um, do you have the insert for the, from the manufacturers that shows the safety studies, the effects, and all of those things?

FEMALE PHARMACIST: Honestly I don't know. Um.

WOMAN: Is there a pharmacist here who knows, ah, where to find the insert in the box of vaccines that I could take a look at?

FEMALE PHARMACIST: If you want to step to the side there we'll be with you as soon as we can.

WOMAN: Perfect. Thank you.

SECOND FEMALE PHARMACIST: Hello, hi, did you have a question?

WOMAN: Hi. Yes. I was wondering did you have the insert from the manufacturers for the, um, covid vaccine?

SECOND FEMALE PHARMACIST: [inaudible] I'll be right back.

WOMAN: Comes in the box of vaccines.

[...waiting... background noise of music and other customer / pharmacist interactions]

MALE PHARMACIST: I have someone who wants a package insert. [white-coated man in a blue surgical mask briskly walks up and hands the woman the package insert] That's from the Moderna vaccine.

WOMAN: OK. Moderna. Is it the same for, um, Pfizer, and all of the others?

MALE PHARMACIST: No. Each brand is a little different.

WOMAN: OK. So may I take this with me? For, to look at all of the safety studies, placebo safety studies on this?

MALE PHARMACIST: Yeah, because, yeah because the, yeah the one, because the one that we give, um, yeah because the one that's given to patients doesn't contain that information. So thatโ€”

WOMAN: Which ones are they giving if it's not this one?

MALE PHARMACIST: So, no. No, that's the one, that is the one we are giving.

WOMAN: Oh. OK.

MALE PHARMACIST: But yeah, the, the, the package insert given to patients isn't the full information. It'sโ€”

WOMAN: It's not from the manufacturers themselves.

MALE PHARMACIST: That is from the manufacturer but it's truncated. That's the full thing.

WOMAN: So why is it intentionally blank if it's all the safety studies and stuff?

MALE PHARMACIST: It's ah, they're inside.

WOMAN: They're inside of it?

MALE PHARMACIST: This folds out. [camera shows his hands unfolding the package insert]

WOMAN: OK.

MALE PHARMACIST: [continuing to unfold the package insert. Once it is unfolded and seen to be blank, pharmacist quickly steps away] It's supposedly [inaudible] I've got, I've got to get online and find it.

WOMAN: No it's OK. It's OK. I already know that it's intentionally blank. My last question is, um, how is it informed consent when all of the safety studies, placebo safety studies are not listed from the manufacturer?

MALE PHARMACIST: That's, that's a great question. I would talk, I would talk to, I would talk to CVS about that becauseโ€”

WOMAN: OK. Um, so is if we don't know what we're injecting into ourselves, um, I don't understand how that's informed consent.

MALE PHARMACIST: Thatโ€” you're, you're exactly right. And you are exactly right and you are correct. I should not be giving these vaccines at all.

WOMAN: OK. Why are you giving them?

MALE PHARMACIST: Because, I am, because I am told to and that's how, because I am told to and I am toldโ€”

WOMAN: I understand that.

MALE PHARMACIST: And everything I have shown including the patients that I have given it to, it is safe.

WOMAN: It is safe and effective. Of what studies are you going by that states that it's safe and effective? [MALE PHARMACIST starts to back away]. I know these are tough questions but I have to ask.

MALE PHARMACIST: I know. And I, and I'm sorry butโ€”

WOMAN: But you can't answer.

MALE PHARMACIST: Iโ€”

WOMAN: So I understand that.

MALE PHARMACIST: I unfortunately cannot answer that.

WOMAN: OK.

MALE PHARMACIST: And I feel, and right, right now I'm, I'm feeling totally inadequate as a pharmacist and ready to turn in my license.

WOMAN: Don't. Don't. Just, just learn more about it. Um, you know about the Nuremberg Trials, right?

MALE PHARMACIST: I, I, I understand about all of that andโ€”

WOMAN: Just curious if, if people here really understand what's happening around them? And that just doing my job is not an excuse for what's really happening.

MALE PHARMACIST: I, no, I, I absolutely understand.

WOMAN: Well I just wanted to thank you forโ€”

MALE PHARMACIST: And. And. And based, and based on what you're saying, I can no longer, I can no longer advocate for these vaccines.

WOMAN: OK. yes, that's absolutely your choice and the people that take it that's their choice to take it, but just looking for informed people, where I can get information. And it seems like I keep hitting this block each time. Every time I go online to talk to doctors they, they block me, you know it's because they can't answer my questions they get uncomfortable. And I get that. But then why even continue this if, if you don't know the information?

MALE PHARMACIST: That is an, that is an absolutely valid question.

WOMAN: OK. Well, thank you for taking your time with me. I really appreciate it and hope you have a wonderful day.

MALE PHARMACIST: You too.

5:16

[END]

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I wonder what happened to that pharmacist. One can only hope that he left that job, and joined the people advocating for truth.

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I'm curious, too, and I would hope for that, too. But I don't know, there's so much pressure and so much gaslighting, not everyone can take it. I imagine that for some people, the solution is to just get depressed and project anger onto other things. I have several more pharmacist testimonies; I can appeciate that it has been very hard for them-- as it has been for all of us, each in our own way.

Here's one:

https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/72726.html

Whistleblower Pharmacist Nichole Belland Talks to Mordechai Sones of America's Front Line Doctors

"truly, this was very very emotional, ethical, spiritual, moral dilemma for me for months."

Original source:

She refused to โ€˜just follow ordersโ€™: Why Cortez, Colorado lost its most dedicated pharmacist

Mordechai Sones

October 27, 2021

https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/2/frontlinenews/she-refused-to-just-follow-orders-why-cortez-colorado-lost-its-most-dedicated-pharmacist/

Backup copy:

Safeway Pharmacist Couldn't Continue to Give People the Jab

Kevin's Political Commentary

October 31, 2021

(apparently copied from America's Front Line Doctors)

https://rumble.com/voix7b-safeway-pharmacist-couldnt-continue-to-give-people-the-jab.html

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"I donโ€™t understand why theyโ€™re not seeing what I see.โ€ - I still don't understand why they STILL refuse to see.

"the vaccine rollout happened so fast, and historically we just donโ€™t have vaccines come upon us so quickly.โ€ - people told me this had been in development for years, and that it is just like all the other vaccines we have to have. As she rightly points out, the animal studies had pretty clear negative long term effects.

If she could see the harms, and also see the early research, then thousands of others can. Even with many of those, they chose pragmatism over speaking out or standing up. I don't blame them, but then again, I do.

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I have many of these. One more.

https://mobile.twitter.com/rotor_motor13b/status/1555903993037086723?s=21&t=K1vHcFlaFBrdc9bZ7RXVKw

video attached to tweet

TRANSCRIPT OF ATTACHED VIDEO

PHARMACIST: [inaudible] speaking.

FATHER: Yeah, hi, are you a pharmacist?

PHARMACIST: Yes, how can I help?

FATHER: Yeah, hey, I've got a question. My wife, against my wishes, brought my seven year old son in there yestโ€”, sorry, a few days ago, for a covid jab, and he's now in the hospital with myocarditis. And I was obviously not very happy with you guys or with my wife. She told me that she was not told that was a potential side-effect. So why wouldn't you have told her that?

PHARMACIST: OK, sorry. So it's quite a rare side effect as well.

FATHER: No it's not that, no it's not, because I've been doing research, it's common. In the US there's tens of thousands reported to the CDC site. So why are you not telling parents this?

PHARMACIST: Um, we might scare the parents and they don't want to get their child vaccinated.

FATHER: So, so, you don't want to scare parents with something that is actually happening, that's happened to my kid. Are you out of your mind? Are you out of your mind! You don't want to scare them? You need to give them the right information so they can make a proper decision! What is wrong with you! You don't want to scare them! I'm recording this conversation as well, and this is going to a lawyer. Thank you for admitting that. So why don't you tell them? When someone comes in there and says, hey, what can go wrong, what do you say, sore arm? Have you seen the amount of [inaudible]? Have you seen it?

PHARMACIST: Has your wife ask before asking giving consent to give the childโ€”.

FATHER: Did she ask what the side-effects are?

PHARMACIST: Did she ask? I'm not sure because I wasn't there.

FATHER: Doesn't matter. You're supposed to tell people, this can happen. Now my kidโ€” so you know what the prognosis is? You know what it is? Possible death within 5 years. Twenty percent of people with myocarditis die. It is a permanent damage to the heart. It is not temporary.

PHARMACIST: I'm sorry about that.

FATHER: He's facing a heart transplant. Because of you! Because of --

[END of CLIP]

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May 17, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

I saw a Perth based Facebook โ€˜friendโ€™ of mine call someone a cooker the other day, so thank you for the explanation. Australia really feels lost, so sad, I love the place.

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Institution-wise it's worse than you can imagine, but people are waking up and smelling the BS. Booster uptake is way down.

For a sad state of affairs: https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/the-banality-of-evil

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Thank you for the link to your article. Itโ€™s shocking.

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You're welcome. Both this and the previous article with the contract was very hard to write. My next one is much worse but I think once people grasp what is happening we can really start to roll. It's a real band-aid ripper.

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May 17, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Classic.

The brainwashed unfortunately will not read this. For them, 'knowing the facts' is being able to memorise MSM headlines :-(

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May 17, 2023ยทedited May 17, 2023

I think that the problem is by design and is mostly due to our schooling system. Critical thinking, if taught, is only a small part of the curriculum. If you want to succeed you mostly just have to memorize the โ€œagreed factsโ€ dictated to you by the teacher/society, do as youโ€™re told and not ask any tricky questions. Itโ€™s hard to break this paradigm after youโ€™ve experienced 12 or more years of indoctrination. The work place is no better.

If this has been the key to your โ€œsuccessโ€ it then becomes very hard to break the mold.

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I totally agree. Most unthinking people I know and encounter are traditionally "succeeding" i.e. financially on the upper end in our society and so think they know it all. They go along with the mainstream in everything and anything else is honestly pretty much incomprehensible to them. So when they Government comes along and tells them to get a mystery injection, they will happily line up - hell they will even step over others to be first in line.

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May 18, 2023ยทedited May 18, 2023

โ€œโ€ฆ even step over others to be first in line.โ€

I canโ€™t remember where I read it, I think it was in one of the various โ€œnudge unitsโ€ documents, probably one of the ones put out by the WHO. Controlled scarcity was one of the many recommended tactics used to push the the shots. Raising the โ€œprestigeโ€ of the shots and instilling FOMO (fear of missing out) was just one of them. This phycological manipulation is not just me joining the dots in my head. My head, is of course well shielded by the tin foil hat that I now wear proudly๐Ÿ˜€. It is explicitly documented and openly discussed amongst public health officials. It also appears in various papers and seminars.

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Yeah they literally used every psychological means of persuasion in the book. How the majority of people can't see this is scary, and really showed me how the whole Nazi Germany thing occurred. It is apparently not that difficult to get most people doing what you want :-(

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May 17, 2023ยทedited May 17, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Dehumanise, โ€œotherโ€, disparage, humiliate, disregard, ridicule โ€ฆ sadly weโ€™ve all lived through versions of these in our personal and professional lives these past few years, and of course the philosophy underpinning this frankly fascist reaction towards any dissent is fully-aided and abetted by mainstream media and their corporate and big-government handlers.

While weโ€™ve largely all by now watched the vast majority of the normies either move on from the worst excesses of the covid cult or at least accept it wasnโ€™t exactly well-handled, itโ€™s painfully obvious that many of those who are on the side of logic and reason have themselves been conscripted into all manner of bizarre sub-theories and rabbit-holes which, even if entirely true, are frankly harmful to any freedom movement because the average normie might just be about ready to believe that in a โ€œmaybe, possibly, with hindsight-being-20/20 some of the experts might have been mistaken some of the time but we need to learn from thisโ€ way some of covid was a mistake, but harassing โ€œhonest pharmacistsโ€ in their eyes is beyond the pale. So frustrating, and the media salivates every time.

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The provaxxers love to label us as fascists. Right wing, conservative, nationalist, all the things that Hitler's party was. Fascist seems to have been redefined.

I agree with you, that some of the activists are behaving like thugs, and it doesn't help get this mess untangled. I understand their frustration, as three years of the dehumanising, ridicule, and humiliation can make people desperate.

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May 19, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

A refinement of the old "if you don't like the message shoot the messenger" strategy.

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Pharmaworld is a snakepit, and has been since the days when it was just harmless snake oil.

Linus Pauling told me how, after he presented them with stats from a 5000-patient field trial of Vitamin C and cancer the NIH contracted with the Mayo Clinic to destroy even his credibility.

When Ted Kennedy got him a copy of the data, it showed that Mayo had included in the trial ONLY those whom Pauling asked to be excluded.

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Thank you for this timely article. I have felt increasingly unsure how to deal with these people, ever since they were accidentally right on the value of lockdowns. Then especially after they got lucky on masks, and even more so when they fluked it on the lab origins of the virus. That their points on ventilator use also ended up correct made it worse, just like when studies showed that outlawing early treatment was actually not in the patients' interests. At least I knew they were wrong when they pushed the idea that a mRNA platform with a 100% failure rate and no suitable testing might fail and, if injected into billions of people, might result in a lot of unexpected harms... but then they got lucky AGAIN and started saying silly things like how 'reality' is better than 'models' for making conclusions. Unbearable. So thank you for this advice, hopefully I can apply it when they start spouting their unbearable 'common sense' in regards to government-controlled digital currencies ๐Ÿ˜‰

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