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Julian Gillespie's avatar

thank you Rebekah,

Dr Niblett has been working tirelessly uncovering just these types of failures by the TGA for many years now

.. but are they truly 'failures', or simply meant to be so?

.. were the TGA to truly performing their duties, they would have established causation from these drugs many times over, but such findings would also be used to assist the injured and families of the dead to bring competent legal proceedings for compensation

thus, the TGA is not performing its duties to avoid producing evidence (findings of causation) which would be used to make the Commonwealth liable to pay considerable sums in compensation

so the T.G.A., hey

.. The Gaslighting Authority

or

.. The Gene Alterers

readers can decide

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Bryan's avatar

The TGA is clearly completely broken, not fit for purpose, and looks to be totally captured by their primary funders. There needs to be a thorough investigation into how the TGA operates.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

All important “truth-seeking” organizations are completely captured.

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Jac's avatar

🙏the incompetence or corruption is astounding

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Aquila's avatar

It's a cover-up and the highly paid Canberra bureaucrats are blocking progress every time they are involved. They evidently don't care if people die.

Regarding the "Vaccine Safety Investigation Group": the last thing we need is more highly paid Canberra bureaucrats involved in this process. The Canberra bureaucrats need to be backburned and replaced in the interests of public health and budget health.

What are the latest cancer stats in Australia? Why are the highly paid Canberra bureaucrats only releasing "estimates", intermittently, with a long delay? This despite a large and increasing amount of the "health care" budget being spent on IT and surveillance, with increasing mandatory transfer of patient data e.g. pathology reports to the Canberra blackbox databases? Isn't this supposed to be "public health" and a democracy?

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

Well part of the problem too, as seen in Matt's story, is that pathologists are unwilling to attribute deaths to the shots if there isn't already a body of research demonstrating the causal mechanism Obviously, in the early years of a vaccine rollout with no medium-long-term safety data, that's just not possible in a lot of cases. And then I can think of several cases where a causal mechanism was identifiable but the pathologist preferred not to write it down.

The logical thing to do is for the TGA to explicitly declare all these deaths as possibly linked unless an obvious alternative cause of death (such as falling off a roof) can be identified. (Same standard as what's applied to Covid death counting, basically).

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Ross Curtis's avatar

Genocidal sociopathy seems to be the only characterisation of the government and its agencies that engage in such tactics of sweeping all the evidence under the rug. Eventually the rug will fall off its perch because the sheer weight of evidence, if it's not already so great, that the rug will lose it's balance and reveal all. Is hanging a fit punishment for those hollow, heartless relics of humanity?

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

I quite like Aseem Malhotra's characterisation of pharma companies behaving psychopathically as entities - making the distinction that most of the people working within these entities aren't sociopaths or psychopaths (though a handful are) but that the entity as a whole behaves that way due to perverse incentives.

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Ross Curtis's avatar

Thanks for your journo's objectivity. Totally different perspective - restores faith in homo sapiens by forgiving them for being subsumed by the entity they work for. All a bit Kafka-esque really, but on a global scale, being controlled by forces unseen. Unfortunately, for those who are aware, Barry Jones' book title from those years ago: "Sleepers Awake", says it all. Your continued work serves that purpose to continue chipping away at the facade. Eventually all will be revealed in a way that the sleepers cannot ignore. Thank you for all that you do.

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Gareth Thomas's avatar

Reading this article, the word "psychopath" continually came to mind.

I think you're being too kind referring to them as sociopaths!

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Ross Curtis's avatar

To my mind a psychopath is intent on eliminating individuals, a sociopath is intent on eliminating whole societies - orders of magnitude more menacing.

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Gareth Thomas's avatar

A sociopath is generally considered less malign in intent, more indifferent to others ' welfare, whereas a psychopath actively desires the inflicting of pain on others.

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J.P.'s avatar

Wow what are the chances of the TGA lying through their teeth?

Need a government that will abolish that useless Big pHarma PR arm.

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cot sabaca's avatar

The COVID injections caused my trust in doctors to fall through the floor. I've reviewed all my treatments and I no longer trust any medical authority. Trust in doctors won't come back until my bady boomer generation is dead and gone.

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Alison Bevege's avatar

Excellent investigation. Well done this is an astonishing story

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Antipodes's avatar

35 in one day.

wow.

how many multiple deaths in one day - days are there?

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

I don't understand your question?

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Antipodes's avatar

You rightly highlight the 35 in one day.

So how many less than 35 in one day occurred? i.e. 12 one day, 5 the next, 7 the day after etc.

That trend of multiples/per day may be important?

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

Ok no, it’s not 35 people dying on the same day. It’s 35 people dying the same day that they got their shot (on whatever day that happened to be for each person). Hence the term ‘day zero’ deaths because these people died zero days after their vaccinations.

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Antipodes's avatar

It still hugely significant, whether 35 or 5.

Correlation may not be causation, but it is probability. Always follow the odds.

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Stephanie Brooks's avatar

It has got to the stage where even if the TGA was investigated by qualified people, the public would be querying the validity of their credentials .

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Forlorn Fimbul's avatar

Great article.

My thoughts....it's more than 14, it's more than 35+14, it's more than 1,000.

In any other situation this would trigger a recall.

But not for the vaccines.

All hail the vaccines.

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

Yes the double standard is galling to be sure.

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Evad's avatar

Assume all 4941 claims were assessed as genuine and worthy of financial compensation of 1 million bucks each.

Of course, it is difficult to compensate people for severe incapacity or death, but that is another matter.

Let us round up to 5000.

This is 5 billion dollars in pay outs.

Is this a lot of money by today's standards? I don't know. What percentage of an annual budget is it?

And how bad is 1 serious incident per 14000 vaccinations? This amounts to a double vaxxed person two chances in 14000 of losting the clottery.

Imagine that each two vaccinations (IE a full course) represented someone (perhaps a volunteer, perhaps a conscript) going to WAR against a foreign invading force (comprised of pesky viruses). Surely, having a 6999/7000 chance of emerging from a period of conflict compares extremely favourably with any past conventional war.

I am trying to look at all of this from a fresh angle.

Sure, I feel for someone (especially someone who was coerced into taking the prick) who ends up damaged.

But I would feel the same about someone who was conscripted into a conventional war and returned badly maimed.

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

I think likening vaccine mandates to military conscription is a good way to look at it. I wrote about that in an article on abortion:

https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/woke-choicers-want-my-body-my-choice

I first came across the idea of conscription of bodies extending beyond war zones from Margaret Atwood, who considers 'forced births' (ie: enforced prevention of access to abortion) a form of conscription. I extrapolated that out to vaccine mandates.

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Evad's avatar
May 15Edited

Your piece was well thought out and well written, notwithstanding its references to Dawkins and Wolf. :)

Of course, another thing to consider alongside your 4 points was the DANGER posed by covid. My perception of this varied during the years and I first pushed for 'let rip'. Whilst their was an overwhelming trend for the danger to be inversely proportional to background health level (as you pointed out) it occurred to me that Melburnians were quite unhealthy. It also occurred to me that we did have accounts of healthy people having very debilitating bouts of 'COVID', including people within the 'freedom movement'.

Just to finish, I recently had a conversation with a young cafe worker. Her body language went rapidly south, though, when I expressed that Melbourne would have been better off had we just let rip - if the bug had been allowed to run its course with no government intervention.

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Billy Field's avatar

PROOF re APRA weaponisation here to FRIGHTEN Doctors:- Great speech by Doctor My-Le Trinh at 11mins 40 secs in, caught in years of a "SUSPENSION" to practice (by APRHA "authorities") & years of their investigations (as a weapon) for prescribing perfectly safe Ivermectin for Covid/flue ...(& it was quite permissible at the time too). My-Le has had many years of safe & good results treating with IV, particularly in her time in Cambodia) ....THIS IS TO STOP non Vaccine treatments... DESPITE SAFTY & EFFICACY! WAKE UP ALL....be sceptical about "Big Pharma" et al. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRgHsgamirw

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Mz's avatar

If "This exclusive investigation was published in partnership with Canberra Daily." . . why is there no mention on the Canberra Daily site? Is it available only within the Substack bubble?

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

It was meant to go up this morning same time as mine! They had a delay… I’ll post link here once it’s up :)

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Mz's avatar

Yep - sighted, and commented. Well done Rebekah.

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Evad's avatar

INCOMPETENCE VERSUS EVIL

During the covid/convid pandemic/plandemic much discussion was had as to whether the whole show was the product of powerful global manipulation/orchestration by a small group of folk with evil intent or whether it was simply the result of classic individual government incompetence (and associated denial), the likes of which we have been seeing for centuries. “Don’t blame on corruption what can be adequately explained by incompetence was a line oft tossed about in social media comments.

I’d like to relate accounts of events close to home, involving the local government, but it would run to too many words for this forum.

Suffice is to write that a person could devote their life to compiling instances of government incompetence.

Returning to COVID and the investigations (or otherwise) into vax damage, the terms/phrases; ‘bureaucratic inertia’, ‘stonewalling’ and ‘red tape’ have been around for a very long time. For a long time now, I have been totting out the refrain: ‘Government has no bounds of incompetence.’

In terms of dealing with emergencies, furthermore, my mind turns to the Lindt café siege of 2015 (?) and to the more recent assassination attempt on Donald Duck, which attracted various conspiracy claims from folk the likes of who gave the ‘freedom movement’ a bad name. Both of these were classic examples of ‘Keystone Cops’. I suppose authorities are simply not well-practiced in dealing with emergencies because they are relatively rare. After all, how to get experience at something when one has not encountered it before? And drills and dummy runs do not count, I’m afraid. As the saying goes: One only gets to know who the soldiers are when the dummy bullets get replaced by real ones.

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

“Government has no bounds of incompetence” - rings true to me!

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