Full-spectrum dominance: Western Australia’s leadership engaged in psychological warfare during covid
Full-spectrum dominance: Western Australia’s leadership engaged in psychological warfare during covid
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Dear Readers,
I am writing this article because I do not want anyone to be ever fooled by these people again. Because there will definitely be a ‘next time.’
The people of Western Australia were subjected to psychological warfare in order to take the covid vaccine.
This is an extremely complicated subject and there is no one correct answer, thesis, theory or analytical technique. I do not present the documents, but I believe this was a military operation because the covid response was a military operation.
The messaging deployed was deliberate. Also, our former Premier Mark McGowan was a Navy lawyer. Military service permanently changes you, your worldview, and how you relate to society. This is only my opinion based on the evidence, mainly from the media, which is the main method of delivering cognitive warfare tactics.
I will demonstrate to you the different techniques that were used on the people. Dates and timelines are important.
In this article I focus on the leadership in Western Australia during 2020-2022. Specifically, what happened in state parliament with MP vaccination mandates to crush and gaslight political dissent. During this time, a woman of courage emerged. Others were lukewarm, but she went all the way, and she was the only one. (There was also a quiet hero in the MSM. Let’s celebrate them).
What happened in Western Australia was a once-in-a-century opportunity to consolidate political power in an increasingly militaristic, command-and-control manner facilitated by the hysteria and cowardice of the politicians and the people.
I use transcripts, videos and articles to demonstrate the psychological techniques used to get people vaccinated.
My fellow Australians, come out of Babylon.
Yours faithfully,
ExcessDeathsAU
Executive summary
I. Key concepts of psychological warfare used on the people of Western Australia and further reading (Bague et al. 2021)
II. The Australian covid psychological landscape 2020-2022
III. The political economy of mass hysteria and psychological warfare in Western Australia delivered McGowan’s Labor electoral victory in 2021
IV. The McGowan ‘presser’ – a study in psychological warfare
V. Vaccination of MPs in Western Australia – totalitarians crush and gaslight political dissent
VI. Critical public bootcamp timeline – where “legal advice” and “health advice” changed from moment to moment before finally collapsing.
VII. Final thoughts
I. Key concepts of psychological warfare used on the people of Western Australia and further reading (Bague et al. 2021)
Full-spectrum dominance (superiority) – US Department of Defence. Military doctrine. “The cumulative effect of dominance in the air, land, maritime, and space domains and information environment that permits the conduct of joint operations without effective opposition or prohibitive interference.” (Ed. – bold mine). In 2015 Australia published a “full-spectrum” military strategy including “information warfare.”
‘Public Bootcamp’ – the use of threats, rhetoric, authoritative imagery and constantly changing rules to place the public in a state of fear. Rules may be nonsensical and contradictory, and become even more so over time. The purpose of this technique is to destroy critical thinking and create total obedience to authority. Australian comedian Jimmy Rees documents this perfectly in his videos. Overseas readers, all these rules were real and happened and this is just a tiny fraction of what we endured. Watching them at the time, I thought “this will be used to demonstrate the government psychological abuse.” No one has yet done this, so I will. These rules are the equivalent of “swab the deck with a tootbrush in the rain at 3am.” In the military, soldiers hit the barbed wire. In Australia, people got vaccinated. You do not think, you simply obey authority.
“Covid-19 and the political economy of mass hysteria” (Bagus et al. 2021). This paper describes how states created mass hysteria to consolidate power during covid. Key points:
Negative information which is spread through mass media repetitively can affect public health negatively in the form of nocebo effects and mass hysteria.
Mass and digital media in connection with the state may have had adverse consequences during the COVID-19 crisis.
Collective hysteria may have contributed to policy errors by governments not in line with health recommendations.*
Mass hysteria can be exacerbated and self-reinforcing when the negative information comes from an authoritative source, when the media are politicized, and social networks make the negative information omnipresent.
Negative long-term effects of mass hysteria are exacerbated by the size of the state.
*To some extent, I disagree with this point. I think this was all deliberate, not erroneous, but in the purest sense, none of this was ‘health affirming’ so in that sense, I agree.
II. The Australian covid psychological landscape 2020-2022
I want to set the scene for you – whether you were blissfully unaware or perhaps overseas – about what Australia was like from 2020-2022. Many Australians are unchanged by the past three years. They ‘wonder what the fuss was about.’ They showed their vax passes and ‘got on with their lives’ exactly as they were told to do and never suffered any injuries or disruptions to their lifestyles. They were ‘happy the government was keeping them safe.’ Some people ‘were angry’ of course but ‘those people’ are ‘cookers’ and ‘conspiracy theorists’ and ‘not to be mixed with.’
This video shows what was happening in Melbourne, but the scenes were repeated all over the country accompanied by media and legal violence against the unvaccinated, and many other citizens, to the point where we were approaching the terminal state of Stanton’s stage of genocide, about which I have written previously. The dignity of the individual was gone. Only fear and brutality remained. (thank you to reader Steve for the video).
https://www.bitchute.com/video/0BZGfx6v819x/
It’s definitely worth watching the video - sorry I do not know how to embed Bitchute videos.
This man was killed due to border closures – the ‘health advice keeping Australians safe.’ Yet, he was ‘just confused about the border requirements.’ It wasn’t the rules that were the issue, of course. It was his confusion about the rules. The rules are perfect and sacred.
I knew exactly how this man felt on New Year’s Day 2022. He was widely portrayed as a ‘raving and ranting lunatic.’
Meanwhile, in Western Australia, where Premier Mark McGowan told us we were the “freest, most successful society”: “more than a million West Australian (had) to prove they’ve had at least one COVID-19 jab - or risk a $20,000 fine.”
I have written extensively about how Premier Mark McGowan called the unvaccinated, vaccine injured and peaceful protestors: “drongos, idiots, morons, absolute cretins, and I could use worse language than that…all they do is endanger themselves…they endanger their families, they create social disharmony…a pack of morons” "grow a brain" " (you are) not normal" " (you are) wacky, nutty, dangerous" and "irrational." “Go and get vaccinated and just act like normal, rational human beings…get on with life, like everyone else.”
(As an aside, the best way to counter the above is with the use of satire, which was highly effective with the fun ‘McClown’ monicker. That was not well-received by ‘state daddy.’ Also calling the boot-stompers on the street the ‘little boys in fancy dress’ in their ‘clown uniforms.’)
Here is more from McGowan, using the ‘strong man’ technique which is a psychological bluff revealing catastrophic weakness - they hold only positional power and lack moral courage. Strong leaders do not use fear to manipulate.
In January 2022 Premier McGowan told us “Life will be sweet once (you’re) jabbed”. This statement was made well after SOMEONE would have seen (even in a preliminary fashion) the vaccine injury data from 2021 showing that, in covid zero WA, the covid vaccine was 24x more injurious per dose than all other vaccines combined. Did McGowan know about these data? This is a question that needs to be answered.
Let’s check in with the jabbed in 2023. Is life ‘sweet’ for these people?
Maybe we should ask one of the most famous doctors in Australia and former president of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) what she thinks: “former federal MP Dr Kerryn Phelps has revealed she and her wife both suffered serious and ongoing injures from Covid vaccines, while suggesting the true rate of adverse events is far higher than acknowledged due to underreporting and “threats” from medical regulators.”
Look at the date of Dr Phelps’ MSM admission: December 20, 2022. Now look at the date McGowan said ‘get vaccinated life will be sweet’ - January 14, 2022.
(Relatedly, I would like to take the opportunity to praise Mr. Frank Chung, MSM reporter who broke many important stories about vaccine injuries early. Bravo sir, you are not fake news).
III. The political economy of mass hysteria and psychological warfare in Western Australia delivered McGowan’s Labor electoral victory in 2021
The graphic below shows the results of the 2021 upper house election in Western Australia. Full results are here. It was a landslide to Labor (in red) – the party of then Premier Mark McGowan. Dark blue (Liberal) is nominally ‘mainstream conservative’ (I guess). Americans may call them ‘RINOs.’ Liberals range from excellent to ‘absolutely terrible and fully on board with the Great Reset’ so pretty much like the US Republican Party.
In addition to the above fear campaign, McGowan was riding an unprecedented wave of popularity on the border closures in the ‘hermit kingdom’ of WA. The closed border ‘kept covid out and kept WA safe.’ People wrote songs about him and called him ‘state daddy.’ One woman even got a tattoo with his face and the words ‘state daddy.’ It showed the psychological issues of the people.
During the WA election, I tried to show many WA politicians the below covid survival rates directly from the US CDC and no one wanted to see them – they blocked my email and hung up on me. I even stood in front of Parliament with a sign with similar numbers in 2020 and people laughed at me and abused me. I told my neighbours and in response they said I should be ‘liquidated in a camp for being unvaccinated.’ The psychological damage was deep. Here I was, presenting clear numbers, and they could not see them.
I even showed people the WA Health Act where people could be disappeared, restrained and injected by force and they just shrugged their shoulders. It was ‘to keep us safe.’ (If the digital misinformation bill passes, imagine what will happen then. Are you ready Australia?)
While this is not an election post-mortem discussing lack of opposition (although that certainly did not help), the people of Western Australia were in a state of mass hysteria-hypnosis-delusion that facilitated political consolidation of power.
The demoralisation was complete.
IV. The McGowan ‘presser’ – a study in psychological warfare
One of the things that West Australians endured for years was the McGowan ‘presser’ (press conference). I turned them off early in April 2020 because I quickly realised it was a mechanism of dangerous fear-based propaganda and just continued my life as normal. Fear is not public health policy - a concept that had been completely abandoned during covid.
Before his political career, McGowan was a Navy lawyer (below image - source). According to the Australian Defence Force, Navy legal officers provide “legal advice and other legal services to the ADF, the Department of Defence and the Ministers on legal matters… primary duty is to advise Command. Navy legal officers contribute to Navy’s mission by providing specialist advice in the core legal areas of legal practice in the Navy, which are military discipline, military administrative law and military operations law… constitutional law, criminal/discipline and regulatory law, general administrative law, freedom of information and privacy law, statutory interpretation law, employment and workplace relations law, work health and safety law, environmental law, public governance and accountability law, human rights law, conflicts of interest law, official information and secrecy law, public relations law and legal ethics.”
I am using the example of the vaccination of MPs to not just demonstrate the psychological warfare on the public but parliamentary minorities. (N.b., this situation – bullying, political mobbing – is currently occurring at the Australian local government level to elected politicians who stand up for individual rights, Christians, and family-orientated people. Please get to know and support your local politicians).
By analysing the videos in 2023 and committing them to transcript, one can really see the psychological operation in effect. I will bold the relevant question and the only relevant information given. Look how many words were used to say nothing at all. Watch the video of the presser to see the ‘appeal to authority’ and other aspects as per the ‘key concepts’ section.
I transcribed the video myself, mistakes are mine and unintentional.
30:00 – MPs and vaccination
Female reporter: members of Parliament (unintelligible) not mandated as well…they mingle with constituents all the time um and certainly from an optics point of view…surely…
McGowan: (takes deep breath) So a couple of things on that…firstly, it’s based upon health advice, and uh…the…uh…the risk levels involved with those occupations that are in the bottom (stutters) category, so members of parliament come into that…um…what um…so w-we have to make decisions, and there’s a further complication around members of parliament…uh…in relation to…uh…some legal advice we’ve received…so…I would very much like to uh have uh included members of parliament in the first two categories but based upon some legal advice it wasn’t possible but they can be uh in the third category ah but what I’ll be doing today is I’ll be writing to the leaders of each of the political parties in the parliament requesting that they ah secure ah their members getting vaccinated. So I’ll be writing to the Liberal Party, the National Party the Greens, uh the Daylight Savings Party and the Cannabis Party ah requesting that all of their MPs get vaccinated and their leaders follow this issue up. Ah in terms of my team ah the state parliamentary Labor Party everyone is vaccinated two dose uh for those that are one dose which is a couple ah they’ll be ah fully vaccinated shortly.
Male reporter: What was the legal advice?
McGowan: Uhhh…there’s there’s there’s…
Male Reporter: (unintelligible) terms of telling Nick Goiran (Ed. – LNP state politician – opposition minority party to Premier McGowan, speaking) producing (unintelligible)
McGowan: (nervous laughter) Well he should get vaccinated. You know, the Liberal Party should do the right thing here. Just do the right thing and get vaccinated. Set the right example. I don’t want this subject to legal challenge or any of those sort of things. We just want to make sure we get on and get people vaccinated. My team’s vaccinated I just urge the Liberal Party to do the same thing.
Male reporter: (unintelligible, multiple reporters speaking) Legal advice…the Parliament, is just a body unto itself, it’s not like any other workplace…
McGowan: its its its complex, and it’s an interreaction between medical advice and legal advice uhh there are certain laws about interfering with an MP and the performance of their duties ah which obviously has to be taken into account that can be…umm…that can be moderated or regulated if you like based upon the medical risk. So, obviously in the case of a lockdown if an MP wants to go to work, uh, well then ah they need to be vaccinated because that principle of interfering an MP in the course of their work would be moderated based upon the medical risk in a lockdown.
Male reporter: What about the scenario though that the medical advice is is is private and cannot and cannot be demanded by government? That was one of things that Goiran (Ed – LNP WA state politician as above) was running their medical advice, anyone’s medical advice sorry medical uh medical reports et cetera cannot be handed over to to government.
McGowan: What we’re doing here is for 75% of the work force we’re requiring people to present their evidence that they’ve been vaccinated. That’s what we’re doing. Uhhh so MPs shouldn’t think they’re above that.
Male reporter: So employers will be empowered by the directions? Do you think that they’ll tell their staff to reveal their vaccination status?
McGowan: Correct.
Female Reporter: Are you expecting any legal challenges to that?
McGowan: Well I hope not…we’re just trying to do the right thing. This is based upon very solid legal advice everything we’ve done here ah and very solid medical advice.
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33:50 – bonus transcript of broad threats to the unvaccinated typical of the McGowan ‘presser’
McGowan: ….this is about the overwhelming majority of West Australians having secure health and secure work and I just urge those people (Ed. – ‘anti-vaxxers’) please go and get vaccinated. The way this issue is trending as well uh in the future there will be mandates on vaccination if you ever want to travel overseas again…you know…if you ever want to go overseas again, get vaccinated. If you ever want to uh if you wanna go to the football get vaccinated. These are the sorts of things that are being put in place around Australia and progressively will be. So I just say to people please just go and get vaccinated.
[end transcript]
Firstly, people need to really see in transcript format how McGowan’s answer did not give any information. Throughout the pandemic, McGowan adhered to three main messages:
1) appeal to emotion and tribalism using tropes and slogans without specific information. Examples: ‘doing the right thing’ and ‘this virus is deadly’ and ‘we don’t want to be like the eastern states’.
2) deferring responsibility (citing ‘legal advice’ and ‘health advice’).
3) constantly shifting ‘threats’ for not complying (public bootcamp, as above).
McGowan’s pressers were a masterclass in political propaganda, playing to fear and appealing to the Australian desire to ‘please’ and ‘go along to get along’ and ‘not stand out.’ Any ‘numbers’ cited in the ‘statistics’ came from the government in a propaganda merry-go-round, with the public unable to view the primary sources and methods. At the time, any debate by medical professionals was illegal because it would ‘put the public at risk.’ Read the statement from AHPRA here. There was also brutal unpersoning and social media censorship by big tech platforms (Twitter files, etc.).
The physical act of standing on a podium in front of an Australian flag, with a sign-language interpreter and the ‘can do’ body language (yet, with tells of nervousness – readers, can you spot them?) gives the impression of someone ‘in charge’ but in my opinion this is not the real story. We have to also look at what he and his Party did, not just what was said.
V. Vaccination of MPs in Western Australia – totalitarians crush and gaslight political dissent
As per the above transcript, McGowan could not legally mandate MPs to get vaccinated based on “legal advice” which is a very interesting subject – one that I will not explore here, but it cuts to the heart of citizen vs. MP rights. For more, see the words of Australian Constitutional law expert Professor Anne Twomey.
Instead, Labor used their overwhelming parliamentary majority to ram through a bill mandating MP vaccination. This is ‘Democracy at work’ so no one can complain. (Relatedly, the word ‘democracy’ is another psy-op phrase. When they say ‘threat to our democracy’ please replace it with the phrase ‘threat to our power.’ And for Americans, of course you are a constitutional republic, so it is a Double Red Alert from those who say ‘our democracy’).
Yet, one woman stood firm. She did not ‘show her pass.’ She did not participate in the covid theatre. Unlike other ‘pretend warriors’, she was not lukewarm and did not take half-measures. Her name is the Hon Sophia Moermond, and she is from the micro-party ‘Legalise Cannabis Party.’ She was suspended from the WA Parliament when she was required to declare her status and be triple-vaccinated. “After the motion passed, Ms Moermond gathered her things and quietly left the upper house chamber.” Like many of us, she was the only one who left her workplace, and when she was gone, the political takeover in Western Australia was complete. I am sure she was ‘allowed to work remotely’ but this was a brutal unpersoning of a political dissident.
And look at the gaslighting by the majority Labor party on the Hon Moermond being expelled from Parliament: “Labor’s upper house leader Sue Ellery rejected suggestions the government was using its dominant numbers to personally target rival MPs. “There is no mandatory vaccination. There are rules surrounding the consequences for people who choose not to be vaccinated,” she added. “No one is forcing you to inject anything into your body.””
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
-George Orwell
VI. Critical public bootcamp timeline – where “legal advice” and “health advice” changed from moment to moment before finally collapsing.
Here is the critical timeline of events when it all unravelled.
After McGowan went so hard on the unvaccinated and the borders for so many years, most restrictions were dropped over the course of one weekend. How can “health advice” and “legal advice” change in a few days?
Here is the key 2021-2022 timeline:
Dec 13, 2021: WA border set to open on Feb 5, 2021 “subject to vaccination”
Jan 13, 2022: Vaccine passports announced to move in society (includes bottleshops – buying alcohol)
Jan 21, 2022: McGowan says border will not open because ‘some WA people did not do the right thing.’
January 31, 2022: Vaccine passports enforced. Unvaccinated thrown out of society after losing jobs in 2021.
Feb 18, 2022: Border due to open March 3, more restrictions on unvaccinated announced.
February 21, 2022: Vaccine passports no longer required for bottleshops
March 3, 2022: WA border opens, first to arrive is Federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese (now PM).
April 4, 2022: McGowan confirms WA’s state of emergency declaration will last beyond July
April 22: Perth currently in a lockdown. McGowan contracts covid for the first time, his child was admitted to hospital ‘due to covid’.
April 26, 2022: Announcement of current lockdown to end.
May 1, 2022: Vaccine passports broadly end, unvaccinated re-join most of ‘society.’
May 1, 2022: Federal Labor (McGowan’s party) holds national campaign launch in Perth, Western Australia
June 10, 2022: WA mandatory workplace vaccinations dropped (health professions excepted).
What happened to the restrictions ‘being in place for years?’ Things fell apart very quickly in April 2022. Look at the timeline again.
McGowan contracts covid, his child goes to hospital, and the Federal Labor Party holds its national campaign launch in Perth, WA. Then, all the restrictions are dropped and McGowan never talks about covid or the mandates again.
I wonder how the people still in the narrative explain this. They are like Japanese soldier Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda found decades after WWII had finished, still hiding in the jungle shooting at the invisible enemy. In that case, Onoda’s former military commander had to come and ‘relieve him of his duties’ to break the psychological spell. Will the people still in the covid narrative require state daddy to tell them that the war is over?
VII. Final thoughts
Full-spectrum dominance in psychological warfare attempts to totally dominate the battlefield in terms of information but also with a full display of force to the point where no opposition is possible. First, we were love bombed (‘hearts and minds’, ‘we’re all in this together’), then terrifed into compliance (‘shock and awe’). It was about thoroughly wearing us down exactly as is done to soldiers in boot camp: always changing the rules so that you forget who you are in order to make you into a compliant robot. In the case of Western Australia, looking to ‘state daddy’ and the ‘vaccine’ for orders rather than your commanding officer.
Negative highly emotive information repetitively spread through the media created mass fear, particularly towards the unvaccinated, pushing us perilously close to the terminal state of Stanton’s stages of genocide. This collective public hysteria, reinforced by ‘state daddy’ and the politicised media with a parliament that targeted and crushed dissent made that negative information omnipresent and omnipotent. As the state became more powerful and consolidated that power, the negative effects became greater – individual liberties and bodily autonomy no longer mattered. There was only the state, the ‘presser’, and the rules. Even if the rules conflicted with themselves or reality, the rules were still sacred.
Yet, we fought back. We had satire. We did not comply. We found each other. We elevated and celebrated bravery. And in the end, the McClown situation collapsed into a sort of clownworld singularity. Like all totalitarian regimes, it could not be sustained.
Ultimately, it was about getting you vaccinated. It was all they had, and all they wanted to have. It was all about the vaccine, the one that is currently maiming and killing.
Do not comply.
Epilogue - discrimination is just not on!
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Thank you to UK Column News - 11th August 2023 for covering two of my articles. https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-11th-august-2023
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