On this week's episode of EDGSTREAM, we discuss how the Australian government is cracking down on political dissidents, especially on Australia Day. We also talk about how the government is using hate speech as a tool to crack down on freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
00:08:18.320But not everybody would call it Australia Day anymore.
00:08:21.600In fact, it has a couple different names.
00:08:24.420One of them, one of the newer names it sometimes goes by is Survival Day.
00:08:31.020And I guess that is the newest iteration because last year I remember it being Invasion Day.
00:08:37.620But I guess the PR, the public relations on that name, you know, trying to take a day's national day of celebration and change it into Invasion Day.
00:08:49.400I think that's hitting the whole colonial guilt trip a little too much.
00:08:55.140It's really going overboard with the white guilt.
00:08:58.160So they had to soften the language a bit and call it Survival Day.
00:09:04.380And I'm assuming that's referring to the aboriginals of the continent of Australia.
00:09:11.580I'm not too into the history of like who, which tribe was where and did what.
00:09:18.060But we will look a little bit into that.
00:09:20.860But certainly I could say that they did not build Australia into what it is today.
00:09:25.520To where they would even be having celebrations like Australia Day.
00:09:29.860That they would even have the infrastructure or the national cohesion that it has today.
00:09:37.900I think that's more so the product of the old white Australia policy.
00:09:43.040But anyways, Australia Day, the government and all the special interest groups in the media and establishment have been trying to shit on Australia Day.
00:09:57.600Blair Cottrell, he did a video covering how the ABC, the Australia Broadcast Corporation, was making articles encouraging businesses to openly discriminate against people who wore Australia Day garb or were clearly selling Australia Day.
00:10:21.340So the mainstream media was instructing people on how to, you know, refuse people's service based on them celebrating their day's national holiday.
00:10:32.340And likewise, across the nation there, across the continent, many of the big celebrations of Australia Day were just straight up canceled.
00:10:44.860And if they weren't canceled, then they were morphed into some kind of, you know, like it says here, survival day protest slash demonstration.
00:10:53.240Where instead of actually celebrating anything, they just push nonstop guilt, colonial atrocity propaganda upon the population.
00:11:10.180And Australia Day is effectively canceled, except for the patriots and most of the normal people who actually still want to celebrate it.
00:11:18.900And it kind of reminds me of here in Canada, except for it hasn't been like that in the last few years compared to how it was in 2021, back on Canada today, July 1st, 2021, in the height of COVID.
00:11:38.260We don't have it as bad as Australia does with them trying to cancel Australia Day.
00:11:44.940I feel like there's a little bit more patriotism here in Canada, in the sense that Canada today is something that they don't want to mess with too much.
00:11:55.900So despite all the propaganda that we've had, especially concerning the residential schools, Canadians have held up reasonably well, at least compared to Australia, in not getting it canceled by the mainstream.
00:12:12.460And specifically in 2021, the Kamloops Residential School, you know, there was that big controversy where they said there was like over 200 bodies of dead children in unmarked graves buried underneath there.
00:12:27.320They found they had the ground penetrating radar, but there was nothing conclusive.
00:12:32.000But the media just ran with it, said that there was a genocide going around, going on against children.
00:12:36.860How any of that happened, they never explained.
00:12:42.360And I remember in Ottawa, instead of having their normal celebration, like it had already been canceled, I think the year before because of COVID.
00:12:49.900That was like when it really ramped up at the beginning.
00:12:52.180And before everyone started protesting it, for the most part, back in 2020, it was shut down, except for the demonstrations and protests on Parliament Hill that I was there for.
00:13:05.540And then again, on Canada Day in Parliament, I was there too.
00:13:09.480But this time, there was an Every Child Matters demonstration going on instead of normal Canada Day celebrations.
00:13:19.700And then there was another kind of protest demonstration from all the anti-COVID, all the anti-vax type people, anti-restriction type people.
00:13:30.360But there wasn't a considerable pushback about how they were trying to cancel Canada Day due to this residential school atrocity propaganda.
00:13:42.360It wasn't really, people didn't really know how to deal with those claims because they were just made to that extent with like a lot of intensity from the whole media.
00:13:56.280So it took a little while for everyone to catch up and realize that, hey, they're just lying about this.
00:14:02.740They're just lying about all these dead bodies being underground.
00:14:05.340They never found anything and they don't want to actually look because then it'll disprove them.
00:14:10.440And recently in the news now, now, obviously, the mainstream media and the government are still denying that, like there's, they're still threatening to put you in jail if you deny it now, even.
00:14:26.820And they're still clinging on to their claims, but they're slowly backtracking things and stepping away from it.
00:14:32.200Like, I don't think the NDP has a full, full support in trying to make, uh, residential school genocide denialism or whatever they call it.
00:14:42.480I don't think that they're going to be successful in making that, uh, illegal like they're trying to do.
00:14:47.740But it's no surprise that all the funds that were sent, uh, to these groups that were supposed to investigate the children's graves, uh, has went missing.
00:15:00.840So this is from two days ago, uh, from Toronto Sun.
00:15:07.340It says millions in federal funds to recover suspected Indian children's graves in BC went elsewhere.
00:15:12.940And throughout this article, it just shows the many ways in which the money just went missing or let's see here.
00:15:25.880$12 million, $37,000 for marketing and communications, $54,000 in travel, $100,000 as six months pay for two trauma counselors.
00:15:40.880And $405,000 in administrative costs, including speaking fees and tent rentals.
00:15:48.220So, literally, they're just lining their pockets.
00:15:51.500And once again, they didn't find anything.
00:15:53.240They didn't even really try to find anything.
00:15:56.540Uh, a lot of this money going towards more propaganda campaigns to prove what they're not willing to actually prove with the actual evidence.
00:16:05.280So there's not really any surprise there.
00:16:07.300Uh, I, I found this clip from a, from a video.
00:16:12.740This is Frances Widdowson doing a lecture at Brock University where she makes a great point about how there is no evidence of these children being mass murdered.
00:16:22.060And this is despite programs like the Fifth Estate, CBC's Fifth Estate, interviewing, uh, survivors of these residential schools that provide no evidence for the claims.
00:16:35.280And she doesn't press them at all for, to back up any of their claims.
00:16:40.000Like, these are substantial claims, claims of mass murder of children, yet they just let these claims go uncontested on one of the country's biggest programs that is supposed to be an authority on these matters.
00:16:53.560So here's just a clip from this presentation.
00:19:12.540Like, they want to jump the gun and just guess that murder was happening, and just, I guess, the fact that the media and these, uh, natives are saying that it's true, that she must be wrong in some way, or she must, uh, be lying or something, or committing hate speech.
00:19:30.740But she shuts them down very effectively.
00:19:34.100And likewise, it just seems like the money is going anywhere but to actually prove any claims.
00:19:42.140So even with this kind of propaganda put against us, it still hasn't been very effective at actually shutting down Canada Day anymore.
00:19:51.160And I don't think they want to push it too much harder.
00:19:53.400Because people are starting to wake up to the, to these blatant lies, and the insane amount of atrocity propaganda just made up and being pushed against them, that I don't think they want to push it too much further.
00:20:07.020Because then it'll be like, uh, I guess the Streisand effect.
00:20:11.880A lot more people will see what they don't want them to see.
00:20:14.700So that's just kind of how it connects to, uh, our Canada context.
00:20:24.800Now we'll look into the Australia Day and see how their celebrations went down.
00:20:30.500Uh, there was a lot more controversy than any Canada Day celebrations that happened over here that I can remember in the last year.
00:20:54.140Just to think, all that money is just going to these people who, I know some of them are lying, some of them are nefarious.
00:21:01.640A lot of them are just, uh, along for the ride, whether, uh, you know, they truly believe in it or, you know, it's just convenient for them.
00:21:11.320But either way, I'm, I'm not concerned for them getting hoodwinked.
00:21:15.640I'm much more concerned for, for the rest of Canada getting gaslit and told, uh, that we shouldn't be proud of ourselves and who we are and where we came from.
00:21:25.060And we should hate ourselves and let ourselves get replaced because, you know, we're big bad colonial oppressors.
00:22:22.760Jacob Hursant, he's the leader of the NSN, National Socialist Network.
00:22:27.320The police, he says, the NSW police will have spent millions of dollars this Australia Day weekend on us alone.
00:22:33.740They had the police helicopter, Raptor Squad, Riot Squad, regular police members, and senior police members chase around 70 racists for 96 hours.
00:22:44.340They were just hounding them all around, like, different cities, trying to keep them away from the main city where they were, uh, they had demonstrations for Survivor's Day or Invasion Day or, uh, Hate Yourself, Kill Yourself, White Guilt Day.
00:22:58.760Whatever they want to call it this year.
00:23:00.260And, uh, yeah, they were just trying to kettle them away.
00:23:04.920They were taking their equipment, uh, trying to unmask them, all these different things.
00:23:11.860Threatening them in any way that they could.
00:23:16.580But this time, it actually, uh, resulted in a lot of arrests.
00:23:21.360And a lot, some of the biggest breaches of civil rights against nationalists that I've ever seen.
00:23:27.360And Blair Cottrell, he explains it pretty well.
00:23:35.700And then we'll get into some more clips and videos and, uh, analysis of what really happened.
00:23:40.620Earlier today in Australia, nationalist activist Joel Davis was intercepted by state police and arrested outside an Adelaide court.
00:23:48.180But here's the thing, he didn't actually break any laws.
00:23:50.880He was arrested because of what he believes.
00:23:53.220Joel was trying to attend court to support his 16 colleagues, who had been arrested two days prior.
00:23:58.760On Sunday, police swooped in and arrested the group of men during an Australia Day march.
00:24:03.08016 of them were charged with loitering or possessing a disguise, which ended up being in relation to the hats and sunglasses some of them were wearing.
00:24:12.040The guys arrested openly identify as national socialists and are members of a group called the National Socialist Network, which you would think falls under their democratic rights.
00:24:21.320But no, these guys are known for observing the law and protesting within the bounds of the law.
00:24:26.620But South Australia police didn't seem to care.
00:24:29.320Joel's arrest outside of court is interesting.
00:24:31.420I've never seen anything like that before.
00:24:33.240It seems like a planned public display of force by the state.
00:24:36.680You're wearing a Nazi symbol on Sunday?