This is a huge development in the battle for freedom in Victoria, Australia. It cannot be overstated.
The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has declared war against their own leadership, John Setka (left, circled), for not fighting against the mandatory COVID vaccine. As he was attempting to hunker down in his office headquarters, union boss John Setka physically came under attack from his own union membership over his political relationship with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.
This is the U.S. equivalent of AFL-CIO members launching a violent uprising against former union President Richard Trumka; and then Trumka running to Joe Biden for help and protection from his own membership.
The CFMEU members are the heavy-hitting blue-collar construction and dirty fingernail workers, and the leadership of the CFMEU are the thug-like mobsters who run the union.
Just like the AFL-CIO or UAW in America, the union leadership in Australia is politically corrupt and disconnected from the members they serve. Earlier today (AU-time), the union members organized to confront the union leadership.
When CFMEU union boss John Setka tried to weasel his way out of the confrontation things turned violent. The members have had enough of the lockdowns, ridiculous COVID regulations and now the forced vaccinations. Setka shouted, “What do you want me to do, shut it down?” The members erupted in cheers. Yes, that is exactly what they want. [09:54 of video below]
The union members want their leadership to fight for them; to use the power of the union labor movement to shut down industry and bring the government to heel. The righteously angry members, turned freedom fighters, want to force Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to back-down from his totalitarian dictates, and stop the mandatory vaccines that create two classes of people.
The trade union members recognize their leadership is politically corrupt and supporting the totalitarian rules of the government. After things turned violent, Setka was forced to retreat to his office and position his foot-soldiers at the doors to protect him. The members launched a full frontal assault on the building, smashing windows, throwing bottles and forcing Setka’s thugs to run back inside.
Trapped and under assault from his own members, John Setka called for police and riot squads to rescue him from his own members. The riot police showed up in their ninja turtles uniforms and started firing rubber bullets and tear gas at the angry union members in the crowd. The workers fought back as hundreds of police units arrived to secure the building and attempt to form a defensive ring around the CFMEU building. Suffice to say, John Setka and Premier Daniel Andrews clutched their pearls and called the angry union workers a violent mob.
In an attempt to save face and give the appearance of having control over the situation; in a transparently political move; Premier Daniel Andrews then announced a retaliatory shutdown of the Victorian construction industry for two weeks. Essentially Daniels is trying to lockdown the CFMEU members, before the CFMEU members could strike.
Daniels and Setka know the members have the power in this scenario – so, they are trying to avoid the political optic of having the construction industry workers strike and lock down the economy, by being proactive and shutting down the industry. It is a face saving maneuver meant to give the illusion of power. However, shutting down the industry is what the union members wanted Union President Setka to do.
This is a very interesting development. If the heavy-hitting labor unions start striking back against government leadership they previously supported and installed, the entire dynamic of power shifts. We must keep watching this closely because this is also the dynamic we could see play out in the United States, only on a much larger scale.
This first video is the attempt of John Setka to appease the angry members. [Cued to the point where he asks if they want him to shut down and strike]
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Here’s the portrayal on Australian media including the detached and elitist response from Setka and Andrews:
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Here is a local report – showing common perspectives, comments and feedback – SEE HERE
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Here’s the Daily Mail article about it – SEE HERE:
That union leader reminds me of Karl Rove.
Going on what is printed in the Media , he is one person who could be asked if he has stopped beating his wife yet. …… Without it being a Trick Question.
This needs to happen here in the USA. The teachers need to shut down the Teachers Union Leadership which does next to nothing for our children.
half the teachers are commies…don’t try to compare them with blue collar workers
I agree; I haven’t met a conservative teacher yet.
You probably wouldn’t know because they shelter in fear.
I had several in another era when I went to school…w credentials and teaching colleges they have nearly stamped out all freedom-loving independent thinking teachers…the University I went to get my engineering degree at began as a “Normal School” in 1873 which in CA means a teachers college…we noted the students in the teaching track cohort tended to be the lowest achievers academically on campus…listen to an interview w a modern activist/teacher and you can quickly see the dim bulb that inhabits their skull
Wow, so interesting about “normal school.” I went to Illinois State and knew it was a university that specialized in producing teachers. The name of the town it is in is “Normal.” I wonder if the town got its name from the school. There is an older town bordering it (Bloomington) so I assume Normal sprung up with the university.
all liberals……..2 in my church……
Half? That’s generous, more like 90+%.
Some of the nicest people I know are teachers and in my small world, they are ALL LIBERALS & LEMMINGS. SMH.
Randi Weingarten can’t be that hard to find, just sayin
Amen, sister! Refreshing, isn’t it?
Powderkeg!
The hair hats have no clue!
Check out this video Treepers.
PEOPLE ARE AWAKENING ALBEIT SLOWLY….IT BEGINS..
This is what will take the deep state down. They made this mistake and had many ideas, one by one did not materialize so they will never succeed. The people have slowly figured it out.
To President Trump’s political advisors on this board:
1) Do you acknowledge the existence of a cohort of fully inoculated voters who have experienced zero to minor adverse reactions to the jab and have experienced no noticeable Covid symptoms themselves or among family members?
2) If so, what is your estimate of that cohort’s size?
3) How would you describe that cohort’s likely attitude toward the availability of the inoculant.
4) How favorably or unfavorably would you expect that cohort to associate their Covid situation with President Trump?
Huh?
Those are good questions. I’d guess the vast majority have no adverse effects from vaccination or covid. They may still look favorably upon vaccines and President Trump/Warp Speed, especially if they don’t read much news, or believe if nothing bad has happened yet it can’t still happen.
They must also be in denial that the vaccine’s immunity wanes after 6 months or so and that they’re no longer “protected.” They must also be in denial about the possibility of ADE (see Israel et. al.) They must also be OK with being told they need boosters, then they don’t, and that the boosters aren’t designed for the current variant. They’d have to be happy that there was insufficient testing on humans and that the control group was cancelled.
They also have to be OK with the fact that the VAERS site shows enormous numbers of vaccine injuries. They’d also have to overlook the fact that their government is forcing others to take the vaccine and be OK with that, in spite of all of the above.
There are more things that vaccine supporters would have to overlook, but if they overlook it all they can be very happy with their decision and still believe the vaccines are good.
My questions:
What amount/percentage of serious adverse effects/deaths from vaccination is acceptable, even when it’s not happening to you or your family?
Aren’t other vaccines/treatments discontinued when far fewer adverse effects arise?
Haven’t some vaccines/drugs/treatments been approved in the past only to have led to horrendous outcomes further down the line?
Public policy requires looking at the big picture and the totality of outcomes. And something is seriously wrong with these genetic modification processes posing as medical treatments.
The adverse affects from the vax WILL show up–for some, it’s immediate, even death. For others, it will take some months or even a few years for the blood clots to become life-threatening.
The VAERS is apparently only 10% of true adverse events. Doctors are saying the system is clunky to use and sometimes after a lengthy time entering a case, it kicks them out and they have to start over. That alone is causing doctors to abandon entering data.
1%
I hope President Trump allows for all of what’s become known, and yet to be revealed, about the inoculations, and modifies his position sensibly.
(I especially hope to never hear him utter the word ventilator.
However he modifies his stance, I suspect it will be more artful than essentially accusing the tens of millions of grateful jabbers that they all made a horrible mistake.
Give him time. You are right. He will be tactful. He loves this country and it’s people. ALL of them, even in the face of all the crap that has been thrown his way.
I don’t take experimental medications whose efficacy at preventing death can’t be demonstrated statistically.
Efficacy of a tetanus shot can be shown.
If 100 people get tetanus, 90 will die. If 100 vaccinated people get tetanus, none will die. That’s efficacy, and it can be shown.
To show statistical efficacy of the Covid vaccine, how many humans would you have to study?
Let’s say 1 in 1000 will die from Covid-19. (99.9% survival rate. )
That means 10 in 10,000 people will die from Covid-19 (not very lethal to most age groups).
That means 1,000 in a million will die.
(Actually, this is more likely to be 500 in a million, if the survival rate is 99.95%.)
So, to do the study to show efficacy of the Covid vaccine, you must take one million vaccinated and one million unvaccinated with the same characteristics, and you must get all of them infected.
Then you want to show that in the vaccinated sample, significantly fewer than 500 die.
But 500 out of a million is such a small number, you can’t show statistical significance.
You can’t control for the confounding factors with an effect that small.
So, efficacy can’t be tested.
Furthermore, there are plausible biochemical causal mechanisms of long term, irreversible damage such as blood clotting, sterilization, diabetes, cancer, and auto-immune disease due to the vaccine — but no tests have been done to exclude these.
There is a reason vaccines generally require ten years or more of study before approval.
There is a reason only 5% of vaccines become FDA approved from first concept to final study.
But . . . some people believe the tv. They think they know what’s going on. They think the government wants to help them preserve their health. They think Big Pharma’s money has nothing to do with policy.
I’m not advocating a jab position.
My point was whether the political experts in this space who would press President Trump to adopt their pet covid policy have given adequate considerstion to the attitude of the people I described.
“Do you acknowledge the existence of a cohort of fully inoculated voters…?
Do you acknowledge the ephemeral nature of these injections, necessitating booster shots for the “fully inoculated.”
Yes.
Barnestormer,
That cohort of the vaccinated that were not harmed by the vaccine and haven’t gotten sick includes the vast majority of the 60% of citizens that got vaccinated, and they are all grateful to Trump for promoting it’s timely production (though many would never admit it).
However, as evidence mounts about the vaccine’s relatively high rate of serious adverse reactions and it’s relatively low effectiveness, they will less likely blame Trump for that than those currently in power mandating vaccines while hiding information about those problems with the vaccine.
The Deep State has been working for hundreds of years to get to this point of taking over our country and others. The biggest mistake Bi— has done is latch onto the Covid shots. It is not working and now we see the thousands upon thousands finally seeing what the shots actually accomplish. They are not vaccines, they are poisonous shots that will seek out those who can not recover or produce blood clots, heart attacks, death. This is their downfall and they will be running soon, taking off their clothes and leaving. It will be the end finally of this evil administration.
They will not leave. We will have to remove them.
We finally have faced the reality that they cannot be removed with the ballot box or convicted in the jury box
I understand the need to research and provide opinion on the Covid lockdowns and mandatory mask wearing as well as all the contrary opinions on the vaccine; to take or not to take, etc.
I also firmly believe that Covid was the plan to take down the country and eliminate our freedoms.
However, I cannot help but wonder that while we are kibitzing and arguing the pros and cons of Covid
for over a year and a half, what is going on in government that we are not giving proper attention to.
Take the jab or don’t take it; wear a mask or don’t wear a mask, stay at home or don’t stay at home. You as an
individual should be the judge of that. I have a mask that is like a necklace. I wear it and conveniently forget
to pull it up over my mouth and nose. Seldom does anyone in any store say anything to me. And I live in Illinois where the loonies multiply like rabbits. However, when going to the doctor’s office wear the mask.
If I love a certain restaurant and they require a mask I comply. Not going to ruin my life over a f*****g
mask!
That said, I wish the comment section on postings would not mostly turn in to Covid postings.
“Take the jab or don’t take it; wear a mask or don’t wear a mask, stay at home or don’t stay at home. You as an
individual should be the judge of that.”
Sounds like you will soon be fighting in the streets because this is precisely what your government will NOT let you do (see mandates.)
We fight them politically now so as not to fight them in the streets later.
“Not going to ruin my life over a mask.”
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No one knows the long term effects of oxygen restriction every day for a year.
There have been interesting studies that suggest that olympic swimmers and those who live at high altitudes have permanent brain impairment. Nothing was found to be conclusive, but it is known that the brain is highly sensitive to oxygen levels.
Now, if you’re wearing a mask once or twice here or there . . . yeah, you’re not ruining your life.
But if you’re a five year old with a developing brain, wearing a mask for six hours a day (or even all day if the parents mask their children at home) . . . then you could very well be ruining that child’s life.
We don’t know. The experiment has never been done.
“Did your parents drop you on your head as a child” will become, “Did your parents make you wear a mask all day as a child?”
Take a stand and don’t wear one period, not even like a necklace. Otherwise you show yourself as being compliant to these insane policies and “mandates”.
Be a rebel!
When we accepted the mask, they knew they could take the rest of our freedom. So long as you wear it – they own you.
The control structures are breaking down. Maybe it will be like a return to the first half of the nineteenth century when political gangs ruled the cities.
At some point people are going to take a a stand for their own economic interests. How that stand looks will depend upon what options they have. When all representation is removed that leaves only one option.
I’ve been saying 6b will erupt to stop the madness, the 1% and all their lackeys will fall hard
This is where it has to start. No country can function without the blue collar workers.
As a retired blue collar guy, I can assure you that there is no one more likely to punch someone in the neck than one of these guys when you f with their livelihoods and their families.
I know. I’m a blue collar guy too. I’ve never been in a union though.
When you start messing with people’s livelihood the reaction is atomic. Take an experimental, never before attempted mRNA Gene Therapy or you Cannot work! The governments are pushing Way Too Hard. Thanks goodness We the People are pushing back just as hard.
I think that the majority of people in the USA think that “Not All There” Joe’s “Get Vaxxed to Be Employed” mandate will be struck down in court, BUT Millions of Americans will be faced with an impossible choice – Take the mRNA Gene Therapy jab if you want to continue working. Talk about extortion!
Extortion it is!
We are fools and slaves if we wait for a corrupt court to rule on an unenforceable executive “guideline” carried out by private employers. This is fascism – courts and judges and media are all integral to fascism.
No one is coming to save us. There is only one way out. And if we are not prepared to die claiming it, our grandchildren will live as slaves.
Setka of the CFMEU bears a very striking resemblance to the stance of that fat bastard Richard Trumka of the AFLCIO in this country. Despite the widespread resistance to ANYTHING that the government wishes or mandates, the leadership of the trade unions pushed forward the agenda of the Potato administration. Thankfully, Trumka died of a massive heart attack. As a long time member of a trade union that this fat pos had immense pressure upon, I only hope he suffered before succumbing. May the worms feast on his eyes. The same for that other fat pos Setka!!!!
This was a moronic move by the Victorian government.
They claimed that the mandatory vaccination for construction workers was to stop the spread of the virus on work sites. But the vaccines don’t stop transmission.
If they had really wanted to stop transmission, they would allow rapid antigen testing for construction sites.
What these clowns have done is telegraph that they are all about vaccine passports, powe and control. And now they have gone and put an army of fit angry men out of work to punish them for not bending the knee. This is going to get very messy.
Once again, the police reveal who they truly are. When push comes to shove, they will ALWAYS be the enforcers for their fascist paymasters.
The pressure to have experimental covid injections, against a virus which isn’t a serious threat to most people, is the most important danger we face today, and there is a very big picture behind it…
I strongly suspect most of the people who have been pressured to have the covid-19 injections so far have not freely given their properly ‘informed consent’ – how can they when there is so much coercion and misinformation to contend with?
Please see my email to the CEO of the regulator of healthcare practitioners, AHPRA, asking whether AHPRA’s failure to address the matter of ‘informed consent’ constitutes gross negligence and dereliction of duty by AHPRA to the community, along with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Australian Medical Association.
This thread of emails provides examples of coercive ‘vaccination’, i.e. BHP’s plan to mandate covid injections for its 45,000 employees and contractors; and Golf Australia’s support for the Royal Melbourne Golf Club’s plan to insist golfers be covid injected to play golf, please consider the information in this thread of emails, it’s relevant to all of us: https://bit.ly/3loFFnU
It’s wrong that governments, companies, sports clubs, shops etc are demanding to interfere with people’s health decisions, what is happening in our liberal democracy?! Our bodily autonomy is being stolen from us by rogue politicians and others pulling the strings over the past 19 months.
Time for the people to take it back and demand accountability for the gross abuse of Australians’ free movement and association.
I’ve also raised this matter personally with Darren Greenfield, State Secretary of the NSW CFMEU
It is of no use to petition tyrants.
But it is important to ‘put things on the record’…
I have brought this matter to the attention of these people, they are accountable…
Let this be a lesson to NEVER give up our weapons. This is my weapon, this is my gun; this one’s for pleasure, and this one is for fun!
As a student of history I can say with confidence:
Violence is the answer
I’ve just seen the CFMEU’s media release in response to the protest yesterday: CFMMEU [sic] CONDEMNS FAR RIGHT EXTREMIST VIOLENCE.
Crikey…it’s really bad…
If I was a CFMEU member, I’d be furious about that media release…I AM furious about that media release…
The CFMEU is selling its members down the river, brave members who are trying to stand up to the tyrannical Daniel Andrews’ occupied government, and others such as Gladys Berejiklian and the puppet masters.
I watched the videos embedded in the article above. Most of the guys, with some families too I think, looked authentic to me.
For instance the man who sat atop his mate’s shoulders, around 10:48 in the first video. Hard to hear him clearly, but here’s some of what he said…
This is what it’s all about… If we don’t stop this now, we’re (expletive deleted!).
I reckon whoever was responsible for the CFMEU media release should go, because that is a traitorous document to the members…
Check out this article from Israel if you want to see what’s coming if people don’t fight back:
The rogue politicians will be setting us up for injections/’boosters’ for life, under the looming social credit system.
Thank goodness some brave people are fighting back…and then union heavies stab them in the back…
Elizabeth Hart
Independent person investigating the over-use of vaccine products and conflicts of interest in vaccination policy
Good for you mates. The Unions over here, ALL of them SHOULD pull a scene from the movie” On the Waterfront”. Confront the corrupt gov’t and union, corrupt bosses!
They are losing. We are winning. They are few. We are many. The few have been stealing from the many for too long. The few are aware that their days are numbered. We are going to separate the few from both their money and their power and take back what is rightfully ours. There is no negotiating. That time has passed. You cannot negotiate with these people. They only understand raw power. That is what we are seeing here and you can be damned sure they got the message. This only gets worse for the criminal governments around the world.
Reminds me of the closing scenes form “On the Waterfront”.
If it is like here in the US, the majority of union members are government employees immune from these rules. Working men should not expect support form that quarter.
Please see my email to Darren Greenfield, a Secretary of the NSW CFMEU, about the recent protests against covid lockdown in Melbourne, and the biased media coverage, particularly by the deeply conflicted Murdoch media / News Corp Australia.
The Doherty modelling re covid, which was influenced by the controversial Neil Ferguson et al Imperial College modelling, is a major factor impacting on Australians’ freedom of movement and association: https://bit.ly/3AzHVyK