“...Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.

Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers’ enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves.

No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others...."

- Simone Weil

Quoted in a comment on OffG today
https://off-guardian.org/2022/08/09/covid-ukraine-the-real-enemy-an-open-letter-to-vanessa-beeley/#comment-530310

To further build out its "public-health" panopticon, the Hong Kong regime plans to begin uploading its subjects' and international visitors' digitally surveilled health statuses "to the government's cloud to determine if they hold a red or amber code." But don't worry: "personal data will be encrypted, masked and hashed into unidentifiable information" when uploaded. Sure.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1661580-20220809.htm

This is part of a global agenda. Look at the Henan banking scandal in China and how COVID-19 apps were used to control people who had their accounts frozen. This is how technocracy is designed to operate.
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WATCH: The Voluntaryist Handbook

Keith Knight of Don’t Tread on Anyone joins James Corbett to discuss The Voluntaryist Handbook. You can download a free PDF of the book here, or buy a hard copy here....

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The Horrendous Damage of Censorship

Todd Hayen

There has always been a hunger for new discoveries and revelations of the truth, but often, in the past, it took great effort to get past the “agenda”—there has always been one.

Think of the Daniel Ellsberg exposure of The Pentagon Papers as well as many pieces coming out of Viet Nam during the ‘60s by a group of idealist journalists covering the war there. None of these were popular publications with the editors (or the powers that be), and had their difficulty getting published, but they were not altogether censored.

Then jump a few decades ahead and…...

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At the Lost and Found

Edward Curtin

Photo by Daniel Jensen on Unsplash

“Nothing is more real than nothing.”
Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies

Those who are never lost are forever lost.  Only those who know they are lost and that life is a shipwreck have a chance to find their way to shore.

The world’s great religions, including Taoism and Existential philosophy, understand that at the heart of human existence is the presence of the not (death, emptiness, void), but this negative reality, this “nothingness” interpenetrates with the positive of being alive so that our knowledge coincides with our ignorance, our lives with our death,…...

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This Week in the New Normal #42

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. Yearly Covid vaccine updates “like new iphones”
The CEO of Moderna gave an interview with CNN this week where he claimed the company is working on releasing a single yearly booster vaccine capable of targeting Covid variants, flu strains and all other common viruses.

It’s a remarkable claim – considering that Moderna’s Covid “vaccine” was (alongside Pfizer’s jab) the first EVER coronavirus vaccine OR mRNA vaccine to be approved…...

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No response so far to our open letter...

https://off-guardian.org/2022/08/09/covid-ukraine-the-real-enemy-an-open-letter-to-vanessa-beeley/

WATCH: The News-Benders

A reader posted this in our comments section a few days ago and we liked it so much we had to share it.

Dating from 1968, written by Desmond Lowden, this short TV play from the BBC presents us with a world in which there are shadowy people who “write the news” as if it were a screenplay. A world of wholesale fakery in which, to paraphrase CIA director William Casey, everything everyone believes about their geopolitical world is a lie.

It probably speaks more to our time than to the relatively optimistic 60s. And the performances are great –…...

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The BBC’s “Unvaccinated”: The Pandemic Dataset – Part 3

Iain Davis

In Part 1 we looked at the propaganda and manipulation techniques used throughout the BBC programme “Unvaccinated with Professor Hannah Fry.”

In Part 2 we considered the undisclosed conflicts of interest that apparently led some of the BBC’s chosen “experts” to make some misleading statements.

Yet perhaps the greatest single deception of all was in the BBC press release announcing the programme, which read:

Professor Hannah Fry is a British Mathematician who worked on the data that helped bring the UK out of its first lockdown.

This was incredibly disingenuous of the BBC. On the contrary, Prof. Fry…...

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Putin, Sputnik V & mass vaccination

Riley Waggaman

This is Part I of an ongoing series, “Putin & COVID.” Parts II, III, IV are already available on Riley’s substack.

What role has Putin played in Russia’s response to COVID? Is he waging a silent war to root out the clot-shot fanatics and Virus nannies in his country? Or has he enabled and supported these bad actors?

Did Russia’s power-hungry regional governors use COVID for their own selfish purposes, defying the wishes of the federal government? Or are the regions imposing unsavory policies to appease the Kremlin and federal agencies?

Perhaps Putin deferred to Russia’s “public health”…...

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Nationalising the power supply plays right into the Great Reset’s hands

Kit Knightly

There’s a lot of talk about energy prices in the UK right now. And a lot of talk about what to do about them. The record profits reported by oil companies this year have fuelled a lot of outrage – both in the press and the public – and politicians are lining up to suggest a solution to this problem.

One solution often mooted is nationalising – or re-nationalising – energy suppliers.

The UK’s Trade Union Congress was among the first to call for it, going so far as to publish a costed report claiming the whole process…...

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WATCH: Delete Your Social Media – #SolutionsWatch

Even the Big Techers admit it: social media is ripping apart the fabric of our society. So the solution is simple, right? Delete your social media!

Or is it not that simple?

Join James Corbett for his most recent edition of #SolutionsWatch as he explores the solutions to the Media Matrix problem.

Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here and here.

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Cricket Croquettes

Sylvia Shawcross

Now, as the crimes against humanity mount in a world on the precipice of colossal change, our hope lies in Artificial Intelligence. This is the way it will have to be I’m afraid because obviously Natural Intelligence has failed us miserably.

I mean, look at the bloody great mess we’re all in all because we didn’t have “Alexa” there all those centuries to help guide us in the right direction.

Only banksters, politicians and purveyors of the military-industrial complex seem to be thriving while ordinary people carry on in only one of three ways: in complete delusion and/or…...

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The media are (finally) admitting lockdown is worse than “Covid”…but why?

Kit Knightly

The latest figures from the UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) suggest that the knock-on effects of lockdown may be harming more people than “Covid” ever did, or so the press are saying anyway.

The ONS’s weekly data apparently shows over 10,000 more reported deaths than expected.

Since none of these excess deaths has been “linked with Covid”, the press is calling them the “true cost of lockdown”, with some papers suggesting lockdown is “killing more people than Covid”.

To which the only proper response is: “No shit.”

Even for those who still cling to the orthodoxy that…...

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In the Eye of the Storm

Todd Hayen

Sometime earlier this year (2022) the fearporn seemed to start to wane. Mandates started to relax, masks started to disappear, “social distancing” decals started to come up off floors in supermarkets and drug stores. Occasionally you might have even seen a waiter or waitress maskless in the more liberated restaurants. The storm was lifting. Or was it?

Anyone who has followed my writing knows at that time I was not joining the celebration parties many other people were throwing in their exuberance that we had won the great war. So many believed the efforts to kill the giant…...

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The Three Is of Police State Education: Indoctrination, Intimidation & Intolerance

John & Nisha Whitehead

“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.”
Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes

This is what it means to go back-to-school in America today.

Instead of making the schools safer, government officials are making them more authoritarian.

Instead of raising up a generation of civic-minded citizens with critical thinking skills, government officials are churning out compliant drones who know little to nothing about their history or their freedoms.

And instead of…...

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From our comments section today, we just liked the scene it describes - and yes, dogs DO laugh!...

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In Memoriam: The Nuremberg Code, 1947-2022

Rabbi Michoel Green

The Nuremberg Code just died after a lengthy illness. Covid has been identified as the official cause of death, but pundits claim that the Code was actually struggling with terminal illness for the past three years, even before the Wuhan virus made its debut.

Numerous factors contributed to the Code’s demise, but metastatic tyranny is the underlying condition chiefly responsible for the Code’s slow and torturous death.

In fact, the Code was on life support ever since lockdowns and mask mandates were imposed in 2020.

After years of systematic abuse and gang rape by the WHO, CDC,…...

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This Week in the New Normal #43

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.

1. Natwest to pay for hormone replacement therapy
UK bank NatWest announced this week that in the future they would be paying for any of their employees who identify as transgender to receive hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

They join Goldman Sachs who, a couple of years ago, said they would pay for their employees to have gender reassignment surgery.

There is a tidal wave of “woke” gestures sweeping through the…...

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12 Memes to Get You Through the Day – Part 20

Another Monday morning, another batch of memes. Last week we asked if you’d prefer weekly or bi-weekly meme posts, well the results are in and the winner is actually secret option number 3 – “memes posts when we have time and/or we find some good memes”.

In great democratic tradition, neither side wins and we just do what we were gonna do anyway.

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It’s like that spider that pretends it’s an ant.

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Speaking of the degradation of the “left”…

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Accurate. Except clowns are actually scary.

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And speaking of monkeypox…

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IT does always have an air…...

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