This Week in the New Normal #54

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.San Fran’s Killer Robots
According to a report from The Verge, the San Francisco Police Deparment has submitted a proposal that would permit robots to use “deadly force” on suspects:

The San Francisco Police Department is proposing a new policy that would give robots the license to kill […] The draft policy, which outlines how the SFPD can use military-style weapons, states robots can be “used as a deadly force…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/05/this-week-in-the-new-normal-54/

WATCH: Eye-Bouncing – #SolutionsWatch

Propaganda is only effective if we watch it. In fact, if we let it into our consciousness, then it doesn’t matter how we react to it; they’ve already got us.

On the latest edition #SolutionsWatch, James Corbett explores the idea of eye-bouncing and how we can use it to turn our focus away from what we don’t want and towards what we do.

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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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/05/watch-eye-bouncing-solutionswatch/

India’s Farmers Reject GMOs – Global Public Don’t Want GM Food 

Colin Todhunter

Many scientists lobbying for the deregulation of agricultural biotechnology ‘new genomic techniques’ (NGTs) in the European Union have either direct or indirect interests in commercialising and marketing new genetically modified organisms (GMOs). They have patents or patent applications or other connections to the seed industry.

That is the conclusion of a September 2022 investigatory report commissioned by the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament – Behind the smokescreen: Vested interests of EU scientists lobbying for GMO deregulation. These scientists will benefit financially or in terms of career development, either personally or through their organisations.

FOAM Organics Europe, an umbrella…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/06/indias-farmers-reject-gmos-global-public-dont-want-gm-food/

AUDIO: Iain Davis & Jesse Zurawell talk China and Technocracy – Part 2

Following up on their conversation from a few days ago, Jesse Zurawell and Iain Davis reunite to continue their discussion of the rise global technocracy.

You can listen to the first part of this interview here.

Iain Davis is an author, blogger, researcher and short film maker. You can read more of Iain’s work at his blog IainDavis.com (Formerly InThisTogether), on UK Column or follow him on Twitter.

TNT Radio is a 24/7 internet radio station, available here. You can also listen to back-episodes of Perspective here and follow host Jesse Zurawell on Telegram here....

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/06/audio-iain-davis-jesse-zurawell-talk-china-and-technocracy-part-2/

Make Way for the Killer Robots: The Government Is Expanding Its Power to Kill

John & Nisha Whitehead

The purpose of a good government is to protect the lives and liberties of its people. Unfortunately, we have gone so far in the opposite direction from the ideals of a good government that it’s hard to see how this trainwreck can be redeemed.
It gets worse by the day.

For instance, despite an outcry by civil liberties groups and concerned citizens alike, in an 8-3 vote on Nov. 29, 2022, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a proposal to allow police to arm robots with deadly weapons for use in emergency situations.

This is…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/07/make-way-for-the-killer-robots-the-government-is-expanding-its-power-to-kill/

Dangerous Precedent: NZ court orders baby removed from “anti-vax” parents

Kit Knightly

A court in New Zealand has awarded temporary custody of a baby to medical professionals, after the parents insisted their child be given only unvaccinated blood transfusions during surgery.

CNN reports:

A critically-ill six-month-old baby will be placed under the temporary guardianship of New Zealand’s High Court after his parents refused to allow him to undergo lifesaving heart surgery using blood from people vaccinated against Covid-19 […] The baby’s parents believed there were “spike proteins in the blood of people who have been vaccinated and that these proteins were causing unexpected deaths relating to transfusions,” according to the…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/08/dangerous-precedent-nz-court-orders-baby-removed-from-anti-vax-parents/

WATCH: David Ray Griffin, 1939 to 2022 – A Celebration of his Life and Work

OffG is sad to report the death of David Ray Griffin, who finally lost his long battle with cancer on November 25th. He was 83 years old.

Professor Griffin was a distinguished intellectual and giant of the 9/11 truth movement, authoring over fifty books (including 15 on the subject of 9/11). His contribution to exposing the truth of 9/11 cannot be overstated.

To honor Prof Griffin’s memory and celebrate his life, Richard Gage and Elizabeth Woodworth will be hosting a live streamed tribute panel tomorrow (December 9th) at 8pm UK time (3pm Eastern, 12pm Pacific).

The panel of distinguished guests…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/08/watch-david-ray-griffin-1939-to-2022-a-celebration-of-his-life-and-work/

Digital ID and Our Obsession with “Identity”

Karen Hunt

I am not a number. I am a free man.”
#6, The Prisoner

In the 1960s TV show, The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan’s character is an unnamed British intelligence agent who resigns from his job for reasons never explained, is gassed, and wakes up imprisoned in a deceptively lovely place called The Village.

He is assigned the number Six to identify him. In the first episode, he meets with number Two, who tells him, “The information in your head is priceless. I don’t know if you realize how valuable a property you are.”

In that first meeting, number Six…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/09/digital-id-and-our-obsession-with-identity/

Watch the live stream of a Tribute to David Ray Griffin...

https://youtu.be/hS7kquTh9QI

You’re Gonna Get Sick, Get Used to It

Todd Hayen

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Zero Covid, zero disease, zero suffering, zero death. Unrealistic goals? You bet—although many countries (particularly China) have seemingly adopted a “Zero Covid” stance and have made a rather destructive effort to eliminate any occurrence of Covid-19 from their citizenry—boarding people up in their apartments, attacking people trying to escape, all those fun things fascists like to do.

This effort to maintain a “Zero Covid” environment is yet another piece of the agenda intended to brainwash and thus control the populace. The powers that be know that, but most of the people they…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/10/youre-gonna-get-sick-get-used-to-it/

Our Authentically Fake and Hypocritical Society of Copies

Edward Curtin

“Ditto,” said Tweedledum.
“Ditto, ditto!” cried Tweedledee.
Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking-Glass

Sometimes a trifling contretemps can open a window onto significant issues.

As a case in point, The New York Times, a newspaper that regularly publishes U.S. propaganda without a bit of shame or remorse, recently reported on a controversy involving Simon & Schuster and Bob Dylan’s new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song. The report with the same information was repeated across the media.

The publishing company had offered limited-edition, authenticated, hand-signed copies of the book for $600 each. Nine Hundred collectors and die-hard fans bought…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/10/our-authentically-fake-and-hypocritical-society-of-copies/

What a joke. And a sick and cynical one at that. "Multipolarity" is nothing but Globalist Empire 2.0.

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[ https://sputniknews.com/20221208/xi-jinping-china-sees-saudi-arabia-as-important-power-in-multipolar-world-1105204324.html ]

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OffG’s Tribute to David Ray Griffin

OffGuardian has been privileged to feature the work of David Ray Griffin several times in our history. So when we heard the sad news of his passing we decided to organize a small tribute to his life.
We asked his close colleague Elizabeth Woodworth to say some words and to name the colleagues and friends she thought David would most have wanted to leave a remembrance of him.

Here, with one or two additions of our own, is that remembrance.

Elizabeth Woodworth – David Gapp – David Chandler – Steve Jones – Ted & Nelisse Muga – Kevin Ryan –…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/11/offgs-tribute-to-david-ray-griffin/

Ancient Apocalypse & Graham Hancock’s ‘Dangerous Ideas’

JR Leach

It never ceases to amaze me what seemingly innocuous ideas the establishment media find ‘dangerous’ or ‘controversial’.
Netflix recently released an eight-part documentary series titled Ancient Apocalypse, where Graham Hancock (who has a been a household name for “alternative archeology” since the release of his book ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’ in 1995), introduces us to his central theory that human civilisation is considerably older than current archeological orthodoxy believes, but that most evidence for this was wiped out by a colossal natural disaster around 12,000 years ago.

He supports this theory with physical evidence for such a natural…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/11/ancient-apocalypse-graham-hancocks-dangerous-ideas/

The Netherlands: Template for Ecomodernism’s Brave New World? 

Colin Todhunter

Disaster capitalism and crisis narratives are currently being used to manipulate popular sentiment and push through a set of unpalatable policies that would otherwise lack sufficient political support.

These policies are being promoted by wealthy interests that stand to make billions of dollars from what is being proposed. They seek to gain full control of food and how it is produced. Their vision is tied to a wider agenda aimed at shaping how humanity lives, thinks and acts.

Throughout much of 2022, protests by Dutch farmers have grabbed the headlines. Plans to reduce the Netherlands’ nitrogen output by…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/12/the-netherlands-template-for-ecomodernisms-brave-new-world/

WATCH: The Freedom Convoy Commission with the JCCF

James Corbett is joined by Rob Kittredge and Hatim Kheir of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms to talk about their participation in the Public Order Emergency Commission in Canada (aka the Trucker Commission).

They discuss the commission itself and how it was run, the evidence that was (and was not presented), why Mr. Kittredge is now known as a “tow truck aficionado,” what Trudeau and others testified to during the hearings, and what Kittredge and Kheir expect to come from this process.

Sources and show notes – as well as download options and an audio-only version – are available…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/12/watch-the-freedom-convoy-commission-with-the-jccf/

Swimming with Sharks

CJ Hopkins

So, Elon Musk’s new free-speech Twitter appears to going extremely well. Critics of the official Covid narrative, and the official Ukraine narrative, and Elon Musk, are still being deplatformed, censored, and defamed, but, otherwise, you can tweet whatever you want!

If you want to tweet about how Elon is running Twitter almost single-handedly while personally caring for his nine hungry children and “being a journalist” without ever sleeping, or how he’s “driving down the cost of access to outer space,” or “improving life on Earth for humanity” while planning to exfiltrate himself and his family and friends in…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/13/swimming-with-sharks/

China: The World’s First Technate – Part 2

Iain Davis

In Part 1, we discussed the historical background of Technocracy Inc. that briefly found popularity in the US in the 1930s during the turmoil of the Great Depression.

Technocracy was rooted in socioeconomic theories that focused upon the efficient management of society by experts (technocrats). This idea briefly held the public’s attention during a period of sustained recession, mass unemployment and growing poverty.

The technological capabilities required for the energy surveillance grid, essential for the operation of a Technate (a technocratic society), were far beyond the practical reach of 1930s America. Consequently, for that and other reasons, public…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/14/china-the-worlds-first-technate-part-2/

COMMENT BTL TODAY...

"...Those who continually want to think there is someone out there who will “save us” from the evil of one country or another, choosing whichever one seems to work for them as “the enemy,” refuse to see just how centrally orchestrated all of this is.

I admit I did not make it through this entire article in one sitting and will have to go back and finish it later, but it does not surprise me one bit anymore to find out that those truly in control – the ones who in essence print the money, are unified in their goals.

All that infighting between nations is merely the same theater as Republicans and Democrats, Tories vs Labour, etc, etc, etc.

Multinational Corporations, Banks, whatever one wishes to call them, DO NOT have any loyalty at all to any one country or people. Their loyalty is to the money and control, period. They aren’t really even loyal to each other, so we do see a bit of infighting, but nothing that really changes their overall goal.

They’ll use any device they can to hide that from people, and most people don’t even require them to use too much complexity to hide it either as most just simply will not believe it can all be that centrally organized. Just point the masses to the enemy du jour and you can hide the true intent for generations ..."

https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/14/china-the-worlds-first-technate-part-2/#comment-563562

It's awesome that so many ex-officio members of the deep state are currently appearing to explain what's really going on in Ukraine.

When we see stuff like this it's important we employ zero skepticism and assess everything as superficially as possible.

I mean this guy is EX-cia. He LEFT the CIA. He is no longer in the CIA.

So the chance he's dishonestly selling a conflict narrative to gullible people has to be close to zero, right?

I'm just grateful for all these guys reminding me this war is a genuine struggle between different ideologies and not just a cynical exploitation by the same "multipolar" clowns who brought us the fake pandemic.

It keeps me feeling proud to take a side and wave my little flag.