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OffG on…the Chinese “Spy Balloon”

Everyone is talking about the “Chinese spy balloon” this week, for some reason. It’s apparently a big deal, it even has its own Wikipedia page already.

After days of back-and-forth, the US finally got tough with the dirigible and blew it out of the sky. Boom. Take that, China.

Now comes the post-balloon drama. Endless toing-and-froing over who gets the wreckage, whether Trump would have handled it better, what this means for Taiwan or Ukraine or Cuba.

Questions will persist.

Questions like “what was it for?”

“Was it really a weather balloon blown off course, as China claimed?”

“Was it…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/05/offg-on-the-chinese-spy-balloon/
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States of Emergency & the State of the Canadian Governments’ Mind

Ray McGinnis

Canada’s Liberal government couldn’t justify invoking the Emergencies Act based on the existing definition in the legislation. So, it obtained a legal opinion to embellish parameters for declaring an emergency.

The 1988 Emergencies Act states that a “Public Order Emergency means an emergency that arises from threats to the security of Canada and that is so serious as to be a national emergency. As the meaning assigned by Section 2 of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act.”

Section 2 of the CSIS Act identifies four tests to signal that the threshold for a threat has been reached. 1)…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/06/states-of-emergency-the-state-of-the-canadian-governments-mind/
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Jacinda Ardern: Saint or Psychopath?

Martin Hanson

While still at the height of her popularity, “Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy”, a biography of the New Zealand Prime Minister was published. It was described by the publisher as “a major biography of one of the most important and inspirational leaders of the twenty-first century”.
20 months later came her shock resignation. The UK Daily Mail< reported that Ardern had said that she “wanted to be remembered for her kindness”.

Among the eulogies that followed, some verging on the sycophantic, many emphasized her “kindness and empathy”:

“Thank you for your partnership and your friendship – and for…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/07/jacinda-ardern-saint-or-psychopath/
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WATCH: Opting Out of CBDCs

In this presentation for the CBDC Opt Out Challenge, James Corbett explains what you need to know about the CBDC control grid and how we can begin our preparations to opt out of it.

Download options, sources and show notes for this episode are available here. To learn more about the CDBC Opt Out challenge, which officially starts today, click here. For our previous articles discussion CBDCs click here....

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/08/watch-opting-out-of-cbdcs/
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Keep on trucking’ in the free world

Sylvia Shawcross

Some mornings you wake up and straggle-stretch your way to the coffee cup in a state of dismal despair thinking about the state of the world. Which is, well… awful. And you wonder if you’re going to either spontaneously combust from outrage or become emotionally paralyzed by all the purported polycrises occurring in this ridiculous world of the new abnormal.

And you look at the weather forecast and it has an extreme cold warning and out the window the skies are still grey like tarnished silver. That’s when you say you’re gonna take the blue pill instead of…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/09/keep-on-trucking-in-the-free-world/
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AUDIO: Iain Davis on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell

Iain Davis joins Jesse Zurawell on a recent episode of Perspetive. They talk Andrew Bridgen, the dangers of smear politics and labels, “menticide”, the true mindset of fascism and more.

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/2023/02/09/audio-iain-davis-on-perspective-with-jesse-zurawell-3/
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"A ‘new’ virus, one of millions emerging every day, which may or may not have been isolated. A ‘test’ for the above that doesn’t actually test for it. A bunch of old symptoms given a new name"...

https://t.co/4WkpwIPy72
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OffGuardian’s Birthday

February 10th is OffGuardian’s birthday. As of today we are eight years old. That probably doesn’t sound very old, but from this side of the keyboard it feels like most of a lifetime.

Let’s journey back, to the heady days of February 2015 when OffG published its very first article. It reads, in its entirety:

In today’s Guardian article about the wild unpopularity of conscription in Ukraine, Shaun Walker tells us that the eastern Ukrainian resisters ‘appear to have an unlimited supply of weapons and training from Russia’.

In the interest of responsible journalism, would it be possible for Mr…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/10/offguardians-birthday/
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Follow the Leader

Todd Hayen

Yet another quirk of human behaviour is this propensity to follow leaders without much scrutiny as to who that leader is. This is not only to be observed in following political leaders, but in infatuations with any sort of authority (doctors) or even celebrity.

This could be attributed to the loss of the true God figure in our current contemporary culture. When God was king He really was king, even over the earthly kings who had been appointed by genealogy. There was no way, at the time, to really understand what God could possibly BE so they made…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/11/follow-the-leader/
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Distract, Divide and Conquer: The REAL State of Our Union

John whitehead

Step away from the blinders that partisan politics uses to distract, divide and conquer, and you will find that we are drowning in a cesspool of problems that individually and collectively threaten our lives, liberties, prosperity and happiness.

These are not problems the politicians want to talk about, let alone address, yet we cannot afford to ignore them much longer.

Foreign interests are buying up our farmland and holding our national debt. As of 2021, foreign persons and entities owned 40.8 million acres of U.S. agricultural land, 47% of which was forestland, 29% in cropland, and 22% in…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/11/distract-divide-and-conquer-the-real-state-of-our-union/
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Inside the Iron Cage

Edward Curtin

“No one knows who will live in this [iron] cage in the future….”
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

I would prefer not to relay the following very strange story given to me by a fellow sociologist, but he had done me a number of favors, and since he asked me to do him a favor in return, I feel obligated. I don’t know what to make of the whole thing. Following this brief introduction, you will find the manuscript he handed me. I realize you are getting this third hand, but there’s nothing…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/12/inside-the-iron-cage/
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This Week in the New Normal #56

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.Mink farms for the chop?
For some reason the MSM have turned their collective fire on Mink farming this week. Apparently mink farms are dangerous because they could harbor bird flu, and enable it to mutate to be deadly to humans.

In his alarmist piece for the Guardian headlined “Be warned: the next deadly pandemic is not inevitable, but all the elements are in place”, George Monbiot writes:
Mink also…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/12/this-week-in-the-new-normal-56/
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War Certainly Is A Racket

Iain Davis

In 1935, Major General Smedley Butler’s seminal book “War Is A Racket” warned of the dangers of the US military-industrial complex, more than 25 years before the outgoing US President Eisenhower implored the world to “guard against” the same thing.

One of the most decorated soldiers in US military history, Butler knew what he was talking about, famously writing that war is “…conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many.”

While he lamented the loss of his fallen comrades and despite the gongs he received for defending his country, Butler came…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/13/war-certainly-is-a-racket/
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WATCH: The Magic Words #SolutionsWatch

The magic words can open doors that you didn’t even know were there. They can help you skirt the censors and the fact checkers. They can unlock minds and take your research to a whole new level.

So do you know the magic words? Find out in this week’s edition of #SolutionsWatch!

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.
Follow us on Telegram for regular updates & commentary...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/13/watch-the-magic-words-solutionswatch/
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The Consent Factory

CJ Hopkins

So, Matt Taibbi is going after the Consent Factory. No, not my blog. The actual Consent Factory. The unimaginably powerful, mostly decentralized, global-capitalist propaganda apparatus that manufactures what passes for “reality” in our increasingly totalitarian age. Or he is going after the US division of it, anyway.

Needless to say, I’m pretty excited.

Why am I so excited, you ask? Haven’t I been hopping up and down and bouncing off the walls of my enclosure hooting and screeching about how the so-called “Twitter Files” are a “limited hangout” and hurling verbal feces at all and sundry involved like…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/14/the-consent-factory/
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Face masks –Medical Protection, or Badge of Obedience?

Martin Hanson

I don’t normally watch TVNZ’s Seven Sharp, but on 5th October 2021 we were told that an immunologist would be on the programme to debunk certain ‘Covid myths’.

One such ‘myth’ was the belief that natural immunity is superior to vaccine-induced immunity. In response, clinical immunologist Dr. Maia Brewerton said that natural immunity to Covid-19 is not as good as the vaccine.

No evidence was given. Just an assertion.

As an ex-science teacher, I found Dr Brewerton’s statement to be unsatisfactory, for the following simple reason: the vaccine can only generate antibodies to a single viral antigen (the…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/15/face-masks-medical-protection-or-badge-of-obedience/
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Ireland’s protests – will Varadkar go full Trudeau?

Gavin O’Reilly

Since Russia began its special military operation in Ukraine almost a year ago, one of the key features of the collective West’s response, alongside sanctions and the expulsion of Russian diplomats, has been the accommodation of refugees fleeing the conflict, with millions of Ukrainians being housed across Europe since last February, including 70,000+ in the 26-County Irish State.

The first question that springs to mind regarding this approach however, is that if it is being done out of genuine concern for those fleeing conflict in Ukraine, then why was it not implemented in 2014 when that war first…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/15/irelands-protests-will-varadkar-go-full-trudeau/
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DISCUSS: So, what’s with the chemical spills?

It has been reported, in just the last hour, that there had been a major train derailment near Van Buren Township, just outside Detroit, Michigan:

🚨#BREAKING: Multiple authorities are responding to a massive train derailment outside of Detroit ⁰⁰📌#Vanburen | #Michigan
Currently multiple authorities are responding to a massive train derailment in Van Buren Township Michigan. Officials are reporting that only one car in… https://t.co/kb91u41ZeY pic.twitter.com/CPCcehiuB9
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 16, 2023

Fox News is reporting that “at least one” of the derailed cars was transporting “hazardous materials”. If that’s true,…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/16/discuss-so-whats-with-the-chemical-spills/
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Russia to introduce digital identity cards

Riley Waggaman

It seems QR codes will soon be back in vogue in Russia.

Via Interfax:

The Ministry of Digital Development, together with the FSB, will submit to the Russian government by May 1 a draft decree allowing the use of a digital identity card on smartphones instead of [an internal] passport in a number of everyday situations.

The proposal was supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.

“Please, the sooner the better (…) Of course, such services are in high demand, and you just need to speed up their implementation. Please prepare these projects,” Putin said at a…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/17/russia-to-introduce-digital-identity-cards/
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DISCUSS: So, what’s with the chemical spills? [UPDATED]

UPDATED 17/02/23 to include details of previous train derailments [skip]
It has been reported, in just the last hour, that there had been a major train derailment near Van Buren Township, just outside Detroit, Michigan:

🚨#BREAKING: Multiple authorities are responding to a massive train derailment outside of Detroit ⁰⁰📌#Vanburen | #Michigan
Currently multiple authorities are responding to a massive train derailment in Van Buren Township Michigan. Officials are reporting that only one car in… https://t.co/kb91u41ZeY pic.twitter.com/CPCcehiuB9
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 16, 2023

Fox News is reporting that “at least one” of…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/16/discuss-so-whats-with-the-chemical-spills/
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The Meal(worm)y Mouthed Monsters

Sylvia Shawcross

And so we have to go back to discussing insects I’m afraid. It is just the way it is going to have to be because there are far too many things we disagree on now—even more things than since we last realized that we all didn’t really want to eat insects. That fact being the only thing we could actually all agree on and which was happily uncensored.
Some didn’t agree with this probably because they have a vested interest in cricket/maggot manufacturing or think somehow that the mass slaughter of insects will somehow make up for the…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/17/the-mealwormy-mouthed-monsters/
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