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/
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/
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/
OffGuardian
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 …
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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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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 | #Michigan⁰
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/
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 | #Michigan⁰
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/
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 | #Michigan⁰
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/
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 | #Michigan⁰
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/
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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Paranoia: Is it Always a Bad Thing?
Todd Hayen
“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.”
Kurt Cobain
What is paranoia? Usually the condition is coupled with another mental malady: schizophrenia, due to the psychosis brought about by that particular mental illness.
Psychosis is described as a departure from “reality” and being a “paranoid schizophrenic” typically means the psychosis takes the form of paranoia—a departure from reality that has the afflicted constantly looking over his or her shoulder for people, or other things, “after them.”
The disease can also manifest in other ways, always pointing back to the individual much like a hyper form…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/18/paranoia-is-it-always-a-bad-thing/
Todd Hayen
“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.”
Kurt Cobain
What is paranoia? Usually the condition is coupled with another mental malady: schizophrenia, due to the psychosis brought about by that particular mental illness.
Psychosis is described as a departure from “reality” and being a “paranoid schizophrenic” typically means the psychosis takes the form of paranoia—a departure from reality that has the afflicted constantly looking over his or her shoulder for people, or other things, “after them.”
The disease can also manifest in other ways, always pointing back to the individual much like a hyper form…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/18/paranoia-is-it-always-a-bad-thing/
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Virtue and Terror: How the New Normal was Created
Simon Elmer
“If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the mainspring of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing but swift, severe, inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of virtue. It is less a principle in itself than a consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to our nation’s most pressing needs.”
Maximilien Robespierre, On the Principles of Political Morality, 1794
The past three years have exposed the structural flaw in Western democracy with more disastrous consequences…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/18/virtue-and-terror-how-the-new-normal-was-created/
Simon Elmer
“If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the mainspring of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing but swift, severe, inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of virtue. It is less a principle in itself than a consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to our nation’s most pressing needs.”
Maximilien Robespierre, On the Principles of Political Morality, 1794
The past three years have exposed the structural flaw in Western democracy with more disastrous consequences…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/18/virtue-and-terror-how-the-new-normal-was-created/
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The World Wants to Be Deceived
Edward Curtin
My title comes from a 19th century author whose name does not matter nor would it mean much if I mentioned him. It’s an old truth that has not changed a bit over the centuries.
I think, however, it would be more linguistically accurate to say that most people want to be deceived, for the world, the earth doesn’t give a damn, as the French poet Jacques Prévert reminds us in “Song in the Blood”:
There are great puddles of blood on the world
where’s it all going all this spilled blood
is it the earth that drinks…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/19/the-world-wants-to-be-deceived/
Edward Curtin
My title comes from a 19th century author whose name does not matter nor would it mean much if I mentioned him. It’s an old truth that has not changed a bit over the centuries.
I think, however, it would be more linguistically accurate to say that most people want to be deceived, for the world, the earth doesn’t give a damn, as the French poet Jacques Prévert reminds us in “Song in the Blood”:
There are great puddles of blood on the world
where’s it all going all this spilled blood
is it the earth that drinks…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/19/the-world-wants-to-be-deceived/
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The MSM Never Was Objective—and It Never Questioned Power, Either
Iain Davis
Photo by Nijwam Swargiary on Unsplash
In his excellent exposé of the recent decision by the Knight-Cronkite News Lab (KCNL) to advocate journalism that goes beyond objectivity, and in light of the report from the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) confirming that RussiaGate was fabricated nonsense, genuinely independent researcher, writer and filmmaker James Corbett made a number of very salient points.
As Corbett points out:
As a moment’s sober reflection will immediately reveal, the mouthpiece mockingbirds of the controlled establishment media have never been objective and they have no credibility to damage.
But there is far more to this…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/20/the-msm-never-was-objective-and-it-never-questioned-power-either/
Iain Davis
Photo by Nijwam Swargiary on Unsplash
In his excellent exposé of the recent decision by the Knight-Cronkite News Lab (KCNL) to advocate journalism that goes beyond objectivity, and in light of the report from the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) confirming that RussiaGate was fabricated nonsense, genuinely independent researcher, writer and filmmaker James Corbett made a number of very salient points.
As Corbett points out:
As a moment’s sober reflection will immediately reveal, the mouthpiece mockingbirds of the controlled establishment media have never been objective and they have no credibility to damage.
But there is far more to this…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/20/the-msm-never-was-objective-and-it-never-questioned-power-either/
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AUDIO: Michael Bryant on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell
Independent journalist (and regular OffG contributor) Michael Bryant joins Jesse Zurawell on Perspective to discuss Italy’s role in establishing the Covid narrative in 2020.
They talk demographics, pollution, struggling hospitals, and how misinformation stoked the hysteria.
Michael Bryant is a freelance journalist/activist and researcher who presently focuses primarily on issues surrounding health freedom. His work has appeared on HealthFreedomDefense. 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/2023/02/20/audio-michael-bryant-on-perspective-with-jesse-zurawell/
Independent journalist (and regular OffG contributor) Michael Bryant joins Jesse Zurawell on Perspective to discuss Italy’s role in establishing the Covid narrative in 2020.
They talk demographics, pollution, struggling hospitals, and how misinformation stoked the hysteria.
Michael Bryant is a freelance journalist/activist and researcher who presently focuses primarily on issues surrounding health freedom. His work has appeared on HealthFreedomDefense. 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/2023/02/20/audio-michael-bryant-on-perspective-with-jesse-zurawell/
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Nordstream 2: Seymour Hersh feeds the fake binary
Kit Knightly
Back in October 2022, when the Nordstream 2 sabotage was first hitting the headlines, I predicted the following:
The “official story” will never prove who bombed the pipeline one way or the other and is not intended to. Resolution is not desired. Instead, Team A will encourage us to blame Team B, and vice versa. The MSM will report evidence implicating Russia, while other evidence suggesting NATO were responsible will be “leaked”. Both narratives will be fed just enough to keep the argument going for as long as required and in any direction chosen.”
Fast forward to now,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/21/nordstream-2-seymour-hersh-feeds-the-fake-binary/
Kit Knightly
Back in October 2022, when the Nordstream 2 sabotage was first hitting the headlines, I predicted the following:
The “official story” will never prove who bombed the pipeline one way or the other and is not intended to. Resolution is not desired. Instead, Team A will encourage us to blame Team B, and vice versa. The MSM will report evidence implicating Russia, while other evidence suggesting NATO were responsible will be “leaked”. Both narratives will be fed just enough to keep the argument going for as long as required and in any direction chosen.”
Fast forward to now,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/21/nordstream-2-seymour-hersh-feeds-the-fake-binary/
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WATCH: WHO’s Sordid History of So-Called Pandemics
Meryl Nass interviews James Corbett for CHD.tv. Following on their previous discussions, they interpret recently drafted amendments to the International Health Regulations for future pandemics.
Nass and Corbett remind us of the sordid history of so-called pandemics, from Smallpox, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, Zika, Ebola, Monkeypox to COVID, pointing out the failures of the WHO at dealing with nearly every one of them.
Yet one area continuously prevails, curiously evading public questioning — the demand for toxic products and the success of selling pharmaceuticals, and the sleeper contracts which activate the WHO’s financial fangs.
Links and references are available through…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/21/watch-whos-sordid-history-of-so-called-pandemics/
Meryl Nass interviews James Corbett for CHD.tv. Following on their previous discussions, they interpret recently drafted amendments to the International Health Regulations for future pandemics.
Nass and Corbett remind us of the sordid history of so-called pandemics, from Smallpox, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, Zika, Ebola, Monkeypox to COVID, pointing out the failures of the WHO at dealing with nearly every one of them.
Yet one area continuously prevails, curiously evading public questioning — the demand for toxic products and the success of selling pharmaceuticals, and the sleeper contracts which activate the WHO’s financial fangs.
Links and references are available through…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/21/watch-whos-sordid-history-of-so-called-pandemics/
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The War on Insensitivity
CJ Hopkins...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/22/the-war-on-insensitivity/
CJ Hopkins...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/22/the-war-on-insensitivity/
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In The Flesh: The Oxford Anti-LTN March
JJ Starky
Some protests are torrid affairs. Others can prove enlightening. The march last Saturday in the heart of Oxford was the latter.
Attendees rocked up nearly 2 hours before the scheduled meet, poised with their homemade placards, ready to dissent. It was truly an eclectic mix. Tweed jackets juxtaposed grey baggy trackies, edgy high-tops contrasted brown Chelsea boots, dreadlocks neighboured crew cuts, with all unified under one mission – to say no to Oxfordshire County Council’s creeping authoritarianism.
Last year, the Council announced plans to impose Low Traffic Neighbours (LTN) across the city. Councillors justified the £6.5 million schemes…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/23/in-the-flesh-the-oxford-anti-ltn-march/
JJ Starky
Some protests are torrid affairs. Others can prove enlightening. The march last Saturday in the heart of Oxford was the latter.
Attendees rocked up nearly 2 hours before the scheduled meet, poised with their homemade placards, ready to dissent. It was truly an eclectic mix. Tweed jackets juxtaposed grey baggy trackies, edgy high-tops contrasted brown Chelsea boots, dreadlocks neighboured crew cuts, with all unified under one mission – to say no to Oxfordshire County Council’s creeping authoritarianism.
Last year, the Council announced plans to impose Low Traffic Neighbours (LTN) across the city. Councillors justified the £6.5 million schemes…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/23/in-the-flesh-the-oxford-anti-ltn-march/
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Yakety Yat Chat
Sylvia Shawcross
Image source: Free Vectors
Now I know I promised last time that I might tell you the tragic tale of the Luna moth during its larval development but it is such a dreadfully sad story and given the woebegotten way the world is, I just couldn’t bring myself to subject readers to such a thing right now. Another time. We need some optimism and hope mixed into all the doom.
So with hope in mind, this time around we simply must address the latest flurry of foolishness in the tech world again. The latest is an entity called…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/24/yakety-yat-chat/
Sylvia Shawcross
Image source: Free Vectors
Now I know I promised last time that I might tell you the tragic tale of the Luna moth during its larval development but it is such a dreadfully sad story and given the woebegotten way the world is, I just couldn’t bring myself to subject readers to such a thing right now. Another time. We need some optimism and hope mixed into all the doom.
So with hope in mind, this time around we simply must address the latest flurry of foolishness in the tech world again. The latest is an entity called…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/24/yakety-yat-chat/
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