Why You Should Destroy Your Smart Phone Now
Simon Elmer
So-called ‘smart phones’ — far more accurately described as ‘dumb phones’ — combine a mobile phone with a watch, with a road map, with a tourist atlas of the world, with a digital camera, with a personal stereo system, with a music collection, with a video recorder, with a diary, with a calculator, with a credit card, with a travelcard, with an office key, with a torch, with a newspaper, with a television, with something to read on the train, and probably a lot more.
I don’t know, because I don’t own one.
‘But it’s so convenient!’…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/29/why-you-should-destroy-your-smart-phone-now/
Simon Elmer
So-called ‘smart phones’ — far more accurately described as ‘dumb phones’ — combine a mobile phone with a watch, with a road map, with a tourist atlas of the world, with a digital camera, with a personal stereo system, with a music collection, with a video recorder, with a diary, with a calculator, with a credit card, with a travelcard, with an office key, with a torch, with a newspaper, with a television, with something to read on the train, and probably a lot more.
I don’t know, because I don’t own one.
‘But it’s so convenient!’…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/29/why-you-should-destroy-your-smart-phone-now/
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WATCH: The One Hell Agenda
Meryl Nass interviews James Corbett for CHD.tv. Following on their previous discussion on the history of the World Health Organization, they turn their crosshairs on the latest updates on the WHO’s IHR proposed amendments & Zero Draft Pandemic treaty.
They highlight the latest meetings that took place from February 20 – 24, and laying particular emphasis on the proposed “One Health Approach” — a broad new landscape of interconnected and interdependent relationships with humans, animals and the environment.
Touted as an ‘non-colonial’ solution to the current ‘anthropocentric’ view on the ecosystem, the proposed solutions are anything but…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/29/watch-the-one-hell-agenda/
Meryl Nass interviews James Corbett for CHD.tv. Following on their previous discussion on the history of the World Health Organization, they turn their crosshairs on the latest updates on the WHO’s IHR proposed amendments & Zero Draft Pandemic treaty.
They highlight the latest meetings that took place from February 20 – 24, and laying particular emphasis on the proposed “One Health Approach” — a broad new landscape of interconnected and interdependent relationships with humans, animals and the environment.
Touted as an ‘non-colonial’ solution to the current ‘anthropocentric’ view on the ecosystem, the proposed solutions are anything but…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/29/watch-the-one-hell-agenda/
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Wuhan’s “Mystery Illness” is Covid’s Foundational Lie
Kit Knightly
Recently, while researching our updated edition of 40 Facts, I came across this article from Time magazine, one that I had apparently missed when it was first published and that had somehow escaped my notice in the following three Covid-centric years.
The article demonstrates how, from the very beginning, the covid narrative was a psy-op construct, that never made any internal sense.
It focuses on the work of Chinese virologist Dr Zhang Yongzhen, and how he and his team (allegedly) isolated the Sars-Cov-2 virus and sequenced its genome. The article frames Zhang as a hero…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/30/wuhans-mystery-illness-is-covids-foundational-lie/
Kit Knightly
Recently, while researching our updated edition of 40 Facts, I came across this article from Time magazine, one that I had apparently missed when it was first published and that had somehow escaped my notice in the following three Covid-centric years.
The article demonstrates how, from the very beginning, the covid narrative was a psy-op construct, that never made any internal sense.
It focuses on the work of Chinese virologist Dr Zhang Yongzhen, and how he and his team (allegedly) isolated the Sars-Cov-2 virus and sequenced its genome. The article frames Zhang as a hero…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/30/wuhans-mystery-illness-is-covids-foundational-lie/
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Frothing in the fast lane
Sylvia Shawcross
Some days the world will make you spitting mad. This naturally brings us to the little understood but seriously important Philaenus spumarius aka the meadow spittlebug or froghopper. Bugs, of course, being the only thing we can talk about really without screaming literally or metaphorically at each other or without being censored into oblivion by the internet gods.
Now those of us who have spent time in the now alternate reality where things like trees and grass and burdocks exist to the point where we can actually touch them rather than “experience” them in the virtual…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/31/frothing-in-the-fast-lane/
Sylvia Shawcross
Some days the world will make you spitting mad. This naturally brings us to the little understood but seriously important Philaenus spumarius aka the meadow spittlebug or froghopper. Bugs, of course, being the only thing we can talk about really without screaming literally or metaphorically at each other or without being censored into oblivion by the internet gods.
Now those of us who have spent time in the now alternate reality where things like trees and grass and burdocks exist to the point where we can actually touch them rather than “experience” them in the virtual…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/31/frothing-in-the-fast-lane/
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Donald Trump was just indicted…but why?
Kit Knightly
Some people really hate campaign finance violations
Last night it was announced that former-President Donald Trump was being indicted by the Manhattan Grand Jury, he is expected to surrender himself to authorities later today.
The indictment is sealed until arraignment, but we do know the rough nature of the charge(s). Essentially, the accusation is that he paid “hush money” to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels to prevent her from going to the press. CNN is abuzz with anonymous sources “familiar with the case” who are predicting 30-plus charges related fraud, but all that’s really known…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/31/donald-trump-was-just-indicted-but-why/
Kit Knightly
Some people really hate campaign finance violations
Last night it was announced that former-President Donald Trump was being indicted by the Manhattan Grand Jury, he is expected to surrender himself to authorities later today.
The indictment is sealed until arraignment, but we do know the rough nature of the charge(s). Essentially, the accusation is that he paid “hush money” to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels to prevent her from going to the press. CNN is abuzz with anonymous sources “familiar with the case” who are predicting 30-plus charges related fraud, but all that’s really known…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/31/donald-trump-was-just-indicted-but-why/
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Ignorance is Bliss
Todd Hayen
Photo by Lisa Fotios (Pexels)
I was lying on my bed this morning playing with our new puppy, Daisy, and was focused on the moment. The cute dog, the soft bed, the warm room, the fact that I could breathe, my heart was beating, all seemed good and pristine.
Then my mind started to wander outside the room, down the stairs, out the front door. As my mind glided down the street it passed someone walking their dog with a mask on, then a few others, riding bikes, driving cars, all with masks. Not everyone…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/01/ignorance-is-bliss/
Todd Hayen
Photo by Lisa Fotios (Pexels)
I was lying on my bed this morning playing with our new puppy, Daisy, and was focused on the moment. The cute dog, the soft bed, the warm room, the fact that I could breathe, my heart was beating, all seemed good and pristine.
Then my mind started to wander outside the room, down the stairs, out the front door. As my mind glided down the street it passed someone walking their dog with a mask on, then a few others, riding bikes, driving cars, all with masks. Not everyone…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/01/ignorance-is-bliss/
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AUDIO: How “Covid” turned hospitals into killing machines
Independent journalist and researcher Michael Bryant returns to Perspective to discuss a neglected aspect of the pandemic – how hospitals abused DNR orders and ventilators to create “covid deaths”, the legislation and guidelines that financially incentivised the process.
Published as part of our Covid: Three Years On season. You can read our contemporary piece on “Cash 4 Covid” practices here, and read Michael’s article on Italy’s role in establishing the “pandemic” narrative here.
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/2023/04/01/audio-how-covid-turned-hospitals-into-killing-machines/
Independent journalist and researcher Michael Bryant returns to Perspective to discuss a neglected aspect of the pandemic – how hospitals abused DNR orders and ventilators to create “covid deaths”, the legislation and guidelines that financially incentivised the process.
Published as part of our Covid: Three Years On season. You can read our contemporary piece on “Cash 4 Covid” practices here, and read Michael’s article on Italy’s role in establishing the “pandemic” narrative here.
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/2023/04/01/audio-how-covid-turned-hospitals-into-killing-machines/
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A State of Never-Ending Crisis: The Government Is Fomenting Mass Hysteria
John Whitehead
“This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they’re threatened on every side by an unknown, sinister enemy. But I don’t think fear is a very effective way of dealing with things—of responding to reality. Fear is just another word for ignorance.”
Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist
We have become guinea pigs in a ruthlessly calculated, carefully orchestrated, chillingly cold-blooded experiment in how to control a population and advance a political agenda without much opposition from the citizenry.
This is…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/02/a-state-of-never-ending-crisis-the-government-is-fomenting-mass-hysteria/
John Whitehead
“This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they’re threatened on every side by an unknown, sinister enemy. But I don’t think fear is a very effective way of dealing with things—of responding to reality. Fear is just another word for ignorance.”
Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist
We have become guinea pigs in a ruthlessly calculated, carefully orchestrated, chillingly cold-blooded experiment in how to control a population and advance a political agenda without much opposition from the citizenry.
This is…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/02/a-state-of-never-ending-crisis-the-government-is-fomenting-mass-hysteria/
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WATCH: Finding Mental Health – #SolutionsWatch
What is mental health and how can we achieve it? Is it only to be found in a trip to the psychiatrist’s office and a prescription for a Big Pharma medication, or do alternative mental care structures exist for those who need it? And what does all of this have to do with Baruch Spinoza, anyway?
Joining James Corbett to answer these questions on the latest in-depth edition of #SolutionsWatch is Dr Bruce Levine, author of A Profession Without Reason.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/03/watch-finding-mental-health-solutionswatch/
What is mental health and how can we achieve it? Is it only to be found in a trip to the psychiatrist’s office and a prescription for a Big Pharma medication, or do alternative mental care structures exist for those who need it? And what does all of this have to do with Baruch Spinoza, anyway?
Joining James Corbett to answer these questions on the latest in-depth edition of #SolutionsWatch is Dr Bruce Levine, author of A Profession Without Reason.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/03/watch-finding-mental-health-solutionswatch/
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The New Normal Left
CJ Hopkins
So, I went to London to speak to the Left … no, not “the Left” you’re probably thinking of. Not the mask-wearing, Ukrainian-flag-flying Left. Not the pronoun-using, segregationist Left. Not the WEF, WHO, FBI, CIA, DHS, and MI6-loving Left. Not the global-capitalist New Normal Left. The other Left. The old-school Left. The “Covid-denying, conspiracy-theorizing, Putin-loving, far-right-extremist” Left.
There were approximately 150 of us, and we gathered in a “homophobic church” in Islington. Yes, Islington, which is more or less the British headquarters of the New Normal Left. We did not care. “Let them come for us,” we…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/04/the-new-normal-left/
CJ Hopkins
So, I went to London to speak to the Left … no, not “the Left” you’re probably thinking of. Not the mask-wearing, Ukrainian-flag-flying Left. Not the pronoun-using, segregationist Left. Not the WEF, WHO, FBI, CIA, DHS, and MI6-loving Left. Not the global-capitalist New Normal Left. The other Left. The old-school Left. The “Covid-denying, conspiracy-theorizing, Putin-loving, far-right-extremist” Left.
There were approximately 150 of us, and we gathered in a “homophobic church” in Islington. Yes, Islington, which is more or less the British headquarters of the New Normal Left. We did not care. “Let them come for us,” we…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/04/the-new-normal-left/
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Trump’s Indictment and the Downfall of America
Karen hunt
I arrived at Lake Arenal, Costa Rica, this little hideaway paradise, last Thursday. The next day, I found that, sure enough, Trump has been indicted by a New York grand jury.
The first ex-president to ever be charged with such a crime. The persecution will not end. It will only intensify. The Washington Post saysthis “sets the stage for a 2024 presidential contest unlike any other.”
Here is Trump’s response to the indictment.
BREAKING.🚨
Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States, reacts to his criminal indictment by the Manhattan grand jury.
“This…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/04/trumps-indictment-and-the-downfall-of-america/
Karen hunt
I arrived at Lake Arenal, Costa Rica, this little hideaway paradise, last Thursday. The next day, I found that, sure enough, Trump has been indicted by a New York grand jury.
The first ex-president to ever be charged with such a crime. The persecution will not end. It will only intensify. The Washington Post saysthis “sets the stage for a 2024 presidential contest unlike any other.”
Here is Trump’s response to the indictment.
BREAKING.🚨
Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States, reacts to his criminal indictment by the Manhattan grand jury.
“This…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/04/trumps-indictment-and-the-downfall-of-america/
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No brakes on Moscow’s biosecurity charade
Riley Waggaman
Anna Popova and Tatyana Golikova, flanked by their army of insufferable masked Virus Nannies. March 24, 2023.
The masterminds behind Moscow’s Sanitary Shield—a medley of PCR testing facilities and “vaccine” development centers—met in late March to review the progress of their not-fit-for-purpose biosecurity Iron Curtain.
Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor—Russia’s federal agency for protecting “human well-being”, and the country’s de facto COVID Cops—told the gathering of public health bureaucrats that great strides had been made over the past two years:
16 new reagents for diagnosing infections have been developed, 153 PCR centers across the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/05/no-brakes-on-moscows-biosecurity-charade/
Riley Waggaman
Anna Popova and Tatyana Golikova, flanked by their army of insufferable masked Virus Nannies. March 24, 2023.
The masterminds behind Moscow’s Sanitary Shield—a medley of PCR testing facilities and “vaccine” development centers—met in late March to review the progress of their not-fit-for-purpose biosecurity Iron Curtain.
Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor—Russia’s federal agency for protecting “human well-being”, and the country’s de facto COVID Cops—told the gathering of public health bureaucrats that great strides had been made over the past two years:
16 new reagents for diagnosing infections have been developed, 153 PCR centers across the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/05/no-brakes-on-moscows-biosecurity-charade/
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Central Bank Digital Currency Is the Endgame – Part 2
Iain Davis
In Part 1 we noted that “money” is no more than a medium of exchange. If we cooperate in sufficient numbers, we could create an economy based upon an entirely voluntary monetary system.
We don’t need banks to control our exchange transactions and modern Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has made voluntary exchange on a global scale entirely feasible.
We contrasted the true nature of “money” with the proposed Central Bank Digital Currencies. CBDC is being rolled out across the world by a global public-private partnership.
What we call money is actually fiat currency…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/05/central-bank-digital-currency-is-the-endgame-part-2/
Iain Davis
In Part 1 we noted that “money” is no more than a medium of exchange. If we cooperate in sufficient numbers, we could create an economy based upon an entirely voluntary monetary system.
We don’t need banks to control our exchange transactions and modern Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has made voluntary exchange on a global scale entirely feasible.
We contrasted the true nature of “money” with the proposed Central Bank Digital Currencies. CBDC is being rolled out across the world by a global public-private partnership.
What we call money is actually fiat currency…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/05/central-bank-digital-currency-is-the-endgame-part-2/
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New World Order: The International Criminal Court and War on Russia
Simon Elmer
“It is in the ranks of the Party, and above all the Inner Party, that the true war enthusiasm is found. World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible.”
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
On 17 March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the arrest of Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, for the illegal deportation and transferal of children from occupied regions in the Ukraine into the Russian Federation, which it judged to be a war crime. 123 states are party to the judgement of the International…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/06/new-world-order-the-international-criminal-court-and-war-on-russia/
Simon Elmer
“It is in the ranks of the Party, and above all the Inner Party, that the true war enthusiasm is found. World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible.”
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
On 17 March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the arrest of Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, for the illegal deportation and transferal of children from occupied regions in the Ukraine into the Russian Federation, which it judged to be a war crime. 123 states are party to the judgement of the International…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/06/new-world-order-the-international-criminal-court-and-war-on-russia/
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Why I don’t believe there ever was a Covid virus
Dr Mike Yeadon
I’ve grown increasingly frustrated about the way debate is controlled around the topic of origins of the alleged novel virus, SARS-CoV-2, and I have come to disbelieve it’s ever been in circulation, causing massive scale illness and death.
Concerningly, almost no one will entertain this possibility, despite the fact that molecular biology is the easiest discipline in which to cheat. That’s because you really cannot do it without computers, and sequencing requires complex algorithms and, importantly, assumptions. Tweaking algorithms and assumptions, you can hugely alter the conclusions.
This raises the question of why there is such…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/06/why-i-dont-believe-there-ever-was-a-covid-virus/
Dr Mike Yeadon
I’ve grown increasingly frustrated about the way debate is controlled around the topic of origins of the alleged novel virus, SARS-CoV-2, and I have come to disbelieve it’s ever been in circulation, causing massive scale illness and death.
Concerningly, almost no one will entertain this possibility, despite the fact that molecular biology is the easiest discipline in which to cheat. That’s because you really cannot do it without computers, and sequencing requires complex algorithms and, importantly, assumptions. Tweaking algorithms and assumptions, you can hugely alter the conclusions.
This raises the question of why there is such…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/06/why-i-dont-believe-there-ever-was-a-covid-virus/
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Five Years On: The OPCW-Douma Deception Continues
Dr Piers Robinson – Organisation for Propaganda Studies
On 7 April 2018 reports emerged from a suburb of Damascus, Douma, claiming that a chemical weapons attack had occurred. Images of dead women and children inside an apartment building were circulated over the internet along with hospital scenes showing alleged victims being hosed down with water.
Within days, images of two yellow cylinders purported to have been dropped by Syrian Arab Air Force helicopters also appeared. Images of the deceased, which showed over 40 civilians appearing to have dropped dead on the spot, gathering in piles and with some…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/07/five-years-on-the-opcw-douma-deception-continues/
Dr Piers Robinson – Organisation for Propaganda Studies
On 7 April 2018 reports emerged from a suburb of Damascus, Douma, claiming that a chemical weapons attack had occurred. Images of dead women and children inside an apartment building were circulated over the internet along with hospital scenes showing alleged victims being hosed down with water.
Within days, images of two yellow cylinders purported to have been dropped by Syrian Arab Air Force helicopters also appeared. Images of the deceased, which showed over 40 civilians appearing to have dropped dead on the spot, gathering in piles and with some…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/07/five-years-on-the-opcw-douma-deception-continues/
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Doom’s Monotony
Sylvia Shawcross
Some days I convince myself that nothing is actually happening and all we have is a whole bunch of people convincing us that things are happening. I mean I’m sitting here on the 13th of March wondering who has won the battle of Bakhmut in the Ukraine because there are two narratives both claiming victory and that is the way it is.
By the time this is published maybe we will know. The proof will be in the pudding and it all comes out in the wash. Unless it is chocolate pudding because that stain is a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/07/dooms-monotony/
Sylvia Shawcross
Some days I convince myself that nothing is actually happening and all we have is a whole bunch of people convincing us that things are happening. I mean I’m sitting here on the 13th of March wondering who has won the battle of Bakhmut in the Ukraine because there are two narratives both claiming victory and that is the way it is.
By the time this is published maybe we will know. The proof will be in the pudding and it all comes out in the wash. Unless it is chocolate pudding because that stain is a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/07/dooms-monotony/
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Perpetual Cognitive Dissonance
Todd Hayen
There’s a clinical term in psychology, which in the vernacular would be described with the phrase, “I think I am going crazy.” This is “cognitive dissonance.” I have actually seen this term show up in casual reading more often in the past couple of years than in all the years before. It seems to have become a rather common utterance.
I am not sure if I will be using the term correctly in this article because in its purest form it describes a cognitive malfunction which occurs when a person creates a story in their mind that…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/08/perpetual-cognitive-dissonance/
Todd Hayen
There’s a clinical term in psychology, which in the vernacular would be described with the phrase, “I think I am going crazy.” This is “cognitive dissonance.” I have actually seen this term show up in casual reading more often in the past couple of years than in all the years before. It seems to have become a rather common utterance.
I am not sure if I will be using the term correctly in this article because in its purest form it describes a cognitive malfunction which occurs when a person creates a story in their mind that…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/08/perpetual-cognitive-dissonance/
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Fake News Curated by the Deep State: Government Spin Doctors Control the News Cycle
John & Nisha Whitehead
Image source here.
“We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”
Former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg
Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we?
There’s the garden variety fake news that is not really “news” so much as it is titillating, tabloid-worthy material peddled by anyone with a Twitter account, a Facebook page and an active imagination. These stories run the gamut from the ridiculous and the obviously click-baity to the satirical and politically…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/08/fake-news-curated-by-the-deep-state-government-spin-doctors-control-the-news-cycle/
John & Nisha Whitehead
Image source here.
“We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”
Former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg
Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we?
There’s the garden variety fake news that is not really “news” so much as it is titillating, tabloid-worthy material peddled by anyone with a Twitter account, a Facebook page and an active imagination. These stories run the gamut from the ridiculous and the obviously click-baity to the satirical and politically…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/08/fake-news-curated-by-the-deep-state-government-spin-doctors-control-the-news-cycle/
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If Ignorance is Bliss, Awareness is Pain
Geoff Olson
I visited with a distressed friend recently. “I feel I don’t know enough,” he said with a pained expression. “I want to understand fully what’s happening, but there’s so much out there to learn.”
My friend is a voracious reader and student of history. Being in communications, he’s always been about gathering jigsaw pieces from books, magazines and the Internet, to assemble a bigger picture. He knows enough to have a broad outline of how the world really works, from the local to national to global level, and that alone disturbs him. He’s both…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/09/if-ignorance-is-bliss-awareness-is-pain/
Geoff Olson
I visited with a distressed friend recently. “I feel I don’t know enough,” he said with a pained expression. “I want to understand fully what’s happening, but there’s so much out there to learn.”
My friend is a voracious reader and student of history. Being in communications, he’s always been about gathering jigsaw pieces from books, magazines and the Internet, to assemble a bigger picture. He knows enough to have a broad outline of how the world really works, from the local to national to global level, and that alone disturbs him. He’s both…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/09/if-ignorance-is-bliss-awareness-is-pain/
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Faust Walks Out on Easter Morning
Edward Curtin
“All things transient are but a parable”
Goethe, Faust
These books are killing me he thought.
The sun has risen, the bells toll eight.
I’ve tried to learn before it’s late.
I woke to feel I could not breathe
So took both dog and my leave.
Been talking loud for hours now
To no one but the clanging sound
Of whether I should go or stay
To hear the lightning have its say.
“Where,” it asks, “was I before
I flashed across the coming day?”
Now that the sun has risen,
The lightning calls me on a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/09/faust-walks-out-on-easter-morning/
Edward Curtin
“All things transient are but a parable”
Goethe, Faust
These books are killing me he thought.
The sun has risen, the bells toll eight.
I’ve tried to learn before it’s late.
I woke to feel I could not breathe
So took both dog and my leave.
Been talking loud for hours now
To no one but the clanging sound
Of whether I should go or stay
To hear the lightning have its say.
“Where,” it asks, “was I before
I flashed across the coming day?”
Now that the sun has risen,
The lightning calls me on a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/09/faust-walks-out-on-easter-morning/
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