So gut. 😂

Even the CEO of Mercedes-Benz understands that empire has become global:

"'The major players in the global economy, Europe, the U.S. and China, are so closely intertwined that decoupling from China makes no sense,' he was quoted as saying."

https://archive.is/vVb8j

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20 Memes to Get You Through May Day – Part 32

Well, it’s May 1st – Happy May Day (Meme Day?) everyone!

Where I live it has finally – finally – decided it might be Spring after all. My cat is sleeping in the sun, birds are singing in the trees…

…you know what? Maybe everything is going to be alright. Maybe.

1.

Where were you when the Blue Tick snap happened?

2.

Who will you be impersonating?

3.

A tough week for normies.

4.

….but obviously the Twitter “drama” is a distraction anyway.

5.

And another, and another.

6.

Of course, lost in the Musk drama (and the…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/01/20-memes-to-get-you-through-may-day-part-32/

The Great Divide

CJ Hopkins

Robert Kennedy, Jr. is running for president. I could not possibly be more excited. So, I’m going to give Bobby some unsolicited advice, which, if he knows what’s good for him, he will not take.

I feel OK about doing this because, even if Bobby, in the wee hours of the night, when the mind is vulnerable to dangerous ideas, were to seriously consider taking my advice, I am sure he has people — i.e., PR people, campaign strategists, pollsters, and so on — that would not hesitate to take him aside and disabuse him of any…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/02/the-great-divide/

Testing and Filtering Your Water – #SolutionsWatch

If you’re a regular Corbett Reporteer, then by now you’re aware of the danger to human health caused by water fluoridation. But are you aware of the chlorine and other potentially toxic and carcinogenic substances in your tap water? And are you aware of your options for filtering your water and how to test to make sure you’re getting all of the particulates out?

Join James today as he talks to a water expert and answers some basic questions about testing and filtering your water.

Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options –…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/02/testing-and-filtering-your-water-solutionswatch/

Who Wants a Brain Machine Interface?

VN Alexander

I’ve never wanted to be able to control any of my devices with my thoughts. I am perfectly happy to use a physical interface that I can turn off, let go of, or walk away from. What about you? Is your keyboard holding you back? Is your mouse slowing you down? Do you want to just think a post without having to thumb it in? Why is cyborgian tech being pushed so hard on us?

Did anyone ask for it? Does anyone need it?

In this essay, I will look at the ethicists who are raising concerns…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/03/who-wants-a-brain-machine-interface/

OffG’s Quick Take: AI & the Writer’s Strike

Yesterday evening the US union the Writers’ Guild of America went on strike. The most immediate impact of this is that all the late-night “comedy” talk shows – Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers – have gone on hiatus.

I know, I was heartbroken too.

How this may impact the already flagging entertainment industry – one which never really recovered from Covid lockdowns – is hard to predict…but also not really interesting.

Honestly, for years now the movies/television industry has had no apparent interest in actually making profits and is almost certainly propped up via government subsidies and ESG…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/03/offgs-quick-take-ai-the-writers-strike/

Kremlin “Drone Attack”: The silly, the stupid, the annoying & the infuriating

Kit Knightly

Yesterday evening, the Russian Government claims, two drones attacked the Kremlin with the intention of assassinating President Vladimir Putin. The Russians assert these drones were sent by the Ukrainian government.

The drones were allegedly picked up by the Kremlin’s air defenses and blown to pieces before they could do any harm. The Russian government supplied the below video:

The response to this news so far is a combination of silly, stupid, annoying and infuriating.

Firstly, there’s the alleged plan itself…

it was exceedingly silly.

Making no comment on who and/or what was responsible,…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/04/kremlin-drone-attack-the-silly-the-stupid-the-annoying-the-infuriating/

It Is All Sushi

Sylvia Shawcross

I understand Easter Island now.

Those heads and bodies huge on the horizon of the islands staring magnificently out to the world as if to say “I am here.” Waiting for the ships. Waiting for friend or foe to arrive with all their foreign ways and presumptive gods and pretzels. So they can stand there on that isolated lonely shore resolute in stone with nothing to explain but who they were and that they exist. Made by conviction and faith and communal resolve. To stand in testament. To stand as stone against the moving sky and restless…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/05/it-is-all-sushi/

I wonder when certain ostensibly alt-media journalists, analysts, and commentators in/from the West will grow up and finally start covering the war in Ukraine within the province of reality (i.e., outside the realm of dubious YouTube maps and unsourced death counts that are spun ad nauseam into "Russia is winning").

At this point, they likely never will.

Why? Perhaps because they don’t want to taint their ideological loyalties and loyal fanbases with reality’s ugliness:

https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/p/wagners-prigozhin-issues-most-dire

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AUDIO: James Roguski on the latest “Pandemic Treaty” developments

Independent researcher and journalist James Roguski returns to Perspective with Jesse Zurawell to discuss the latest developments in the World Health Organization’s planned “pandemic treaty”, how negotiations may be breaking down and why that’s a good thing.

You can read more of James’ work – including his battle with censorship – via his substack.

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/2023/05/05/audio-james-roguski-on-the-latest-pandemic-treaty-developments/

Positive Thinking

Todd Hayen

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

I keep trying to feel good, and I try to see the good in my life, the things that I am grateful for, and the beauty all around me.

I don’t think I have a problem with this, as long as it doesn’t include trying to see the good in my government (Trudeau in Canada) or the good in the government of my country of origin (the United States—of which I am still very much a citizen).

I just can’t do that. There is very little positive there.…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/06/positive-thinking/

The Homage of the Slaves

Iain Davis

As the coronation of Charlie-boy approaches, the Royal household thought it would be nice to offer the British public the opportunity to swear their allegiance to King Charles III and declare themselves his slave. This “homage of the people” has been very popular amongst some. Presumably, they’re dead keen to live a life of slavery.

Apparently, Shabana Mahmood, the Labour Party’s national campaign coordinator, thinks slavery is a “lovely idea” and that involving the people in the coronation, by offering them to opportunity to become slaves, was a “lovely touch.” The…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/06/the-homage-of-the-slaves/

The rift between Western “alt media” and Russian “alt media” is so massive that it’s almost as if they’re talking about two different wars. And they are. The problem is, only one of these wars actually exists. Which one?

All I ask for is a level playing field, where we can all work together, in good-faith and good cheer, to answer the elusive question: What the heck is going on in Ukraine? https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/maybe-prigozhin-is-just-really-stressed

..."Everything I have tried to do in urge over the past 50 years has been done with our children and grandchildren in mind."
Quote from 1 min 17 secs in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BucTwPegW5k

Just in case you wondered who's children and grandchildren he was referring to, he wasn't thinking of yours 😂😉

https://t.me/Miscellaneous_Illuminations/4750

Although Scarred by Violence, We Must Not Be Scared into Silence

Edward Curtin

The world has been haunted by human violence since time immemorial. There are untold millions (billions?) of people all over the world who have been scarred by it in all its forms.

There are two basic responses: one is to try to return that violence with violence and defeat one’s enemy; the other is, in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words, to “not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding” through a non-violent response. Politicians usually embrace the former, while those who are called dreamers advocate the latter.

Between these two,…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/07/although-scarred-by-violence-we-must-not-be-scared-into-silence/

"War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished.

In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact..."

George Orwell, 1984

WATCH: Meet King Charles, the Great Resetter

While most of the public’s attention is falling on the obvious issues—the monarchy’s increasing irrelevance to the 21st century, the colossal waste of taxpayer resources that go towards the upkeep of the world’s richest family and their multiple palaces, the dark history of slavery and other colonial abuses for which royals of the far-distant past are responsible—few are aware of just how dark the history of the royal family is, or just how twisted Charles’ vision for the future of the United Kingdom—and, indeed the world—really is.

For source links, download options and a full transcript, click here…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/07/watch-meet-king-charles-the-great-resetter/

WATCH: Meet King Charles, the Great Resetter

While most of the public’s attention is falling on the obvious issues—the monarchy’s increasing irrelevance to the 21st century, the colossal waste of taxpayer resources that go towards the upkeep of the world’s richest family and their multiple palaces, the dark history of slavery and other colonial abuses for which royals of the far-distant past are responsible—few are aware of just how dark the history of the royal family is, or just how twisted Charles’ vision for the future of the United Kingdom—and, indeed the world—really is.

For source links, download options and a full transcript, click here…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/07/watch-meet-king-charles-the-great-resetter/

39 questions about the war in Ukraine

Riley Waggamnan

Igor Strelkov’s Angry Patriots Club (КРП) has published a list of questions about Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.

Most of their questions are highly pertinent; some of them are a bit superfluous; a few—in your correspondent’s humble opinion—are misguided and a bit silly.

But we decided to publish them all in hopes of starting a dialogue, and (this is really too hopeful) widening the abysmally narrow Overton Window that is asphyxiating “alternative media” coverage of this increasingly bizarre and precarious conflict.

As you read through these questions, keep in mind that many of…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/08/39-questions-about-the-war-in-ukraine/

The Ukraine war currently looks like a bloodstained boxing match both sides have decided to throw.

What is wrong with this picture?