Who really wants AI…and why?
TE Creus
I’ve noticed that self-checkout is taking over more and more shops and supermarkets. They have existed for a while, of course, but more as an alternative to reduce lines, but now many shops have exclusively self-checkout machines.
Yet, self-checkout appears not to be very effective or convenient, neither for shops nor for customers. Many customers tend to dislike self-checkout, as evidenced by the fact that there are always lines for human cashiers but none for self-checkouts. They give you the perception of more speed, but it is just illusory. Professional human cashiers scan and move your products…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/27/who-really-wants-ai-and-why/
TE Creus
I’ve noticed that self-checkout is taking over more and more shops and supermarkets. They have existed for a while, of course, but more as an alternative to reduce lines, but now many shops have exclusively self-checkout machines.
Yet, self-checkout appears not to be very effective or convenient, neither for shops nor for customers. Many customers tend to dislike self-checkout, as evidenced by the fact that there are always lines for human cashiers but none for self-checkouts. They give you the perception of more speed, but it is just illusory. Professional human cashiers scan and move your products…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/27/who-really-wants-ai-and-why/
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Remembering the Paris Commune
Catte Black
The original version of this article was first published in the before times – back in the heady days of 2015 – when OffG was only a few weeks old, and our readership could be counted on fingers an inattentive lathe operator. Since, this year, the anniversary falls on a Sunday, making it 152 years literally to the day, we thought it was time to bring this back. Its relevance has not diminished, only grown, now that the “violence inherent in the system” has been so freshly demonstrated on a global scale in the past few years.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/28/remembering-the-paris-commune-2/
Catte Black
The original version of this article was first published in the before times – back in the heady days of 2015 – when OffG was only a few weeks old, and our readership could be counted on fingers an inattentive lathe operator. Since, this year, the anniversary falls on a Sunday, making it 152 years literally to the day, we thought it was time to bring this back. Its relevance has not diminished, only grown, now that the “violence inherent in the system” has been so freshly demonstrated on a global scale in the past few years.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/28/remembering-the-paris-commune-2/
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Notes to Poetry: Or, defending freedom for the future
Simon Elmer
Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is the title of a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a re-telling of an ancient Egyptian myth that was later put to music by the French composer, Paul Dukas, in his orchestral scherzo L’Apprenti sorcier (1897). The latter was chosen for the title of a text published in 1938 by the French writer, critic and philosopher, Georges Bataille, who adopted it to describe a lineage to which he saw himself heir, and which comprised the poets, writers and artists who, in both their lives and their works, sought what…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/28/notes-to-poetry-or-defending-freedom-for-the-future/
Simon Elmer
Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is the title of a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a re-telling of an ancient Egyptian myth that was later put to music by the French composer, Paul Dukas, in his orchestral scherzo L’Apprenti sorcier (1897). The latter was chosen for the title of a text published in 1938 by the French writer, critic and philosopher, Georges Bataille, who adopted it to describe a lineage to which he saw himself heir, and which comprised the poets, writers and artists who, in both their lives and their works, sought what…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/28/notes-to-poetry-or-defending-freedom-for-the-future/
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REVIEW: The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
VN alexander
In Martin Amis’ The Zone of Interest (2014), set in a Nazi death camp, the Commander, Paul Doll, has his wife, Hannah, and two daughters living with him in the “zone,” where the smell of rotting flesh from the mass graves functions as a persistent clue that things have gone very, very wrong in the world.
How did the German civilians go about their lives and continue to be human beings in such an atmosphere? That’s the question that must have compelled Amis to write this novel. While no sane person can fully imagine the answer…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/29/review-the-zone-of-interest-by-martin-amis/
VN alexander
In Martin Amis’ The Zone of Interest (2014), set in a Nazi death camp, the Commander, Paul Doll, has his wife, Hannah, and two daughters living with him in the “zone,” where the smell of rotting flesh from the mass graves functions as a persistent clue that things have gone very, very wrong in the world.
How did the German civilians go about their lives and continue to be human beings in such an atmosphere? That’s the question that must have compelled Amis to write this novel. While no sane person can fully imagine the answer…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/29/review-the-zone-of-interest-by-martin-amis/
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The Anti-Anti-Semitism Follies
CJ Hopkins
Roll up, roll up, because it’s time once again for The Anti-Anti-Semitism Follies! That’s right, folks, it’s everyone’s favorite unintentionally slapstick theatrical revue, featuring an all-star line-up of uproarious propagandists, side-splitting corporate media clowns, babbling British Labour MPs, the all-singing, all-dancing Berlin Police Department, and other zany anti-anti-Semites!
Grab your popcorn and sit back and watch as they hunt down dastardly “Holocaust relativizers,” insidious critics of the State of Israel, and anyone who has ever used the word “globalism.” Hilarious high jinks are sure to ensue!
But, seriously, folks, this is no joke. We are in a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/29/the-anti-anti-semitism-follies/
CJ Hopkins
Roll up, roll up, because it’s time once again for The Anti-Anti-Semitism Follies! That’s right, folks, it’s everyone’s favorite unintentionally slapstick theatrical revue, featuring an all-star line-up of uproarious propagandists, side-splitting corporate media clowns, babbling British Labour MPs, the all-singing, all-dancing Berlin Police Department, and other zany anti-anti-Semites!
Grab your popcorn and sit back and watch as they hunt down dastardly “Holocaust relativizers,” insidious critics of the State of Israel, and anyone who has ever used the word “globalism.” Hilarious high jinks are sure to ensue!
But, seriously, folks, this is no joke. We are in a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/29/the-anti-anti-semitism-follies/
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Death’s Secretary Tries to Forget on Cape Cod
Edward Curtin
We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to get to work. As my childhood friends used to say to me, “Eddy spaghetti, use you forgetty.” The adults had no idea what they meant. Many still do not.
Here slowness reigns and forgetting seems possible, even if for just a few days. In mid-May, the beaches are deserted except for the swooping gulls, the sandpipers prancing across the sand, and a few seals eyeing you from just off-shore. An…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/30/deaths-secretary-tries-to-forget-on-cape-cod/
Edward Curtin
We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to get to work. As my childhood friends used to say to me, “Eddy spaghetti, use you forgetty.” The adults had no idea what they meant. Many still do not.
Here slowness reigns and forgetting seems possible, even if for just a few days. In mid-May, the beaches are deserted except for the swooping gulls, the sandpipers prancing across the sand, and a few seals eyeing you from just off-shore. An…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/30/deaths-secretary-tries-to-forget-on-cape-cod/
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BBC Verify?
Iain Davis
With great fanfare, the BBC has launched BBC Verify. The state broadcaster’s very own, specialist “disinformation and social media correspondent,” Marianna Spring, announced its arrival live on UK TV.
She explained that the BBC would verify video, fact check and “counter disinformation.” So rest assured, no one needs to think about anything. The BBC will “fact check” everything for us and tell us what “the truth” is.
Apparently, it “really matters” that the BBC acts as the UK government’s official arbiter of truth because, according to Spring, “mistruths” can “cause really serious harm to society.”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/31/bbc-verify/
Iain Davis
With great fanfare, the BBC has launched BBC Verify. The state broadcaster’s very own, specialist “disinformation and social media correspondent,” Marianna Spring, announced its arrival live on UK TV.
She explained that the BBC would verify video, fact check and “counter disinformation.” So rest assured, no one needs to think about anything. The BBC will “fact check” everything for us and tell us what “the truth” is.
Apparently, it “really matters” that the BBC acts as the UK government’s official arbiter of truth because, according to Spring, “mistruths” can “cause really serious harm to society.”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/31/bbc-verify/
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Forwarded from HAGGARD
"So the coverage of what is going on in Russia is poor because it is only covered by alternative (and therefore unprofessional) media, which completely avoid the issues of digitalization, vaccination, and the digital ruble.
I have to fully agree with Karine Bechet-Golovko that some “pro-Russian” Westerners want to love Russia “against” their own country, so to speak. As she said, when these people look at Russia, they want to see everything they can no longer find in their own homeland, and refuse to see the nuances of Russian society, which is quite complex.
I also agree that the basic human need to believe in something, to be sure of something, plays a role here. And so some Czechs believe in the myth of a perfect Russia, where the world is perfectly fine, because the reality that there is no salvation in either the West or the East is too depressing." https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/peace-has-become-a-dirty-word-in
I have to fully agree with Karine Bechet-Golovko that some “pro-Russian” Westerners want to love Russia “against” their own country, so to speak. As she said, when these people look at Russia, they want to see everything they can no longer find in their own homeland, and refuse to see the nuances of Russian society, which is quite complex.
I also agree that the basic human need to believe in something, to be sure of something, plays a role here. And so some Czechs believe in the myth of a perfect Russia, where the world is perfectly fine, because the reality that there is no salvation in either the West or the East is too depressing." https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/peace-has-become-a-dirty-word-in
Edward Slavsquat
"Peace" has become a dirty word in closely watched Czechia
A conversation with Czech writer Cecílie Jílková
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“Cool the Mark Out”: How the media minimizes Covid vaccine injuries
Dennis Riches via Propaganda in Focus
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I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had… Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/01/cool-the-mark-out-how-the-media-minimizes-covid-vaccine-injuries/
Dennis Riches via Propaganda in Focus
Image source
I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had… Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/01/cool-the-mark-out-how-the-media-minimizes-covid-vaccine-injuries/
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Squabble-Warbling Again
Sylvia shawcross
So I was on the phone to a government department and was speaking to the computer. Or rather the computer was speaking to me. Going on and on about something I didn’t give a rattlesnake’s arse about.
Now, I’ve learned that you can just say “stop!” and that infernal non-human thing will actually pause and ask you what they can do for you. That’s when you can say, “I’d like a human please” and they will send you off to a human. I’m not sure if you even have to say “please” or not but force…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/02/squabble-warbling-again/
Sylvia shawcross
So I was on the phone to a government department and was speaking to the computer. Or rather the computer was speaking to me. Going on and on about something I didn’t give a rattlesnake’s arse about.
Now, I’ve learned that you can just say “stop!” and that infernal non-human thing will actually pause and ask you what they can do for you. That’s when you can say, “I’d like a human please” and they will send you off to a human. I’m not sure if you even have to say “please” or not but force…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/02/squabble-warbling-again/
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While you're busy watching the war special military operation between two pieces of the same globalist machine, the anti-life agenda they BOTH support is rolling out bit by bit.
Here's another little piece of it...
https://rmx.news/article/irish-government-proposes-mass-culling-of-cows-to-meet-radical-net-zero-climate-targets/
Here's another little piece of it...
https://rmx.news/article/irish-government-proposes-mass-culling-of-cows-to-meet-radical-net-zero-climate-targets/
Remix News
Irish government proposes mass culling of cows to meet radical net zero climate targets
The Irish government would need to set aside a €600 million budget in order to cull 65,000 cows every year for three years in order to meet its climate targets, according to internal reports seen by the Irish Independent. The newspaper reported that 10 percent…
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Forwarded from The Light Paper
🚨 Just days left to respond to the Govt's #CBDC consultation.
A 'digital pound' could spell the end of financial privacy & freedom as we know it.⚠️
WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCFxNPge8eg
Respond today using our quick & easy template ⤵️
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A 'digital pound' could spell the end of financial privacy & freedom as we know it.⚠️
WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCFxNPge8eg
Respond today using our quick & easy template ⤵️
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no-spycoin/#TAKEACTION
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CBDC | The death of privacy?
📢UPDATE: CBDC consultation deadline EXTENDED to 30 June 2023.
Our strength lies in numbers, have your say on proposals for a new 'digital currency' in just a few minutes by using our template⤵️
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no-spycoin/#TAKEACTION…
Our strength lies in numbers, have your say on proposals for a new 'digital currency' in just a few minutes by using our template⤵️
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Digital Pound: Have your say on CBDCs in the UK
This month marks the close of the UK government’s “consultation” on the planned digital pound. This is your chance to have your say on plans to introduce a Central Bank Digital Currency to the UK.
According to the UK government’s website:
The way we use money is changing. This Consultation Paper sets out our assessment of the case for a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) – a so-called ‘digital pound’. It has been overseen by the joint Bank-HM Treasury CBDC Taskforce that was announced in April 2021.
At this stage, we judge it likely that the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/02/digital-pound-have-your-say-on-cbdcs-in-the-uk/
This month marks the close of the UK government’s “consultation” on the planned digital pound. This is your chance to have your say on plans to introduce a Central Bank Digital Currency to the UK.
According to the UK government’s website:
The way we use money is changing. This Consultation Paper sets out our assessment of the case for a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) – a so-called ‘digital pound’. It has been overseen by the joint Bank-HM Treasury CBDC Taskforce that was announced in April 2021.
At this stage, we judge it likely that the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/02/digital-pound-have-your-say-on-cbdcs-in-the-uk/
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Steps to World Rule: First, Destroy Humanity
Todd Hayen
It has always been astounding to me that people think for even a second that their government makes decisions to help the people—that has never been the case.
If a government’s decision helps anyone it is always an after effect…or an afterthought or a collateral unintended benefit. The primary intent is for power, control, and money…to satisfy individual pursuits and goals of the global narcissistic/god-complex elite.
Anyone (which turns out to be most everyone) who supports this and thinks their government, or their nation, is operating in the people’s interest is signing their own death warrant.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/03/steps-to-world-rule-first-destroy-humanity/
Todd Hayen
It has always been astounding to me that people think for even a second that their government makes decisions to help the people—that has never been the case.
If a government’s decision helps anyone it is always an after effect…or an afterthought or a collateral unintended benefit. The primary intent is for power, control, and money…to satisfy individual pursuits and goals of the global narcissistic/god-complex elite.
Anyone (which turns out to be most everyone) who supports this and thinks their government, or their nation, is operating in the people’s interest is signing their own death warrant.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/03/steps-to-world-rule-first-destroy-humanity/
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It's a shame it's no longer possible to point out "#Covid" never existed w/o being pulled into the "virus theory v terrain theory" debate
A new disease called "Covid" never existed - whether virus theory is true or false.
It was a lie EITHER WAY.
This is important
A new disease called "Covid" never existed - whether virus theory is true or false.
It was a lie EITHER WAY.
This is important
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Moscow’s WHO masochism
Riley Waggaman
On May 22, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Health Sergey Glagolev addressed the 76th World Health Assembly, held in Geneva, on behalf of Moscow and Minsk.
His speech wasn’t very long, so I’ve decided to break it down line-by-line:
“On behalf of the Union State of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, I have the honor to congratulate the member countries of the organization, and all WHO employees, on the anniversary of our Organization and note its role in strengthening the health of the world’s population.”
The WHO is “strengthening the health of the world’s…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/03/moscows-who-masochism/
Riley Waggaman
On May 22, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Health Sergey Glagolev addressed the 76th World Health Assembly, held in Geneva, on behalf of Moscow and Minsk.
His speech wasn’t very long, so I’ve decided to break it down line-by-line:
“On behalf of the Union State of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, I have the honor to congratulate the member countries of the organization, and all WHO employees, on the anniversary of our Organization and note its role in strengthening the health of the world’s population.”
The WHO is “strengthening the health of the world’s…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/03/moscows-who-masochism/
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This Week in the New Normal #64
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. The vaccines just keep on coming
This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Pfizer’s new mRNA-based RSV vaccine for use on the elderly. This comes hot on the heels of approving a similar product from GlaxoSmithKline last month. These are the only RSV vaccines ever to be approved in the US, and at least two more are coming up…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/04/this-week-in-the-new-normal-64/
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. The vaccines just keep on coming
This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Pfizer’s new mRNA-based RSV vaccine for use on the elderly. This comes hot on the heels of approving a similar product from GlaxoSmithKline last month. These are the only RSV vaccines ever to be approved in the US, and at least two more are coming up…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/04/this-week-in-the-new-normal-64/
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Forwarded from Jesse Zurawell
Seems so benevolent and humane—until you understand what the ROI-generating instruments are.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-refugees-blockchain/u-n-glimpses-into-blockchain-future-with-eye-scan-payments-for-refugees-idUSKBN19C0BB
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-refugees-blockchain/u-n-glimpses-into-blockchain-future-with-eye-scan-payments-for-refugees-idUSKBN19C0BB
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Reuters
U.N. glimpses into blockchain future with eye scan payments for refugees
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of Syrian refugees in Jordan’s Azraq camp don’t pay for their food with cash but by a scan of their eyes.
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The Musktown Massacre
CJ Hopkins
Well, it was touch and go there for a while, but it appears “free speech” has been saved again! That’s right, as I’m sure you’ve heard by now, all hell broke loose at Musk Cult HQ (also known by Musk Cultists as “Musktown”). It felt like the final days were upon us!
What happened was, the Communist Wokesters who are secretly still in control of Twitter pulled a fast one on our beloved leader! They are a devious bunch, those Commie Wokesters, and they’re out to destroy Elon’s beautiful dream of a free-speech-but-not-free-reach utopia!
The situation was…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/the-musktown-massacre/
CJ Hopkins
Well, it was touch and go there for a while, but it appears “free speech” has been saved again! That’s right, as I’m sure you’ve heard by now, all hell broke loose at Musk Cult HQ (also known by Musk Cultists as “Musktown”). It felt like the final days were upon us!
What happened was, the Communist Wokesters who are secretly still in control of Twitter pulled a fast one on our beloved leader! They are a devious bunch, those Commie Wokesters, and they’re out to destroy Elon’s beautiful dream of a free-speech-but-not-free-reach utopia!
The situation was…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/the-musktown-massacre/
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OffG’s Quick Take: Lockdown was NOT a “policy mistake”…It was murder.
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Yesterday, the Telegraph reported on “new research” which claims that lockdowns saved only 1700 lives in England and Wales. A “drop in the bucket” compared to the harms done:
The science of lockdowns is clear; the data are in: the deaths saved were a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral costs imposed.”
This is not a revelation, it’s not an admission, it’s not the system checks-and-balances working. Rather, it is public relations, perception management. Just one more example of the revisionism we highlighted in the most recent…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/
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Yesterday, the Telegraph reported on “new research” which claims that lockdowns saved only 1700 lives in England and Wales. A “drop in the bucket” compared to the harms done:
The science of lockdowns is clear; the data are in: the deaths saved were a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral costs imposed.”
This is not a revelation, it’s not an admission, it’s not the system checks-and-balances working. Rather, it is public relations, perception management. Just one more example of the revisionism we highlighted in the most recent…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/
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