WATCH: Pay It Forward – #SolutionsWatch
You’ve heard of “paying it forward,” haven’t you? Instead of paying back someone’s kindness, sometimes it is best to pay that kindness forward to someone else who is in need.
If the independent media is trying to create a different model from the old establishment media, then, is it possible to create a model based on people paying forward their gratitude to a worthy cause? If so, how can that idea best be implemented?
Join James Corbett for this episode of Solutions Watch as he muses on these questions with Aaron Smith of The Subtlecain Podcast.
Sources, shownotes and…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/16/watch-pay-it-forward-solutionswatch/
You’ve heard of “paying it forward,” haven’t you? Instead of paying back someone’s kindness, sometimes it is best to pay that kindness forward to someone else who is in need.
If the independent media is trying to create a different model from the old establishment media, then, is it possible to create a model based on people paying forward their gratitude to a worthy cause? If so, how can that idea best be implemented?
Join James Corbett for this episode of Solutions Watch as he muses on these questions with Aaron Smith of The Subtlecain Podcast.
Sources, shownotes and…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/16/watch-pay-it-forward-solutionswatch/
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What Do They Care?
Todd Hayen
Think for a moment about what you really care about. Let’s say you are an average working Joe or a partnered mother with three kids. You have a family, a medium-sized house, two cars. One for your husband to go to work in, the other for you to do your family errands—or the other way around, although not as common, let’s say you bring in the majority of the income, and your husband “works” the homestead.
Let’s say you both work, hard, and relentlessly, and when Christmas comes, if you celebrate it, it is a struggle to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/17/what-do-they-care/
Todd Hayen
Think for a moment about what you really care about. Let’s say you are an average working Joe or a partnered mother with three kids. You have a family, a medium-sized house, two cars. One for your husband to go to work in, the other for you to do your family errands—or the other way around, although not as common, let’s say you bring in the majority of the income, and your husband “works” the homestead.
Let’s say you both work, hard, and relentlessly, and when Christmas comes, if you celebrate it, it is a struggle to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/17/what-do-they-care/
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Shall we talk about Navalny…?
I mean “they” obviously would appreciate it if we did right? It’s a nice, polarised divisive topic that can never be resolved, gets people all worked up and ultimately doesn’t really change anything. So, pretty much an ideal talking point for these post-covid days.
And Navalny – the trooper – certainly did his best to be topical with his demise – dropping tragically dead in nice time for the Munich Security Conference, enabling his widow to address this august assembly the very same day – with a speech she must have written very hastily indeed – unless it…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/17/shall-we-talk-about-navalny/
I mean “they” obviously would appreciate it if we did right? It’s a nice, polarised divisive topic that can never be resolved, gets people all worked up and ultimately doesn’t really change anything. So, pretty much an ideal talking point for these post-covid days.
And Navalny – the trooper – certainly did his best to be topical with his demise – dropping tragically dead in nice time for the Munich Security Conference, enabling his widow to address this august assembly the very same day – with a speech she must have written very hastily indeed – unless it…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/17/shall-we-talk-about-navalny/
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In the hollow of the rock
Sylvia Shawcross
It is cold again at night and the raccoons that reach their little hands up to the bowl of food are not there under the porch light again. When it was warmer they stirred in sleepy hunger to feed but now they are in their dark dens. With the recent snow now draped on branches, spring seems far away again.
And that is when the somber thoughts arrive. Stray thoughts that keep you up at night—about the state of the world and the struggle of the human condition and how it is that I should find myself…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/18/in-the-hollow-of-the-rock/
Sylvia Shawcross
It is cold again at night and the raccoons that reach their little hands up to the bowl of food are not there under the porch light again. When it was warmer they stirred in sleepy hunger to feed but now they are in their dark dens. With the recent snow now draped on branches, spring seems far away again.
And that is when the somber thoughts arrive. Stray thoughts that keep you up at night—about the state of the world and the struggle of the human condition and how it is that I should find myself…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/18/in-the-hollow-of-the-rock/
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OffG Recommends…Wag the Dog
Kit Knightly
Wag the Dog is possibly the greatest political satire Hollywood has produced. It’s just that simple. If you only take one message away from this review, it should be that.
That might seem an absurd claim in a world where Dr Strangelove and Network exist, but Wag the Dog does something no other film has ever really dared to do…
…it keeps the story…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/18/offg-recommends-wag-the-dog/
Kit Knightly
“Why does a dog wag its tail? Because a dog is smarter than its tail. If the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog.”
Wag the Dog is possibly the greatest political satire Hollywood has produced. It’s just that simple. If you only take one message away from this review, it should be that.
That might seem an absurd claim in a world where Dr Strangelove and Network exist, but Wag the Dog does something no other film has ever really dared to do…
…it keeps the story…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/18/offg-recommends-wag-the-dog/
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The Global Deep State: A Fascist World Order Funded by the American Taxpayer
John & Nisha Whitehead
The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction.
That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the federal budget, the United States still spends more on foreign aid than any other nation.
The latest foreign aid spending bill includes $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
Since World War II,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/19/the-global-deep-state-a-fascist-world-order-funded-by-the-american-taxpayer/
John & Nisha Whitehead
“The madmen are in power.”
Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction.
That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the federal budget, the United States still spends more on foreign aid than any other nation.
The latest foreign aid spending bill includes $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
Since World War II,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/19/the-global-deep-state-a-fascist-world-order-funded-by-the-american-taxpayer/
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Farmers’ Protest in India Reignites: A Struggle for the Future of Food and Agriculture
Colin Todhunter
In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that were intended to ‘liberalise’ the agriculture sector.
Now, in 2024, farmers are again protesting. The underlying issues and the facilitation of the neoliberal corporatisation of farming that sparked the previous protest remain and have not been resolved.
The World Bank, the World Trade Organization, global agribusiness and financial capital are working to corporatise India’s agriculture sector. This plan goes back to the early 1990s and India’s foreign exchange crisis, which was used (and manipulated) to set this plan in…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/20/farmers-protest-in-india-reignites-a-struggle-for-the-future-of-food-and-agriculture/
Colin Todhunter
In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that were intended to ‘liberalise’ the agriculture sector.
Now, in 2024, farmers are again protesting. The underlying issues and the facilitation of the neoliberal corporatisation of farming that sparked the previous protest remain and have not been resolved.
The World Bank, the World Trade Organization, global agribusiness and financial capital are working to corporatise India’s agriculture sector. This plan goes back to the early 1990s and India’s foreign exchange crisis, which was used (and manipulated) to set this plan in…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/20/farmers-protest-in-india-reignites-a-struggle-for-the-future-of-food-and-agriculture/
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Let’s talk about…Assange’s Final Extradition Hearing
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange returns to the courtroom this week in a last-ditch effort to avoid extradition to the United States.
Assange himself, we are told, is too unwell to attend court in person (Assange has become the poster boy for legal proceedings in absentia), but his lawyers will be arguing that he faces a “flagrant denial of justice” if he is sent state-side.
A fact so obvious you would think it should be a given.
But then obvious facts – and basic justice – have never been permitted much of a voice in this case.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/20/lets-talk-about-assanges-final-extradition-hearing/
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange returns to the courtroom this week in a last-ditch effort to avoid extradition to the United States.
Assange himself, we are told, is too unwell to attend court in person (Assange has become the poster boy for legal proceedings in absentia), but his lawyers will be arguing that he faces a “flagrant denial of justice” if he is sent state-side.
A fact so obvious you would think it should be a given.
But then obvious facts – and basic justice – have never been permitted much of a voice in this case.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/20/lets-talk-about-assanges-final-extradition-hearing/
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Forwarded from Edward Slavsquat
Sputnik V and other Covid vaccines have not undergone the necessary testing and their continued use in Russia is a “crime”, the head of Russia’s League of Patients, Alexander Saversky, said in a February 15 interview with healthcare news portal medzdrav.info. https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/sputnik-v-is-an-unlawful-experiment
Edward Slavsquat
Sputnik V is an unlawful experiment, patient advocacy group says
Russia's League of Patients says Covid vaccines have not been proven safe
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Why is the ONS suddenly changing the “excess deaths” numbers?
The UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) announced yesterday that they are changing the way they calculate “excess deaths” across the country.
“Deaths above expected” or “excess deaths” is a statistic indicating mortality trends. Roughly speaking, it is calculated by estimating how many people die per year (based on previous years), then subtracting that number from the actual number of registered deaths.
A negative number means fewer people died than expected, a positive number means more. It’s more complicated than that, obviously, there are numerous factors that go into the modelling, but that’s essentially it.
“Excess deaths” came to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/21/why-is-the-ons-suddenly-changing-the-excess-deaths-numbers/
The UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) announced yesterday that they are changing the way they calculate “excess deaths” across the country.
“Deaths above expected” or “excess deaths” is a statistic indicating mortality trends. Roughly speaking, it is calculated by estimating how many people die per year (based on previous years), then subtracting that number from the actual number of registered deaths.
A negative number means fewer people died than expected, a positive number means more. It’s more complicated than that, obviously, there are numerous factors that go into the modelling, but that’s essentially it.
“Excess deaths” came to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/21/why-is-the-ons-suddenly-changing-the-excess-deaths-numbers/
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Alexei Navalny’s Death and Curious Well-Timed Coincidences
Edward Curtin
There is propaganda by commission and propaganda by omission, the former often serve to conceal the latter. Timing is crucial.
That the U.S. President Joseph Biden, his British, NATO, Israeli allies, and their corporate media mouthpieces are in need of a major propaganda victory is obvious. They are losing the war in Ukraine, have been condemned throughout the world for the genocide in Gaza, and are ruling over a disintegrating empire. Biden and Netanyahu’s political lives are at serious risk. And so they have just rolled out a full-court propaganda press effort aimed at covering their losses.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/22/alexei-navalnys-death-and-curious-well-timed-coincidences/
Edward Curtin
There is propaganda by commission and propaganda by omission, the former often serve to conceal the latter. Timing is crucial.
That the U.S. President Joseph Biden, his British, NATO, Israeli allies, and their corporate media mouthpieces are in need of a major propaganda victory is obvious. They are losing the war in Ukraine, have been condemned throughout the world for the genocide in Gaza, and are ruling over a disintegrating empire. Biden and Netanyahu’s political lives are at serious risk. And so they have just rolled out a full-court propaganda press effort aimed at covering their losses.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/22/alexei-navalnys-death-and-curious-well-timed-coincidences/
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“Wiki-Gate”: How Julian Assange was Framed by His Supporters
Michel Chossudovsky
Great artwork from Truthdig
We must act decisively in support and in solidarity with Julian Assange. In this regard, we must understand the history: On how Assange was betrayed and misled by those who allegedly supported him.
In October 2021, the U.S. government began a legal challenge to extradite Julian Assange from the U.K. “to face charges of violating the Espionage Act”. The UK Supreme Court turned down Assange’s appeal to “prevent his extradition to the United States”.
On April 20, 2022, a UK magistrates court formally approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the US…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/23/wiki-gate-how-julian-assange-was-framed-by-his-supporters/
Michel Chossudovsky
Great artwork from Truthdig
We must act decisively in support and in solidarity with Julian Assange. In this regard, we must understand the history: On how Assange was betrayed and misled by those who allegedly supported him.
In October 2021, the U.S. government began a legal challenge to extradite Julian Assange from the U.K. “to face charges of violating the Espionage Act”. The UK Supreme Court turned down Assange’s appeal to “prevent his extradition to the United States”.
On April 20, 2022, a UK magistrates court formally approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the US…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/23/wiki-gate-how-julian-assange-was-framed-by-his-supporters/
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WATCH: Achieving Epstein Justice – #SolutionsWatch
Nick Bryant joins James Corbett to discuss Epstein Justice, an organization he co-directs that is seeking justice for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators. Today they discuss the type of grassroots movement that will be needed to achieve true justice and to unseat the kakistocracy that is covering up these crimes. We also detail how everyday people can play a part in bringing about justice for these horrific crimes.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/23/watch-achieving-epstein-justice-solutionswatch/
Nick Bryant joins James Corbett to discuss Epstein Justice, an organization he co-directs that is seeking justice for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators. Today they discuss the type of grassroots movement that will be needed to achieve true justice and to unseat the kakistocracy that is covering up these crimes. We also detail how everyday people can play a part in bringing about justice for these horrific crimes.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/23/watch-achieving-epstein-justice-solutionswatch/
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What’s So Bad About World Rule?
Todd Hayen
The goals of the UN’s sustainable development agenda are rather pie-in-the-sky targets. But who in their right mind would give them a thumbs down if there was reason to believe they could be achieved?
Here they are if you are not familiar with them:
1. No poverty.
2. Zero hunger.
3. Good health and well-being.
4. Quality education.
5. Gender equality.
6. Clean water and sanitation.
7. Affordable and clean energy.
8. Decent work and economic growth.
9. Industry, innovation, and infrastructure.
10. Reduced inequalities.
11. Sustainable cities and communities.
12. Responsible consumption and production.
13. Climate…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/24/whats-so-bad-about-world-rule/
Todd Hayen
The goals of the UN’s sustainable development agenda are rather pie-in-the-sky targets. But who in their right mind would give them a thumbs down if there was reason to believe they could be achieved?
Here they are if you are not familiar with them:
1. No poverty.
2. Zero hunger.
3. Good health and well-being.
4. Quality education.
5. Gender equality.
6. Clean water and sanitation.
7. Affordable and clean energy.
8. Decent work and economic growth.
9. Industry, innovation, and infrastructure.
10. Reduced inequalities.
11. Sustainable cities and communities.
12. Responsible consumption and production.
13. Climate…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/24/whats-so-bad-about-world-rule/
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USS Liberty – Tragic Blunder or Mass Murder?
Martin Hanson
Damaged USS Liberty on 9 June 1967, one day after attack
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/25/uss-liberty-tragic-blunder-or-mass-murder/
Martin Hanson
Damaged USS Liberty on 9 June 1967, one day after attack
“Never before in the history of the US Navy has a Navy board of inquiry ignored the testimony of American eyewitnesses and taken, on faith, the word of their attackers”
Captain Dr. Richard Kiepfer, USS Liberty survivor
“A danger to national security exists whenever elected officials are willing to subordinate American interests to those of any foreign nation, and specifically are unwilling to challenge Israel’s interests when they conflict with American interests.”…...
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/25/uss-liberty-tragic-blunder-or-mass-murder/
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Why France’s New “Anti-Vax Law” is MUCH Worse Than You Think
Kit Knightly
Last week France passed a new law, “to strengthen the fight against sectarian abuses and improve the support of victims.” .
This was widely covered in the alt-media as a “law criminalizing anti-mRNA vaccine speech”, but that is not quite true and was thoroughly “fact-checked” by the usual suspects.
(In fact the original misconception was probably deliberately cultivated so it could be fact-checked, that’s the way these things usually work).
Either way, by accident or design, there was a lot of talk about what the law doesn’t say, and not nearly…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/25/why-frances-new-anti-vax-law-is-much-worse-than-you-think/
Kit Knightly
Last week France passed a new law, “to strengthen the fight against sectarian abuses and improve the support of victims.” .
This was widely covered in the alt-media as a “law criminalizing anti-mRNA vaccine speech”, but that is not quite true and was thoroughly “fact-checked” by the usual suspects.
(In fact the original misconception was probably deliberately cultivated so it could be fact-checked, that’s the way these things usually work).
Either way, by accident or design, there was a lot of talk about what the law doesn’t say, and not nearly…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/25/why-frances-new-anti-vax-law-is-much-worse-than-you-think/
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COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom. Three Years Later, We’re Still Failing
John & Nisha Whitehead
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The government never cedes power willingly.
Neither should we.
If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one thing it is that, as Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged, “Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”
Unfortunately, we still haven’t learned.
We’re still allowing ourselves to be fully distracted by circus politics and a constant barrage of bad news screaming for attention.
Three years after the onset of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/26/covid-19-tested-our-commitment-to-freedom-three-years-later-were-still-failing/
John & Nisha Whitehead
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“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
Francis Bacon
The government never cedes power willingly.
Neither should we.
If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one thing it is that, as Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged, “Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”
Unfortunately, we still haven’t learned.
We’re still allowing ourselves to be fully distracted by circus politics and a constant barrage of bad news screaming for attention.
Three years after the onset of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/26/covid-19-tested-our-commitment-to-freedom-three-years-later-were-still-failing/
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Grant Shapps is right, there will DEFINITELY be another “novichok-style attack”.
Kit Knightly
Two days ago it was reported that UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps was warning the country might face another “novichok-style attack”.
And he’s completely right – although probably not in the way he wants you to think. But we’ll get to that.
First, we should ask: What exactly is a “novichok-style attack”? What was Shapps dire warning intended to convey?
For those who may not know, Shapps was referencing the alleged poisoning (with a nerve agent called “novichok”) of exiled Russian GRU officer/MI6 agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/27/grant-shapps-is-right-there-will-definitely-be-another-novichok-style-attack/
Kit Knightly
Two days ago it was reported that UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps was warning the country might face another “novichok-style attack”.
And he’s completely right – although probably not in the way he wants you to think. But we’ll get to that.
First, we should ask: What exactly is a “novichok-style attack”? What was Shapps dire warning intended to convey?
For those who may not know, Shapps was referencing the alleged poisoning (with a nerve agent called “novichok”) of exiled Russian GRU officer/MI6 agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/27/grant-shapps-is-right-there-will-definitely-be-another-novichok-style-attack/
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AUDIO: Kit Knightly on the Patrick Henningsen Show – 28 February 2024
Kit Knightly joins guest host Basil Valentine to discuss the dystopian new French law on “sectarian abuse”, the rise, danger and purpose of vague laws around the world, and much more.
TNT Radio is a 24/7 internet radio station, available here and livestreaming on YouTube....
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/28/audio-kit-knightly-on-the-patrick-henningsen-show-28-february-2024/
Kit Knightly joins guest host Basil Valentine to discuss the dystopian new French law on “sectarian abuse”, the rise, danger and purpose of vague laws around the world, and much more.
TNT Radio is a 24/7 internet radio station, available here and livestreaming on YouTube....
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/28/audio-kit-knightly-on-the-patrick-henningsen-show-28-february-2024/
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The Rabbi’s Tear
Michael Lesher
Until very recently, I thought I could no longer be shocked by any news about Israel’s savagery against the trapped people of Gaza – or about my Orthodox Jewish community’s unrelenting support for each and every atrocity.
I had seen the shredded bodies of Palestinian children.
I had seen the bombed-out remains of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals and of the patients who had been killed inside them.
I had seen helpless Gazans murdered in cold blood by Israeli snipers when they tried to collect a bit of drinking water.
I had read…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/29/the-rabbis-tear/
Michael Lesher
Until very recently, I thought I could no longer be shocked by any news about Israel’s savagery against the trapped people of Gaza – or about my Orthodox Jewish community’s unrelenting support for each and every atrocity.
I had seen the shredded bodies of Palestinian children.
I had seen the bombed-out remains of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals and of the patients who had been killed inside them.
I had seen helpless Gazans murdered in cold blood by Israeli snipers when they tried to collect a bit of drinking water.
I had read…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/29/the-rabbis-tear/
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Fake Terrorism and the Genocide Agenda
Paul Cudenec
The criminocracy is in danger of losing its carefully-constructed shield of invisibility as it accelerates its deranged bid for total and permanent global control.
It is therefore obliged to ramp up its attacks on those who dare expose its existence, its crimes and its lies.
While Julian Assange is the most famous victim of its war on real journalism, another important case is that of Richard D. Hall.
Iain Davis writes: “UK independent journalist, researcher and documentary filmmaker Richard D. Hall faces conviction, sizeable damages and an injunction that could…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/01/fake-terrorism-and-the-genocide-agenda/
Paul Cudenec
The criminocracy is in danger of losing its carefully-constructed shield of invisibility as it accelerates its deranged bid for total and permanent global control.
It is therefore obliged to ramp up its attacks on those who dare expose its existence, its crimes and its lies.
While Julian Assange is the most famous victim of its war on real journalism, another important case is that of Richard D. Hall.
Iain Davis writes: “UK independent journalist, researcher and documentary filmmaker Richard D. Hall faces conviction, sizeable damages and an injunction that could…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/01/fake-terrorism-and-the-genocide-agenda/
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