This Week in the New Normal #84

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. Yet another “online harms” Bill

Just a few weeks since the UK passed its new “Online Safety Act”, the Canucks are joining the party.

The new “Online Harms Bill” looks near identical to the UK version actually, which you’d expect given that both are influenced by UNESCO’s “guidelines for regulating digital platforms”.

Unsurprisingly, the draft law has already been given the…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/03/this-week-in-the-new-normal-84/

Technocensorship: When Corporations Serve As a Front for Government Censors

John & Nisha Whitehead

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. We must, therefore, be on our guard against extremists who urge us to adopt police state measures. Such persons advocate breaking down the guarantees of the Bill of Rights in order to get at the communists. They forget that if the Bill of

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/04/technocensorship-when-corporations-serve-as-a-front-for-government-censors/

Galloway’s Rochdale Victory is an Establishment Trap

Kit Knightly

The UK’s Parliamentary constituency of Rochdale held a bye-election on Friday, and George Galloway won.

First I want to say we agree with GG about a lot of things, not least his unwavering support for Palestine and opposition to US Imperialism. He deserves much credit for that and we have very vocally supported him in the past.

But then “covid” happened and a lot of things changed irrevocably and are still changing. Many idols showed us their feet of clay. And GG was one of them.

When Covid hit, George took to Twitter to block…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/04/galloways-rochdale-victory-is-an-establishment-trap/

The ‘Food Transition’ Is a War on Food, Farmers and the Public

Colin Todhunter

This article begins with a short video based on an interview with researcher Sandi Adams, who describes the plans for agriculture in the rural county of Somerset in south-west England and the UK in general. It’s an important clip because what she describes appears to be part of a wider United Nations agenda handed down by an extremely wealthy unaccountable, unelected elite.

This elite thinks it can do a better job than nature by changing the essence of food and the genetic core of the food supply (via synthetic biology and genetic engineering). The plan also involves…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/05/the-food-transition-is-a-war-on-food-farmers-and-the-public/

The Ministry of AI Truth

CJ Hopkins

Remember HAL, the homicidal Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? Well, if you haven’t had the pleasure yet, let me introduce you to Gemini, Google’s “multimodal large language model.”

Gemini hasn’t killed anyone yet — as far as I know, the liquidation of Gaza is being assisted by an Israeli AI called “the Gospel” — but it is certainly doing a bang-up job of assassinating people’s characters.

I was prompted to play around with Gemini by Matt Taibbi’s recent piece reporting on how Gemini invented…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/06/the-ministry-of-ai-truth/

OffG Site Update

Hi all,

OffG is getting a fairly major overhaul! So later today we will be going into maintenance mode while we pop the hood & do some much needed fixing.

The site will be unavailable during that time, but hopefully it won’t be for too long.

Thanks,

OffG Admin...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/06/offg-site-update/

The Manchester Arena False Flag

Iain Davis

Richard D. Hall is an independent investigative journalist and documentary film-maker who has gone further than any other journalist to examine the evidence surrounding the alleged 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.

If we look at the evidence, which is the only way to ascertain the truth, the Manchester Arena bombing was, in my view, a false flag.

The official Manchester Arena Bombing narrative asserts the following as “fact.”

On 22nd of May 2017, 22 people were killed by a 22 year old Islamist terrorist Salman Abedi who committed suicide when he detonated his TATP (triacetone triperoxide)…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/07/the-manchester-arena-false-flag/

The Irish Are Losing Their Way

Sinéad Murphy

Driving home after Christmas, we pulled in at the last toll plaza on the M8 to Cork. It had been dark for hours with ‘Storm Gerrit’ still pelting. As I lowered the window to hold out my card, a voice struck through the dark and wind and rain, screaming over the heavens and the engines:

WELL, AND WAS SANTY GOOD TO YE?

I hadn’t heard ‘Santy’ in years – not since my grandfather used to ask the same question.

Then, handing back my card and still screaming:

NOW LISTEN, IF I DON’T SEE YE,

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/07/the-irish-are-losing-their-way/

What no one is saying about Ireland’s “sexist language” referendum

Kit Knightly

Today is International Women’s Day. It’s also the day Irish public goes to the polls for a referendum on the “sexist language” of article 41.2 of the Irish constitution.

The article currently reads:

The state recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the state a support without which the common good cannot be achieved. The state shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.”

If the “yes” vote wins, this text will be changed…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/08/what-no-one-is-saying-about-irelands-sexist-language-referendum/

Societal Self-Regulation

Todd Hayen

Any group of human beings who are supposedly in a free society and who have a leader (or a council of people who lead), assigned by that group to make decisions for the common interests of the group, must rely on their own “self-regulation,” above and beyond the leaders’ government, in order to survive.

This is imperative as a “check and balance” criterion for a healthy society.

In most democratic societies this is done through the elective process. People are put into power, and taken out of power if need be, through elections, i.e., the popular vote.…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/09/societal-self-regulation/

WATCH: Navigating the River of Lies

Last year, New Zealand activist Billy Te Kahika interviewed James Corbett for a documentary he was creating about the New Zealand government’s response to the COVID scamdemic. Well, that documentary is now here. It’s called River of Lies and it’s available now at riveroflies.co.nz.

In this episode of the Corbett Report, James talks to Billy TK about his documentary and shows some of the raw interview footage that was recorded last year.

You can watch River of Lies through the official website. Show notes and sources for this podcast are available here, and…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/09/watch-navigating-the-river-of-lies/

Sick, and Sick of It All

Edward Curtin

Sometimes it takes our bodies to return us to our souls. And our little pains to remind us of the indescribable pain of the savage killing and dismemberment of innocent children and adults in Gaza and many other places by U.S. weapons produced in clean factories by people just doing their jobs and collecting their pay at “defense” contractors Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, etc.

Abstraction is the name of the game as human bodies are torn to pieces “over there” and the obscene profits are transferred at the computer terminals day and night.

Living in a technological…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/10/sick-and-sick-of-it-all/

The Great Election Fraud: Manufactured Choices Make a Mockery of Our Republic

John & Nisha Whitehead

“Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.”
Gene Sharp, political science professor

The U.S. Supreme Court was right to keep President Trump’s name on the ballot.

The high court’s decree that the power to remove a federal candidate from the ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban” rests with Congress, not the states, underscores the fact that in a representative democracy, the citizenry—not the courts, not the corporations, and not the contrived electoral colleges—should be the ones to elect…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/11/the-great-election-fraud-manufactured-choices-make-a-mockery-of-our-republic/

Net Zero, the Digital Panopticon and the Future of Food

Colin Todhunter

The food transition, the energy transition, net-zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and clampdowns on protest. What’s it all about? To understand these processes, we need to first locate what is essentially a social and economic reset within the context of a collapsing financial system.

Writer Ted Reece notes that the general rate of profit has trended downwards from an estimated 43% in the 1870s to 17% in the 2000s. By late 2019, many companies could not generate enough profit. Falling turnover, squeezed margins, limited cashflows and highly leveraged balance…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/12/net-zero-the-digital-panopticon-and-the-future-of-food/

“Measles Mayhem”: Where is this going?

Kit Knightly

The headlines are full of measles at the moment, in the way that always reeks of coordination.

The measles outbreak in the US has been simmering away for weeks, but was brought back to the front burner in the last few days. The Daily Mail headlining:

America on verge of measles MAYHEM: Hundreds feared to be infected in California and Arizona outbreaks as US suffers year’s worth of cases in two months

It’s not just Arizona and California either. Chicago, Florida and Philadelphia all have “outbreaks” of their own.

An article in…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/13/measles-mayhem-where-is-this-going/

Winning the Meme War – #SolutionsWatch

Bill Gates, GAVI and governments around the world are scrambling to censor the infowarriors of the internet age who are unlocking minds and awakening the masses, so it only makes sense that they’re cracking down on the most simple, effective and popular medium of information exchange: memes.

In this edition of #SolutionsWatch, James Corbett interviews a couple of meme war veterans to talk about what they do, how they do it, and how they are using seemingly simple images to help change the world

You can read our archive of meme posts here. Sources, shownotes and links…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/15/winning-the-meme-war-solutionswatch/

Pacifying the Insane

Todd Hayen

Maybe using the word “insane” is overkill, but it makes a better title than using the word “troubled” or something equally innocuous. But maybe “Insane” actually might be the more accurate word to use because this article addresses people who willingly went along with the vaccine fiasco without a tinge of resistance or question. What more appropriate way to describe them?

And how are we pacifying these people? Well, maybe most of you folks reading this are not pacifying sheep, but I know I am. At first, I was the Chicken Little character (as I have mentioned…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/16/pacifying-the-insane/

How generative AI will ruin science and academic research

Johan Eddebo

Background: the epistemology of modern mass media

I often come back to Neil Postman’s 1985 classic Amusing Ourselves to Death. It’s a penetrating analysis on the cognitive effects of media technology. His focus is mainly on how the format and mode of communication influences the character of content and how that content then trains us, but to a lesser extent also how the discourse and the “atmosphere” of the information exchange affects these issues.

This is almost forty years ago, and the disruptive medium under scrutiny is television. The entire approach seems almost quaint, the…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/17/how-generative-ai-will-ruin-science-and-academic-research/

This Week in the New Normal #85

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. Michael Gove’s Definition of Extremism

UK Michael Gove MP made the news this week when he formally announced the UK government’s official definition of “extremism”, which goes as follows:

The promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance, that aims to:

1. negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others; or

2. undermine, overturn or replace…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/17/this-week-in-the-new-normal-85/

The State of Our Nation No One’s Talking About: Tyranny Is Rising as Freedom Falls

John & Nisha Whitehead

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Day by day, tyranny is rising as freedom falls.

The U.S. military is being used to patrol subway stations and police the U.S.-Mexico border, supposedly in the name of national security.

The financial sector is being used to carry…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/18/the-state-of-our-nation-no-ones-talking-about-tyranny-is-rising-as-freedom-falls/

“The World As It Was”: A Masterly Documentary Film

Edward Curtin

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Here’s a film about the 1950s – “The World As It Was” – that will tell you a great deal about life in the U.S.A. today, while disabusing anyone of the notion that nostalgia for that mephitic decade is in order, for it was a time when “democracy” tended toward totalitarianism.

In doing so, it sowed the bitter fruit that is poisoning us today. Without understanding the long-standing effects of those years, it is impossible to grasp the deepest dimensions of our current nightmare. Chapter One of the documentary series, Four Died Trying,…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/18/the-world-as-it-was-a-masterly-documentary-film/