Lockdown’s Fourth Birthday
Kit Knightly
Today marks four years to the day since the UK went into “lockdown” for the first time.
What an exciting time that was, right? With the pan-banging and the curve-flattening and the Spirit of the Blitz living on. Good times.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s team decided to honour the occasion by slapping themselves on the back:
Needless to say, this is revisionism of the highest order. To quote my favourite…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/23/lockdowns-fourth-birthday/
Kit Knightly
Today marks four years to the day since the UK went into “lockdown” for the first time.
What an exciting time that was, right? With the pan-banging and the curve-flattening and the Spirit of the Blitz living on. Good times.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s team decided to honour the occasion by slapping themselves on the back:
4 years ago today, @RishiSunak saved our economy. pic.twitter.com/mzmLTmD8ca
— Conservatives (@Conservatives) March 20, 2024
Needless to say, this is revisionism of the highest order. To quote my favourite…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/23/lockdowns-fourth-birthday/
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This Week in the New Normal #86
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. Neuralink “Telepathy”
Elon Musk’s Neuralink AI company released a video this week of their first patient playing chess on a computer using an implant in his brain.
Livestreaming on X, quadriplegic Noland Arbaugh compared his new ability to move a mouse cursor by “imagining it moving” as “like using the force”.
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/24/this-week-in-the-new-normal-86/
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. Neuralink “Telepathy”
Elon Musk’s Neuralink AI company released a video this week of their first patient playing chess on a computer using an implant in his brain.
Livestreaming on X, quadriplegic Noland Arbaugh compared his new ability to move a mouse cursor by “imagining it moving” as “like using the force”.
…...
Livestream of @Neuralink demonstrating “Telepathy” – controlling a computer and
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/24/this-week-in-the-new-normal-86/
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The Language of Force
John & Nisha Whitehead
Tyrants don’t like people who speak truth to power. Cue the rise of protest laws, which…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/25/the-language-of-force/
John & Nisha Whitehead
“If the state could use [criminal] laws not for their intended purposes but to silence those who voice unpopular ideas, little would be left of our First Amendment liberties, and little would separate us from the tyrannies of the past or the malignant fiefdoms of our own age. The freedom to speak without risking arrest is ‘one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation.’”
Justice Neil Gorsuch, dissenting,Nieves v. Bartlett (2019)
Tyrants don’t like people who speak truth to power. Cue the rise of protest laws, which…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/25/the-language-of-force/
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Global CBDC Rollout Continues Apace
Kit Knightly
Terror attacks in Moscow, ongoing genocide in Gaza, and cancer in the Royal family are dominating the headlines.
Meanwhile, on the financial back pages, all over the world the implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies draws nearer.
China, whose digital Yuan was the major flagship CBDC, is in the middle of an immense trial covering over 25 million people. This week they released new guidelinesfor tourists using CBDCs for the first time.
A journalist for the crypto-focused DLNews wrote of her experience using it, and while functionality might seem limited right now we…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/26/global-cbdc-rollout-continues-apace/
Kit Knightly
Terror attacks in Moscow, ongoing genocide in Gaza, and cancer in the Royal family are dominating the headlines.
Meanwhile, on the financial back pages, all over the world the implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies draws nearer.
China, whose digital Yuan was the major flagship CBDC, is in the middle of an immense trial covering over 25 million people. This week they released new guidelinesfor tourists using CBDCs for the first time.
A journalist for the crypto-focused DLNews wrote of her experience using it, and while functionality might seem limited right now we…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/26/global-cbdc-rollout-continues-apace/
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Degenerate Art in New Normal Germany
CJ Hopkins
One of the first things totalitarians do when they set about transforming a democratic society into whatever type of strictly-regulated, utterly soul-deadening totalitarian dystopia they are trying to transform it into is radically overhaul and remake its culture.
You can’t impose your new official ideology on a formerly democratic society with a bunch of artists running around loose, making fun of you and your propaganda. No, you need to get the culture business under control, and dictate what is and isn’t “art,” and what types of art are “harmful to society,” and demonize them, and the artists…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/26/degenerate-art-in-new-normal-germany/
CJ Hopkins
One of the first things totalitarians do when they set about transforming a democratic society into whatever type of strictly-regulated, utterly soul-deadening totalitarian dystopia they are trying to transform it into is radically overhaul and remake its culture.
You can’t impose your new official ideology on a formerly democratic society with a bunch of artists running around loose, making fun of you and your propaganda. No, you need to get the culture business under control, and dictate what is and isn’t “art,” and what types of art are “harmful to society,” and demonize them, and the artists…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/26/degenerate-art-in-new-normal-germany/
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Why Do People Claim They Own “The Science™”?
Iain Davis
In a truly remarkable article, seemingly packed with anti-scientific claims masquerading as scientific rigour, Dr Jonathan N. Stea asks why people fall for “Fake Science News.”
It isn’t entirely clear what Dr Stea is talking about because he doesn’t give any examples, just some vague generalities about people having the gall to question “the Science™.”
For example, he wrote:
OK, but before we can take Dr Stea seriously we first need to establish what…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/27/why-do-people-claim-they-own-the-science/
Iain Davis
In a truly remarkable article, seemingly packed with anti-scientific claims masquerading as scientific rigour, Dr Jonathan N. Stea asks why people fall for “Fake Science News.”
It isn’t entirely clear what Dr Stea is talking about because he doesn’t give any examples, just some vague generalities about people having the gall to question “the Science™.”
For example, he wrote:
[. . .] health-related misinformation and fake news related to a myriad of scientific topics persist and spread…
OK, but before we can take Dr Stea seriously we first need to establish what…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/27/why-do-people-claim-they-own-the-science/
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A very curious Crocus video
Riley Waggaman
On Monday I had the privilege of speaking with Steve and Chris from AM WakeUp. Our 90-minute conversation focused on the terrorist attack at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall.
During our chat, Steve shared a video with me that was published by Zvezda, a TV network run by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The clip purportedly captured the moment when gunmen entered the building:
https://off-guardian.org/wp-content/medialibrary/crocus-video.mp4
Let’s review the video together, for Science.
At the 0:00 mark, we see a man in blue camo with a dog standing near the entrance of the building. This is…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/28/a-very-curious-crocus-video/
Riley Waggaman
On Monday I had the privilege of speaking with Steve and Chris from AM WakeUp. Our 90-minute conversation focused on the terrorist attack at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall.
During our chat, Steve shared a video with me that was published by Zvezda, a TV network run by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The clip purportedly captured the moment when gunmen entered the building:
https://off-guardian.org/wp-content/medialibrary/crocus-video.mp4
Let’s review the video together, for Science.
At the 0:00 mark, we see a man in blue camo with a dog standing near the entrance of the building. This is…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/28/a-very-curious-crocus-video/
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People do not want war
Sylvia Shawcross
Hatred is born of fear and raised by ignorance. And that ignorance sprouts its tender leaves long before it develops its thorns. We accepted the greenery bursting from the soil of indifference, exhaustion and spite because we didn’t know their names then and once we knew it was too late.
The indifferent, caught unawares by the passing pleasures and pain of worldly things; the exhausted, weary and hungry and broken by worldly demands; and the spiteful who lived for the days of greed and vengeance to extract their needs from the world—all ending up where they ended…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/29/people-do-not-want-war/
Sylvia Shawcross
Hatred is born of fear and raised by ignorance. And that ignorance sprouts its tender leaves long before it develops its thorns. We accepted the greenery bursting from the soil of indifference, exhaustion and spite because we didn’t know their names then and once we knew it was too late.
The indifferent, caught unawares by the passing pleasures and pain of worldly things; the exhausted, weary and hungry and broken by worldly demands; and the spiteful who lived for the days of greed and vengeance to extract their needs from the world—all ending up where they ended…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/29/people-do-not-want-war/
OffGuardian
People do not want war
Hatred is born of fear and raised by ignorance. And that ignorance sprouts its tender leaves long before it develops its thorns. We accepted the greenery bursting from the soil of indifference, exh…
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Unlocking the Black Box
Karen Hunt
The first month of human embryo development is often referred to as a “black box” because it is the most mysterious and unexplored period of development of the human being.
So far, it’s been impossible for researchers to probe those first magical moments, when a spark ignites the transition of a single cell into a complex human being. If only scientists could figure…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/29/unlocking-the-black-box/
Karen Hunt
“…there is no sound for we all live underground… now every mother can choose the color of her child, that’s not nature’s way, there’s nothing left to do but pray…”
Jamiroquai “Virtual Insanity”
The first month of human embryo development is often referred to as a “black box” because it is the most mysterious and unexplored period of development of the human being.
So far, it’s been impossible for researchers to probe those first magical moments, when a spark ignites the transition of a single cell into a complex human being. If only scientists could figure…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/29/unlocking-the-black-box/
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The CIA Does “Soulful Work”
Edward Curtin
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a spate of books and articles extolling the word “soul” became the rage in the United States. Soul became the chic word. It popped up everywhere. Everything seemed to acquire soul – cars, toasters, underwear, cats’ pajamas, assorted crap, kitsch, etc. Soul sold styles from boots to bras to bibelots from The New York Times to O Magazine.
The vogue in soul talk spread to every domain as everyone was commodified and capital was financialized. While political, economic, and ecological reality spun out of regular…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/30/the-cia-does-soulful-work/
Edward Curtin
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a spate of books and articles extolling the word “soul” became the rage in the United States. Soul became the chic word. It popped up everywhere. Everything seemed to acquire soul – cars, toasters, underwear, cats’ pajamas, assorted crap, kitsch, etc. Soul sold styles from boots to bras to bibelots from The New York Times to O Magazine.
The vogue in soul talk spread to every domain as everyone was commodified and capital was financialized. While political, economic, and ecological reality spun out of regular…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/30/the-cia-does-soulful-work/
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Did the Covid Psyop Fail?
Todd Hayen
As you all know, I have not been one to believe that the tides are turning. But lots of people think they are. They cite many victories, in court, in the streets, with family and friends.
The fact that the agenda has not sent out a second wave of horror and fear propaganda is also rather telling to these folks. Where is the next pandemic? What happened to Covid’s diabolic never-ending run of mutations, what happened to Monkey Pox? What happened to Disease X?
Yes, all this could still happen, but it seems there have been more…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/30/did-the-covid-psyop-fail/
Todd Hayen
As you all know, I have not been one to believe that the tides are turning. But lots of people think they are. They cite many victories, in court, in the streets, with family and friends.
The fact that the agenda has not sent out a second wave of horror and fear propaganda is also rather telling to these folks. Where is the next pandemic? What happened to Covid’s diabolic never-ending run of mutations, what happened to Monkey Pox? What happened to Disease X?
Yes, all this could still happen, but it seems there have been more…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/30/did-the-covid-psyop-fail/
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This Easter in the New Normal
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. Climate Change is altering time!!!
A new study published this week caused multiple papers to run headlines along these lines:
That particularly egregious example is from the Washington Post, but CNN, the New York Times the BBC and many others went the same way with it.
It’s pathetic…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/31/this-easter-in-the-new-normal-2/
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. Climate Change is altering time!!!
A new study published this week caused multiple papers to run headlines along these lines:
Climate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clocks
That particularly egregious example is from the Washington Post, but CNN, the New York Times the BBC and many others went the same way with it.
It’s pathetic…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/31/this-easter-in-the-new-normal-2/
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Climate-Con and the Media-Censorship Complex – Part 1
Jesse Smith
The gauntlet has been cast by the media-censorship complex. Just prior to this year’s annual globalist confab in Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced that misinformation and disinformation are currently the greatest threats to humanity, with the release of its Global Risks Report 2024.
From a list of 34 risks, the WEF report identifies mis- and disinformation as the top threats to global stability over the next two years and the fifth most dangerous threats over the next 10 years. Of particular concern is false information that could affect elections, democratic processes,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/01/climate-con-and-the-media-censorship-complex-part-1/
Jesse Smith
The gauntlet has been cast by the media-censorship complex. Just prior to this year’s annual globalist confab in Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced that misinformation and disinformation are currently the greatest threats to humanity, with the release of its Global Risks Report 2024.
From a list of 34 risks, the WEF report identifies mis- and disinformation as the top threats to global stability over the next two years and the fifth most dangerous threats over the next 10 years. Of particular concern is false information that could affect elections, democratic processes,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/01/climate-con-and-the-media-censorship-complex-part-1/
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Rule by Criminals: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State
John & Nisha whitehead
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.
In the current governmental climate, obeying one’s conscience and speaking truth to the power of the police state can easily render you an “enemy of the state.”
The government’s list of so-called “enemies of the state” is growing by the day.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/02/rule-by-criminals-when-dissidents-become-enemies-of-the-state/
John & Nisha whitehead
“In these days of worldwide confusion, there is a dire need for men and women who will courageously do battle for truth<.”
Martin Luther King Jr
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.
In the current governmental climate, obeying one’s conscience and speaking truth to the power of the police state can easily render you an “enemy of the state.”
The government’s list of so-called “enemies of the state” is growing by the day.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/02/rule-by-criminals-when-dissidents-become-enemies-of-the-state/
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OffG’s New Look
Hi all. As you will probably notice OffG has just undergone a fairly extensive update. Lots of new functionality, and (we hope) more user-friendly interface.
The “latest” posts are still to be found along the very top as before, but our featured slider has gone to the great WordPress Theme in the sky. If you miss it, we’re sorry, but it was clunky and got very little use. We think the new featured section allows for much more flexibility and engagement.
If you scroll the front page you’ll see new sections devoted to some of the most urgent issues…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/04/offgs-new-look/
Hi all. As you will probably notice OffG has just undergone a fairly extensive update. Lots of new functionality, and (we hope) more user-friendly interface.
The “latest” posts are still to be found along the very top as before, but our featured slider has gone to the great WordPress Theme in the sky. If you miss it, we’re sorry, but it was clunky and got very little use. We think the new featured section allows for much more flexibility and engagement.
If you scroll the front page you’ll see new sections devoted to some of the most urgent issues…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/04/offgs-new-look/
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The Hate Police
Scotland’s new “hate crime” law took effect today. It’s called “The Hate Crime and Public Order Act.” It criminalizes, not only the “expression of hatred,” but also the “stirring of hatred” against a range of “protected” groups defined by disability, age, faith, sexual orientation, transgender identity, and so on.
From now on, any form of expression that the authorities consider “likely” to offend a member of one of these “protected groups” will be a “hate crime,” punishable by up to seven years in prison. According to the law, any form expression that “a reasonable person would consider…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/05/the-hate-police/
Scotland’s new “hate crime” law took effect today. It’s called “The Hate Crime and Public Order Act.” It criminalizes, not only the “expression of hatred,” but also the “stirring of hatred” against a range of “protected” groups defined by disability, age, faith, sexual orientation, transgender identity, and so on.
From now on, any form of expression that the authorities consider “likely” to offend a member of one of these “protected groups” will be a “hate crime,” punishable by up to seven years in prison. According to the law, any form expression that “a reasonable person would consider…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/05/the-hate-police/
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WATCH: Eat Ze Bugs or You’re Racist!
You know how #SolutionsWatch replaced #PropagandaWatch three years ago? Well, I found a piece of propaganda so crazy, so self-contradictory, so hilariously reaching, so weirdly self-deconstructing that it has to be heard to be believed. Feast your ears on this wet hot dumpster fire of nonsense served up by the very confused propaganda pushers over at NPR.
Sources shownotes and download options for this video are available here....
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/05/watch-eat-ze-bugs-or-youre-racist/
You know how #SolutionsWatch replaced #PropagandaWatch three years ago? Well, I found a piece of propaganda so crazy, so self-contradictory, so hilariously reaching, so weirdly self-deconstructing that it has to be heard to be believed. Feast your ears on this wet hot dumpster fire of nonsense served up by the very confused propaganda pushers over at NPR.
Sources shownotes and download options for this video are available here....
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/05/watch-eat-ze-bugs-or-youre-racist/
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In 2021, on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, Off-Guardian asked 15 experts in their field, including scientists, medical practitioners, journalists and activists, to share their views on the parallels between 9/11 and the Covid-19 narrative
https://off-guardian.org/category/covid19-11/
https://off-guardian.org/category/covid19-11/
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Pearls Before Swine
During these perilous years, I have often been reminded of the scripture from Matthew 7:6-7. Here is the New King James Version:
Although I personally believe the “Shrew’s Message” is holy, I am sure many may not wish to put such a divine spin on our efforts to seek truth regarding vaccines, corrupt government, and constitutional freedoms.
However, I think most will agree that the description “pearls” matches close…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/06/pearls-before-swine/
During these perilous years, I have often been reminded of the scripture from Matthew 7:6-7. Here is the New King James Version:
Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.”
Although I personally believe the “Shrew’s Message” is holy, I am sure many may not wish to put such a divine spin on our efforts to seek truth regarding vaccines, corrupt government, and constitutional freedoms.
However, I think most will agree that the description “pearls” matches close…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/06/pearls-before-swine/
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Night for Day or Day for Night in the Heart of Darkness
Overheard in a coffee shop: A woman and a man are sitting together at a table. She with a laptop open before her and he with a coffee and a book. Looking at the screen, she says to him, “I didn’t know that the solar eclipse lasts for 70 to 80 minutes, going from partial…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/07/night-for-day-or-day-for-night-in-the-heart-of-darkness/
“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air”
Lord Byron, “Darkness”
Overheard in a coffee shop: A woman and a man are sitting together at a table. She with a laptop open before her and he with a coffee and a book. Looking at the screen, she says to him, “I didn’t know that the solar eclipse lasts for 70 to 80 minutes, going from partial…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/07/night-for-day-or-day-for-night-in-the-heart-of-darkness/
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