Tyranny by the Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It
The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it.
This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity, and that “someone” is the U.S. taxpayer.
The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have run the gamut from wasteful pork barrel legislation, cronyism and graft to asset forfeiture, costly stimulus packages, and a national security complex that continues to undermine our freedoms while…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/15/tyranny-by-the-numbers-the-government-wants-your-money-any-way-it-can-get-it/
The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it.
This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity, and that “someone” is the U.S. taxpayer.
The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have run the gamut from wasteful pork barrel legislation, cronyism and graft to asset forfeiture, costly stimulus packages, and a national security complex that continues to undermine our freedoms while…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/15/tyranny-by-the-numbers-the-government-wants-your-money-any-way-it-can-get-it/
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The Palestine Congress
Thank God for the German Hate Police! Or heil … or whatever the appropriate salutation is for these unsung heroes. They just saved us all from “hate” again!
Yes, that’s right, once again, democracy-loving people here in New Normal Berlin and all across the New Normal world were right on the brink of being exposed to “hate,” and would have been exposed to “hate,” had the Hate Police not sprang into action.
You probably have no idea what I’m talking about.
OK, what happened was, some pro-Palestinian activists organized a “Palestine Congress,” and attempted to discuss the situation in…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/16/the-palestine-congress/
Thank God for the German Hate Police! Or heil … or whatever the appropriate salutation is for these unsung heroes. They just saved us all from “hate” again!
Yes, that’s right, once again, democracy-loving people here in New Normal Berlin and all across the New Normal world were right on the brink of being exposed to “hate,” and would have been exposed to “hate,” had the Hate Police not sprang into action.
You probably have no idea what I’m talking about.
OK, what happened was, some pro-Palestinian activists organized a “Palestine Congress,” and attempted to discuss the situation in…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/16/the-palestine-congress/
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Biometric identification: It’s what Russia craves?
The nations of the world are racing each other to see who can tag their respective cattle in the safest and most voluntary and convenient way. Meanwhile, the cattle bicker on the internet about which rancher has the best and most moral cattle tag.
“So it goes.”
I suppose it’s a matter of taste, really. After all, deciding who gets to tag you is still a choice, technically. Sort of.
In Russia, great advances have been made towards implementing a biometric cattle tag, which is arguably the most convenient cattle tag ever devised because the cattle don’t have to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/17/biometric-identification-its-what-russia-craves/
The nations of the world are racing each other to see who can tag their respective cattle in the safest and most voluntary and convenient way. Meanwhile, the cattle bicker on the internet about which rancher has the best and most moral cattle tag.
“So it goes.”
I suppose it’s a matter of taste, really. After all, deciding who gets to tag you is still a choice, technically. Sort of.
In Russia, great advances have been made towards implementing a biometric cattle tag, which is arguably the most convenient cattle tag ever devised because the cattle don’t have to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/17/biometric-identification-its-what-russia-craves/
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WATCH: Suing the Tyrants – #SolutionsWatch
You’ve tried protesting, you’ve tried boycotting, what else is there to do? Well, how about filing a lawsuit?
Join James Corbett for this week’s edition of #SolutionsWatch where he weighs the pros and cons of suing the tyrants and considers the potential utility of Notices of Liability in holding government officials personally accountable for their behaviour.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here andhere.
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/18/watch-suing-the-tyrants-solutionswatch/
You’ve tried protesting, you’ve tried boycotting, what else is there to do? Well, how about filing a lawsuit?
Join James Corbett for this week’s edition of #SolutionsWatch where he weighs the pros and cons of suing the tyrants and considers the potential utility of Notices of Liability in holding government officials personally accountable for their behaviour.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here andhere.
Follow us on Telegram for regular updates & commentary...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/18/watch-suing-the-tyrants-solutionswatch/
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Bird Flu, Censorship & 100 Day Vaccines: 7 Predictions for “The Next Pandemic”
Earlier this month the Whitehouse published its new “Pandemic Preparedness” targets.
They are far from alone in covering this. Back in March, Sky News was asking: “Next pandemic is around the corner,’ expert warns – but would lockdown ever happen again?”
On April 3rd, the Financial Times asked something similar: “The next pandemic is coming. Will we be ready?”
Less than an hour ago, the Daily Mail invited us inside “the world’s deadliest cave that could cause the next pandemic”.
Just two days ago a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/19/bird-flu-censorship-100-day-vaccines-7-predictions-for-the-next-pandemic/
Earlier this month the Whitehouse published its new “Pandemic Preparedness” targets.
They are far from alone in covering this. Back in March, Sky News was asking: “Next pandemic is around the corner,’ expert warns – but would lockdown ever happen again?”
On April 3rd, the Financial Times asked something similar: “The next pandemic is coming. Will we be ready?”
Less than an hour ago, the Daily Mail invited us inside “the world’s deadliest cave that could cause the next pandemic”.
Just two days ago a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/19/bird-flu-censorship-100-day-vaccines-7-predictions-for-the-next-pandemic/
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War in the New Normal - slaughtering your Proles for convenience, fun & profit
https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/20/war-in-the-new-normal-slaughtering-your-proles-for-convenience-fun-profit/
https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/20/war-in-the-new-normal-slaughtering-your-proles-for-convenience-fun-profit/
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Killing a Few for the Benefit of Millions
Since when has this (the title of the article) become the mantra of civilized humanity? I grew up in a time when this thought would never enter your mind, even if it seemed practical in a given circumstance. Remember when you were a kid and you were asked the impossible question: If you had to kill one of your parents to save the other, which would you choose? Although most of us had a problem with this (I am certain some did not) it was the kind of question our little minds could not fathom.
Knowingly killing people for…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/20/killing-a-few-for-the-benefit-of-millions/
Since when has this (the title of the article) become the mantra of civilized humanity? I grew up in a time when this thought would never enter your mind, even if it seemed practical in a given circumstance. Remember when you were a kid and you were asked the impossible question: If you had to kill one of your parents to save the other, which would you choose? Although most of us had a problem with this (I am certain some did not) it was the kind of question our little minds could not fathom.
Knowingly killing people for…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/20/killing-a-few-for-the-benefit-of-millions/
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Beijing McCafé
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/21/beijing-mccafe/
The people’s expectations have evolved in general from satisfying basic needs to improving the quality of life, and their demands at different levels and in various areas are becoming more diverse.”
Xi Jinping, The Governance of China, IV (2022)
…...
The demand is voiceless, wordless,
Yet lacks nothing in eloquence
Or precision; needs no translation,
Crosses boundaries of language
And political position;
Contains no threat, holds nothing to fear.
On the contrary, the choice is yours
And the consequences clear:
To comply or be refused — entry,
Exit, access, service, the right
To choose not to choose, to
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/21/beijing-mccafe/
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The Immense Hunger
Like all living creatures, people need to eat to live. Some people, eaten from within by a demonic force, try to deny others this basic sustenance. All across the world people are starving because the powerful and wealthy create economic and political conditions that allow their wealth to be built on the backs of the world’s poor. It is an old story, constantly updated. It is one form of official terrorism.
From the Irish famine with its terrible aftermath created by the imperialist British government in the nineteenth century that caused the death of between one and two million…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/21/the-immense-hunger/
Like all living creatures, people need to eat to live. Some people, eaten from within by a demonic force, try to deny others this basic sustenance. All across the world people are starving because the powerful and wealthy create economic and political conditions that allow their wealth to be built on the backs of the world’s poor. It is an old story, constantly updated. It is one form of official terrorism.
From the Irish famine with its terrible aftermath created by the imperialist British government in the nineteenth century that caused the death of between one and two million…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/21/the-immense-hunger/
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Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution
The government long…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/22/down-with-big-brother-warrantless-surveillance-makes-a-mockery-of-the-constitution/
“Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference … The Thought Police would get him just the same … the arrests invariably happened at night … In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest. People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.”
George Orwell, 1984
The government long…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/22/down-with-big-brother-warrantless-surveillance-makes-a-mockery-of-the-constitution/
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This Week in the New Normal #88
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. Apparently Weather Modification IS a thing
This week torrential rainfall in Oman and the UAE resulted in some of the worst flooding those countries have ever seen.
Why? Well climate change, duh. But not just climate change…
Cloud seeding too. Cloud seeding is the practice of spraying chemicals…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/22/this-week-in-the-new-normal-88/
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. Apparently Weather Modification IS a thing
This week torrential rainfall in Oman and the UAE resulted in some of the worst flooding those countries have ever seen.
Why? Well climate change, duh. But not just climate change…
Climate change and cloud seeding ‘exacerbated’ deadly flooding in Gulf countries
Cloud seeding too. Cloud seeding is the practice of spraying chemicals…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/22/this-week-in-the-new-normal-88/
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OffG Recommends…Last Will & Testament
Today is St George’s Day, and it’s also Shakespeare’s Birthday
…not really.
The truth is it’s a guess. William Shaksper, “the man from Stratford”, is known to have been baptised on April 26th and since babies of that time were generally baptized quite quickly, it stands to reason he was born sometime in the preceding few days.
The consensus is April 23rd because it allows England’s most famous literary son to have been born on his nation’s Patron Saints Day – and that was apparently a contrivance too poetic to pass up.
…But all of that is immaterial, because…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/23/offg-recommends-last-will-testament/
Today is St George’s Day, and it’s also Shakespeare’s Birthday
…not really.
The truth is it’s a guess. William Shaksper, “the man from Stratford”, is known to have been baptised on April 26th and since babies of that time were generally baptized quite quickly, it stands to reason he was born sometime in the preceding few days.
The consensus is April 23rd because it allows England’s most famous literary son to have been born on his nation’s Patron Saints Day – and that was apparently a contrivance too poetic to pass up.
…But all of that is immaterial, because…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/23/offg-recommends-last-will-testament/
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WATCH: The Age of Neurowarfare
Stavroula Pabst joins James Corbett to discuss her recent article, “Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare.” From the military origins of brain-chip interfaces and neuroscience to the geopolitical ramifications of neuroweapons to the suspicious characters forwarding the controlled opposition “neurorights” movement, Pabst dives deep into the history and future of the age of neurowarfare.
Sources shownotes and download options for this video can be found at The Corbett Report....
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/25/watch-the-age-of-neurowarfare/
Stavroula Pabst joins James Corbett to discuss her recent article, “Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare.” From the military origins of brain-chip interfaces and neuroscience to the geopolitical ramifications of neuroweapons to the suspicious characters forwarding the controlled opposition “neurorights” movement, Pabst dives deep into the history and future of the age of neurowarfare.
Sources shownotes and download options for this video can be found at The Corbett Report....
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/25/watch-the-age-of-neurowarfare/
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Quick Take: So…what’s with all the spying?
Breaking news, from just a couple of hours ago, is that five British men have been charged with “conducting hostile activity in the UK to benefit Russia”.
Details are still scarce, but the charges are said to be linked to a fire in March, which the Crown Prosecution Service described as “an arson attack on a Ukrainian-linked commercial property”
But this is just one of a spate of recent stories alleging espionage or other “hostile activity”.
Two weeks ago, a career US diplomat was sentenced to 15 years in prison for allegedly…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/26/quick-take-so-whats-with-all-the-spying/
Breaking news, from just a couple of hours ago, is that five British men have been charged with “conducting hostile activity in the UK to benefit Russia”.
Details are still scarce, but the charges are said to be linked to a fire in March, which the Crown Prosecution Service described as “an arson attack on a Ukrainian-linked commercial property”
But this is just one of a spate of recent stories alleging espionage or other “hostile activity”.
Two weeks ago, a career US diplomat was sentenced to 15 years in prison for allegedly…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/26/quick-take-so-whats-with-all-the-spying/
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Humanity is Messy
One thing that really annoys me is this idealistic quest for a perfect society. Whether this quest comes from the ultra-religious or from the maniacs heading up the New World Order or even from average everyday folks who think that humans can all be herded into some ideal group of nice neighbourly Mr. Rogers types.
Even if that could be done it would be a bore. And any really serious effort to do so will quickly turn into totalitarian insanity. Isn’t that what we are seeing now? Everyone has some crazy idea that they know how people should be…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/27/humanity-is-messy/
One thing that really annoys me is this idealistic quest for a perfect society. Whether this quest comes from the ultra-religious or from the maniacs heading up the New World Order or even from average everyday folks who think that humans can all be herded into some ideal group of nice neighbourly Mr. Rogers types.
Even if that could be done it would be a bore. And any really serious effort to do so will quickly turn into totalitarian insanity. Isn’t that what we are seeing now? Everyone has some crazy idea that they know how people should be…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/27/humanity-is-messy/
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Zones of Interest: The Holocaust Industry in Film
It should surprise no-one that, in the middle of the 6-month liquidation of the Gaza concentration camp by the Israel Defense Forces, the UK film industry released not one but two films about the ‘Holocaust’.[1]
One Life, a UK film about a British man who helped Jews from German-occupied Czechoslovakia, was released in the UK on 1 January, 2024, when the death toll in the Gaza Strip had passed 30,000; and The Zone of Interest, a UK/US/German co-production about the commandant of Auschwitz, was released in the UK on 2 February, when a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/28/zones-of-interest-the-holocaust-industry-in-film/
It should surprise no-one that, in the middle of the 6-month liquidation of the Gaza concentration camp by the Israel Defense Forces, the UK film industry released not one but two films about the ‘Holocaust’.[1]
One Life, a UK film about a British man who helped Jews from German-occupied Czechoslovakia, was released in the UK on 1 January, 2024, when the death toll in the Gaza Strip had passed 30,000; and The Zone of Interest, a UK/US/German co-production about the commandant of Auschwitz, was released in the UK on 2 February, when a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/28/zones-of-interest-the-holocaust-industry-in-film/
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Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News
“Nothing is real,” observed John Lennon, and that’s especially true of politics.
Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, in which a man’s life is the basis for…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/29/divide-and-conquer-the-governments-propaganda-of-fear-and-fake-news/
“It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That’s the way to soften up a democracy.”
J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit
“Nothing is real,” observed John Lennon, and that’s especially true of politics.
Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, in which a man’s life is the basis for…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/29/divide-and-conquer-the-governments-propaganda-of-fear-and-fake-news/
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“A Victory for Farmers”: Supreme Court Halts Genetically Modified Rice
On 19 April 2024, the Philippines Supreme Court issued acease-and-desist order on the commercial propagation of genetically modified (GM) Golden Rice and GM eggplant in the country.
The Stop Golden Rice Network says that the court decision is a victory for farmers and consumers everywhere as the decision goes beyond Golden Rice and insecticidal eggplant and covers “any application for contained use, field testing, direct use as food or feed or processing, commercial propagation, and importation of GMOs.”
The court recognised that government agencies and other proponents of GM Golden Rice and GM eggplant…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/29/a-victory-for-farmers-supreme-court-halts-genetically-modified-rice/
On 19 April 2024, the Philippines Supreme Court issued acease-and-desist order on the commercial propagation of genetically modified (GM) Golden Rice and GM eggplant in the country.
The Stop Golden Rice Network says that the court decision is a victory for farmers and consumers everywhere as the decision goes beyond Golden Rice and insecticidal eggplant and covers “any application for contained use, field testing, direct use as food or feed or processing, commercial propagation, and importation of GMOs.”
The court recognised that government agencies and other proponents of GM Golden Rice and GM eggplant…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/29/a-victory-for-farmers-supreme-court-halts-genetically-modified-rice/
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Bringing Transhumanism Down to Earth – Part 1
Originally published by Propaganda in Focus
With the coordinated global release of the Covid-19 narrative in late 2019 and the subsequent illogical demands of governments — allied with transnational organisations and pharmaceutical giants — many people around the world began questioning the hasty, unprecedented, and sweeping technological and technocratic changes being made to societies in the name of a highly marketed “medical emergency”.
Despite new…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/30/bringing-transhumanism-down-to-earth-part-1/
Originally published by Propaganda in Focus
“All of our exalted technological progress, civilization for that matter, is comparable to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal”.
Albert Einstein, in a letter to Heinrich Zangger (1917)
With the coordinated global release of the Covid-19 narrative in late 2019 and the subsequent illogical demands of governments — allied with transnational organisations and pharmaceutical giants — many people around the world began questioning the hasty, unprecedented, and sweeping technological and technocratic changes being made to societies in the name of a highly marketed “medical emergency”.
Despite new…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/30/bringing-transhumanism-down-to-earth-part-1/
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Fighting Monsters
So, I gave a little speech about art, and war. The Internationale Agentur für Freiheit, a Berlin art and cultural association, asked me to do that to open their exhibition, Make Art Not War. I couldn’t turn them down.
As my readers may have noticed, I haven’t had very much to say about “The War on Hamas,” or “The War on Gaza,” or “The Liquidation of Gaza,” or whatever you want to call it. (It doesn’t look like much of a “war” to me, but then, nothing really has for quite a while.)
I wrote about it…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/01/fighting-monsters/
So, I gave a little speech about art, and war. The Internationale Agentur für Freiheit, a Berlin art and cultural association, asked me to do that to open their exhibition, Make Art Not War. I couldn’t turn them down.
As my readers may have noticed, I haven’t had very much to say about “The War on Hamas,” or “The War on Gaza,” or “The Liquidation of Gaza,” or whatever you want to call it. (It doesn’t look like much of a “war” to me, but then, nothing really has for quite a while.)
I wrote about it…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/01/fighting-monsters/
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WATCH: How to Scale a Paywall (and other useful tips) – #SolutionsWatch
On this edition of #SolutionsWatch, James goes over 5 tech tips that will help improve your browsing and online research experience. NOTE: As always, your mileage will vary with these tactics and they can/will change in the future. Do you have a tech tip? Leave it in the comments below.
Previous #SolutionsWatch videos featuring research tricks and tools: [watch][watch]
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here andhere.
Follow us on Telegram for regular updates & commentary...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/02/watch-how-to-scale-a-paywall-and-other-useful-tips-solutionswatch/
On this edition of #SolutionsWatch, James goes over 5 tech tips that will help improve your browsing and online research experience. NOTE: As always, your mileage will vary with these tactics and they can/will change in the future. Do you have a tech tip? Leave it in the comments below.
Previous #SolutionsWatch videos featuring research tricks and tools: [watch][watch]
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here andhere.
Follow us on Telegram for regular updates & commentary...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/02/watch-how-to-scale-a-paywall-and-other-useful-tips-solutionswatch/
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