New “Guide” Teaches UK MPs to Spot “Conspiracy Theories”
The British government has issued a new guidebook to all sitting MPs to help them spot “conspiracy theories”.
Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt MP, who commissioned the guide, has warned that:
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/08/new-guide-teaches-uk-mps-to-spot-conspiracy-theories/
The British government has issued a new guidebook to all sitting MPs to help them spot “conspiracy theories”.
Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt MP, who commissioned the guide, has warned that:
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The proliferation of conspiracy theories across the UK is deeply disturbing. They are deliberate campaigns to spread disinformation and fear […] If they go unchallenged we risk the public being conned and their wellbeing potentially damaged. These campaigns are also a threat to the health of our democracy. It is essential that we give the public and their representatives the tools they need to
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/08/new-guide-teaches-uk-mps-to-spot-conspiracy-theories/
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Immortal Regiment Cancelled: A massive victory for SAFETY in Russia
Readers of the blog know that Russian authorities stay up late every night brainstorming ways to make things more safe and convenient. It’s their top priority. You might even say it’s what they crave.
The very thought that someone might not be completely safe, or might be very slightly inconvenienced, is hateful to these saintly public servants. It’s probably the same in your own country, which is undoubtedly governed by the same breed of selfless cattle ranchers.
We are lucky to live in the best of all possible worlds.
Taking into account all of the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/09/immortal-regiment-cancelled-a-massive-victory-for-safety-in-russia/
Readers of the blog know that Russian authorities stay up late every night brainstorming ways to make things more safe and convenient. It’s their top priority. You might even say it’s what they crave.
The very thought that someone might not be completely safe, or might be very slightly inconvenienced, is hateful to these saintly public servants. It’s probably the same in your own country, which is undoubtedly governed by the same breed of selfless cattle ranchers.
We are lucky to live in the best of all possible worlds.
Taking into account all of the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/09/immortal-regiment-cancelled-a-massive-victory-for-safety-in-russia/
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AstraZeneca just pulled their Covid jab….why?
British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is halting production and supply of their Covid19 “vaccine”. The news was announced yesterday, following the European Medicines Agency declaration that the shot wouldno longer be cleared for use.
The official story right now is that it has been superseded by “updated” vaccines.
In its statement, AZ said:
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/09/astrazeneca-just-pulled-their-covid-jab-why/
British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is halting production and supply of their Covid19 “vaccine”. The news was announced yesterday, following the European Medicines Agency declaration that the shot wouldno longer be cleared for use.
The official story right now is that it has been superseded by “updated” vaccines.
In its statement, AZ said:
“As multiple, variant Covid-19 vaccines have since been developed there is a surplus of available updated vaccines […] According to independent estimates, over 6.5 million lives were saved in the first year of use alone and over 3bn doses were supplied globally.”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/09/astrazeneca-just-pulled-their-covid-jab-why/
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Wings, Prayers and Hooplas
It took me a year before I finally succumbed to a phone that would accept 5G. They bugged me and bugged me by phone and email and text messages to upgrade to this new phone. I resent this all to hell.
I don’t much like it—this new phone. I hate the damn thing. It makes far more noise than my old one. It seems to want an inordinate amount of my attention and I don’t know how to use it and don’t want to learn. I will never learn any of its features because I just don’t bloody care…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/10/wings-prayers-and-hooplas/
It took me a year before I finally succumbed to a phone that would accept 5G. They bugged me and bugged me by phone and email and text messages to upgrade to this new phone. I resent this all to hell.
I don’t much like it—this new phone. I hate the damn thing. It makes far more noise than my old one. It seems to want an inordinate amount of my attention and I don’t know how to use it and don’t want to learn. I will never learn any of its features because I just don’t bloody care…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/10/wings-prayers-and-hooplas/
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WATCH: How To Save The World!
You know what the most powerful weapon in the world is, don’t you? And you know how to use that weapon to change the course of human history, right? If not, don’t fret! James is here to tell you all about it. Don’t miss this short, simple, to-the-point presentation on How To Save The World in this week’s edition of The Corbett Report podcast.
Sources and download options for this video are available here, for more Corbett Report content click here....
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/10/watch-how-to-save-the-world/
You know what the most powerful weapon in the world is, don’t you? And you know how to use that weapon to change the course of human history, right? If not, don’t fret! James is here to tell you all about it. Don’t miss this short, simple, to-the-point presentation on How To Save The World in this week’s edition of The Corbett Report podcast.
Sources and download options for this video are available here, for more Corbett Report content click here....
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/10/watch-how-to-save-the-world/
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Too Massive to Comprehend
I remember a time not too long ago when you could sort of see what was happening in the world, even in your own backyard, with some degree of certainty.
If you looked hard enough, got past the politics, and the greedy capitalists, and the ideological socialists, you could make some sense of it. Even then it took some work. You had to read a lot and find journalists, historians, and authors you could somewhat trust.
Throw in a bit of common sense here and there, and you could pretty much lock on to a rather trustworthy sense of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/11/too-massive-to-comprehend/
I remember a time not too long ago when you could sort of see what was happening in the world, even in your own backyard, with some degree of certainty.
If you looked hard enough, got past the politics, and the greedy capitalists, and the ideological socialists, you could make some sense of it. Even then it took some work. You had to read a lot and find journalists, historians, and authors you could somewhat trust.
Throw in a bit of common sense here and there, and you could pretty much lock on to a rather trustworthy sense of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/11/too-massive-to-comprehend/
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Too Massive to Comprehend
I remember a time not too long ago when you could sort of see what was happening in the world, even in your own backyard, with some degree of certainty. If you looked hard enough, got past the poli…
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Anti-War Mothers – Celebrating Mother’s Day in the US
Originally conceived as a protest to war, Mother’s Day – celebrated in the US on the second Sunday of May – has become a marketing tool to boost consumer spending to give suck to Amazon and FTD florists.
Now that Rosie the Riveter, maker of fighter planes and tanks, is the face of feminism, we tend to forget that many of the early feminists were anti-war activists who had a deep respect for motherhood.
Feminism has been…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/12/anti-war-mothers-celebrating-mothers-day-in-the-us/
I refuse to raise my child to grow up to kill another mother’s child.
Julia Ward Howe, founder of Mother’s Day, 1870
Originally conceived as a protest to war, Mother’s Day – celebrated in the US on the second Sunday of May – has become a marketing tool to boost consumer spending to give suck to Amazon and FTD florists.
Now that Rosie the Riveter, maker of fighter planes and tanks, is the face of feminism, we tend to forget that many of the early feminists were anti-war activists who had a deep respect for motherhood.
Feminism has been…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/12/anti-war-mothers-celebrating-mothers-day-in-the-us/
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This Week in the New Normal #90
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. UK Assisted Dying Law
The UK will almost certainly have legalised euthanasia by the end of the year, if not this government then it will be among the first acts of Sir Keir Starmer’s “progressive” administration after the general election.
The propaganda for this has been going and going and going for years, but it’s been a particularly hot-button issue for the last few months.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/12/this-week-in-the-new-normal-90/
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. UK Assisted Dying Law
The UK will almost certainly have legalised euthanasia by the end of the year, if not this government then it will be among the first acts of Sir Keir Starmer’s “progressive” administration after the general election.
The propaganda for this has been going and going and going for years, but it’s been a particularly hot-button issue for the last few months.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/12/this-week-in-the-new-normal-90/
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Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms
The spirit of the Constitution, drafted by men who chafed against the heavy-handed tyranny of an imperial ruler, would suggest that one’s home is a fortress, safe from almost every kind of intrusion.
Unfortunately, a collective assault…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/13/virtual-home-invasions-were-not-safe-from-government-peeping-toms/
“The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen—a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of man’s life at will.”
Justice William O. Douglas
The spirit of the Constitution, drafted by men who chafed against the heavy-handed tyranny of an imperial ruler, would suggest that one’s home is a fortress, safe from almost every kind of intrusion.
Unfortunately, a collective assault…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/13/virtual-home-invasions-were-not-safe-from-government-peeping-toms/
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OffG is looking for fake news!
For a an article we are planning for later this week, we are looking for proven examples of "fake news".
That would be doctored photos, proven lies, staged video footage.
For example, there was the famous "bus incident" where two reporters from CNN were pretending to be miles apart, but were actually in the same car park.
Or there was the "Rape on Campus" story from Rolling Stone, an account of a sexual assault that never happened.
Specifically, one of editors recalls seeing a picture where a reporter for a television network has "faked" a crowd by gathering a dozen people around the camera, but a photo from one of the windows above the street shows the deception.
That's the kind of incident we're looking to collate.
if you have a source for this - or any other proven examples of provable "fake news" send them to us via e-mail contact@off-guardian.org
For a an article we are planning for later this week, we are looking for proven examples of "fake news".
That would be doctored photos, proven lies, staged video footage.
For example, there was the famous "bus incident" where two reporters from CNN were pretending to be miles apart, but were actually in the same car park.
Or there was the "Rape on Campus" story from Rolling Stone, an account of a sexual assault that never happened.
Specifically, one of editors recalls seeing a picture where a reporter for a television network has "faked" a crowd by gathering a dozen people around the camera, but a photo from one of the windows above the street shows the deception.
That's the kind of incident we're looking to collate.
if you have a source for this - or any other proven examples of provable "fake news" send them to us via e-mail contact@off-guardian.org
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OffG is looking for (proven) fake news!
We’re interesting in collating all the examples of fakery in the news for an article we are planning to run later this week.
That would be doctored photos, proven lies, staged video footage.
For example, there was the famous “bus incident” where two reporters from CNN were pretending to be miles apart, but were actually in the same car park.
Or there was the “Rape on Campus” story from Rolling Stone, an account of a sexual assault that never happened.
Specifically, one of our editors recalls seeing a picture where a reporter for a television network has “faked” a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/13/offg-is-looking-for-proven-fake-news/
We’re interesting in collating all the examples of fakery in the news for an article we are planning to run later this week.
That would be doctored photos, proven lies, staged video footage.
For example, there was the famous “bus incident” where two reporters from CNN were pretending to be miles apart, but were actually in the same car park.
Or there was the “Rape on Campus” story from Rolling Stone, an account of a sexual assault that never happened.
Specifically, one of our editors recalls seeing a picture where a reporter for a television network has “faked” a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/13/offg-is-looking-for-proven-fake-news/
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Brent and Neil go to Manchester – Introduction
Read the whole series…
Part I – Part II – Part III – Part IV – Part V – Part VI – Part VII – Part VIII – Part IX
Brent Lee and Neil Sanders have released their 8 part exploration of Richard D. Hall’s Book and film called Manchester The Night of the Bang. You can download Richard’s book For Free Here.
If you would like to support Richard’s work you can buy his book…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/15/brent-and-neil-go-to-manchester-introduction/
Read the whole series…
Part I – Part II – Part III – Part IV – Part V – Part VI – Part VII – Part VIII – Part IX
Brent Lee and Neil Sanders have released their 8 part exploration of Richard D. Hall’s Book and film called Manchester The Night of the Bang. You can download Richard’s book For Free Here.
If you would like to support Richard’s work you can buy his book…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/15/brent-and-neil-go-to-manchester-introduction/
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Menace on the Menu: The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming
Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe. In the UK, an influx of investment from pension funds and private wealth contributed to a doubling of farmland prices from 2010-2015. Land prices in the US agricultural heartlands of Iowa quadrupled between 2002 and 2020.
Agricultural investment funds rose ten-fold between 2005 and 2018 and now regularly include farmland as a stand-alone asset class, with US investors having doubled their stakes in farmland since 2020.
Meanwhile, agricultural commodity traders are speculating on farmland through their own private equity subsidiaries, while new financial…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/16/menace-on-the-menu-the-financialisation-of-farmland-and-the-war-on-food-and-farming/
Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe. In the UK, an influx of investment from pension funds and private wealth contributed to a doubling of farmland prices from 2010-2015. Land prices in the US agricultural heartlands of Iowa quadrupled between 2002 and 2020.
Agricultural investment funds rose ten-fold between 2005 and 2018 and now regularly include farmland as a stand-alone asset class, with US investors having doubled their stakes in farmland since 2020.
Meanwhile, agricultural commodity traders are speculating on farmland through their own private equity subsidiaries, while new financial…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/16/menace-on-the-menu-the-financialisation-of-farmland-and-the-war-on-food-and-farming/
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WATCH: Meet Benjamin Netanyahu, Unconvicted War Criminal
The International Criminal Court is supposedly mulling war crimes charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other high-ranking Israeli political and military officials.
But what reason could they possibly have for charging Netanyahu with war crimes? Uncover all the dirt on the unindicted war criminal presiding over Israel’s crimes against humanity in this important edition of The Corbett Report podcast.
Shownotes and download options for this episode are available HERE, for more Corbett Report content click HERE....
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/17/watch-meet-benjamin-netanyahu-unconvicted-war-criminal/
The International Criminal Court is supposedly mulling war crimes charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other high-ranking Israeli political and military officials.
But what reason could they possibly have for charging Netanyahu with war crimes? Uncover all the dirt on the unindicted war criminal presiding over Israel’s crimes against humanity in this important edition of The Corbett Report podcast.
Shownotes and download options for this episode are available HERE, for more Corbett Report content click HERE....
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/17/watch-meet-benjamin-netanyahu-unconvicted-war-criminal/
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Military Operations in Civilian Disguise – Part 3
Originally published by Propaganda in Focus. Part One of this article is available here andhere, Part Two here andhere.
Since government must be involved in the accumulation of capital to legitimate its activities, and since humans are, in the eyes of government, key resources, government must therefore be involved in activities that manage, control and increase the efficiency of these resources whilst at the same time fostering the spread of business.
As we have outlined throughout Parts 1 and 2, history shows evidence of how…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/18/military-operations-in-civilian-disguise-part-3/
Originally published by Propaganda in Focus. Part One of this article is available here andhere, Part Two here andhere.
Since government must be involved in the accumulation of capital to legitimate its activities, and since humans are, in the eyes of government, key resources, government must therefore be involved in activities that manage, control and increase the efficiency of these resources whilst at the same time fostering the spread of business.
As we have outlined throughout Parts 1 and 2, history shows evidence of how…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/18/military-operations-in-civilian-disguise-part-3/
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Democracy is Not the Same as Freedom
You hear the word “democracy” thrown around quite a bit these days. “Democracy is being destroyed in the United States by Donald Trump!!” and “Democracy is being destroyed in the United States by Joe Biden!”
Every time we turn around we are being told that democracy is being destroyed by this or that—in the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, North Korea—oops, they don’t have any democracy to destroy, right? I forgot.
Not only is democracy being destroyed in all of our previously democratic countries, but it is being destroyed in countries that never had democracy, or…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/18/democracy-is-not-the-same-as-freedom/
You hear the word “democracy” thrown around quite a bit these days. “Democracy is being destroyed in the United States by Donald Trump!!” and “Democracy is being destroyed in the United States by Joe Biden!”
Every time we turn around we are being told that democracy is being destroyed by this or that—in the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, North Korea—oops, they don’t have any democracy to destroy, right? I forgot.
Not only is democracy being destroyed in all of our previously democratic countries, but it is being destroyed in countries that never had democracy, or…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/18/democracy-is-not-the-same-as-freedom/
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The Killer Instinct
We went to Rat Island to kill, but it was not rats we were after. I was ten years old, as was my companion John. The island lay in the Bronx River just north of the Botanical Gardens in the vast and verdant Bronx Park. It was accessed by a fallen tree trunk and held a dangerous allure. How it got its name we did not know. It wasn’t an official name but was known to all the boys in the neighborhood, whispered like a ghost story in the night. Some said the rats were the size…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/19/the-killer-instinct/
We went to Rat Island to kill, but it was not rats we were after. I was ten years old, as was my companion John. The island lay in the Bronx River just north of the Botanical Gardens in the vast and verdant Bronx Park. It was accessed by a fallen tree trunk and held a dangerous allure. How it got its name we did not know. It wasn’t an official name but was known to all the boys in the neighborhood, whispered like a ghost story in the night. Some said the rats were the size…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/19/the-killer-instinct/
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Screams for Billions – A Topical Fantasy
Recently, billionaire Sheryl Sandberg (ex-COO of Meta/Facebook) released a roughly 60-minute film purporting to explore “the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023.” Though denoted a “documentary,” the film (helmed by Israeli director Anat Stalinksy) is in fact a pastiche of falsehoods, debunked claims, slipshod interviewing and unverified Israeli propaganda.
A thorough dissection of the film’s dishonesty is available on Electronic Intifada for anyone who thinks Ms. Sandberg’s concoction worth the trouble. Naturally, Sandberg’s film is simultaneously being apotheosized by the likes of Bret Stephens.
Sandberg says she took the name of her production, Screams Before Silence,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/19/screams-for-billions-a-topical-fantasy/
Recently, billionaire Sheryl Sandberg (ex-COO of Meta/Facebook) released a roughly 60-minute film purporting to explore “the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023.” Though denoted a “documentary,” the film (helmed by Israeli director Anat Stalinksy) is in fact a pastiche of falsehoods, debunked claims, slipshod interviewing and unverified Israeli propaganda.
A thorough dissection of the film’s dishonesty is available on Electronic Intifada for anyone who thinks Ms. Sandberg’s concoction worth the trouble. Naturally, Sandberg’s film is simultaneously being apotheosized by the likes of Bret Stephens.
Sandberg says she took the name of her production, Screams Before Silence,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/19/screams-for-billions-a-topical-fantasy/
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A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale of Too Many Laws and Too Little Freedom
We are caught in a vicious cycle of too many laws, too many cops, and too little freedom.
It’s hard to say whether we’re dealing with a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves), a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little regard for the rights of American citizens), or a Nanny State…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/20/a-nanny-state-idiocracy-a-tale-of-too-many-laws-and-too-little-freedom/
“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.”
Simone Weil, French philosopher
We are caught in a vicious cycle of too many laws, too many cops, and too little freedom.
It’s hard to say whether we’re dealing with a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves), a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little regard for the rights of American citizens), or a Nanny State…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/20/a-nanny-state-idiocracy-a-tale-of-too-many-laws-and-too-little-freedom/
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DISCUSS: Assange Wins Right to Appeal
The UK High Courthas ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange does have the right to an appeal following his extradition hearing late last year.
Assange was once again absent from the court for health reasons, but speaking outside the court following the news his wife Stella Assange said:
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/20/discuss-assange-wins-right-to-appeal/
The UK High Courthas ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange does have the right to an appeal following his extradition hearing late last year.
Assange was once again absent from the court for health reasons, but speaking outside the court following the news his wife Stella Assange said:
“Now is the moment to drop this case…this case is shameful and it is taking an enormous toll on Julian”
…...
Stella Assange addressing the crowd following Monday’s UK court hearing granting an appeal for Julian Assange: “Now is the moment to drop this case…this
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/20/discuss-assange-wins-right-to-appeal/
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2024 & the Inevitable Rise of Biometrics
Have you noticed a lot of two-factor authentication prompts lately? Are you getting emailed verification codes that take forever to arrive, so you have to request another?
Perhaps you are asked to do captchas to “prove you’re human” and they seem to be getting more complex all the time or simply not working at all?
Why do you think that might be?
We’ll come back to that.
Did you know we’re in a “breakthrough year” for biometric payment systems?
According to this story from CNBC, JPMorgan and Mastercard are on board with the technology and intend a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/21/2024-the-inevitable-rise-of-biometrics/
Have you noticed a lot of two-factor authentication prompts lately? Are you getting emailed verification codes that take forever to arrive, so you have to request another?
Perhaps you are asked to do captchas to “prove you’re human” and they seem to be getting more complex all the time or simply not working at all?
Why do you think that might be?
We’ll come back to that.
Did you know we’re in a “breakthrough year” for biometric payment systems?
According to this story from CNBC, JPMorgan and Mastercard are on board with the technology and intend a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/21/2024-the-inevitable-rise-of-biometrics/
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