The digital ruble should be used for control: Refreshing honesty from senior Russian lawmaker
Restrictions on how digital rubles can be spent will be gradually introduced after the Bank of Russia’s CBDC enters mass circulation, Anatoly Aksakov, head of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta in an interview.
The senior lawmaker revealed that the Russian government was already discussing “possible usage scenarios” for the digital ruble, which can be programmed to limit or prohibit certain kinds of purchases.
As an example, Aksakov proposed using the digital ruble to issue maternity capital and child benefits so that these funds “can’t be spent on alcohol and cigarettes”.
Such restrictions would…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/13/the-digital-ruble-should-be-used-for-control-refreshing-honesty-from-senior-russian-lawmaker/
Restrictions on how digital rubles can be spent will be gradually introduced after the Bank of Russia’s CBDC enters mass circulation, Anatoly Aksakov, head of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta in an interview.
The senior lawmaker revealed that the Russian government was already discussing “possible usage scenarios” for the digital ruble, which can be programmed to limit or prohibit certain kinds of purchases.
As an example, Aksakov proposed using the digital ruble to issue maternity capital and child benefits so that these funds “can’t be spent on alcohol and cigarettes”.
Such restrictions would…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/13/the-digital-ruble-should-be-used-for-control-refreshing-honesty-from-senior-russian-lawmaker/
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How Covid “vaccines” paved the way for mRNA Cancer “vaccines”
The unprecedentedly speedy development and approval of the various Covid “vaccines” – most using previously unsuccessful mRNA technology – is considered a scientific miracle by ardent followers of The ScienceTM.
Many others – us included – see it another way: one of the greatest scams ever perpetrated against a scared public, and a potentially incredibly dangerous and even deadly one.
But the damage done by that process doesn’t stop at the Covid “vaccines” themselves, they have opened the door for more and more “vaccines” to be rushed to market. That includes potentially “bespoke cancer vaccines”, of which there are…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/13/how-covid-vaccines-paved-the-way-for-mrna-cancer-vaccines/
The unprecedentedly speedy development and approval of the various Covid “vaccines” – most using previously unsuccessful mRNA technology – is considered a scientific miracle by ardent followers of The ScienceTM.
Many others – us included – see it another way: one of the greatest scams ever perpetrated against a scared public, and a potentially incredibly dangerous and even deadly one.
But the damage done by that process doesn’t stop at the Covid “vaccines” themselves, they have opened the door for more and more “vaccines” to be rushed to market. That includes potentially “bespoke cancer vaccines”, of which there are…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/13/how-covid-vaccines-paved-the-way-for-mrna-cancer-vaccines/
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WATCH: Creating Parallel Societies – #SolutionsWatch
From the depths of the scamdemic to the craziness of the trade wars, we’ve seen the economic destruction and disruption of our daily lives that can be caused by authoritarians who presume to rule over the world. But the society they are crafting is not the society we have to live in. Join James for this edition of #SolutionsWatch where he explores the concept of parallel societies and the steps that can be taken to create the building blocks for such societies to come about.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options –…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/14/watch-creating-parallel-societies-solutionswatch/
From the depths of the scamdemic to the craziness of the trade wars, we’ve seen the economic destruction and disruption of our daily lives that can be caused by authoritarians who presume to rule over the world. But the society they are crafting is not the society we have to live in. Join James for this edition of #SolutionsWatch where he explores the concept of parallel societies and the steps that can be taken to create the building blocks for such societies to come about.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options –…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/14/watch-creating-parallel-societies-solutionswatch/
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Nationalistic Fervor
I was at the ballet the other night, yes, the ballet. It was the Canadian Ballet Company’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. Before the ballet started, the orchestra struck up a thundering version of Canada’s national anthem, O Canada.
I knew the ballet had not yet started because I was aware that Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece did not begin with a drum roll. This rendition of O Canada most certainly did.
Almost without hesitation, the entire audience stood and broke into song. How riveting. I do not know the words to the national ditty, and even if I did,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/15/nationalistic-fervor/
I was at the ballet the other night, yes, the ballet. It was the Canadian Ballet Company’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. Before the ballet started, the orchestra struck up a thundering version of Canada’s national anthem, O Canada.
I knew the ballet had not yet started because I was aware that Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece did not begin with a drum roll. This rendition of O Canada most certainly did.
Almost without hesitation, the entire audience stood and broke into song. How riveting. I do not know the words to the national ditty, and even if I did,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/15/nationalistic-fervor/
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A Tuneful Irish Tale
The old man in the Irish cap sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside his house across from ours. I would usually see him on my way home from school. He would raise his shillelagh to greet me and sometimes played a tune on the penny whistle he kept on his lap.
Often he was puffing on a pipe which I could smell even as I kept to my side of the street because he…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/16/a-tuneful-irish-tale/
“Accomplished fingers begin to play.
Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.”
WB Yeats, Lapus Lazuli
The old man in the Irish cap sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside his house across from ours. I would usually see him on my way home from school. He would raise his shillelagh to greet me and sometimes played a tune on the penny whistle he kept on his lap.
Often he was puffing on a pipe which I could smell even as I kept to my side of the street because he…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/16/a-tuneful-irish-tale/
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When Dissent Becomes a Crime: The War on Political Speech Begins
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state. You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship.
You can’t expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard for the rule of law.
There’s always a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/17/when-dissent-becomes-a-crime-the-war-on-political-speech-begins/
“Once the principle is established that the government can arrest and jail protesters…officials will use it to silence opposition broadly.”
Heather Cox Richardson, historian
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state. You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship.
You can’t expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard for the rule of law.
There’s always a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/17/when-dissent-becomes-a-crime-the-war-on-political-speech-begins/
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Let’s talk about…the JFK files released!
Last night Donald Trump’s administration released two-thousand files, totaling over 60,000 pages, pertaining to the assassination of President John F Kennedy.
You can read them all here.
The files are in seemingly no order, with no index or search system, so combing through them will take a while.
The National Archive press release claims these are “all records previously withheld for classification”, but that’s then admit that’s not technically true [emphasis added]:
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/19/lets-talk-about-the-jfk-files-released/
Last night Donald Trump’s administration released two-thousand files, totaling over 60,000 pages, pertaining to the assassination of President John F Kennedy.
You can read them all here.
The files are in seemingly no order, with no index or search system, so combing through them will take a while.
The National Archive press release claims these are “all records previously withheld for classification”, but that’s then admit that’s not technically true [emphasis added]:
In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/19/lets-talk-about-the-jfk-files-released/
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Why is EVERYBODY talking about Adolescence?
For some reason I woke up this morning to a world – or a pretend media world, at least – obsessed with the Netflix show Adolescence.
I’m not going to link to it or describe the plot, because I’m not being pulled into this trap. I’m not talking about Adolescence, I’m talking about the people talking about it.
That might seem like a paper thin distinction, but it is an important one, in my mind at least.
With thanks to Charlotte
Why is everyone talking about this show? Why am I being…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/20/why-is-everybody-talking-about-adolescence/
For some reason I woke up this morning to a world – or a pretend media world, at least – obsessed with the Netflix show Adolescence.
I’m not going to link to it or describe the plot, because I’m not being pulled into this trap. I’m not talking about Adolescence, I’m talking about the people talking about it.
That might seem like a paper thin distinction, but it is an important one, in my mind at least.
With thanks to Charlotte
Why is everyone talking about this show? Why am I being…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/20/why-is-everybody-talking-about-adolescence/
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The Carneyvore Diet
Yes, I know the world is going to hell and it is all very ugly so all we’re left with is banality. And so that is what this writer is left with. It is what it is…
Now, we all know that processed food is bad for us. I don’t know about you but if “they” are going to be feeding us crickets and meal moths then I want them to process the bloody hell out of those things. I want them to muck them about right down to the DNA until we have no idea what it is.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/21/the-carneyvore-diet/
Yes, I know the world is going to hell and it is all very ugly so all we’re left with is banality. And so that is what this writer is left with. It is what it is…
Now, we all know that processed food is bad for us. I don’t know about you but if “they” are going to be feeding us crickets and meal moths then I want them to process the bloody hell out of those things. I want them to muck them about right down to the DNA until we have no idea what it is.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/21/the-carneyvore-diet/
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No Human Contact
I have touched on this before in several articles. But it seems to be an itch I can’t scratch. Ever have one of those? An itch you think you are scratching, but you really are not in the right place? And you can’t seem to find it?
This topic is again one of those things I don’t think everyone considers important. They may find it annoying and frustrating, but they will chalk it up to “progress” and not say much more about it. “What can you do?” they may mutter, “It’s just the way things are these days.”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/22/no-human-contact/
I have touched on this before in several articles. But it seems to be an itch I can’t scratch. Ever have one of those? An itch you think you are scratching, but you really are not in the right place? And you can’t seem to find it?
This topic is again one of those things I don’t think everyone considers important. They may find it annoying and frustrating, but they will chalk it up to “progress” and not say much more about it. “What can you do?” they may mutter, “It’s just the way things are these days.”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/22/no-human-contact/
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6 Masterpieces of Contemporary American Cinema: Neoliberalism through the Looking Glass
As transpired in Weimar Germany, cataclysmic times invariably induce great suffering, yet they can also serve as inspiration for poignant and moving works of art.
What follows is a discussion of six works of insightful and intellectually nuanced contemporary American cinema which explore this distressing age in all its viciousness and depravity, while engaging the anguish of the individual struggling to survive amidst a maelstrom of unprecedented corporate pillage and political and socio-economic chaos.
While I have tried to limit them as much as possible, these reviews may contain spoilers.
1. The East
Directed…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/23/6-masterpieces-of-contemporary-american-cinema-neoliberalism-through-the-looking-glass/
As transpired in Weimar Germany, cataclysmic times invariably induce great suffering, yet they can also serve as inspiration for poignant and moving works of art.
What follows is a discussion of six works of insightful and intellectually nuanced contemporary American cinema which explore this distressing age in all its viciousness and depravity, while engaging the anguish of the individual struggling to survive amidst a maelstrom of unprecedented corporate pillage and political and socio-economic chaos.
While I have tried to limit them as much as possible, these reviews may contain spoilers.
1. The East
Directed…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/23/6-masterpieces-of-contemporary-american-cinema-neoliberalism-through-the-looking-glass/
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Ode to the Young Doctor in Gaza
Ode to the Young Doctor in Gaza
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Ode to the Young Doctor in Gaza
To the Muslim doctor in Gaza,…...
his soft, dark eyes, gloved hands
gently placed on a dusty, bloodied
Palestinian child, with matted hair,
who is screaming.
To his colleague behind him in a white coat,
waiting to assist. The young doctor
may be from Jordan or Lebanon,
his mother’s pride for his medical school
honors from Bahrain or Egypt or Dubai.
The child’s screams burrow
into his chest, remain there hours,
shouts, wailing, weeping
around him. His gaze steadies.
Is the arm broken, the small arm?
His work, assessing, washing,
Splinting,
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/23/ode-to-the-young-doctor-in-gaza/
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Beyond the Law: What It Means to Weaponize the Government
President Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent, against due process, and against the very foundations of our constitutional republic.
This is what it means to weaponize the government.
When the government turns its power against its own people—through surveillance, retaliation, censorship, and intimidation—it ceases to serve the public and instead becomes a weapon of oppression.
According to the Political Dictionary:
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/24/beyond-the-law-what-it-means-to-weaponize-the-government/
President Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent, against due process, and against the very foundations of our constitutional republic.
This is what it means to weaponize the government.
When the government turns its power against its own people—through surveillance, retaliation, censorship, and intimidation—it ceases to serve the public and instead becomes a weapon of oppression.
According to the Political Dictionary:
“The term ‘weaponize’ refers to the strategic manipulation…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/24/beyond-the-law-what-it-means-to-weaponize-the-government/
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The Global Gang Running the World and Ruining Our Lives
My understanding of the world in which we live has undoubtedly increased greatly since I wrote the material which formed the first of a series of compilations, Fascism rebranded: exposing the Great Reset, a selection of essays from 2018 to 2021.
In four subsequent volumes – The Great Racket: the ongoing development of the criminal global system; Converging Against the Criminocrats: Essays and Talks for the New International Resistance; Our Quest for Freedom and Other Essays and then Against the Dark Enslaving Empire! A condemnation of the global criminocratic conspiracy – my ongoing research…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/25/the-global-gang-running-the-world-and-ruining-our-lives/
My understanding of the world in which we live has undoubtedly increased greatly since I wrote the material which formed the first of a series of compilations, Fascism rebranded: exposing the Great Reset, a selection of essays from 2018 to 2021.
In four subsequent volumes – The Great Racket: the ongoing development of the criminal global system; Converging Against the Criminocrats: Essays and Talks for the New International Resistance; Our Quest for Freedom and Other Essays and then Against the Dark Enslaving Empire! A condemnation of the global criminocratic conspiracy – my ongoing research…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/25/the-global-gang-running-the-world-and-ruining-our-lives/
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The Deep State Revelations CERCLE
People like Dominic Cummings, chief advisor to former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have a habit of revealing things we’re not supposed to know about how government operates. They often expose the motives and acts of what many these days call the deep state.
One of the most reasonable definitions of the “deep state” was offered by US defence analyst-turned-writer Mike Lofgren in his 2014 essay “Anatomy of the Deep State“:
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/26/the-deep-state-revelations-cercle/
People like Dominic Cummings, chief advisor to former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have a habit of revealing things we’re not supposed to know about how government operates. They often expose the motives and acts of what many these days call the deep state.
One of the most reasonable definitions of the “deep state” was offered by US defence analyst-turned-writer Mike Lofgren in his 2014 essay “Anatomy of the Deep State“:
[T]here is another government concealed behind the one that is visible[.] [It is] a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/26/the-deep-state-revelations-cercle/
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Technocracy Ascending – Part 4: All the President’s Men
In Technocracy Ascending Part 3, the dots were connected linking together technocracy, UN Agenda 2030, and the environmental movement. This installment investigates how technocracy is encroaching upon American government under Donald Trump.
Before the formation of Howard Scott’s Technocracy Inc. in 1933, its precursor, the Technical Alliance, sought to document the wastefulness of the capitalist system through its Energy Survey of North America.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/27/technocracy-ascending-part-4-all-the-presidents-men/
In Technocracy Ascending Part 3, the dots were connected linking together technocracy, UN Agenda 2030, and the environmental movement. This installment investigates how technocracy is encroaching upon American government under Donald Trump.
“America has an ideology, superior to both communism and fascism; it is the militant ideology of a technological imperative —Technocracy.”
Howard Scott, Technocracy Inc., The Technocrat, June 1951
Before the formation of Howard Scott’s Technocracy Inc. in 1933, its precursor, the Technical Alliance, sought to document the wastefulness of the capitalist system through its Energy Survey of North America.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/27/technocracy-ascending-part-4-all-the-presidents-men/
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The War on Whatever
The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is.
Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empire against its own subjects, but not only to keep the structure of society intact, also, in our case, to transform society into a neo-totalitarian global-capitalist dystopia.
Are you not familiar with the War on Whatever?
Well, OK, you remember the War on Terror.
You remember when “freedom and democracy” were attacked by “the terrorists,” and we had no choice but to set aside our democratic…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/28/the-war-on-whatever/
The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is.
Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empire against its own subjects, but not only to keep the structure of society intact, also, in our case, to transform society into a neo-totalitarian global-capitalist dystopia.
Are you not familiar with the War on Whatever?
Well, OK, you remember the War on Terror.
You remember when “freedom and democracy” were attacked by “the terrorists,” and we had no choice but to set aside our democratic…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/28/the-war-on-whatever/
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Jesus’ Face on a Potato
You’ve all heard tales of the face of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the Pope, or maybe even Trump, showing up on the surface of a potato, on a burnt piece of toast, or even a kumquat or some other odd fruit, implying their likeness.
Then, when you actually see such a manifestation, you wonder how in the hell anyone could mistake some weird burn mark, growth malformity, or whatnot for the face of any human, let alone Jesus, Mary, or Trump.
But there ‘ya have it. People love to manufacture reality from non-reality. And they do this with little…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/29/jesus-face-on-a-potato/
You’ve all heard tales of the face of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the Pope, or maybe even Trump, showing up on the surface of a potato, on a burnt piece of toast, or even a kumquat or some other odd fruit, implying their likeness.
Then, when you actually see such a manifestation, you wonder how in the hell anyone could mistake some weird burn mark, growth malformity, or whatnot for the face of any human, let alone Jesus, Mary, or Trump.
But there ‘ya have it. People love to manufacture reality from non-reality. And they do this with little…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/29/jesus-face-on-a-potato/
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Algocracy: Government for the New World Order
Algocracy means “rule by algorithm,” and, as James details in this important episode of The Corbett Report podcast, it’s a word that we would do well to become acquainted with.
And, as you will discover in this presentation, algocracy is being seeded into the public consciousness right now by the very same Big Tech broligarchs who are now in a position to implement their plan for locking down society in an AI-run dystopian surveillance nightmare.
A fully sourced and linked transcript, downloadable and audio-only versions are available here....
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/29/algocracy-government-for-the-new-world-order/
Algocracy means “rule by algorithm,” and, as James details in this important episode of The Corbett Report podcast, it’s a word that we would do well to become acquainted with.
And, as you will discover in this presentation, algocracy is being seeded into the public consciousness right now by the very same Big Tech broligarchs who are now in a position to implement their plan for locking down society in an AI-run dystopian surveillance nightmare.
A fully sourced and linked transcript, downloadable and audio-only versions are available here....
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/29/algocracy-government-for-the-new-world-order/
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Elbow Markcaroney
What is it with these people charged with creating campaign slogans? They obviously reached the point of drunken desperation late into the wee hours to have come up with this latest one for Canada’s Mark Carney. I cringe to tell you but it is “Elbows up.”
They had to have been completely past the point of rational to think that people would catch on to sticking their elbows up in the air as some sort of rallying gesture. Good heavens! They look like deranged ducks in a tizzy.
As a Canadian I do feel like I have to apologize…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/30/elbow-markcaroney/
What is it with these people charged with creating campaign slogans? They obviously reached the point of drunken desperation late into the wee hours to have come up with this latest one for Canada’s Mark Carney. I cringe to tell you but it is “Elbows up.”
They had to have been completely past the point of rational to think that people would catch on to sticking their elbows up in the air as some sort of rallying gesture. Good heavens! They look like deranged ducks in a tizzy.
As a Canadian I do feel like I have to apologize…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/30/elbow-markcaroney/
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Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind to the Machine?
We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power.
This propaganda comes in two forms: covert and overt. The latter, and most effective form, comes with a large dose of truth offered rapid-fire by celebrated, authoritative voices via prominent media. The truth is sprinkled with subtle messages that render it sterile.
This has long been the case, but it is even more so in the age of images…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/30/do-you-think-youll-ever-know-now-that-you-have-handed-your-mind-to-the-machine/
We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power.
This propaganda comes in two forms: covert and overt. The latter, and most effective form, comes with a large dose of truth offered rapid-fire by celebrated, authoritative voices via prominent media. The truth is sprinkled with subtle messages that render it sterile.
This has long been the case, but it is even more so in the age of images…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/30/do-you-think-youll-ever-know-now-that-you-have-handed-your-mind-to-the-machine/
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