Let’s talk about…the Bondi Beach attack
Earlier today, two gunmen allegedly opened fire on attendees of a Chanukah by the Sea event on Bondi Beach in Sydney.
So far, authorities have claimed 12 people are dead, eleven civilians and one gunman, with a further twenty nine in hospital, includ8ng the second alleged gunman.
One suspect has been named as Naveed Akram, a 24 year old living in Sydney. Authorities also claim to have discovered an “explosive device” in a car “linked to” the attacker.
It’s only been a few hours, but the Independent has a personal opinion piece headlined:
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/14/lets-talk-aboutthe-bondi-beach-attack/
Earlier today, two gunmen allegedly opened fire on attendees of a Chanukah by the Sea event on Bondi Beach in Sydney.
So far, authorities have claimed 12 people are dead, eleven civilians and one gunman, with a further twenty nine in hospital, includ8ng the second alleged gunman.
One suspect has been named as Naveed Akram, a 24 year old living in Sydney. Authorities also claim to have discovered an “explosive device” in a car “linked to” the attacker.
It’s only been a few hours, but the Independent has a personal opinion piece headlined:
Bondi…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/14/lets-talk-aboutthe-bondi-beach-attack/
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Government Unchained: The Year the Constitution Lost Its Guardrails
We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice.
Yet what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is allowed to ignore, circumvent, chip away at or hollow them out in practice?
Two hundred and thirty-four years after the ratification of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791, the safeguards meant to shield “We the people” from government abuse…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/15/government-unchained-the-year-the-constitution-lost-its-guardrails/
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
Abraham Lincoln
We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice.
Yet what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is allowed to ignore, circumvent, chip away at or hollow them out in practice?
Two hundred and thirty-four years after the ratification of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791, the safeguards meant to shield “We the people” from government abuse…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/15/government-unchained-the-year-the-constitution-lost-its-guardrails/
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This Week in the New Normal #111
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. Anti-radicalisation classes for young boys?
The British government is going to start special “anti-misogyny” classes in schools, as part of their ongoing war against “violence against women and girls”.
It’s unclear if these classes will be showing Adolescence, but only a fool would bet against it.
The Times reports [emphasis added]:
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/15/this-week-in-the-new-normal-111/
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. Anti-radicalisation classes for young boys?
The British government is going to start special “anti-misogyny” classes in schools, as part of their ongoing war against “violence against women and girls”.
It’s unclear if these classes will be showing Adolescence, but only a fool would bet against it.
The Times reports [emphasis added]:
All boys will be taught how to respect women and…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/15/this-week-in-the-new-normal-111/
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Experts agree: There is no such thing as “Super Flu”.
Currently, the headlines all across the United Kingdom, and a handful of other nations, are full of references to “Super Flu”.
There is no such thing as “Super Flu”.
It is a term with no scientific meaning or even a solid definition. To confirm this we need look no further than this report from Channel 4 News:
Or, even more tellingly, there is Devi Shridhar — the High Priestess of Covid hysteria herself — whose Guardian column is headlined…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/16/experts-agree-there-is-no-such-thing-as-super-flu/
Currently, the headlines all across the United Kingdom, and a handful of other nations, are full of references to “Super Flu”.
There is no such thing as “Super Flu”.
It is a term with no scientific meaning or even a solid definition. To confirm this we need look no further than this report from Channel 4 News:
NHS England is calling it a ‘super flu’, which is in fact its own phrase rather than anything scientific.
Or, even more tellingly, there is Devi Shridhar — the High Priestess of Covid hysteria herself — whose Guardian column is headlined…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/16/experts-agree-there-is-no-such-thing-as-super-flu/
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Imagine All the People: Food, Freedom and What It Means to Be Human
Fifty-four years ago, John Lennon asked us to imagine a world with no borders. But he did not foresee a world where the only thing left to colonise would be our own humanity.
Today, the ‘dream’ has become a civilisation crisis, a cage of standardisation, designed to strip us of our culture and our biological autonomy (the corporate and geopolitical forces behind this are set out in Corporate Power, Imperial Capitalism and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty).
Most critiques of the global agrifood system, even those that describe themselves as radical, remain confined within the system’s own…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/17/imagine-all-the-people-food-freedom-and-what-it-means-to-be-human/
Fifty-four years ago, John Lennon asked us to imagine a world with no borders. But he did not foresee a world where the only thing left to colonise would be our own humanity.
Today, the ‘dream’ has become a civilisation crisis, a cage of standardisation, designed to strip us of our culture and our biological autonomy (the corporate and geopolitical forces behind this are set out in Corporate Power, Imperial Capitalism and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty).
Most critiques of the global agrifood system, even those that describe themselves as radical, remain confined within the system’s own…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/17/imagine-all-the-people-food-freedom-and-what-it-means-to-be-human/
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WATCH: The Secret of the Doomsday Seed Vault
What on earth are the eugenicists preparing for with the doomsday seed vault? Why does humanity need a backup of millions of seed varieties that have presumably been around (for the most part) throughout human history?
What kind of environmental catastrophe could possibly contaminate the gene pool to the point where we would need to repopulate the earth with heirloom, non-GMO seeds?
Sources, show notes and a full transcript are available here. James Corbett’s new book Reportage can be purchased in paperback, hardback or as an audio book here....
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/18/watch-the-secret-of-the-doomsday-seed-vault/
What on earth are the eugenicists preparing for with the doomsday seed vault? Why does humanity need a backup of millions of seed varieties that have presumably been around (for the most part) throughout human history?
What kind of environmental catastrophe could possibly contaminate the gene pool to the point where we would need to repopulate the earth with heirloom, non-GMO seeds?
Sources, show notes and a full transcript are available here. James Corbett’s new book Reportage can be purchased in paperback, hardback or as an audio book here....
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/18/watch-the-secret-of-the-doomsday-seed-vault/
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The electronic cottage: how technology causes family breakdown
Alvin Toffler, whose prophetic book Future Shock (1970) primed sociologists and politicians for radical change to society as a result of technological advances, was in a position ten years later to show how much of his vision was being realised.
In The Third Wave: the Revolution that will Change Our Lives (1980) he described how the industrial economy was sinking and taking the family structure down with it.
In the First Wave of human organisation (the agricultural revolution) three or more generations lived together as a family unit. The Second Wave (the industrial revolution) created the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/19/the-electronic-cottage-how-technology-causes-family-breakdown/
Alvin Toffler, whose prophetic book Future Shock (1970) primed sociologists and politicians for radical change to society as a result of technological advances, was in a position ten years later to show how much of his vision was being realised.
In The Third Wave: the Revolution that will Change Our Lives (1980) he described how the industrial economy was sinking and taking the family structure down with it.
In the First Wave of human organisation (the agricultural revolution) three or more generations lived together as a family unit. The Second Wave (the industrial revolution) created the…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/19/the-electronic-cottage-how-technology-causes-family-breakdown/
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Do only the stones remember?
We would not make good communists. We of the democratic nations.
Not the proper kind.
Not the disciplined, purified kind.
We would try — briefly — with the awkward sincerity of people wearing borrowed clothes. We would recite the words, mispronounce the vows, trip over the rules. Even if we meant well, we would break it. We always do. We know this about ourselves. Somehow, they do not.
They would attempt the reshaping.
They would ration hunger into virtue, align our homes like teeth in a jaw, file down difference until it passed inspection. They would tax us into…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/20/do-only-the-stones-remember/
We would not make good communists. We of the democratic nations.
Not the proper kind.
Not the disciplined, purified kind.
We would try — briefly — with the awkward sincerity of people wearing borrowed clothes. We would recite the words, mispronounce the vows, trip over the rules. Even if we meant well, we would break it. We always do. We know this about ourselves. Somehow, they do not.
They would attempt the reshaping.
They would ration hunger into virtue, align our homes like teeth in a jaw, file down difference until it passed inspection. They would tax us into…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/20/do-only-the-stones-remember/
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Friedrich Nietzsche Asks George Clooney, “Jay Kelly,” and Us: What is an Actor?
Why is understanding the answer to this question so important, and why is it so hard for people to understand it?
After all, Jay Kelly is only a new film starring George Clooney, a famous Hollywood leading man and women’s heartthrob.
On the other hand, Nietzsche, a German philosopher (1844-1900) whose name and works were barely known during his lifetime,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/21/friedrich-nietzsche-asks-george-clooney-jay-kelly-and-us-what-is-an-actor/
“Are you genuine? Or merely an actor? A representative? Or that which is represented? In the end, perhaps you are merely a copy of an actor. Second question of conscience.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Why is understanding the answer to this question so important, and why is it so hard for people to understand it?
After all, Jay Kelly is only a new film starring George Clooney, a famous Hollywood leading man and women’s heartthrob.
On the other hand, Nietzsche, a German philosopher (1844-1900) whose name and works were barely known during his lifetime,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/21/friedrich-nietzsche-asks-george-clooney-jay-kelly-and-us-what-is-an-actor/
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The Surveillance State Is Making a Naughty List—and You’re On It
For generations, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” has been treated as a playful reminder to children to be good because someone, somewhere, is watching.
Today, it reads less like a joke and more like a warning.
The Surveillance State is making a naughty list, and we’re all on it.
Long before Santa’s elves start loading his sleigh with toys for good…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/22/the-surveillance-state-is-making-a-naughty-list-and-youre-on-it/
“He sees you when you’re sleeping.
He knows when you’re awake.
He knows if you’ve been bad or good,
So be good for goodness’ sake.”
“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
For generations, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” has been treated as a playful reminder to children to be good because someone, somewhere, is watching.
Today, it reads less like a joke and more like a warning.
The Surveillance State is making a naughty list, and we’re all on it.
Long before Santa’s elves start loading his sleigh with toys for good…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/22/the-surveillance-state-is-making-a-naughty-list-and-youre-on-it/
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Land of Confusion: The Great Reset in Motion
The global disruptions we have seen in recent years are frequently presented as a chaotic sequence of events: a ‘pandemic’, inflation, energy shortages and war. Little wonder that most people are confused. However, a structural analysis reveals a more deliberate controlled demolition of the 20th-century social contract.
We are witnessing a transition from a productive capitalist model, which required a healthy mass labour force, to what Yanis Varoufakis calls a techno-feudalist order.
The engine of this transition was a desperate financial stabilisation strategy carried out by means of a public health event. As identified by Professor Fabio Vighi, the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/23/land-of-confusion-the-great-reset-in-motion/
The global disruptions we have seen in recent years are frequently presented as a chaotic sequence of events: a ‘pandemic’, inflation, energy shortages and war. Little wonder that most people are confused. However, a structural analysis reveals a more deliberate controlled demolition of the 20th-century social contract.
We are witnessing a transition from a productive capitalist model, which required a healthy mass labour force, to what Yanis Varoufakis calls a techno-feudalist order.
The engine of this transition was a desperate financial stabilisation strategy carried out by means of a public health event. As identified by Professor Fabio Vighi, the…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/23/land-of-confusion-the-great-reset-in-motion/
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Christmas Fundraiser – Help keep us going in the new year!
Hey all, and happy holiday season. Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, and even if you celebrate nothing, we hope you will have times of joy and plenty with loved ones, or at least some decent food and warmth and safety from harm.
Without Patreon or any other source of revenue (since we refuse all ads), it would be a meagre Bob Cratchet Christmas for us without your support. And we take this opportunity to thank you for that from the bottom of our hearts
And if you think OffG might deserve a Christmas coin or two…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/23/christmas-fundraiser-help-keep-us-going-in-the-new-year/
Hey all, and happy holiday season. Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, and even if you celebrate nothing, we hope you will have times of joy and plenty with loved ones, or at least some decent food and warmth and safety from harm.
Without Patreon or any other source of revenue (since we refuse all ads), it would be a meagre Bob Cratchet Christmas for us without your support. And we take this opportunity to thank you for that from the bottom of our hearts
And if you think OffG might deserve a Christmas coin or two…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/23/christmas-fundraiser-help-keep-us-going-in-the-new-year/
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WATCH: The Doll’s Ghost
In great British tradition of ghost stories at Christmas, we want to share this video on Christmas Eve.
“The Doll’s Ghost” by American author F. Marion Crawford was first published in 1897. It is read by Tony Walker of the Classic Ghost Stories podcast, who is a brilliant reader with a great voice.
In their ongoing bid to drive all creativity, originality, individuality and humanity from their platform, YouTube recently demonetized his channel. So we’re promoting him as a show of moral support....
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/24/watch-the-dolls-ghost/
In great British tradition of ghost stories at Christmas, we want to share this video on Christmas Eve.
“The Doll’s Ghost” by American author F. Marion Crawford was first published in 1897. It is read by Tony Walker of the Classic Ghost Stories podcast, who is a brilliant reader with a great voice.
In their ongoing bid to drive all creativity, originality, individuality and humanity from their platform, YouTube recently demonetized his channel. So we’re promoting him as a show of moral support....
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/24/watch-the-dolls-ghost/
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This Christmas 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. How the EU saved Christmas
It’s as predictable and as it is dull, but “bird flu” is here to increase the cost of poultry this holiday season, create shortages and yada yada yada.
We all knew this would happen, but we have a new little wrinkle – The EU is here to save the day!
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/25/this-christmas-in-the-new-normal-4/
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. How the EU saved Christmas
It’s as predictable and as it is dull, but “bird flu” is here to increase the cost of poultry this holiday season, create shortages and yada yada yada.
We all knew this would happen, but we have a new little wrinkle – The EU is here to save the day!
Several of the UK’s big supermarkets have been…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/25/this-christmas-in-the-new-normal-4/
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WATCH: The Music Industry’s Darkest Secret
The latest in our “hey, that’s kinda interesting…” season for the Christmas week is this fascinating documentary on the music industry from youtuber Barely Sociable.
There’s a lot of fascinating talking points covered, but to me by far the most interesting was the notion that the charts are rigged, and the industry can create “number 1 hits” through various corrupt practices.
We know this goes on to this day, with companies buying bot-views for their rising stars on youtube music and spotify, and it should make us wonder just how big stars get to be big stars,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/26/watch-the-music-industrys-darkest-secret/
The latest in our “hey, that’s kinda interesting…” season for the Christmas week is this fascinating documentary on the music industry from youtuber Barely Sociable.
There’s a lot of fascinating talking points covered, but to me by far the most interesting was the notion that the charts are rigged, and the industry can create “number 1 hits” through various corrupt practices.
We know this goes on to this day, with companies buying bot-views for their rising stars on youtube music and spotify, and it should make us wonder just how big stars get to be big stars,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/26/watch-the-music-industrys-darkest-secret/
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WATCH: Iain Davis Exposes the Technocratic Dark State
From the neoreactionary accelerationists of the Dark Enightenment to the AI-spun social credit web of the NEONERDS, today author and researcher Iain Davis takes us on a whirlwind tour of his new book, The Technocratic Dark State.
Show notes and sources are available HERE....
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/27/watch-iain-davis-exposes-the-technocratic-dark-state/
From the neoreactionary accelerationists of the Dark Enightenment to the AI-spun social credit web of the NEONERDS, today author and researcher Iain Davis takes us on a whirlwind tour of his new book, The Technocratic Dark State.
Show notes and sources are available HERE....
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/27/watch-iain-davis-exposes-the-technocratic-dark-state/
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WATCH: Don’t Pay This AI Family To Write You a Song
I wanted to share this amusing but cautionary video this Sunday night. Without giving too much away, this video explores something we have discussed before – the danger AI poses, not to jobs or humanity – but to our perception of reality.
And, yes, this is the kind of thing that would usually go in This Week, but we did This Christmas before I found it, and it’s from August anyway, so…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/28/watch-dont-pay-this-ai-family-to-write-you-a-song/
I wanted to share this amusing but cautionary video this Sunday night. Without giving too much away, this video explores something we have discussed before – the danger AI poses, not to jobs or humanity – but to our perception of reality.
And, yes, this is the kind of thing that would usually go in This Week, but we did This Christmas before I found it, and it’s from August anyway, so…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/28/watch-dont-pay-this-ai-family-to-write-you-a-song/
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Russia expands biometric ID system (again)
The commercial enterprise that controls Russians’ biometric data has introduced new ways to use your face as a form of ID, resulting in unprecedented levels of safety and convenience in the Russian Federation.
Russians young and old are already reaping the benefits of their country’s “digital transformation”—including very, very young Russians.
The Russian government is working on amending federal legislation to allow schools across the country to monitor and identify students using biometrics, Kommersant reported on December 3. Plans for a standardized “biometric turnstile system” for Russian schools are already being tested in Tatarstan.
source:…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/29/russia-expands-biometric-id-system-again/
The commercial enterprise that controls Russians’ biometric data has introduced new ways to use your face as a form of ID, resulting in unprecedented levels of safety and convenience in the Russian Federation.
Russians young and old are already reaping the benefits of their country’s “digital transformation”—including very, very young Russians.
The Russian government is working on amending federal legislation to allow schools across the country to monitor and identify students using biometrics, Kommersant reported on December 3. Plans for a standardized “biometric turnstile system” for Russian schools are already being tested in Tatarstan.
source:…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/29/russia-expands-biometric-id-system-again/
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Tinker, tailor, publisher, spy: how Robert Maxwell created the academic peer review system
Publication of research results, theoretical propositions and scholarly essays is not a free-for-all. As shown by the dogmatism around climate change and Covid-19, sceptics struggle to get papers in print. The gate-keeper is the peer-review system, which people take for granted as a screening process to ensure rigour in scientific literature.
But it is not always been that way. Until at least the 1950s, the decision to publish was made by the editors of academic journals, who were typically eminent professors in their field.
Peer review, by contrast, entails the editor sending an anonymised manuscript to independent reviewers, and…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/30/tinker-tailor-publisher-spy-how-robert-maxwell-created-the-academic-peer-review-system/
Publication of research results, theoretical propositions and scholarly essays is not a free-for-all. As shown by the dogmatism around climate change and Covid-19, sceptics struggle to get papers in print. The gate-keeper is the peer-review system, which people take for granted as a screening process to ensure rigour in scientific literature.
But it is not always been that way. Until at least the 1950s, the decision to publish was made by the editors of academic journals, who were typically eminent professors in their field.
Peer review, by contrast, entails the editor sending an anonymised manuscript to independent reviewers, and…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/30/tinker-tailor-publisher-spy-how-robert-maxwell-created-the-academic-peer-review-system/
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If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State?
Every Christmas, Christians celebrate the birth of a child born into oppression—an occupied land, a climate of political fear, and a government quick to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/31/if-jesus-were-born-today-would-he-survive-the-american-police-state/
“When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the nations, to bring peace among the people, to make music in the heart.”
Howard Thurman, theologian and civil rights activist
Every Christmas, Christians celebrate the birth of a child born into oppression—an occupied land, a climate of political fear, and a government quick to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/31/if-jesus-were-born-today-would-he-survive-the-american-police-state/
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Non-existent “Super Flu” hits the US.
Just before Christmas, I wrote an article on the so-called “Super flu” that was breaking out across the UK, headlined simply:
Even the most cursory of actual reading of mainstream sources made it quite clear: there is no such thing as “super flu”.
The current flu season is no more severe, widespread or deadly than usual, and there was no reason to suppose the incipient flu season would be anything other than entirely normal.
An assertion supported by the latest NHS graph:
This…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/01/01/non-existent-super-flu-hits-the-us/
Just before Christmas, I wrote an article on the so-called “Super flu” that was breaking out across the UK, headlined simply:
Experts agree: There is no such thing as “Super Flu”
Even the most cursory of actual reading of mainstream sources made it quite clear: there is no such thing as “super flu”.
The current flu season is no more severe, widespread or deadly than usual, and there was no reason to suppose the incipient flu season would be anything other than entirely normal.
An assertion supported by the latest NHS graph:
This…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2026/01/01/non-existent-super-flu-hits-the-us/
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