The Surveillance State Is Making a Naughty List—and You’re 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/

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/

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/

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/

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!

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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:

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https://off-guardian.org/2026/01/01/non-existent-super-flu-hits-the-us/

WATCH: 2025 Year in Review – #SolutionsWatch

Christmas presents wrapped with care? Check. Steaming cup of hot chocolate? Check. Relaxing Christmas background music? Check. Now, what am I forgetting. Oh, that’s right: the Solutions Watch end-of-year update! Well, here it is, and right on time. Kick back and enjoy this tour through another year of solutions, creativity and activism.

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/2026/01/02/watch-2025-year-in-review-solutionswatch/

Let’s talk about…US invasion of Venezuela and “capture” of Maduro

Okay, who had “the US invades Venezuela and kidnaps the President” down as the first big story of 2026?

Well done if you did, you probably got good odds.

That’s the “breaking news” as of about two hours ago:

Venezuela President Maduro captured after US strike and will face drugs and weapons charges
CNN

The story is that a meticulously planned special forces raid resulted in Nicolas Maduro and his wife being dragged from their bedroom and whisked out of the country. They are reportedly en route to New York on a US naval ship.

This was…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2026/01/03/lets-talk-about-us-invasion-of-venezuela-and-capture-of-maduro/

2025: The Year the Government Stopped Pretending It Cared About Freedom

Some years chip away at freedom. Others tear the mask off. 2025 was the year the government stopped pretending it was constrained by the Constitution—when executive power expanded openly and unapologetically, surveillance became ambient, dissent became dangerous, and the machinery of militarized government embedded itself into daily life.

Under Trump 2.0, the erosion of civil liberties gave way to something more brazen: the dismantling of constitutional government itself.

What made 2025 different was not any single abuse of power, but the relentless accumulation of them. The losses mounted week by week, crisis by crisis, executive order by executive order,…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2026/01/05/2025-the-year-the-government-stopped-pretending-it-cared-about-freedom/

Stolen Soil and Corporate Welfare: The Global Scam of ‘Feeding the World’

Supermarket shelves have never been fuller, yet diets have become poorer. Across the world, food systems praised for their productivity now deliver an abundance of calories alongside widespread micronutrient deficiency, ecological collapse and rural precarity.

This is the outcome of an agricultural model that equates food security with yield and mass production with nourishment. Sustained by billions in subsidies, industrial agriculture increasingly resembles a welfare state for agribusiness and retail giants whose profits depend on public money.

Nutritional decline

Corporate-driven industrial agriculture claims to feed the world but too often delivers empty calories while starving populations of nutrients. Consider…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2026/01/06/stolen-soil-and-corporate-welfare-the-global-scam-of-feeding-the-world/

How We Can Resist The UK Dictatorship – Part 2

In Part 1, responding to David Lammy’s attempt to deny our constitutional right to trial by jury, we discussed the fact that the UK government is a franchise of the global public-private partnership (G3P).

The UK G3P-state—represented by the executive branch of government, the legislative branch, and the bulk of the judiciary—is one among many functional oligarchies.

We outlined how “representative democracy” (RD) is not democracy. Democracy is a system of governance of the people, by the people, and for the people administered through jury-led trials where the jury’s objective is…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2026/01/07/how-we-can-resist-the-uk-dictatorship-part-2/

More fool you: 10 modus operandi of the mass manipulators

We are immersed in a behavioural psychology programme. The global elite is manipulating everything from incidents to information, in the process of building an authoritarian technocracy.

The powerful do not wait for events such as a pandemic to happen and then exploit; instead, they create the events, which are scripted for a predetermined outcome. But the masses must be kept in the dark about the real motives, while being steered into supporting policies that are against their interests. The modus operandi features the following means of deception.

1. Dual messaging

There are two audiences for public announcements…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2026/01/08/more-fool-you-10-modus-operandi-of-the-mass-manipulators/

Quick Take – The world is burning…but are the flames real?

I’ve had a cold, and as a cold Traditionalist, that means I’ve been sitting on the couch in my dressing gown, sipping herbal tea with honey in it. (The Zealots from The Church of New Colds would have me masking up and gaffer taping plastic sheets over my doors and windows, but they are odd people).

Naturally, it stands to reason that the first time I’ve been ill in years happens to be the same week the world decides to set itself on fire.

Or at least pretend to, but we’ll get to that.

Maduro has been kidnapped. Iran…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2026/01/09/quick-take-the-world-is-burning-but-are-the-flames-real/

No, Keir Starmer isn’t going to “ban twitter”.

We’re only ten days into 2026, and we’ve already got a war, a revolution and now an incipient social media ban. Allegedly.

Apparently, X’s GrokAI is editing photos to put people in bikinis on request, and this is terrible. Something must be done.

I’m not going to get into the details, or bother quibbling over what is (or is not) pornographic material or sexual assault, whether bikinis are inherently sexual or whether AI generated fake images really count as “undressing”…because none of that is really the issue.

For our purposes, this is just [Issue X].

[Issue X] could…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2026/01/10/no-keir-starmer-isnt-going-to-ban-twitter/