This YEAR in the New Normal – 2023 Edition
Our first This Week of 2022 was dedicated not to reviewing the past but considering the future, and this year will begin just the same.
What will the major narratives of 2023 be? What minor stories will be brought into the limelight while previously major plot lines are shunted backstage?
Much of 2022 was spent explaining heart attacks that hadn’t happened yet, as we guessed they would. But you didn’t need to be a pre-cog to see that coming.
Likewise, last year we predicted the massive increase in the discussion of central bank digital currencies…however we didn’t see the “war”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/01/this-year-in-the-new-normal-2023-edition/
Our first This Week of 2022 was dedicated not to reviewing the past but considering the future, and this year will begin just the same.
What will the major narratives of 2023 be? What minor stories will be brought into the limelight while previously major plot lines are shunted backstage?
Much of 2022 was spent explaining heart attacks that hadn’t happened yet, as we guessed they would. But you didn’t need to be a pre-cog to see that coming.
Likewise, last year we predicted the massive increase in the discussion of central bank digital currencies…however we didn’t see the “war”…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/01/this-year-in-the-new-normal-2023-edition/
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COVID-19: A Global Financial Operation
Michael Bryant
The COVID phenomenon cannot be understood without understanding the un-televised 2019-2020 unprecedented financial collapse threatening the entire global financial system.
The Covid-19 Pandemic story makes little sense when viewed through the lens of health, safety and science. Viewed through the lens of money, power, control, and wealth transfer, however, then all of it makes perfect sense.
The lockdowns, mandatory muzzles, anti-social distancing and the plethora of additional measures did nothing to protect or improve public health- they were never designed to do so.
The numerous mandates birthed by the onset of the Covid-19 scenario were all designed to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/02/covid-19-a-global-financial-operation/
Michael Bryant
The COVID phenomenon cannot be understood without understanding the un-televised 2019-2020 unprecedented financial collapse threatening the entire global financial system.
The Covid-19 Pandemic story makes little sense when viewed through the lens of health, safety and science. Viewed through the lens of money, power, control, and wealth transfer, however, then all of it makes perfect sense.
The lockdowns, mandatory muzzles, anti-social distancing and the plethora of additional measures did nothing to protect or improve public health- they were never designed to do so.
The numerous mandates birthed by the onset of the Covid-19 scenario were all designed to…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/02/covid-19-a-global-financial-operation/
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India’s GM Mustard: An Increasingly Bitter Taste
Colin Todhunter
In a fair world, Aruna Rodrigues would be heralded as an incredible individual for her ongoing struggle to protect the socio-economic and environmental integrity of India. So says respected environmentalist, author and campaigner Leo Saldanha.
He adds:
Since 2005, she has tirelessly pursued a public interest litigation before the Supreme Court of India, in which she has made a case why India should not yield to pressures from mega agri-transnational corporations and certain sections of the Indian agricultural sector who are keen on promoting genetically modified organisms in farming.”
India’s apex regulatory body, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/03/indias-gm-mustard-an-increasingly-bitter-taste/
Colin Todhunter
In a fair world, Aruna Rodrigues would be heralded as an incredible individual for her ongoing struggle to protect the socio-economic and environmental integrity of India. So says respected environmentalist, author and campaigner Leo Saldanha.
He adds:
Since 2005, she has tirelessly pursued a public interest litigation before the Supreme Court of India, in which she has made a case why India should not yield to pressures from mega agri-transnational corporations and certain sections of the Indian agricultural sector who are keen on promoting genetically modified organisms in farming.”
India’s apex regulatory body, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee,…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/03/indias-gm-mustard-an-increasingly-bitter-taste/
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Tolkien Anniversary: A Tribute to the Father of Fantasy
JR Leach
Today – 3rd of January 2023 – marks Professor JRR Tolkien’s one-hundred and thirty-first birthday.
This is strangely significant as ‘131’ is the same age that Bilbo Baggins was when he was gifted passage aboard one of the last ships to Valinor, when he, Frodo and Gandalf sailed west to the Undying Lands.
I wanted to celebrate the Professor’s birthday by sharing one of his very few interviews hosted by Denys Gueroult from 1964.
I adore listening to this conversation. To hear Tolkien himself talking so matter-of-factly about his languages and histories, describing his process of creating names…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/03/tolkien-anniversary-a-tribute-to-the-father-of-fantasy/
JR Leach
Today – 3rd of January 2023 – marks Professor JRR Tolkien’s one-hundred and thirty-first birthday.
This is strangely significant as ‘131’ is the same age that Bilbo Baggins was when he was gifted passage aboard one of the last ships to Valinor, when he, Frodo and Gandalf sailed west to the Undying Lands.
I wanted to celebrate the Professor’s birthday by sharing one of his very few interviews hosted by Denys Gueroult from 1964.
I adore listening to this conversation. To hear Tolkien himself talking so matter-of-factly about his languages and histories, describing his process of creating names…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/03/tolkien-anniversary-a-tribute-to-the-father-of-fantasy/
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Yet another Covid “variant”: Omicron XBB & the self-driving narrative
Kit Knightly
There’s yet another Covid variant in the headlines – it’s Omicron XBB 1.5 if you want to know. It honestly doesn’t really matter at this point – but it does provide an interesting lesson in the nature of propaganda narrative construction and how, past a certain point, they take on a life of their own.
These days, self-driving cars are in the news a lot. Give it a few years, and driving your own car will be seen as “selfish”, “dangerous” and “old-fashioned”.
But Covid has become a self-driving narrative.
It is a self-perpetuating machine, not out of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/04/yet-another-covid-variant-omicron-xbb-the-self-driving-narrative/
Kit Knightly
There’s yet another Covid variant in the headlines – it’s Omicron XBB 1.5 if you want to know. It honestly doesn’t really matter at this point – but it does provide an interesting lesson in the nature of propaganda narrative construction and how, past a certain point, they take on a life of their own.
These days, self-driving cars are in the news a lot. Give it a few years, and driving your own car will be seen as “selfish”, “dangerous” and “old-fashioned”.
But Covid has become a self-driving narrative.
It is a self-perpetuating machine, not out of…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/04/yet-another-covid-variant-omicron-xbb-the-self-driving-narrative/
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How Global Strikes Play Right into the Great Reset’s hands
Kit Knightly
For the past few months strikes have wrought havoc with the UK’s national infrastructure, and will likely continue to do so well into 2023.
The run-up to Christmas saw postal strikes for the UK’s Royal Mail service.
Throughout the second half of 2022, transport strikes were routine. There’s one happening today that has effectively shut down all train journeys.
There’s a possibility of a teachers’ strike later this month, that would see kids sent home from school. Nurses went on strike in December, and will likely do so again this month
It’s not just the UK either. Strikes…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/05/how-global-strikes-play-right-into-the-great-resets-hands/
Kit Knightly
For the past few months strikes have wrought havoc with the UK’s national infrastructure, and will likely continue to do so well into 2023.
The run-up to Christmas saw postal strikes for the UK’s Royal Mail service.
Throughout the second half of 2022, transport strikes were routine. There’s one happening today that has effectively shut down all train journeys.
There’s a possibility of a teachers’ strike later this month, that would see kids sent home from school. Nurses went on strike in December, and will likely do so again this month
It’s not just the UK either. Strikes…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/05/how-global-strikes-play-right-into-the-great-resets-hands/
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Forwarded from Jesse Zurawell
Teammates on the same globalist pitch.
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"I saw with my own eyes how Chinese-American agricultural cooperation benefited both countries and contributed to both the global food supply and the fight against climate change … I visited Chinese-owned factories in Ohio and California, as American workers explained that Chinese investments helped to put food on their tables. At the ports of Boston and Long Beach, I saw huge stacks of containers shipped from and to China, a testament to the high degree of economic interdependence between our two countries — and a reminder that decoupling serves no one’s interest."
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[ https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/202301/t20230105_11001104.html ]
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"I saw with my own eyes how Chinese-American agricultural cooperation benefited both countries and contributed to both the global food supply and the fight against climate change … I visited Chinese-owned factories in Ohio and California, as American workers explained that Chinese investments helped to put food on their tables. At the ports of Boston and Long Beach, I saw huge stacks of containers shipped from and to China, a testament to the high degree of economic interdependence between our two countries — and a reminder that decoupling serves no one’s interest."
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[ https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/202301/t20230105_11001104.html ]
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Where Have the Voices for Liberty Gone?
Michael Lesher
In early 2020, when American liberals wailed in unison that the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right of free assembly was a prescription for national suicide – and not one significant American civil rights organization protested – I should have known where we were headed.
Still, almost three years later, I am dumbfounded by how rapidly a nation that once boasted of its attachment to “liberty” has succumbed to the priorities of totalitarianism. Thought policing on social media, once a dystopian fantasy, is now taken for granted.
So is the massive electronic surveillance system that was hawked to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/06/where-have-the-voices-for-liberty-gone/
Michael Lesher
In early 2020, when American liberals wailed in unison that the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right of free assembly was a prescription for national suicide – and not one significant American civil rights organization protested – I should have known where we were headed.
Still, almost three years later, I am dumbfounded by how rapidly a nation that once boasted of its attachment to “liberty” has succumbed to the priorities of totalitarianism. Thought policing on social media, once a dystopian fantasy, is now taken for granted.
So is the massive electronic surveillance system that was hawked to…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/06/where-have-the-voices-for-liberty-gone/
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Gullible Again
Sylvia Shawcross
Photo by Yuzki Wang on Unsplash
Sometimes when it is grey and damp and the air is heavy with the taste of a dreary day you can go down to the other side of town where buildings are small and old and cluttered and the cement seems to meld into the houses that crouch along the sidewalks. And there, sandwiched between the dank hotel now closed and the desolate pub loud with the raucous cry of humans is a wide stretch of empty pavement.
It is not something really to go to see but sometimes I just go…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/06/gullible-again/
Sylvia Shawcross
Photo by Yuzki Wang on Unsplash
Sometimes when it is grey and damp and the air is heavy with the taste of a dreary day you can go down to the other side of town where buildings are small and old and cluttered and the cement seems to meld into the houses that crouch along the sidewalks. And there, sandwiched between the dank hotel now closed and the desolate pub loud with the raucous cry of humans is a wide stretch of empty pavement.
It is not something really to go to see but sometimes I just go…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/06/gullible-again/
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A Meaningless Life
Todd Hayen
In Dr. Mattias Desmet’s insightful book The Psychology of Totalitarianism he posits that one of the primary problems of today’s culture is that many people believe they are living meaningless lives. He also cites rampant materialism as the reason. A quote from his book:
Man may not realize it, but his humanity does not really matter, it is nothing essential. His whole existence, his longing and his lust, his romantic lamentations and his most superficial needs, his joy and his sorrow, his doubt and his choices, his anger and unreasonableness, his pleasure and his suffering, his deepest aversion…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/07/a-meaningless-life/
Todd Hayen
In Dr. Mattias Desmet’s insightful book The Psychology of Totalitarianism he posits that one of the primary problems of today’s culture is that many people believe they are living meaningless lives. He also cites rampant materialism as the reason. A quote from his book:
Man may not realize it, but his humanity does not really matter, it is nothing essential. His whole existence, his longing and his lust, his romantic lamentations and his most superficial needs, his joy and his sorrow, his doubt and his choices, his anger and unreasonableness, his pleasure and his suffering, his deepest aversion…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/07/a-meaningless-life/
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What to Expect from the Government in 2023? More of the Same
John Whitehead
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”
Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher
For those wondering what to expect from the government in 2023, it looks like we’re going to be in for more of the same in terms of the government’s brand of madness, mayhem, corruption and brutality.
Digital prisons. Unceasingly, the government and its corporate partners are pushing for a national digital ID system. Local police agencies have already been given access to facial recognition software and databases containing 20 billion images, the precursor…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/07/what-to-expect-from-the-government-in-2023-more-of-the-same/
John Whitehead
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”
Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher
For those wondering what to expect from the government in 2023, it looks like we’re going to be in for more of the same in terms of the government’s brand of madness, mayhem, corruption and brutality.
Digital prisons. Unceasingly, the government and its corporate partners are pushing for a national digital ID system. Local police agencies have already been given access to facial recognition software and databases containing 20 billion images, the precursor…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/07/what-to-expect-from-the-government-in-2023-more-of-the-same/
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Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice
Margaret Anna Alice
The following poem was inspired by a conversation with Mike Yeadon. We have both independently noticed the increasing use of terms like “bungled” and “blunder” to describe the crimes against humanity perpetrated under the cloak of COVID.
Even well-meaning people who share similar values and goals sometimes fall into this trap being set by those preparing their parachute jump from culpability.
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The Armenian Genocide was not a mistake.
Holodomor was not a mistake.
The Final Solution was not a mistake.
The Great Leap Forward was not a mistake.
The Killing Fields were not a mistake.
Name…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/08/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem-for-justice/
Margaret Anna Alice
The following poem was inspired by a conversation with Mike Yeadon. We have both independently noticed the increasing use of terms like “bungled” and “blunder” to describe the crimes against humanity perpetrated under the cloak of COVID.
Even well-meaning people who share similar values and goals sometimes fall into this trap being set by those preparing their parachute jump from culpability.
*
The Armenian Genocide was not a mistake.
Holodomor was not a mistake.
The Final Solution was not a mistake.
The Great Leap Forward was not a mistake.
The Killing Fields were not a mistake.
Name…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/08/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem-for-justice/
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The glorious counter-revolution: how the British beat back the New Normal
KB Goldtooth
Entering winter 2021, the New Normal had been on a near two-year unbeaten hot streak. By January, however, things appeared to be changing. Omicron, initially announced with grim relish as a kind of biosecurity check mate, had unveiled itself as improbable liberator.
In the UK, the new strain was already ripping benignly through the population, travestying the notion the vaccines could thwart transmissibility, and with it that fear of COVID which for almost two years had largely made willing captives, if not outright self-imprisoners, of entire populations.
There was an absence of celebration among the regimes themselves of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/08/the-glorious-counter-revolution-how-the-british-beat-back-the-new-normal/
KB Goldtooth
Entering winter 2021, the New Normal had been on a near two-year unbeaten hot streak. By January, however, things appeared to be changing. Omicron, initially announced with grim relish as a kind of biosecurity check mate, had unveiled itself as improbable liberator.
In the UK, the new strain was already ripping benignly through the population, travestying the notion the vaccines could thwart transmissibility, and with it that fear of COVID which for almost two years had largely made willing captives, if not outright self-imprisoners, of entire populations.
There was an absence of celebration among the regimes themselves of…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/08/the-glorious-counter-revolution-how-the-british-beat-back-the-new-normal/
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Is a Happy New Year Possible?
Edward Curtin
Albert Camus (L) and Edward Curtin Sr (R)
“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
Really? Or was he joking?
Whenever January rolls around and a new year begins with its implied ending, I think of my father and Albert Camus, both born in 1913. Camus died on January 4, 1960 in a strange car crash, which might have been an assassination according to Italian author Giovanni Catelli, while my father, who almost died in a car crash, was born on…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/09/is-a-happy-new-year-possible/
Edward Curtin
Albert Camus (L) and Edward Curtin Sr (R)
“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
Really? Or was he joking?
Whenever January rolls around and a new year begins with its implied ending, I think of my father and Albert Camus, both born in 1913. Camus died on January 4, 1960 in a strange car crash, which might have been an assassination according to Italian author Giovanni Catelli, while my father, who almost died in a car crash, was born on…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/09/is-a-happy-new-year-possible/
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AUDIO: Behind the Twitter Files Hype
https://off-guardian.org/wp-content/medialibrary/2022-12-21_Unlimited_Hangout.mp3
In this episode, James Corbett joins Whitney Webb of Unlimited Hangout to discuss the Twitter Files phenomenon and how the hype around it is being utilized for more than meets the eye.
This podcast was recorded on December 15th 2022. For detailed shownotes and sources you can visit CorbettRerport.com or UnlimitedHangout.com...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/10/audio-behind-the-twitter-files-hype/
https://off-guardian.org/wp-content/medialibrary/2022-12-21_Unlimited_Hangout.mp3
In this episode, James Corbett joins Whitney Webb of Unlimited Hangout to discuss the Twitter Files phenomenon and how the hype around it is being utilized for more than meets the eye.
This podcast was recorded on December 15th 2022. For detailed shownotes and sources you can visit CorbettRerport.com or UnlimitedHangout.com...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/10/audio-behind-the-twitter-files-hype/
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Russia’s Biometric Nightmare
Riley Waggaman
On Wednesday, December 21st, the Russian State Duma adopted a bill that regulates the collection and storage of biometric data in Russia.
To prevent the misuse or mishandling of biometric data by private enterprises, the legislation requires all face scans and voice samples to be stored in a centralized Unified Biometric System (UBS).
A press release published by the State Duma claims the bill “protects” the biometric data of Russians and guarantees that the collection of such data is completely voluntary.
Sounds pretty good. What’s not to like? Well, for starters…
1. Russia’s Unified Biometric System will be…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/11/russias-biometric-nightmare/
Riley Waggaman
On Wednesday, December 21st, the Russian State Duma adopted a bill that regulates the collection and storage of biometric data in Russia.
To prevent the misuse or mishandling of biometric data by private enterprises, the legislation requires all face scans and voice samples to be stored in a centralized Unified Biometric System (UBS).
A press release published by the State Duma claims the bill “protects” the biometric data of Russians and guarantees that the collection of such data is completely voluntary.
Sounds pretty good. What’s not to like? Well, for starters…
1. Russia’s Unified Biometric System will be…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/11/russias-biometric-nightmare/
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The Mother of All Limited Hangouts
CJ Hopkins
The Mother of All Limited Hangouts has begun. Yes, I’m talking about the “Covid Twitter Files,” which are finally being released to the public, in almost textbook limited-hangout fashion.
I’ll get into that in just a minute, but first, let’s review what a “limited hangout” is, for those who are not familiar with the term.
The way a limited hangout works is, if you’re an intelligence agency, or a global corporation, or a government, or a non-governmental organization, and you have been doing things you need to hide from the public, and those things are starting to come…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/12/the-mother-of-all-limited-hangouts/
CJ Hopkins
The Mother of All Limited Hangouts has begun. Yes, I’m talking about the “Covid Twitter Files,” which are finally being released to the public, in almost textbook limited-hangout fashion.
I’ll get into that in just a minute, but first, let’s review what a “limited hangout” is, for those who are not familiar with the term.
The way a limited hangout works is, if you’re an intelligence agency, or a global corporation, or a government, or a non-governmental organization, and you have been doing things you need to hide from the public, and those things are starting to come…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/12/the-mother-of-all-limited-hangouts/
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Forwarded from Edward Slavsquat
WELCOME TO RUSSIA, "KRAKEN STRAIN" (THE SCAM IS GLOBAL AND WILL NEVER END 🫠) [source: Rospotrebnadzor]
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What is the US “Gas Stove Ban” REALLY about?
Kit Knightly
The Biden administration is apparently looking to ban gas stoves, calling them a “hidden danger”. But while that sounds bad enough, a deeper dive shows – as usual – it’s not really about what they say it’s about.
Talk of banning gas stoves and “unregulated indoor air quality” could be a Trojan horse designed to get even more “smart” monitoring technology into your home.
Let’s jump in.
Are gas stoves dangerous?
Well, according to Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the New Scientist and million other outlets and pundits who started talking about it in the last two days, yes.
Earlier…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/12/what-is-the-us-gas-stove-ban-really-about/
Kit Knightly
The Biden administration is apparently looking to ban gas stoves, calling them a “hidden danger”. But while that sounds bad enough, a deeper dive shows – as usual – it’s not really about what they say it’s about.
Talk of banning gas stoves and “unregulated indoor air quality” could be a Trojan horse designed to get even more “smart” monitoring technology into your home.
Let’s jump in.
Are gas stoves dangerous?
Well, according to Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the New Scientist and million other outlets and pundits who started talking about it in the last two days, yes.
Earlier…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/12/what-is-the-us-gas-stove-ban-really-about/
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Tangled webs and minions
Sylvia Shawcross
Um…Is anybody else out there starting to feel sorry for the globalists?
Even though perhaps I’m being overly optimistic in thinking the globalists are losing the battle for absolute control and there might be a future we can live with?
I’m just starting to feel very sad for these poor bastard globalists. It’s almost as if We the People must gently take them by the hands and sit them down and explain that we understand they thought they were doing the best thing for us all but that they’re coming across as warmongers, divisive hypocrites, patriarchal dictators, confused…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/13/tangled-webs-and-minions/
Sylvia Shawcross
Um…Is anybody else out there starting to feel sorry for the globalists?
Even though perhaps I’m being overly optimistic in thinking the globalists are losing the battle for absolute control and there might be a future we can live with?
I’m just starting to feel very sad for these poor bastard globalists. It’s almost as if We the People must gently take them by the hands and sit them down and explain that we understand they thought they were doing the best thing for us all but that they’re coming across as warmongers, divisive hypocrites, patriarchal dictators, confused…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/13/tangled-webs-and-minions/
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