This Week in the New Normal #89
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. “Biometric Payments Will Keep You Safe”
There’s a big push on the biometric payment issue at the moment, with numerous platforms and outlets talking them up as the next big thing.
This piece in TechRadar from April 29th is the best example, claiming that PayPal is “battling the beast” of online fraud, and that biometric payment systems using fingerprints and face scans will help keep us all safe from hucksters, charlatans and Nigerian Princes:
The biometric verification system not only enhances security but also makes it user friendly. The traditional approaches to authentication, with their repeated entering of passwords, attempts to remember some kind of passwords, or secret questions, are rather cumbersome and slow. Biometrics suggest a seamless alternative. A quick touch of a glance at a camera secures access to your account—this adds up to great convenience in login time with high efficiency customers prefer, without compromising security.
So, go ahead and let Google/PayPal/whoever scan your face and retinas and fingerprints and record your voice patterns.
After all, it’s not like there’s advanced AI technology out there that could use your face and voice scans to create fake videos of you.
2. De Santis’ Lab-Grown Meat Ban
Florida Governor Ron De Santis signed a ban on lab-grown meat in his state this week, claiming it will protect the beef industry.
The real reason is to steer the conversation. By associating reluctance to eat “cell cultivated meat” products with prominent right-wingers they turn it into a partisan issue.
This way they are encouraging the young liberal set to embrace the “food transition” as a way of “owning and trolling right-wing chuds”, while simultaneously making left-leaning types who are reticent to “eat ze bugs” afraid of speaking up for fear of being associated with MAGA hats.
(Just wait for the “I ate lab-grown meat and it was better than the real thing” reviews to appear in Vox or the HuffPo and the like.)
Then, sometime down the line, a prominent right-winger will claim “lab-grown meat causes AIDs” or something equally asinine, and totally discredit any-and-all resistance to the fake food revolution.
3. Gaza Protests and Celebrity Arrests
Student protests against the ongoing bombing of Gaza by the IDF have been raging across US college campuses for weeks now, with increasing ferocity. They have inevitably been accused of anti-Semitism.
At the same time, counter-protests from dude bro types made the news as well, this time for being potentially racist towards black people,
It’s all so wonderfully divisive. And has allowed the US Senate to further criminalize free speech by “expanding the definition of anti-Semitism”.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was arrested at one such protest, this was totally an organic thing that happened, and not even slightly a contrived event to increase her pro-peace bona fides before the election in November.
BONUS: Cringe of the week
Here is actor Mark Hamill chairing the White House press briefing on “Star Wars Day” (May 4th), during which he calls Biden “Joebi Won Kenobi”.
“Star Wars” legend Mark Hamill visited the White House in honor of May the 4th weekend and shares a hilarious conversation he had with President Joe Biden. pic.twitter.com/7rRLzWwXJ8
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) May 3, 2024
If this isn’t the lamest thing to happen this year come January 1st 2025, then somebody had a very bad summer.
RIP Bernard Hill 1944-2024
British actor Bernard Hill died yesterday, he was 79. A long and storied career on stage and screen, with highlights including Boys From the Black Stuff and I, Claudius, he will forever be remembered for his performance as King Theoden in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
A personal favourite, he will be missed.
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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention Canada trying to have their cake and eat it by claiming “foreign interference impacted our election” but also that “it didn’t change who won”.
There’s a lot of change in the air, a lot of agendas in the works, if you see a headline, article, post or interview you think is a sign of the times, post it in the comments, email us or share it on social media and we will add it to the next edition.
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Bernard Hill was part of a unique psyop himself back in the 80’s as part of Alan Bleakdale’s (SIC) mind trauma ‘Boy’s from the Black Stuff’ which terrorised the young unemployed struggling to find a future in ‘Thatcher’s Britain’.
A interesting insight into the left wing intelligentsia meant to traumatise youth into becoming socialists.
He’s gone onto to do much since but can’t really forget or even forgive his role in that and the damage it did you the youth and the country.
Acc to Science a new Blue Tongue virus is now coming to a neighbourhood near your area.
.webp
The decease gives swollen blue tongue and difficulty to swallow a whole hamburger in one.
Only the sheeple are exposed, and the ticks should not present any danger to real humans, anti-vaxers and conspiracy theorists.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68944155
When traveling overseas, The Queen does not require a British passport.
As a British passport is issued in the name of Her Majesty, it is unnecessary for The Queen to possess one.
Where does the authority come from?Are you not a King , are you not a Queen?
Rise and shine in the name of Jesus.
Everytime you vote in a Commonwealth you approve it with your legal signature.
YOU have approved this Authority in a 1000 years, since year 1024, meaning you loved it and still love it without admitting it. 😋
Fraud vitiates everything so I hear..
The bastards play their fraud by certain rules, and the game is only won by NEVER allowing them their FIRST MOVE.
During the pandemic THEY showed their hand again…and again they will…
They own the courts…recourse, an illusion.
You know what to do.
Slamming that Overton window shut:
https://dumptheguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/07/what-conspiracy-theories-are-uk-mps-being-told-to-look-out-for
Don’t mention this or we’ll start calling you anti-semitic… they’re clearly concerned some desperate Tories who aren’t fully in the club might pick up on some of these. Only controlled assets (the sons/daughters of Suella) may use them.
Unsurprisingly, the theories included are a mixture of the bogus and the genuine to tar the latter with the former.
AstraZeneca withdrawing Covid vaccine, months after admitting “extremely rare” side effect
Company says decision is purely commercial as jab has been superseded by equally tested alternatives
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/07/astrazeneca-withdrawing-covid-vaccine/
seem like electioneering.
The U.k and some E.U counties elderly already got the summer covid jab last week and this week.
Ive seen the U.K covid vaccine invites for over 70’s.
Best boost up for the summer.
Havent you notice the masks are back on again for the elderly….??
Meanwhile, Downunder, the ambulance sirens are howling again: It’s flu shot season.
Resurgence of Independent Thinking Among U$ Students Poses Significant Challenge to the New Normal
https://youtu.be/D87a53hHOY0?si=v90LLL38Jp85j7hc
Independent? Nah. More likely steered by Soros agenda driven groupthink.
“Now, Walmart wants you to pay $98 a year for Walmart+ for the self-checkout privilege at some stores.” https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/death-self-checkout-walmart-charges-it-some-locations A human clerk used to do it all for you with a personal touch. Then they laid off clerks to force us toward a DIY check out where we replaced the clerk and worked free for the store. Now, there will be no clerks, and you’ll have to pay to WORK FOR THEM for free! This is how they work it. Hang happyface images all over the place while they incrementally laying OFF employees and create functional dysfunction. They then claim economic crisis and install AUSTERITY measures to make things even worse. Now they are bringing in AI (Automated Imitation) to replace all us pesky human employees and turn YOU into their PRIVATE SLAVE! And it’s all automated because we say YES to THEIR fking CONVENIENCE traps! JUST SAY NO to… Read more »
<3. Gaza Protests and Celebrity Arrests > Meanwhile in the real world, the chips are down and non-celebrity Palestinians are fighting for their very existence. Their opponents are the Anglo Zionazi Capitalist powers – UK, U$A , Israel – who want to control its oil and gas reserves. The latest strategy of the AZC has been to build a Floating Drilling Platform offshore of Gaza to tap into Palestinian gas reserves, estimated at hundrends of $Billions. Genie Energy gas company has 4 shareholders: Israel’s prime minister (Nathan Yahoo); a Yank (Dick Cheney, CEO of Con-911); an English Lord (Rothschild, “who rules the world through his agents”); and an Ozzie (Rupert Murdoch, who owns the Anglo Zio Times and Financial Times). An unsavory and extremely tough foursome to be up against. The local side is: Palestinian (Hamas and Fatah); Lebanese (Hezb’Allah); Iraqi and Yemeni; with Iran and Russia as supporters. This… Read more »
Korea was divided in half and so should have the land, equally, consensually, under these two peoples. The US has provoked this conflict and fed the MONSTER hegemony with money, weapons and protection for 50 years too long. The US could end this eternal war to genocide with one phone call from the US president. 50+ years of this simple truth is but a fractal of the the War Empire that the US/West has been projecting over Earth for 500+ years.
Consensually? Wow, the propaganda has really got you. To learn about conducting genocide properly including bio-warfare, try to research the subject. But I admit that the documents concerned are the most heavily censored ever.
Gas extraction even in future requires infrastructure. Remember what happened to Nord Stream. Is it only one side that can be satanic for profit?
That global climate warming change is amazing – it kills the creatures everyone loves….
https://dumptheguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/04/bumblebees-overheating-threat-global-heating-temperatures-aoe
…and spreads the creatures everyone fears:
https://dumptheguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/03/venomous-snakes-migrate-global-heating-study
How does it manage to be so selective like that?!
Well spotted.
Have you any idea what is behind this highly selective fear mongering about rising temperature? Climate scientists in the 1970s predicted a “new ice age” and this was a popular talking point for a few weeks but I do not recall such consistent and long drawn out hysteria in the media and public agencies.
Presumably, the ‘cure’ for a new ice age would be more energy usage rather than less; but that’s the opposite of what the globalists want.
Why do Globalists want us to use less energy when our technology-driven standard of living depends on the number of energy slaves (kilowatts) per citizen?
I can understand Uncle $cam blowing up a Russian gas pipeline to cripple a competitor and force the EU to buy U$ gas. I can understand a global squeeze on energy by suppliers in order to raise prices. But I cannot see the benefit — neither to supplier nor to consumer — of a decrease in global energy usage per se. Not even if Carbon were our only source of energy; which it is not.
When there is less of something the demand and price increase. More money for nothing.
“QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM”, DOUBLING BACK TO MAKE SENSE OF THE DOUBLING DOWN, DOUBLE SPEAK AND DOUBLE PLUS GOOD, BEWARE THOUGHT CRIME AHEAD! Because of these things. QED Post Climate Change, Land Use and Monetary Policy, The New Trifecta. #CarbonCurrencyEndGame #1930’s the sequel non crime thought crime and the non nazi nazi nazis. GRUB STREET IN EXILE The ratio of Good Energy ( renewables) for which Carbon Credits will be created and Bad Energy of “Fossil Fuels which represent Carbon debits, is 16:1. There are various combinations that could see the ratio vary but essentially as with The Gold Standard a Carbon Credit Renewables Standard has the same ratio as the Historical Bi-Metallic ratio known to known to numasticist’s the world over. A deflationary centralised banking regime will be able to impose Austerity to an authoritarian extent extending to a population control mechanism. This is a far more likely delivery mechanism… Read more »
The globalists do not want us to use less energy but more of a different kind, primarily wind and solar, but also nuclear, on which they can make massive profits. As we know, this change from so-called fossil fuels to “clean energy” is being imposed under the guise of “Climate”, just as more ill-health and more war, also highly profitable, have been and continue to be imposed on us under the guise of biosecurity, fighting terrorism, etc. As we also ought to know, there’s an overriding economic reason for the globalists’ current acceleration (which we can sense) of this massive wealth transfer: to plunder as much as possible before the world enonomy collapses under the crushing weight of debt. To that end also, as Ernst Wolff has put it, what has is taking place is a “controlled meldown” of the economy: prelude to the imposition of CBDCs and, ultimately, totalitarianism.… Read more »
The temperature on earth fluctuates naturally over time. Between the mid 1940s and the 1970s, the average temperature on earth declined. Around the mid 1970s the trend reversed and the temperature began to rise making the “new ice age” story completely unsustainable (sic) so the exact same tale of doom was repeated but with the threat now portrayed as warmth rather than cold.
The real science indicates that we may well be entering a mini ice age as occurred several centuries ago with among other things, the Thames froze over solid. As a major part of the agenda is massive depopulation, the warming hoax would make populations even less ready to deal with this. Also every bugaboo will be ascribed to the warming hoax, even “pandenic Z.”
5G is killing the humblebumble bees, and blamed on farts influence on our Global Clima.
The bees are doing all right here, so far. The bumblebees have been messing about for about 6 weeks. It’s been very wet. The wasps have just started up looking for useful nesting sites.
Swallows came back about 3 weeks ago.
Ref. Kevan, who professor emeritus at the University of Guelph’s School of Environmental Sciences in Canada:
“Bumblebees have suffered population declines around the world due to global heating“.
There are even consensus among Science about it, and it is followed up with a photo of dead bumblebees. Bumblebee population decline!. Science have calculated every little single bumblebee on this planet, have you?
Consensus Ariel! Try to get a grip of reality. Otherwise people may think you are an environmental polluting anti-scientific freak..
Oh, you may take that as read. Maybe we should be shown a photo of a photo of a photo of dead bees.
We are pretty rural here, and I regularly pick wild plants, so I’m down with the bees. There have been occasional dead bees. Bee activity gets really going when the plants they positively adore come into bloom, like Himalayan Balsam, for example. For most people it’s a vicious weed, but it’s heavenly for bees. The seeds are edible for humans.
Domesticated bees ARE dying, difficult to keep the hives alive.
I had one peacock butterfly and several small tortoisehell butterflies on my hands last month. We are not particularly fond of the ‘cabbage whites’ whose caterpillars are over-fond of our green vegetables.
Nature works to its (HER) own timetable.
I think you have a good foot on actual changes ;-).
That reminds me:
Just like the virus that respects jurisdictional boundaries?
They’ve been steadily degrading music for at least three decades ready to tank it: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-rock-counterculture-had-a-dark-side-joan-didion-saw-it-coming?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb Funny how such a fearless mainstream investigative reporter as Didion couldn’t detect that Jim Morrison’s father was the admiral in charge of the Gulf of Tonkin false flag! Or that The Doors’ keyboardist Ray Manzarek had been in military intelligence. Kris Kristoffersen’s father was a senior army officer. If who Didion wanted cast in her movies was so significant they might mention the casting of bloodline descendant (Bill Weld was Governor of Massachusetts) and open witch Tuesday Weld in ‘Play it as it lays’. ‘Ruby Tuesday’ was almost certainly about her, one occultist paying tribute to another. Altamont was on the 60th anniversary of Crowley’s infamous working in the Algerian desert with Jagger wearing an ‘Omega’ (i.e. completion) T-shirt. Hollywood is just as doomed. It’s amazing that actors can still be regarded as heroes. Let’s… Read more »
But I like it, like it, yes I doooo.
“The flowers smell so sweet…”
I don’t know if it’s three generations, but something I have noticed is that the teenagers these days are listening to much less music from the current generation, even if it’s only from 10 years ago (or more). My theory is everything post 2020 is just garbage, and everyone knows it, at least on some level or another.
I meant to say three decades, but the current thing doesn’t allow editing of comments.
When the music is over: https://youtu.be/UeIcjnIEVfE
“Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver”, Hermann Goring.”
Clearly culture is financed as a political tool. On the other hand artists are also promoted who clearly has a talent that meets the public’s needs. Frank Zappa as example.
I wouldnt trash people only because they have a label. We should look at their sincerity and talent only, as we all make mistakes during this life
Cultivated meat is often confused with genetically modified foods because both are associated with laboratory work and biotechnology.
so when we hear the CC fluoride guy electioneering shill fest like Disney thing remember that.? or banning ”vaccine passports” but you had to supple all sorts newer id to drive this is fake electioneering aimed a demographic of no so wise who wont research beyond the the bullshit the clockbait headline MSM alt media sells them.
It is not a win win as he hasn’t banned genetically modified foods GM nor does he have that power.
it is electioneering…
<Israeli military forces say they have taken control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, the sole gateway for humanitarian aid>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/israel-idf-control-rafah-crossing-gaza-palestine-side-hamas-war-latest-update
A typical Pennsylvanian Dutch story: Polite wanted to shoot Germany, but Germany is alive and kicking thanks to divine providence. (Rohrkrepierer or just Ladehemmung?) It was the Spirit of Uunona, after all Hitler also survived all 11 assassination attempts unscathed. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_Uunona
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/pennsylvania-pastor-attempted-shooting
“Ziss iss (nott) Fanny (ennimohr)”, says Herr Cleese. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13374615/John-Cleese-says-Britons-not-frightened-say-cultures-superior-wrong-Muslims-want-sharia-law-enforced-UK.html
The peel headed John Crow.
“So you are running up and down making disturbances, telling everybody that you are number one, very soon you are going to be a laughing stock”. https://youtu.be/iCmdQiGrtIg Jamaica reggae
Hollywood has beens, along with political has beens and rock star has beens should all just SHUT THE FUCK UP!
They add nothing and subtract from their own dignity. If they had any in the first place.
If it wasn’t for us making love, you children wouldn’t be here.
You’re not my mom.
“Dancing days are here again, As the summer evenings grow. I got my flower, I got my power, I got a woman who knows. I said it’s alright, You know it’s alright, I guess it’s all in my heart. You’ll be my only, My one and only, Is that the way it should start? Crazy ways are evident, By the way you wearin’ your clothes. Sippin’ booze is precedent, As the evening starts to glow. You know it’s alright, I said it’s alright, You know it’s all in my heart. You’ll be my only, My one and only, Is that the way it should start? Do Ya? You told your mother I’d get you home, But you didn’t say that I got no car.” I did have a car, and I did get home, and she introduced me to her Mum and Dad….– that’s my younger brother in there I… Read more »
The great thing about our tribe in the Battle of Hastings this weekend (4 Rock Chicks), no water in Hastings – Green Man stuff, is that it is all true. She couldn’t possibly make it up… All good now – “hello I went to school with you – not seen you since you were 15” Most of the pubs, were shut, except the Rock Pubs…cos no water to flush the loos – so they formed a chain – using buckets from the sea – sea water to flush the loos. The fresh water eventually came through this afternoon and my wife came back home with a massive smile on her face, telling me all the people we have known from all over the UK, who turned up and recognised each other mainly as a result of going to Rock Festivals for the last 50 years sleeping in tents. Average age… Read more »
Aging Gobshite Seeks Knighthood https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/27/jeremy-clarkson-interview-global-warming-fury-farming Proximity to nature has made him far more aware of the climate. He measures rainfall like a meteorologist, so if you say it was a wet weekend, he’ll be able to tell you it was 25mm. He can also tell you that we’ve already had this year’s allocation of rain because it’s always 38in, “give or take”, and this is “a fucking nightmare” because you need varied weather for farming. Where does that put his shrugging disregard for global warming on his motoring shows? “That was part of the caricature,” he says. “It was a joke.” He mocks his own controversial era voice, saying, “Oh, come on.” Then says, “Now you think, ‘Jesus Christ, my neighbours over there, they’ve had to replant everything because it’s all drowned.’ I can’t believe it’s not dominating the news agenda,” he adds sardonically. “Oh no, wait, it is.” It… Read more »
“This is NOT 1968 !!” … (anon) …
Alastair Crooke impresses that the US cops are chaffing
at the bit to get stuck into the delinquent protesting students.
He may be right, because, from his point of view The State
will use whatever FORCE is necessary to CRUSH any
protest against genocide…The State Means Business !!
A practice run in advance of imposing the WEF-WHO NWO ? (30:25)
https://thealtworld.com/alastair_crooke/alastair-crooke-muddying-the-waters-on-us-student-protests
‘The modern Spectacle […] maintains false memories. The social
agitation [in France] at the end of 1986-1987 had nothing in
common with the wildcat general strike of ’68. But The State [..]
ceaselessly invoked a simularity. It was a question of falsifying a
real threat by giving it an unreal dimension by imposing confusion.’
France Goes Off The Rails 1986-1987:
https://libcom.org/article/1986-1987-france-goes-rails
<France Goes Off the Rails>
The entire “Western” world has gone off the rails.
You missed out the expletive.
That’s a new take on vaccine effects:
How Vaccines Alter Intimate Relationships and Gender Identity
Exploring the links between vaccination, human connection, autism, and sexual orientation
A MIDWESTERN DOCTOR – APR 20, 2024
A couple of weeks back I speculated on the possibility that the rise in violent crime (stabbings etc) could be related to an increase in CJD caused by the jibby jabs. 20% of mad cow disease sufferers go criminally insane as one of the first symptoms of the fatal disease.
Yesterday I came across this:
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/systematic-review-reveals-many-covid-19-vaccine-recipients-experienced-new-onset-psychosis
Maybe the new normal is soon going to transmogriphy into the new abnormal.
Don’t worry. Be Happy!
Nothing surprising. Once the potion from the jab breaches the blood-brain barrier, anything goes.
In my opinion all who jumped on the covid train were mad cows already. But thats just me.
Spend another month during the most fertility time to energize fear porn about a date.
remind me about the solar eclipse last month,..?? did the world end.?
Yes it does. It changed the world’s clima from global heating to freezing. No one could have predicted that, but that is what happened.
What they are saying is there won’t be enough airspace for flights carrying the general population and those flights carrying out ‘Crimetrailling’
Looks like these image posting sites don’t work. Sorry.
https://postimages.org/
I didn’t know if it would work, either.
It’s actually of a substack post about WHO plans.
I hope Idris Elba and David Attenborough get arrested.Prof.Brian Cox too.The little shit next in line when David fucks off to swim with the mammals.Gatekeeping shit.
I thought Simony (phoney) elom hissy fit was contrived designed to make out the Offger commentators are so savage and dangerous that he/she couldn’t didn’t want to post his her work on the site no more. This would then put pressure on the editors / admins site owners etc to make more rules and relegation’s on comments policy logins etc as one of there own was so so so so offended by dangerous thought police comments he/she decide during the U.K local elections day before to leave the site in an manufactured outrageous. I am sure Phoney simony elmo will tell all his fellow freedom of speech viewers how bad/dangerous awful his experience was at the hands of the hamaz terrorists offger commentators.
What?
If people understood the background behind what you are saying your comment would make a lot more sense. What is the “hissy fit” that you keep writing about?
James, The master idiot twat is talking about this…. https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/28/zones-of-interest-the-holocaust-industry-in-film/
Thanks, I have never seen something like that before. Very interesting.
For quite some time some UK banks been encouraging the use of voice recognition – by sampling a recording of a customer’s voice – to access telephone banking services. No need for passwords or PINs.
Since AI is already at the stage of imitating voices very accurately, it is only a matter of time before a wave of fraudulent activity occurs across bank accounts.
Digital ID will be proffered as the solution to differentiate between humans and machines. All humans will have to validate themselves to show that they are ‘real’ in BOTH the online AND (for those who thought they could avoid digital ID) telephone world.
These scripts almost write themselves by being so predictable.
And when the power goes off (or is turned off by the parasites), there will be no ID, no AI, no 5G, no internet, no mobile phones. Their aim is to make us dependent on a constant supply of electricity. Yet they promise all these things will make us ‘safe’.
See how much easier it is when you have a bunch of dollares in your wallet:
A guy walks into a bar. Goes up to the bartender and ask for a beer. The bartender gives the guy his beer, and the guy pay cash! End of story.
No voice recognition, no finger prints, no face recognition, no plastic card machine, no electronic transfer with fees, no book keeping, no credit, no social credit, no e-money, no digital id (false id), no identity theft, no IT scandals, no trojan horses, no IT viruses.
Great comment.
That is my philosophy too. Use cash whenever and wherever possible.
However, since bank branches have been closing at a phenomenal rate across many Western countries, and the remaining ones often have large queues since the number of cashiers has been reduced, it is becoming increasingly difficult to transact in person at a branch. Especially, in more suburban and rural locations.
Therefore, customers are forced to transact online or on the phone to do transfers, pay bills etc. As long as bill paying, direct debits, standing orders and salary/pensions/benefits (welfare) payments remain digital then the need for a bank account will remain and without a large network of geographically diversified branches, more customers will be forced to transact online or by phone. All by design.
I’m loving the spat between George Galloway and novara media both as bad as each other both supporters of lockdown, the “left” continues to eat itself.
“The Left”? George Galloway is socially conservative and not a liberal. Bastani is imo a bit of a prick. Bastani Straw-manning Galloway The disingenuous and mendacious Bastani The sort of bloody revolution that introduced capitalism in one country after another is out of date. Four main factors now make it essential to work for a revolution that is peaceful, democratic and which uses the voting system in those countries which have it: Most modern capitalist states are now so well-armed, so well informed and so wealthy and powerful that an armed insurrection trying to overthrow an established state machine would be doomed to failure. When violence has been used to establish a regime, it can only be maintained by violence or the threat of it (like capitalism). A socialist society cannot be built upon such foundations. There is no way of knowing, and showing, that such a violent revolutionary movement… Read more »
Rise Like Lions
Shelly, a masquerade.Left and right the two masques of
XXXVIII
‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’
https://grubstreetinexile.substack.com/p/rise-like-lions
https://grubstreetinexile.substack.com/p/bastani-straw-manning-galloway
I agree, Bastani is a bit of a pr*ck and seems to be aiming for a job in the mainstream as a political correspondent or such like. He does have some interesting guests sometimes but they love to smugly giggle over “conspiracy theories” and can’t be trusted not to sell the working class right down the river as was clear during lockdown with Owen Jones doing a disgusting hit piece at one of the early lockdown demos, I would trust even the most nuttiest conspiracy theorists over this bunch. So many have turned out to be such a disappointment. As to Spiked, they were initially one of the few groups to criticise lockdowns with some great articles during the darkest days but then went onto endorse mandatory vaccines for careworkers and have now just become israeli state sycophants. I would trust none (NONE) of these groups or any others anymore.… Read more »
Well said: Violence begets Violence.
Your plea for Peaceful Revolution through the Ballot Box is written from a Socialist point of view, but I feel the same embarrassment on replying to a post written from the Christian point of view (which may not be very different, because the first Socialists in history were early Christians).
May your ballot-crossing hand never lose its cunning! Because the alternative is a violent revolution:
“Justice comes from the barrel of a gun” — Mao Zedung.
February 25, 2024 QED POST CLIMATE CHANGE, LAND USE AND MONETARY POLICY, THE NEW TRIFECTA.CarbonCurrencyEndGame #1930’s the sequel non crime thought crime and the non nazi nazi nazis. NOT THE GRUB STREET JOURNALExegesis Hermeneutics Flux Capacitor of TruthinessToggle Sidebar September 29, 2016 BOURGEOIS RESOLUTION. A POEM IN THREE VOICES FOR ADDED 4TH PART HARMONY. I wrote this poem back in 2016, its part of a trilogy all of which are appenices to my experimental nove The Conquest of Dough. This poem is about the pedagogy of the oppressed it represents all that I have come to understand about representative democracy and the disjoint between Power, Power relations and Political Power. Politicians claiming Democratic objectives in the interests of the Constituents of the communities they represent but actually patronize. This is the Tension between Elites from Grande Bourgeois to Petit Bourgeoise and their aversion to all forms of popular expressions… Read more »
Selling your soul to the company store State monopoly capitalism and the new medici code. Poem, polemic or blog?Human Consciousness, God Consciousness, The Human Family all that I have come to understand about representative democracy and the disjoint between Power, Power relations and Political Power. Politicians claiming Democratic objectives in the interests of the Constituents of the communities they represent but actually patronize. Thesis. In a diary of a nobody, Mr Pooter, is everyman and woman. Striving. Petit Bourgeois, discordant with their lot, in earnest to impress. The Poem is written with the musical theory of discordance and alludes to Bach’s, equal temperament and the Greek system of Pythagorean Modes. The Pluralism in the musical language and the polysemous use of words allude to the context of art and historical juxtaposition of sequence and order and the use of suggestion in propaganda and modern use of cognitive dissonance. The Broad influence of… Read more »
From your Link to New Grub Street:
<If one observes the long game the dominant Narrative of the past 30 years is Climate Change. The Carbon footprint narrative is by a long chalk well ahead of the Pandemic and Vaccine Narratives of the Past two years.
Larry Fink of Blackstone has considerably more powerful control on what happens next than the efforts of Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci to enrich Big Pharma and themselves, Gates also has a bigger card [than Vaxx] in the game, and that is Digital ID and its relationship both to Satellite networks and to 5G networks”
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5G
Frances Leaders work on 5G is top notch
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Utter bollocks!
You really think the psychos can be ousted peacefully and democratically?
You’re either ignorant, delusional or deliberately trying to con people; or all three!
I don’t usually engage in personal criticism, but your nonsense really wound me up.
be careful what you wish for, I would say violence against state apparatus (e.g. ulez bladerunners etc) fine but not against the person, that gets out of hand very quickly and with all the agent provocateurs too easy to end in chaos and tyranny, it has to be the winning of hearts and minds in multiple communities interlinked with one another with strong ethical values at their core
but yes I agree, the ballot box nonsense is pointless
Hi Sofia,
it essential to work for a revolution that is peaceful, democratic and which uses the voting system in those countries which have it:
Rise Like LionsShelly, a masquerade.Left and right the two masques of “anarchy”
Look at Podemos in Spain, there was a great deal of hope that they represented something different and they came from no where to win 5 seats in the EU Parliament and ended up jointly governing in Spain with the PSOE during the Covid years. Spain was one of the most tyrannical implementers of the covid policies, imprisoning their populations for 8 weeks in the first lockdown with no escape from often tiny flats not even for exercise, children weren’t let out at all, armed police at the exit and entrance to villages, truly awful, all this was implemented by the “left” socialists even though the constitution supposedly protected the rights of the individual against such tyranny! The “democratic” model is broken and not fit for purpose.
Hi Sofia, Yes Podemas and Syrzia in Greece, I would also argue the Green Party, the Occupy movement and the positive money campaign all infiltrated or corrupted. Do we just roll over? I happen to believe that Direct Democracy can work if we work at it within our communities. The route to a direct democracy is always unchartered territory and where things lead assuming an accomodation between factions is achieved is of course unknowable. You could argue and convincingly that there are no grounds for optomism , I would not dismiss such a position, I would though counter with this poem by Colerige. Work Without Hope. June 4, 2012 WORK WITHOUT HOPEWork Without Hope All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair- The bees are stirring-birds are on the wing- And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the… Read more »
The ultimate poem of all poems: The Bible Ecclesiastes 12,
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”.
The Whole Duty of Man
13: When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this:
Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
part 2 I would just round off with two quotes one from Paulo Friere. “The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.” ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed And this from Epictetus and his Enchideron. July 3, 2016 DEMOCRACY, DISCOURSE , EPICTETUS, STOICISM AND SKEPTICISMDemocracy, discourse , Epictetus, Stoicism and skepticism Brexit.Lies damned lies and statistics, an apt summary of the brexit debate in… Read more »
I responded at legnth to your comment Sophia as I appreciate your point and can not refute it. I do have proposals as to a course of action though. What do you advocate for? https://grubstreetinexile.substack.com/p/selling-your-soul-to-the-company Yes Podemas and Syrzia in Greece, I would also argue the Green Party, the Occupy movement and the positive money campaign all infiltrated or corrupted. Do we just roll over? I happen to believe that Direct Democracy can work if we work at it within our communities. The route to a direct democracy is always unchartered territory and where things lead assuming an accomodation between factions is achieved is of course unknowable. My full response is in the blog also the Going Direct Paradigm Mind Map starting at the Going Direct Spring 2024 node is a repository of my own enquiries into these matters. I think the mind map might be suffering a DOS attack… Read more »
Where ever I see $$$ and €€€, I roll over because I believe in my government!
Render unto Ceasar that which is ceasars and unto god that which is gods
Going Direct Spring 2024.Take Back Control. End Sunacks Whig Junto and Sack the Rump Parliament.
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Manipulation, The Money Changers. We are Stardust, We are golden We are Billion Year Old Carbon.
A collection of Links, From Chremismatistics to Carbon Credits.
Jesus and Economic Life
The coming of the Roman Empire destroyed the community-based economy that God had provided for the children of Israel.
The Sadducees and the priestly families that collaborated with the Romans were rewarded with large land holdings. Many accumulated large blocks of land. The people who had previously owned them were turned into tenant farmers, who had to hand over at least half of their crops to their landlords.
Stop Playing Catch up. Wear some political maturity. The Jig was up on this absurdity in 2019 and the Idiots at COP26 know it.
Public opinion is important even in totalitarian regimes the role of informers is incredibly important to fill in the gaps of where the propaganda is not inducing “The Proper Thinking”
My words, deeds and actions are quite sincere Mark. One mans fish is of course another mans poisson. Capitalism & Other Kids Stuff The sort of bloody revolution that introduced capitalism in one country after another is out of date. Four main factors now make it essential to work for a revolution that is peaceful, democratic and which uses the voting system in those countries which have it: Most modern capitalist states are now so well-armed, so well informed and so wealthy and powerful that an armed insurrection trying to overthrow an established state machine would be doomed to failure.When violence has been used to establish a regime, it can only be maintained by violence or the threat of it (like capitalism). A socialist society cannot be built upon such foundations.There is no way of knowing, and showing, that such a violent revolutionary movement represents the wishes of the great… Read more »
Integral Analysis of The Oligarchy.What Shadow Banking is and Why its controllers are to blame.
GRUB STREET IN EXILE
FEB 09, 2024
The going direct mind map is not for the “hard of critical thinking”.
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5G
EMF
Nano particles
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Going Direct Paradigm mind map
The Return of the King – The Passing of Théoden 2:09