2019 On OffG
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On the first day of a new year we take a look back at 2019 on OffG, and offer our choice of highlights. If you disagree or would include others we miss drop a comment below.
In strictly chronological order:
January
Why is Theresa May still Prime Minister? – Kit Knightly
Guardian’s Reputation in Tatters After Forger Revealed to Have Co-Authored Assange Smear – Elizabeth Vos
Privatization is at the Core of Fascism – Eric Zuesse
GM Cotton – Reckless Gamble – Colin Todhunter
February
Labour Splitters: Getting the Bland Back Together – Kit Knightly
What the Press Hides From You About Venezuela – Eric Zuesse
10 Reasons the Gilets Jaunes are the Real Deal – David Studdert
March
Censorship and Arrests in Wake of Christchurch Attack – Kit Knightly
Anti-Capitalism is NOT Anti-Semitism – Kit Knightly
Jess Phillips Emerges as Establishment Pick to Replace Corbyn – Kit Knightly
Lone Wolf Myth Covers Up Possible Mossad Role in New Zealand Terrorist Attack – Max Parry
April
WATCH: Collateral Murder – Kit Knightly
The Obvious Dirty Dealings Behind Julian Assange’s Arrest – Kit Knightly
Operation Gladio – The Unholy Alliance – Anthony C. Black
May
Leaked Report: Douma “Chemical Attack” Likely Staged – Kit Knightly
The OPCW, Douma and the Skripals – OffG Editorial
CNN & MSNBC Caught Meddling in US Democracy – Joe Giambrone
June
The Hitlerization of Jeremy Corbyn (Among Others) – CJ Hopkins
EXPOSED: The Guardian’s Role in State Censorship – Thomas Scripps
Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide and the Solar Minimum -Renée Parsons
July
Channel 4’s “Inside Idlib” – The Last Gasp of a Dying Campaign – Kit Knightly
The Guardian Deletes Open Letter Defending Chris Williamson – OffG Editorial
If You Provoke the Entire World, Something May Happen – Andre Vltchek
August
8chan – Another Mass Shooting, Another Internet Purge & 8chan: The Latest Fearporn Drive – Kit Knightly
“Today Saudi Arabia Finally Lost the War on Yemen” – Eric Zuesse
Amazon Burning? Well, maybe not so much – Catte Black
September
In Defense of Cory Morningstar – Hiroyuki Hamada
Why Does Chris Hedges Hedge his Bets? – Edward Curtin
America’s Billionaires Congealing Around Warren and Buttigieg – Eric Zuesse
October
Brexit: Parliament Tethers Britain to a Failing Experiment – Kit Knightly
Guaido and Wong – The New Generation of Pro-West Saints
– Andre Vltchek
WATCH: Udo Ulfkotte – Bought Journalists – Terje Maloy
November
Assange Lawyers Links to US Govt/Bill Browder Raises Queastions – Lucy Komisar
GE2019 Reveals True Purpose of “Antisemitism” Smear Campaign – Kit Knightly
Schiff Committee Finds no Impeachable Offense – Renée Parsons
December
Did Laura Kuenssberg Just Commit a Massive Breach of Electoral Ethics? – OffG Editorial
Boris Johnson’s Incredible Landslide – Catte Black
The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control – Edward Curtin
NSA Whistleblower: “Mueller Report Based on Fabricated Evidence” – Eric Zuesse
2019 – The Year of Manufactured Hysteria – CJ Hopkins
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Have some fun reading the Guardian of Feb. 22 2004 quoting the Pentagon that by 2020:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver
These guys need “Armageddons” to keep their budgets in the stratosphere.
BTW, when there is nothing new to read on Off-G, perhaps some here might care to have a look at Lobster Magazine, which I must confess I have only recently discovered (or perhaps re-discovered after a long period). Although older issues are archived behind a paywall, issues from Winter 2009 onwards are freely available online. Some very good stuff on the anti-Labour smear campaign(s) citing (alleged) anti-semitism, for example, among much else.
Interesting to read (for the first time in my case) the “Jess Phillips Emerges as Establishment Pick to Replace Corbyn” article. I notice that she has not “declared” yet, and is listed by the Grauniad as one of those “Weighing up their options”.
What not one Spikey Hard Brexiteer article ?
Ah well just 30 days to go!
Yee haaa
Off-G certainly have their work cut out for them.
Nowadays we are literally drowning in a sea of bullshit!
Happy New Year, Off-Graun! Looking forward to another truthful, enlightening year with you and your commenters.
Went to set up a PayPal account to make a long overdue donation to you guys, and it required my email address. No problem there.
And my password.
And I couldn’t bloody remember it.
Sigh.
Tried every password I’ve ever used.
And bloody…. Klunk.
Will get it there soon, even if it means starting a new email account.
Your work is much appreciated, and if it wasn’t for sites like this, I’d just go nuts.
Period.
Especially when you’re surrounded by people who fully swallow the presstitutes bullshit, and think the ‘International Community’ are the ‘good guys’ defending freedom and democracy.
Which as we know is utter bollocks.
I also wonder if this year we see the global economy implode like a collapsing house of cards?
Keep on keeping on Offg, cheers.
PayPal accepts cards without requiring a PayPal account unless the payee has blocked that option. Look for “Checkout as Guest” or words to that effect.
Thanks again Rob. I tend to live a bit of a Luddite existence! Even if I’m buying groceries, or at a cafe, almost always use cash instead of my bankcard to pay.
Hope you have a good weekend…
Always cash, so they know as little about you as possible.
Looking forward to 2020 being the yeat OffG and other alternative media sites/bloggers (Caitlin J, Jimmy Dore, Lee Champ. Grayzone, The Canary………………….) all come together to push one item to get behind.
I suggest making the OPCW the 20/20 THING. You collectively have enough readers to warrant a Petition in Parliament being heard, not to mention several FOI’s. With RT/George Galloways followers it should be a walk in the park to garner intrest.
Oh, and as a side issue it help Julian Assanges case; John Pilger and his followers would be on board.
Own it and run with it…….
1. Petition.
2. Foi’s
3. Emails to all MP’s
4. Any email to friends contains link to peition for friends.
In fact the OPCW case touches on the alledged Chemical Attack in Douma, The Assange Case and the Skripal Case.
Even more reason to collectively run with it.
Great idea! Hope it happens.
Looking forward……..There is a real danger of recession this year. The American economy is barely growing and only being kept afloat by consumer debt, a whacking $13 Trillion.
When America coughs, we all catch a cold.
When the US has a brain fart: Huawei 2019 revenue 122 billion; annual increase of 18%..
source: chinadaily.com
The Exceptionals shot themselves in the head there, alas. Huawei are just making their own chips and developing their own software, so that they won’t need to buy US stuff. And as the Huawei Boss said, even if Uncle Satan destroyed Huawei, its tens of thousands of technologists, researchers and developers would just found another 100 new Huaweis. Yankee thuggery has met its Nemesis, so war must follow, soon. They know no other way to exist by to bully, murder, pillage and destroy.
Hopefully, 2020 will be the year that flying saucer fraudster Bob Lazar stops with his debunked fan-fiction.
Thank you, OffG!
Nice ironic jab 🙂
Off-Guardian should organise a Contingency Fund for Petra. So far Alex Jones has dropped over $1m and counting for Sandy Hook denial. Sort of thing that could easily jump jurisdictions and catch on in Australia. Sandy Hook, Manchester Arena… On the other hand, give it a few years and somebody might accost her on a dark night, trying to strangle her before fleeing unidentified. Vigilante? Only Petra will know for sure–male, teens, masked, with the fingers on one hand shorter than the fingers on the other–but nobody will believe her, even when she shows them her ruler.
alex jones is a time warner employee
he states clearly and often that the arabs own and run hollywood
he never talks of christopher bollyns work
jones made millions from tangy tangerine aspartame drink
keep guzzling that zio juice
it sure is yummy : )
I’m an old fart and I’ve seen too many fucking new years to get excited or depressed about one more. We’re totally fucked either way and have been since 1980. So here’s my comment on 2020.
Can you feel it coming?
Can you feel it go?
Long time
Methusalem syndrome
(Adrian Hates, aka Diary of Dreams)
No, I don’t know what it means either. But it seems somehow appropriate.
Happy new fucking year to all who hold an independent view.
I understand your pessimism, Pasha.
But please be available to see what unfolds over the next year or so.
Thanks for your sentiments. Things can only get worse.
I don’t usually get maudlin on New Year’s Day, yet so many people seem to be a bit down at the moment that I think maybe I should say something.
I grew-up in the same part of south east London that David Bowie did (and also Mick Jagger). Bowie was a generation older than me, yet I was there as a ‘yoof’ during the late sixties and the 1970s. I saw most of them perform live in London before I was out of school trousers.
When Bowie died in 2016 it was a big shock to many of us.
For whatever his faults (and Bowie did have quite a few) his legacy is inescapable. This track, by a Toronto choir, sums it all up for me. The poignant thing for me is that the people in this choir seem to know the difference between right and wrong…
Thanks, Rob! That sounds excellent on the fancy new headphones that I treated myself to just before Christmas. The chorus kicking in has just given me goosebumps…
RobG
That might be Beckenham, The Three Tunnes Bowie played a bit before my time apparently. Never got into Jagger. Bowie like Mercury quite a distinctive voice – real talent.
As regards below, the ‘alternative media’ has always bothered me as a description. Sounds likes media for whackos. Independent or truthful media better.
I wasn’t a huge Bowie fan but everything I heard about him since he died has boosted my admiration for him. I love his explanation for why he turned down a knighthood:
And I found this list of those who turned down honours:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/e477656b-eed1-470c-ad56-3e06fa50901a
I was happy to see one of my favourite composers, Vaughan Williams, in there.
Ditto Humphrey Littleton.
no doubt bowie wrote very good pop songs and was indeed a star of david a fallen one his tools seduction and deception a mason a man of zion all in the finger action the eye winking the finger on the lips schhhh can you keep a secret. he married a man called imman he is not even mort he was on sky news the day after as a character called jack stephens or was it stevens. he always was an actor not a good one the man who fell 2 earth is a great movie be seduced but understand he was a high level agent and follower of alistair crowleigh o. t. o. group and the golden dawn and what of man love The Church of Man is a reference to the Luciferian doctrine, which worships above all else the human intellect, Reason. The luciferian doctrine is accepted in… Read more »
Bowie is definitely missed. And 2016 was a rough year for music fans: think of all the stars who died that year!
But one mystery I’m trying to get to the bottom of now, is what position–if any–did Bowie actually take on the Donbass question a few years ago, before his death? At the time, I remember people circulating (what seemed to be) a Tweet of his proclaiming his support for the Donbass rebels; but I can’t now find it anywhere on Twitter. ‘Stopfake‘, which, I admit, is a very questionable source, also argues that the whole thing was a psy-op from–you guessed it!–Russia. So what is the truth on this issue? Does anybody here know?
missed by who? he is still here not even far away certainly mot as far away as little america not that america the admiral bird one what a true man show his last record an ode 2 satan saturn sold badly his music videos had maybe 50 thousand hits on youtube until the point of news death at the point of death of the sim character called david bowie then record sales rose fast black star was sinking faster than a tin machine compact disc was he a savage a low level evil animal like sin natra no david robert jones made a deal with satan he got the power for a whiles anways not now and never more he is slowly sinking in the quicksand of his own deception i must admit he was one of the grand masters of deceipt Should I kiss the viper’s fang Or herald… Read more »
Another corporate puff piece pumped out by the Guardian…
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/01/ai-system-outperforms-experts-in-spotting-breast-cancer,
Health care (which includes care in old age and all the rest of it) has barely been covered on this site.
The Tories in the UK are going to completely privatise the National Health Service. During last month’s general election this was quite starkly pointed out by the opposition Labour Party.
Despite this we are told that Labour heartlands in some of the most deprived areas of Britain voted Tory.
And pigs might fly…
This election was totally rigged.
Puts me in mind of this comment by “Rick” on the Boris Johnson ‘did we get what we deserve article’.
“Entrepreneurs” are queueing up to provide ‘services’ to the nhs. I saw a marketing job for a pocket-sized ultrasound scanner the other week, it connects to and iphone. So, rather than have consultants buy this if they so wish, health authorities are buying it and iphones for them. It, in no way, replaces full-sized scanners, but it is another (American) tool in the ever expanding box.
I can’t access the articles in the Grundiag due to their new “sign in” policy – but I think I have the gist of this one: “AI system outperforms experts in spotting breast cancer” i.e. another case of technology removing the need to engaged with those troublesomely unpredictable organic blobs known as people. Once the experts have been outmoded, perhaps the patients can also be dispensed with. AI systems will spot impending problems in female androids’ breast units. This could be duplicated in supermarkets where the check-out tills have already been replaced by scan-it-yourself screens thus leading to android customers. Banking systems likewise. If the helpers are already robots then why not have the customers as robots too?
“Outperforms” is a bit misleading. Of course a computer can identify anomalies quicker than humans but you then have to factor in the cost of the software licences vis a vis human resources and get a human to conduct follow-ups.
Health care tech is overpriced and overegged at the current stage of development.
Capitalist ‘healthcare’ is intended to maximise profits, not human welfare.
A Happy New Year to everybody at Off-G and thanks for being there as an alternative to all the sh*t they are shoveling to us from the MSM (Mockingbird Sh*t Media) 🙂
Thanks for doing what you do, OffG. Your hard work is much appreciated.
Happy New Year!
2019: the year of the culturo-political shitshow from start to finish. The only positive can be if it gives a heads up to what is coming. Don’t forget the ‘Mayday, Mayday’ “climate emergency” …an OED word of the year. Oh, you are not going to forget that neoliberal Zeitgeist neologism ever …for as long as you live. 2020: if you can’t feel it coming …2020 is the year of neoliberal globalisation’s green finance capital’s final assault on humanity and the biosphere. And all out assault led by a little girl, leading the climate change Trojan Horse, ridden by Mark Carney. If that is not a surreal enough iconography: it will soon be real enough. We dodged a bullet in the election. I know, I know, the NHS, austerity, homelessness, blah, blah, blah. If we don’t wise up: we’ll all be homeless in austerity …permanently. From the neoliberal Nomenklatura, down through… Read more »
BigB, don’t be too down with it all. I think 2020 might surprise a lot of awake people who live in the West.
The signs have been there throughout 2019.
Although it might all be very violent/nasty for a while.
Keep your head down, and a happy New Year to you.
Agreed. 2019 a year where the truth got a look in.
Important highlight for me was the Working Group on Syria. Their work crucial which Peter Hitchens, albeit behind the curve taking forward and not giving up. Hitchens a master at slapping down the trash still promoting the nonsense narratives. Working Group on Syria have probably saved lives in Syria and possibly even brought the world back from the brink by preventing another fabrication. Hopefully 2020 will be the end for Bellingcat.
Thanks for the encouragement (my genuine heartfelt response and not sarc!). I genuinely made my peace with this world in the 80s – when Thatcher and Reagan were trying to start all-out nuclear war. When over a million people marched with Joan Ruddock and Michael Foot …and Labour even adopted a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament. If we called a march tomorrow against the existential threat posed by neoliberal finance capital’s ‘green’ takeover and privatisation of humanity: do you think anyone would turn up? This is arguably the biggest threat to humanity that humanity has faced. And it is not even perceived as a threat. Anyway: you are right to point out that the situation is not without hope. It is my hope for the coming decade that a new global environmental socialism arises from the abject horror that UK politics has sunk to. Rising from the grotesque global social… Read more »
Violent/nassty is precisely what the parasites want. It’s their strongest suit and heart’s desire. But any alternative is beyond me.
Thanks – I will work my way through these, as a new follower I have catching up to do.
Even though I’ve been reading OffG for years, Gaudy, I’ve got some catching up to do, too…
Just make sure you have a large box of tissues to weep into and stacks of painkillers.