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” in Ukraine coming.
Predicting the future is a hit-and-miss game.
That said, what will 2023 bring?
1. More war and a nuclear near miss
The biggest narrative shift of 2022 was “the war” knocking “the pandemic” off the front pages. However the Russian invasion of Ukraine hit the same stumbling block as Covid in the end – people stopped listening. Why exactly that is – if they lacked a “sense of personal threat” or some other aspect of the narrative – is for another at another time.
For whatever reason, the narrative’s energy burned out fairly fast. It has gone stale, which means a good portion of 2023 will be about bringing it back to life.
That could mean a couple of different things – wars getting wider or hotter.
The war getting wider would mean involving other countries – probably not directly in Ukraine. But some other conflict that NATO troops can get teeth into.
Writing in the Guardian just this morning, Simon Tisdall – the man with the itchiest trigger finger in Western journalism – gleefully rattles off all the many places NATO could start having a little bomb-related fun of its own, including the old favourites: Iran, Syria and Afghanistan.
His broader warning is about China, most especially the possibility it may seize Taiwan by force. China engaging in its own personal Ukraine would certainly reinvigorate the flagging war cheerleaders – on both sides.
That’s the war getting wider, the war getting hotter would mean a direct threat of nuclear conflict, a risk the press was routinely talking up in the closing stages of 2022. Not just from Russia, but now from North Korea too.
There won’t be a nuclear strike (almost certainly), but any near miss will be followed by a chorus of “that was too close” and “we need to change before it’s too late” from the media.
Whichever way the war “problem” evolves, the war “solution” is going one of two ways: Either the “new cold war” will divide us entirely into a false “multipolar world”, or we’ll start seeing journalists and pundits decrying the “old fashioned” conflicts which put “nationalism ahead of the global good”, and calling for an “empowered international organization” to “put an end to war”.
Pick your poison essentially, two near-identical hemispherical governments, or one global government.
2. Encouraging state dependence
Writing on Politics Home a few days ago, Baroness Bennett of the UK’s House of Lords headlined:
My New Year’s Wish….Universal Basic Income
It’s far from the only pro-UBI article doing the rounds recently. Mostly confined to slightly smaller outlets, but nevertheless, the current is there.
Many countries – including Germany, Finland and some US states – have either run UBI trials or plan on running them soon.
A universal basic income would essentially be a long-term replacement for the “lockdown subsidies” – The payments made to the self-employed and small business owners after “the pandemic” killed their businesses.
It’s another WEF-backed initiative, with the forum’s website hosting articles claiming “Covid means we need UBI” since as early as April 2020.
It’s not hard to see the appeal of UBI from a tyrant’s point of view, in that it’s a system where every single citizen is entirely dependent on the state for their livelihood.
The destruction of the self-employed and small business owners, combined with UBI would essentially create a system where you either work for a mega-corporation or you’re paid for by the state, completely wiping out the ability (and perhaps the desire) to be independent.
Combine a nationwide UBI scheme with programmable digital currency, “personal carbon footprints” and social credit systems, and you have a recipe for a truly dystopian society.
3. Pushing “meat alternatives” to kids
It’s no secret that replacing meat with *ahem* “alternative proteins” is a major part of the Great Reset agenda. There’s a reason “you vill eat ze bugs” has become a meme, after all it’s right there on the World Economic Forum’s to-do list for 2023:
6. Shift to healthier, more sustainable diets five times faster by lowering per capita consumption of ruminant meat to the equivalent of two burgers per week across Europe, the Americas and Oceania. Governments and businesses need to promote low-carbon diet shifts.
But how will they do this? The resistance to the idea in adults is both understandable and widespread, so they will probably focus on getting kids into the idea (they actually already started).
With that in mind, the first signs of this rollout will not be about insects or lab-grown meat (which the FDA approved last month) or yeast sludge…but about free school meals.
As the economy crumbles and parents struggle, politicians will start campaigning for free school meals for all children.
Once that policy is in place, columns will appear screaming about school meals needing to “teach children about climate change”, or “feed our children responsibly”. Then they will quietly change the rules about what schools should put in their food, and the parents will probably never know.
There are early signs of this coming over the horizon.
BONUS: Renting Christmas
We are all dully familiar with the line “you will own nothing and be happy”, probably to the point the powers-that-shouldn’t-be wish they’d never used it.
Well, now it’s getting a facelift – the same sentiment in happier-sounding words: You will rent everything and be happy.
There are plenty of articles about the benefits of renting clothes, making money renting out your clothes to other people, and fighting climate change by renting clothes (guess which one of these links is to The Guardian).
The Princess of Wales did her part by (supposedly) renting the dress she wore to the Earthshot Prize in Boston.
Personally, I love that one of the richest women in the world can fly a private jet halfway around the world just to sit in an audience and clap for two hours, and get praised for “sustainability” because she’s only going to wear her dress once. [Note: having your servants buy a dress, wearing it once and then throwing it out is not “renting”.]
If you really think dear old Kate has any intention of “owning nothing”, well, then I have a bridge you can…rent.
It’s not just clothing though, in other articles we’re told it’s possible to rent an entire Christmas, from decorations to trees…and even the gifts you give to your children.
After all, who doesn’t look forward to the post-Christmas tradition of prising a teddy bear out of a crying child’s hands and taking it back to the shop?
Expect this campaign to pick up pace through 2023, and to be routine by the time next Christmas rolls around.
Oh, and buy solid media.
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All told, it looks like OffG is in for a busy year, and we didn’t even mention Pfizer’s planned “universal flu vaccine” (another mRNA shot), another wave of “domestic terror” crackdowns or the ever-present climate change agenda.
Good times ahead. Happy New Year everyone.
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Putin orders ceasefire in Ukraine for the Russian Orthodox Xmas, Jewish Orthodox Zelensky unimpressed: no football matches between the trenches this Xmas day.
https://youtu.be/Hkl8H3VTYLc
An interesting thesis. That the Us has deliberately imploded its own post-1991 NWO hegemony because it basically didn’t work.
https://www.rt.com/news/569087-2022-cold-war-us/
Nobody bought it. Regime change failed to install a sense of McDonald’s as the epitome of world culture. People looked elsewhere for meaning.
So globalism had to be rolled back as a failed project. Go the old-fashioned route of US nationalism. Stoke a war or two in Eastern Europe instead. Get your lackeys to comply with the xenophobic dish of the day. The tried and tested route.
Try this instead – the US is being deliberately imploded as part of the planned transition to “multipolar” globalism. A transition that is being sold as a defeat of the evil empire, but is actually just an evolution & re-naming of the power structure which continues to be run by the same handful of super-wealthy elites.
I believe most models of multipolarity include the US as one of the poles, rather than its complete annihiliation.
And what is multipolarity Three emperors rather than one. The pre-Constantine situation. Arguably a better situation. The US as one of those ’emperors’. Oceania, as per Orwell.
‘Elites’ die like common mortals. No guarantee that offspring will follow suit. Consider Solomon + Rehoboam. Possibly a flaw in the ‘eternal elite’ theorem?
agree, but there is more the vector to the transition is a massive number of non human organizations NHOs (governments, corporations, partnerships, trusts, cooperatives, and the like.. ) .
A good defense would be to find a way to remove the creation of any NHO. everybody should be required to do business in their own name.
Good times will be there if you moronic FUCKHEADS are behind bars or locked up in psychiatry for the bullshit your spreading!!!!
It’s ‘you’re’, and you probably need to start dismantling some of this ‘bullshit’ rather than simply hurling empty abuse! I’m sure it won’t be hard for you to do this. By all mean reply below with just one constructive criticism, properly cited, and we can have a grown up exchange.
Or fuck off. Either is good. 😂 A2
I reckon you’ll get neither criticism nor a welcomed fuck off. I think Jeff is a software package programmed to circulate abuse across various sites.
You’d have thought an algorithm would have an inbuilt spellchecker.
But an algorithm simulation of what? Perhaps it’s fully intentional and more sophisticated than I give it credit for?
The ‘sofisticated’ software is a low level employee of some agency copying and pasting contrarian pre-written messages on lots of different sites, blogs, videos, etc. A few get paid, most do it voluntarily, like with the jabs, tests and masks.
I think the basic ‘spreading’ point is that we are already ‘behind bars’ and locked up in ‘psychiatry’.
So that would be the problem, not the solution, or at least an accentuation of it.
Give me more! You’re turning me on!
Our village was wondering when you would be back.
I fail to understand how this kind of message will get one to sit up and think. Maybe Jeff the bot, sorry Beast has a point and I have been wrong all along.
Round of applause for The Scum, who in spite of the fact that there has never been so much publicly available information confirming categorically that the people running the world are a bunch of criminals, somehow they have managed to shepherd the young away from this information – those who spend the most time online, and many of them seem to be completely oblivious to the danger they are in with these injections and how climate change is a blatant scam. You would have thought by now that the penny would have dropped and some cool peopl would start sharing links, that they would have dropped their ER flags and started looking at real government crime. But no, they’re still completely mind controlled, for the most part.
The young and the left need to be worked on, because the filth currently have a lot of them on side, but this will not last. We need to speed the process up by engaging with people and trying to get them to look in the right places for info. Many people are basically in a trance, they are hypnotised to see things only the way that the government has set them, but this spell can be broken.
The hypnosis is electromagnetically induced. I’ve posted this link before.
Brain Science from Bench to Battlefield: The Realities – and Risks – of Neuroweapons
Dr. James Giordano
June 12, 2017
Brain Science from Bench to Battlefield: The Realities – and Risks – of Neuroweapons |
CGSR Seminar – YouTube
The plebs remain in denial.
The cell phone is the ultimate Neuroweapon. Nothing further is needed.
The truth is no longer hidden…Now, people are hiding from the truth.
Watch “Peace in Syria takes big step forward” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/waCk_Jhnz5c
Two smart Alecs discuss the New New Normal:
Solutions
The problem is how to fight the “secret war”. The main difficulty which JFK overlooked is that the majority of people form into zombified, group-thinking masses – and the media is the reflection and manipulator of this inherent zombification rather than its creator. Consequently, the solution requires a bit more finesse than merely informing the public of threats and dangers.
A number of potential strategies will have been war-gamed, and there may be some which have yet to be revealed, but the two main ones which are currently active are Operation Warp Speed and the Brzezinski Playbook. These two strategies overlap and interact, but they deal largely with opposing pincers of the “invisible enemy”.
There are two main aspects to the “covid emergency” (i.e. Warp Speed). Firstly, there is the reassignment of Continuity of Government away from the DHS and to the Pentagon. Secondly, there is the accelerated roll-out of the jab. The Brzezinski Playbook was prepared during the Trump administration and implemented immediately following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The first pincer of the invisible enemy is the globalised, totalitarian, Public Health ideology. Given the degree to which it is embedded within the zombification, there was no possibility of tackling this directly. Trump demonstrated this during the primaries when he dared to challenge vaxx orthodoxy. Instead, it has to be tricked into destroying itself (i.e. “hoist with his own petard”). The second pincer is the fifth column within the MAGA and populist movements. These are in the process of being fully exposed.
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JFK’s “Secret War” Speech
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_President_and_the_Press
Perhaps there is no answer to the dilemma faced by a free and open society in a cold and secret war.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard
“Hoist with his own petard” is a phrase from a speech in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet that has become proverbial. The phrase’s meaning is that a bomb-maker is blown (“hoist”) off the ground by his own bomb (a “petard” is a small explosive device), and indicates an ironic reversal, or poetic justice.
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https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-top-secret-plans-if-coronavirus-cripples-government-1492878
Exclusive: Inside The Military’s Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government
March 18, 2020
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Trump: “Wartime president” fighting “invisible enemy”
March 22, 2020: Coronavirus Task Force Briefing
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-task-force-briefing-transcript-march-22-national-guard-activated-in-new-york-california-and-washington-state
[click any “time” link to go to video]
Answers on a postcard?
The first thing to wake me up to how the world is run was the 3.5 hour YT film, JFK to 9/11 Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick. Although I came to realise that Francis Richard Conolly didn’t get everything quite right it is still a very educative and eye-opening film, especially for the complete greenhorn I was.
In it Conolly says:
“All terror is fake.”
At the time, it seemed a pretty big call but the more I’ve learnt, the more I realise it’s not an overreaching statement.
Pandemics/epidemics are psyops.
Vaccinology and virology are fraudulent sciences.
Islamic terror events are psyops.
School shootings are psyops.
Nuclear weapons are a psyop.
https://occamsrazorterrorevents.weebly.com/nuclear-weapons-hoax.html
I’m undecided on irreversible man-made climate change for the moment … but if it really is a threat I take it as a given that the threat is being/will be used against us rather than dealt with in the best way.
Regarding the climate, here’s a brief article from global research. I post it here because it’s everything I’ve come to expect from those who conclude climate crisis to be a hoax: it is almost entirely devoid of factual data.
That is not to say the climate activists are much better; for while they present mountains of data, they omit crucial data like ongoing geoengineering.
It’s ironic that on the same date link number 1 appears, link number 2 also appears (link 2 is about the imminent extinction of the North Atlantic Right Whale).
The Big Hoax – From Climate Change to Biodiversity – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
Right Whale Condemned to Extinction in Senate Omnibus – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
Very difficult to work out fact from fiction unlike with covid where it’s all very obvious although I have to say that now we know that viruses haven’t been proven to exist I do puzzle over certain illnesses I previously thought were due to identified viruses.
Hopefully this documentary will complete your awakening:
The Great Global Warming Swindle – Full Documentary HD (rumble.com)
You need to follow the debunking trail – of course, “debunkers” can just be paid shills but when I was interested in climate change I found that when I followed the debunking trail the climate scientists won – perhaps I was simply blinded, I do not know. Here’s a debunking of the film for what it’s worth.
http://www.durangobill.com/Swindle_Swindle.html
Note to moderators. If you’re going to limit comment editing time to thirty seconds (seems like that), maybe you could ensure that the edit button works properly?
I feel your pain John. I recommend that you type your comment onto a Word file first, check it there, then copy/paste into OffG.
Harmless, peaceful Israeli tank is trundling through Gaza, only to be confronted by a vicious 8-year-old armed Palestinian boy armed with poison stones and throwing them at the peaceful tank and painfully trying to wound the tank driver. Shocking behaviour by Palestinian armed boy terrorist!More to the point and unfortunately did have a picture but I couldn’t manage to get it printed.
Hmm, it sounds a lot like the way the late Rachel Corrie threw herself under an IDF bulldozer, if the official account is to be believed. 😡
“Don’t worry, be Happy!” Our betters have plans to make life easier for all of us.
https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/videos/8-predictions-for-the-world-in-2030/10153920524981479/
Why do people even bother reading a paltry rag like The Guardian? When you stoop to such low levels of journalistic brain salad, you only prove your own idiocy. Get a life.
I dare-say that reading the Guardian would be no different to reading The Daily Telegraph … or the SMH, they’re ALL full of the manure that the govt. of the day and the Oligarch-Class want to promote. So, on that note, I would suggest that it can be, in an indirect way, very informative to ‘know’ what the enemy of the people want you/me/we to think.
I’ve heard the argument of “knowing thine enemy” many, many times. In the case of the Guardian and similar rags, their “success” as well as their content, is driven by algorithms and the number of sponsors they attract.
If people would quit frequenting these pig swill sites, the sites would die off or change their tune. Food for thought is one thing. Swilling from an intellectual cattle trough is another.
Where’s Israel in this wrap? As in: the Jewish state will again this year try to blow up the world if it sees an advantage to it?
Just because it’s an easy one doesn’t mean you don’t list it.
CORRECTION: They’ll try and get the US to blow up the world for them.
Here’s a new thing for me at least. I have noted that some YouTube items have a “corrective panel” immediately below the video which is explained thus:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9004474?hl=en
“Information panel giving topical context”
Then there is a special highlighted area which reads:
“Note: In response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), you may see information panels with links to learn more about COVID-19 or COVID-19 vaccine info. In some places, you’ll notice COVID-19 info or COVID-19 vaccine info in local languages with links to local sources, such as health ministries and centers for disease control.”
Then the rest of the “regular text”:
“When you search or watch videos related to topics prone to misinformation, such as the moon landing, you may see an information panel at the top of your search results or under a video you’re watching. Information panels show basic background info, sourced from independent, third-party partners, to give more context on a topic. If you want to learn more, the panels also link to the third-party partner’s website. These information panels will show regardless of what opinions or perspectives are expressed in a video. Information panels may not be available in all countries/regions and languages. We’re working to bring information panels to more countries/regions.”
I first encountered this bit of “information management highlighting” in a video about the Flat Earth – a theory which I don’t endorse although these days I am coming to doubt everything that has been pushed in the name of “science”.
But the point is that, in a truly free society in which conversation should be unfettered, why these little announcements from “The Management”? You would have thought the “Flat Earth” notion would hardly be any kind of threat to Those Ones Up There.
A fact checker’s work is never done.
”Likewise, last year we predicted the massive increase in the discussion of central bank digital currencies…”however we didn’t see the “war” in Ukraine coming.”
” Well you should have tried Specsavers old chap; but I am here being facetious.”
That being said whole NATO eastward juggernaut process started with the assurance of ‘not an inch toward’ by NATO, unfortunately this was an outright lie. The US/NATO every intention of expanding toward the ex-Soviet states including Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, the Baltics, all the ex-Soviet states in Central and Eastern Europe and even Sweden and Finland. This has made the current war inevitable. But it made the neo-cons deliriously happy.
The whole process of the NATO/US eastward expansion was also be traced back – a fortiori – particularly in Ukraine with the ‘Orange Revolution’ of 1903/5 and then the Maidan putsch in 2014 and following the war of 2014-15 in the Don Bass where the local militias outfought the Ukie army which did not penetrate the Donbass but shelled it from a distance for the ensuing 8 years causing some 14000 casualties and rising.
Before the war started, no one in alt media believed it would happen in a million years. We all thought only NATO did that kind of thing (invasions) and Putin was more civilized. We still kinda pretend that now, rationalizing that the West must have forced Putin’s hand.
But now I think it’s clear that the war is not what it is purported to be. A real war would have ended by now. This conflict is meant to be endless by design, as it’s real purpose is to provide a new excuse for the continued self destruction of the global “economy” and “supply chain” after the COVID excuse wore thin
“We all thought only NATO did that kind of thing (invasions) and Putin was more civilized”
Fight or Flight is much older than Civilization; it is a survival instinct tried and tested over millions of years of evolution. By the time NATZO is on your border, there is nothing left but to flee or fight. Putin chose to fight.
Thats the official opposition narrative. It’s also possible that Putin thought that was a good cover story for helping his mentor Klaus Schwab launch the fourth industrial revolution
I think you’re on to something. Although I’m far more sympathetic to Russia than to Ukraine, I cannot for the life of me figure out Putin’s strategy or objectives in this war. All his fanboys on the internet just keeping offering shifting rationales and explanations. It’s frustrating.
This fanboy has never shifted his rationale for Putin’s actions: he works to save Russia from being raped and dismembered by the Anglo-Zionazi-Capitalist Oligarchs and their NATZO attack dog. No other country (with the possible exception of China) has jailed so many Jewish oligarchs as Putin has, nor sent them where they belong — to London.
”This conflict is meant to be endless by design …” Really?! I’d put money on the opposite outcome. How exactly would you distinguish between ‘real wars’ as opposed to fake wars? It looks pretty real to me.
“fake war? It looks pretty real to me.'”
To me also:
“Mariupol rebuilt from ashes with large construction projects underway:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/mariupol_0101:4
Recent Russian cruise missile strike, hitting target:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/hKmr78PgA4UN/
Russian Giatsint-B howitzer pounding the NATZO proxies:
https://rutube.ru/video/cd904c29218539255a2b5190399890de/
Russian Msta-S self-propelled howitzers in action:
https://rutube.ru/video/a7900c71b43e221cde771881b413cdd9/
Russian Uragan MLRS fires on NATZO position:
https://rutube.ru/video/99b4d88ead37e8ffdb1b1770b590fd9d/
Russian Su-25 conducts airstrike:
https://rutube.ru/video/8ebe597058626a213d6709548e9c6be7/
A group of NATZO’s Kiev regime troops get blown up:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Xjpc4AlbCb0i/
Russian ATGM destroys NATZO tank:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ASdqouMMXcYO/
Important to note that it’s not just Russia vs NATZO’s Kiev regime. NATZO has also been ‘encouraging’ member states to dress their own troops in Ukrainian uniform and send them to the front. The Kharkov offensive was allegedly 30% NATZO forces, as established by radio chatter in English, Polish and other languages. Poles are now within sight of doing the majority of the dying on Front Line Ukraine.
It looks like a demolition/rebuilding project and relocation of residents ( many of them relocated abroad in the west, along with other ‘migrants’ from other regions/countries as well).
A disruption project like covid was to introduce a multiplicity of financial, behavioural, social, economic changes, that has made a few people tons of cash, while a majority get a few crumbs. And to be brutally frank the masses seem pretty content with their trinkets/gadgets and glittery beads.
The war has already gone on WAY longer than anyone in alt media predicted. We all thought Russia would within a month or two. Now it’s been over a year.
i’m not saying fighting and destruction is not happening.but the reason for the war is not simply “Russia needed to stop NATO shenanigans”. Putin is helping NATO reset the world by his actions. Id argue intentionally and consciously.
Youre absolutely correct. Theyre all on the same team working towards the same goal. People however still cannot see through the fake borders and believe the ‘putin vs the west’ narrative the msm has been pushing for decades now. They may fight each other for a better seat at the technocratic table now and then, but they’re ALL very much tied to the NWO agenda and committed to the 4th IR.
Putin’s New Year Speech to the Russian nation.
Analysis by Alex Mercouris:
https://youtu.be/f9RdjkPjjQA
At 43 minutes Alex goes into a very interesting analysis:
What does Putin mean by Traditional Family Values, and why does Putin think private lives and voluntary groups are important for the health of a democratic society?
from a bunker!
aye, we can hope…..
I wasn’t aware that the Graud has a “content funding” sector,
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2016/jan/25/content-funding
Which leads to articles such as this:
https://www.theguardian.com/pioneering-innovation-for-a-purposeful-future/2022/sep/02/can-a-fourth-industrial-revolution-lead-to-a-climate-positive-future
“A suite of technologies known as the fourth industrial revolution – including systems such as robotics, artificial intelligence and decentralised edge computing – is helping to make factories more efficient and sustainable
Carbon-spewing factories that fuel global warming could become a thing of the past if manufacturers use the latest digital technology to slash carbon emissions and boost energy efficiency.”
It’s a little bit more bearable when this kind of corporate pep talk is blatantly admitted to be “paid for”. But any glance at the Graud’s usual content i.e. the “non-content funded” content, shows very little variation on the stuff that’s “paid for”. In short, everything the Graud shows is paid for.
As is what everyone else in the mainstream media shows.
It’s a con trick. The Guardian’s cod-left-wing piffle is a cover for far-right foreign policy goals for its US masters. I gave up on the Guardian because of their lies about Corbyn, which brought into the open who they were really working for.
All policy in representative/modern democracy is paid for.
Dammit! Paywalls stop me accessing such enlightening Graud articles as,
“The state of our oceans The hidden underwater forests that could help tackle the climate crisis”
“Underwater forests” suggests another gravy train of invisible resources to disappear wads of public cash into.
“Weather tracker San Francisco hit by second rainiest day on record”
I hope that one is more exciting than it sounds!
“Environmental review of 2022 Another mile on the ‘highway to climate hell’”
Much better! “Another mile”, “Highway”, “Hell” – yes excellent stuff to generate mass masturbation to a true pandemic of fear!
“Weather tracker Floods and a tornado hit New Zealand as Europe heats up”
Europe is “heating up”. Well, our Caledonian corner most certainly isn’t. But, like the piled up corpses in hospitals, I’m sure it’s happening somewhere!
Here’s my prediction for 2023 (and I may end up with egg on my face):
The psychos will finally run out of crazy, psychotic ideas and plans for humanity. So the Guardian will have a contest where the general public can submit their psychotic ideas for humanity.
All the submissions will be put into a giant hopper. And they’ll lower George Monbiot or possibly Jonathan Chait into the hopper, where he’ll rummage around and finally select one.
And the winning entry will be given a year’s subscription to the Guardian – which will guarantee at least one person reads it in 2023.
Apart from George Mc? He loves it.
I like to keep Off-Guardian in touch with its roots.
Well, that’s your choice George, of course, but personally speaking, I prefer to avoid things I don’t like. 🙂
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Bolox. My apologies, the smiley face wasn’t intentional! I really did mean to put just a colon followed by a comma! (If I had wanted to put a smiley face emoji I’d have put one!)
I didn’t.
A very laudable comment John. Unfortunately ever since the dawn of covid I have found it increasingly difficult to avoid things I don’t like – especially when they scream into my face 24/7 for three years and counting.
I’m not so sure about that – last time I checked they were shifting about 3 million hard copies of The Guardian a day in Brighton alone (Soviet Britain loves The Guardian) – that’s why they all wear £350 a pair forager’s trousers down there, ’cause they need the pockets to keep all the Guardians in, to make sure everyone gets a copy so they can be safe by having the latest info on Covid variants/death toll and monkeypox and the Climate Emergency and LGBT rights for 6 month old babies. Then they have the lurrrvely new 5G network of microwave emitting masts to keep everyone safe because then everyone who doesn’t get a hard copy can read it online and read the comments to learn how to behave.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/02/new-labour-government-promise-electoral-reform
How can we give more weight to the – AHEM! – “progressive” vote? After all,
“People want climate action and social justice, but the political system works against it.”
(“People”? What people? Well, the people who “want climate action and social justice”! “Social justice”? Oh never mind!)
We need PR. Public relations? Nah, proportional representation. This “refers to a type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body”. (Wiki) Exactly how it works is less important than the obvious fact that the writer clearly assumes it will lead to these “progressive” politics i.e. the stuff that insists on “an alliance to govern on the big challenges of inequality, climate chaos, housing and social care”.
“Housing” and “social care” sound like urgent matters. But it is clear since the dawn of covid that certain terms, like “social care”, are somewhat elastic. Tackling “inequality” depends on where the latest goalposts are. And “climate chaos” is just a Pavlovian noise to justify whatever policy the totally non-representational elites want.
The dire present situation is described thus,
“Instead, by fighting on the terrain of elites, swing voters and the demands of the rightwing media, any Labour victory is in danger of caging itself in”.
Thus do the elites present themselves as being against the elites! After all, these non-elite elites are “on the Left”.
You may wonder why this PR seems to hold out so much hope for these “progressives”. Well you see,
“Recent polling shows …”
Etc etc etc.
Some light relief:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/02/learning-ukrainian-language-political-solidarity-victims-vladimir-putin
The most ambitious challenge yet to those eager to show their Woke credentials:
“…people across the globe have been learning Ukrainian to express their solidarity with the victims of Vladimir Putin’s aggression.”
See you in class, (non-Russian) comrades!
I met a Russian-speaking woman who kissed the ground of the country in which she found refuge from the economic horrors of Ukraine under the Oligarchs, 30 years ago: a little girl getting up at 4am to queue in the freezing street for the bread shop to open; the years when women had nothing to sell except themselves, and the Russian name “Natasha” became Turkish slang for a prostitute. She told me that she was so angry with Putler that she was going to forget her Russian and learn to speak Ukrainian.
In Russian: man woman bread house warmth health:
In Ukrainian: man woman bread house warmth health:
The basic fundamentals of life. what’s a vowel between friends?
Some say ‘sconn’ and some say ‘scown’ … some say tomay-to and some say tom-art-to …
I am musing that the difference between Russian and Ukrainian is about the same as the difference between English and Glaswegian.
2023 sees no federal elections in the USA which would conventional wisdom suggests makes it a good year to introduce things that no amount of spin can make popular. However the US electoral process is now so corrupted I doubt this is a factor anymore.
It also shouldn’t be an election year in the UK – but the Fraud has stories up about 2023 seeing a general election. It’s probably fakery to keep the faithful mobilised. There’s also been plenty floated recently about a referendum to reverse Brexit. I wonder if they could manouevre a re-entry without a referendum?
Anyway, the big three of technocracy, transhumanism and neo-feudalism will continue to be pushed forward with precise details remaining to be seen.
“Predicting the future is a hit-and-miss game.”
But it can be done by identifying pattern. Mankind faces doom by ignoring pattern.
https://patternofhistory.wordpress.com/
transient patterns!
Now this is ominous:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/02/ministers-studying-plans-for-uk-child-specific-terrorism-orders
“Ministers studying plans for UK child-specific terrorism orders
Exclusive: Official adviser recommends giving those arrested for low-level crimes a choice to accept help or face jail …. Ministers are studying plans that would result in children being compelled to accept help or face jail, devised by Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation.
The move comes as the number of children arrested has increased, mainly for lower-level terrorism offences, such as sharing propaganda or downloading material. The rise has been fuelled by growing internet use and an increase in terrorist propaganda available online, with children as young as 13 being arrested.”
Sounds serious, doesn’t it? Kinda makes you feel you ought to be getting a bit more info on what exactly this “terrorism” is. I mean – 13 year olds?
Is this a clue:
“….during the last three years there has been a slew of internet cases where the suspected terrorist conduct all relates to what children are saying or downloading online.”
The “last three years”?! Oddly specific time period!
But this specificity is not matched by any definition of the actual threat. We have this attempt to link the whole matter with a previous mode of “terrorism”:
“There is a repeat pattern of particular offences, which I call documentary offences – instruction manuals, terrorist publications, encouragement – all internet-based, where there is no evidence of attack-planning. These offences were created at a time when there was a clearer link between words and violence, in the context of the IRA and al-Qaida. That link is less clear for children online.”
“Less clear” is right! But we then hear about “proposals”:
“… monitoring software on their electronic devices to detect if they are accessing extremist material, limits on their use of devices, and potentially limits on whom they could contact. They would also have to attend mentoring sessions in an attempt to divert them from any belief in violent extremism.”
Lots of incendiary verbiage but little definition. And then,
“Under the plans being studied, breaching these conditions would in itself be an arrestable offence punishable by the courts. Complying with the conditions would avoid prosecution.”
Breaching and complying with what conditions?
“….there has been a rapid growth of child terrorism suspects in England, Scotland and Wales.”
Such as?
“In the year to September 2020, 4% of those arrested were aged under 18. But in the year to September 2022, 17% of terrorism-related arrests were people under 18. That equates to 32 arrests: 12 were suspected of extreme rightwing terrorism, 16 were suspected of Islamist extremism, and for four children the ideology could not be classified.”
At least we can appreciate the candour of “not be classified”.
“The effects of lockdown, with schools closed and children in their bedrooms and searching online, was also thought to be a factor.”
Again drifting dangerously close to what this is really all about i.e. the post-covid realm.
“… those at risk of radicalisation but yet to offend and those convicted and in jail for terrorism offences have significant levels of mental health challenges or other vulnerabilities. Last year, the Guardian revealed that up to seven in 10 people referred to Prevent may experience mental ill health or other vulnerabilities that could leave them susceptible to falling for propaganda from violent extremists. Those involved in Prevent believe such psychological problems are much more of a potential factor than first thought.”
And,
“…the most serious cases involving children should still lead to prosecutions, and said police were right to arrest children for lower-level terrorism offences. “Where there is a degree of uncertainty about the risk to the public, there will be no alternative to going through the door,””
Ah we must err on “the side of caution”!
But there is one thing that is not in doubt. The rising generation is going to come under increasing pressure to steer them away from “thought crimes”.
The article, or the interviewees, equate “ideological cause” with mental health issues.
“There is a growing belief among counter-terrorism officials that a section of those arrested, while clearly breaking terrorism laws, pose little threat of staging an attack.”
Well if they never were going to stage an attack… they cannot be terrorists, can they?
Except in the Guardianverse.
I have a thought.. it is about the demise of nation state system and the elimination not of poverty, but of wealth.. Lets eliminate wealth .. leave poverty alone. The RULERS HAVE TRIED FOR CENTURIES TO ELIMINATE POVERTY<=they say, BUT THE RULERS HAVE ONLY MADE POVERTY WORSE AND DISTRIBUTED ITS EFFECTS GLOBALLY<=we know.. Its time to work the inequality of income problem from the other end.
Eliminate wealth.. merely sink into the oceans all of the tax-avoiding wealth protecting crime-inducing hidden off-shore heavens and remove the privatization of government by method of incorporating monopoly powers into non human entities. NO MORE NON-HUMAN ENTITIES!. Governments will not need to appropriate billions or trillions to solve the inequality of income problem this way. Its much cheaper to eliminate wealth than it is to eliminate poverty. The wealthy can pay for their own elimination. Revoke the power of government to issue charters to non humans.
yes exactly why is there no maximum wage ?
Excellent! Seems the “war on cancer” has only resulted in more diagnosis of cancer. Funny how the two are related…
And now there’s this:
Ah yes. An atypical reversal of cause and effect. Keeps the plebs buttoned down and stupid.
Still it’s nice to know that the Graud is actually opposed to locking kids up:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/02/philosophy-children-prison-moral-anger-young-lives-wasted-politicians
“The arguments against imprisoning children are well established, yet still we lock up those who have been failed”
I presume these children who “have been failed” are not the same ones accessing Evil Terrorist Extremist Radical messages on the net?
The Greed can be bribed to change its mind overnight, however…
Well according to the headlines I’ve sampled today. The First Big Topic of 2023 has been the impending undeniable unavoidable relentless collapse of the NHS which is on its last legs, dying a death, a flogged dead horse, yesterday’s news – blah blah cliché machine overload. We just can’t go on like this with the covid pandemic, the new flu, the coughing cancer, the strange inexplicable heart attacks, the psychological deterioration, the stress of the media telling us all we’re stressed etc. Not to mention climate meltdown conditions and their innumerable medical pathologies, also monkeypox, donkeypox, duck billed platypus pox, transitioning transgender non-binary mama pajamas and generally people just not feeling well at all.
It’s only just January and already getting a sense of deja Vu from 3 years ago with all this talk about closing the borders to travellers from China, because… *Drumroll*… the fucking coof. Again.
Strictly speaking, it can’t be deja vu if nothing has moved on anyway. It’s Groundhog Day. And that leads to schizophrenia. Because time will move on anyway. There have been all sorts of developments in the actual world – mostly involving a growing awareness tied to increasing evidence that covid (amonsgt other things) is an utter fraud. However – you will never hear any admission of this in the media who have lied, have been found out …. and merely repeat the lie over and over.
1st article of the year
offguardian does a MSM and discuss’s state dependency..(whilst they scream for donations).How many articles have you done on tax fraud by government stealing tax from the people.??
Let me check
NONE
there you go .
#like all of this new alternate media, they kind of shill for the oligarchy as in
Benefit people bad. Paying tax’s and N.I which has gone up again and 3.500+ euro a year in fucking ‘electric gas hardly a mur mur’. ‘Retirement age gone up again hardly a mur mur’.
Because in a democratically deluded world, You must pay your way, so we can be governed.
UBI means the state will control you. Working means they dont. LOL
Whilst you pay ALL theses tax’s and the new ones added by stealth and a extra 35% increase on everything.
What about theses freedom working people..?? who had to take the jab
OR GET TESTED to work.?
Your logic falls flat on its face. Selling a agenda does do that.
Repeating it constantly doesn’t make it true.
That some fucking psyop. ‘UBI evil’.
but working paying tax means freedom – control.
The state already controls you. The Lockdown proved this.
But they sell it to you as- it doesn’t – IF you work.
You MUST work. OBEY. Alternative media In a coordinated effect will tell you this –
You have more freedom’s – if you work- then they have a half page begging bowl donations wall. Paypal, patroen, bitcoin, cheques, bank account details.
So they dont have to work.
What you say here falls in the category of “stating the obvious.” With the added feature of assuming that others don’t see the obvious or recognize it for what it is.
Of course taxation falls overwhelmingly on the “working class.” Of course, also, working has largely become an exercise in getting enough capital to pay those taxes.
Unfortunately, the issue of “work” is the age-old and ultimate human conundrum; and it’s never been solved.
Imagine a game of Rubick Cube that has no solution no matter how long or how diligently you play it. That’s what “work” is.
From the New New Normal:
The defence ministers of Russia, Turkey and Syria met in Moscow on Wednesday, the first talk between Syria and NATZO member Turkey since the invasion of Syria by NATZO and NATZO’s ISIS proxies in 2010. Erdogan, with his finger up to test the wind (currently blowing from the SCO quarter) is playing Pig in the Middle.
When the banner on the right is changed to “New Deadly Variant Imminent!”, the whole queue will switch over. I can’t subscribe to the ‘wishful thinking’ kind of optimism.
But I still desperately hope you’re right.
The Get your 4th booster crowd will soon be discussing the new world order as Tucker Calson caters for that crowd.
Hot off the press 😲 :
Yes, the notion that the world will either be divided into a false ” multipolar world”..” would be looked at from a different point of view from the citzens of the Donbas !
Yes, I suspect that the “false” (in OffG’s “false multipolar”) is false.
For the second time in my life, I see a wind from the East sweeping away the Western capitalist cabal and their fascist New World Order. In 2023, oppressed countries see Russia’s action as a chance for a true Multipolar World. Similar to the “trentes annees glorieuse” of European prosperity under Socialism, after Russia’s de-Nazification of Europe in 1945.
https://youtu.be/zmjz2fCjUNE
Re: the Tisdall Graud piece: “Ukraine is in the headlines now”. Don’t you just love it when the media manufacture something and then say that it’s “just happening anyway”? Ukraine is in the headlines because you lot put it there.
Love the close too:
“Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us …”
How very open of them. Trashing the whole Below The Line space and suggesting you write a stern letter instead!
One thing for sure: We’ll be hearing a lot more from this ubiquitous chap “survey” as in:
He’s such a modest unassuming chap – note how he always signs himself with a small “s”.
And he’s really hard working. He gets everywhere these days!
You only need to check the menu at the recent WEF meeting/conference, too see who will be eating the insects and who will be eating the meat.
1% of all adults want to eat bugs.
2% of all young people want to eat bugs.
Graun: ‘Eating Bugs Twice as Popular Among Young People Compared With Adults!’
Why, it’s simple arithmetic!
Incidentally, this sounds remarkably close to Big Pharma’s sleight-of-hand method for calculating the margin of safety on their noxious products.
Not a word about Palestine.
No matter … Here’s Ramzy Baroud:
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230101-culture-of-hope-2022-and-the-margins-of-victory-in-palestine/
Continued immiseration through rampant inflation is one likely theme. The “Left” remain silent on this because they’ve been brainwashed for half a century into seeing inflation as something only “the Right” should bother about. It salami-slices more and more people into not being able to afford meat, travel etc without explicit prohibitions ever being needed.
The fakeness of UBI is seen in that those advocating it never support helping people to help themselves. Dependence is clearly their goal. UBI is not a good idea corrupted, it’s an inherently bad idea as the UBI for lab rats’ experiment showed.
It’s a control freak’s wet dream. Institutionalised bullying without limits.
Here’s an indication of one newly minted fake movement that we are bound to hear more of and also more confirmation of the continuing success of the “Right on, posturing Leftist” strategy of the post-covid world.
A guy I know, who has always prided himself on his groovy rebel Leftism – and who naturally fell completely for covid – has now fallen, naturally, for the phony Twitter storm over smalldickenergy I.e the totally contrived punch up between super sassy Little Greta and nasty macho Andrew Tate. This guy has gladly joined in with the circulation of a list (initiated, surprise surprise, by Laura Keunssberg) of Right Tory Loving Reactionary “Tates” e.g. Jeremy Clarkson, Jacob Rees Mogg, Boris etc.
Oh what a hoot!
Oh what a sadly manipulated mass of plasticine!
So you think mr Nobody Tate should be allowed to be a vicious sexist arsehole and suspected human trafficker. Sometimes I get the idea you blokes are so fixated on hating a young girl you will excuse any vile behaviour by nobodies who abuse her.
Her first abusers were her parents, who let her crash into the ridiculous situation the poor young woman is in now – until she becomes last season’s fad, finally.
I imagine that her parents still think she’s doing great green campaigning, by being thrown into the media propaganda machine, to get chewed up and spat out after her ‘newsy’ sell-by date passes.
Oh for fuck’s sake wise up. Tate, Thunberg et al. are media creations whose relevance lies entirely in the way their images are being used. They themselves may be (take your pick) innocent little flowers, psycho-killers, gay, straight, bi, wonderful folk etc. It matters not one jot. This entire scenario is pure theatre – the Woke Leftists against the Old Order. Kuenssberg is one of the clown controllers instructed by her masters to churn out the requisite pantomime to keep the masses entranced by a phony showbiz war.
I’m not sure why you feel so threatened by Mr Tate?
Speaking for myself, I have never disliked Greta Thunberg. And by the way Ms Thunberg is not “a young girl”, she is a grown woman. An adult.
I don’t dislike Greta Thunberg, I dislike the message that she promotes.
A message that she was carefully selected to promote by the people behind her. People who cynically exploited her childish innocence, knowing that adults would fall for it.
Thunderberg funded by George Soros, as usual, just follow the money.
Quite possibly, and the rest.
Hello Marilyn Shepherd: As I stated in the last Greta bashing contest, the above persons are developmentally arrested. The adolescent behavior is nauseating.
Though I actually do have great concern for what humans are doing vis-a-vis the climate, I view Miss Greta as heiress to the Kuwaiti Ambassador’s daughter who told the American people the Iraqi soldiers were removing babies from their incubators and throwing them on the floor. Pure theater.
In fact, it’s because of my concern for the climate that I resent Miss Greta’s cartoonish presentation.
I fear for the climate too. I fear what they are going to do to it in their pathological desire to arrest “climate change”.
World War Wang rages on …
Mr. Tate gave a good description of my country, Romania. He loves living in Romania. I also love living here. At least, there are not so many stupid people trusting the government like in the West. This is one of Romania’s strenghts. https://www.facebook.com/100006607307583/videos/543453737710037
Once UBI covers most people, the next step will be cutting costs. It’s the final solution.
Interestingly enough, Ancient Egypt (i.e. the days of the pharaohs) was entirely run on a “Universal Basic Income” scheme in which all “subjects” were paid for and fed by the state. In fact, they didn’t even have any money – only allotments of food as a measure of value.
That was slavery. The overlords phased out slavery because serfdom was cheaper.
You fail to mention a key aspect that enabled them to implement UBI; use of the whip.
http://archive.understandingslavery.com/index.php-option=com_content&view=article&id=532_cat-onine-tails&catid=145&Itemid=255.html
Hence the newspaper report I read a long time ago, of an ancient graffito found in Egypt. It read:
Wot! No beans?
Could you offer a link to a scholarly source for your assertion? Thanks.
Note the indoctrinated interpretations penned by “expert” readers. The Egyptian culture was much more egalitarian than our current degenerated lot. The evidences that Egyptian infrastructures were built by forced slavery, are weak at best.
This linked presentation is not the one I originally had on file. But the comments beginning at about 6:30 into the dialog are interesting. >
Göbekli Tepe: The Dawn of Civilization
Göbekli Tepe: The Dawn of Civilization – YouTube
There are other more scholarly presentations available. Modern dictates describing early Egyptian culture, are complete bullshit…
The hyperbole gushes like a sewer:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/30/zzxe-d30.html
WSWS.org
Does that stand for What Shit What Shit ?
The renting clothes has been happening for quite some time in silicone valley area….my friends visited their offspring years ago and came back talking about it….it seemed a very convenient way to lessen storage space in small apartments….
others here I know practiced buying a new set of outfits each season and giving them back to the 2nd hand shops at end of the season….they just did it because they liked the movement of cloth varieties….nothing sinister…
it occurred to me that some are always looking for a way to make money and these are….given the huge quantity of clothes that end up in land fill, I suspect it is one of the better human behaviours,..
My family has been prepping a lot in 2022. But lately I’m seeing LOTS of chemtrails. (I live in the NorthEast in the USA.) My guess is the claims of geo-engineering are cover for poisoning of the populace. So although we’re unvaxxed we might already be dead and just don’t know it yet.
My prediction for 2023 is the stock market will tank due to higher interest rates. It’s inevitable since the easy money is a thing of the past.
Remember X-files episodes about chem trails and iruses?!
How do the big shots avoid being affected by the chemtrails?
They don’t, because no-one is fully in charge. It’s just a case of some irresponsible, but capable, clique deciding that they’re going to try it anyway, on their own unaccountable, unrestrained initiative, and see what happens. Because the ‘problem’ is urgent, you see, and “something must be done!”
The big shots only care about avoiding their own poison if you accept the movie script that they plan to survive as Dr Evils.
Increasingly I think we witness competing, powerful groups that operate as cults – including variants of occult, Babylonian, Frankist, Malthusian, eugenic, pseudo-scientific, anti-human “humanist” societies that have existed for centuries.
It totally baffles me … I mean, after allthe “big shots” live homeless, slithering in swamps near major airports like Newark and JFK (swamps in beautiful Bayonne, NJ and Jamaica, NY.).
And yet, they avoid being affected by chemtrails. The same way they avoid adverse effects of the gene therapy shots they’ve all been injected with. Amazing!
Shouldn’t there be by now a new calendar to date before and after the covid era (BCE/ACE)? It would mark the end of the modern world, with dreams of democracy and hope of revolution, as briefly signified by the French republican calendar for instance, and the start of the great and glorious history of trans-humankind in the brave new techno-feudal dungeon.
The new year could begin March 11, in memory of the declaration by global governance that the big lie was now truth. Perhaps it also could be preceded by seasonal celebration of a new religion or culture for the new abnormal, with tales of Satan Klaus dropping in on smart homes across a prison planet to take whatever people still might have so as to live happily ever after with nothing.
Or the new year could begin at some date to commemorate the original worldwide lockdowns as people of the world since permanently settle down into temporary state-of-emergency states of siege with all manner of pandemiconium, from climate crises to wars and rumors of war, pounding them/us into obedience.
The biosecurity state lives off fear. Whatever year of its totalitarian death march of progress we find ourselves in, it’s the Year of Fear. Fear is the health of the fascist state, systemically subjecting us under bought and paid for rule of law to universal alienation, and dependence upon all its programs to protect us from ourselves. All life is now to live under siege to the masters (monsters) of mankind, their vile maxim of all for themselves, nothing for us (Adam Smith) lorded over us on multiple fronts of the biopolitics of war, defending our safety at all costs, not least of all our liberty and lives.
Just today, the news(peak) featured a classy piece on the top six US cities to be likely targets for nuclear bombs, replacing dear old cold war traditions like ‘duck and cover’ with ‘stop, drop, and roll’ – as if only your clothes are on fire – and ‘get inside, stay inside, and tune in’ – before turning into a pillar of dust – to accustom us to the unthinkable. A big concern of those watching over our welfare reportedly has to do with radiation sickness among the unlikely survivors of ‘limited’ strikes, so perhaps the upcoming year will start featuring infomercials on designer drugs from the Pharmafia for this latest threat to public health, just so bioweapons can be rolled out on another front of world war against humanity forgotten every day beneath the headlines.
A big story in the current commemoration of the new year appears to be one of those many opportune terrorist attacks, this one by a machete-wielding tourist from Maine setting upon armed police in Times Square, just to insure his quick getaway. And just to be sure this crisis serves the Pharmafia’s interests again, perhaps we should also be looking this next year for ads on the nightly news(peak) for more poisons commodified for such fictions of mental illness as information disorder and other associated public health threats in the Homeland. In the free market uber alles, we have the privilege of paying to build our own prison.
Here in the western US, it’s a daily assault of drought and other catastrophe setting the stage for bioterror from the natural world, and Big Brother to the rescue. Maybe the new year will focus official propaganda on the all too old weather warfare of geoengineering to synthetically save the planet from itself, the scientific age’s mythology of civilization protecting us from nature, red in tooth and claw, with a vengeance.
Basically, those calling the shots, literally and figuratively, are liable to come up with anything and everything to meet the goals of global domination they’ve set for us untermenschen. Anything, everything goes this and every year of fear, if only to hide in plain sight what’s passing us by every day, a 5G tree over there, a drone overhead…until we get out from behind the headlines and assume public power over our lives again and begin our own era of resistance. In the meantime, happy new year of the apocalypse.
Pol Pot also started a new calendar.
So did the French in 1792. 🗓 🇫🇷
I’ve often wondered why, when invoking homicidal maniacs, the go-to is Hitler and never Pol Pot or any of the other candidates for “worst person ever”.
I don’t know. Maybe not enough Cambodians own big media outlets? 😉
Some important coteries don’t want any distraction from their rewritten history of WW2 which they have been reiterating for 60-70 years. As recently as 2019, EU parliament passed a resolution blaming Germany and Russia alone for that war.
If the traditional Heaven/Hell concept of an afterlife is true, presumably Genghis Khan and Vlad the Impaler have been sulking in Hell since the World War II era, furious at being displaced as the most popular dictatorial monster in history. 👿 😡
Also, don’t forget the new roll call of designated saints e.g. Saint Bill, Saint Greta, Saint Monbiot etc. Of course they will not be classed under anything so vulgar and “hateful” as a specific gender.
What did one Sheeple say to the other ?
‘Happy New Fear !!’
Droll. I know.
But as Maxwell Smart (agent 86) used to say:
‘And loving it!’
The notion of rent has always been Implicit in the WEF’s
dictum. To implement this, private property must be subsumed by the state then rented out on a social credit points basis. Any private money in the bank will be re-allocated to a central fund from which all non-WEF beings will be ‘paid’ a Universal Basic Income. Anyone who has the temerity to not express happiness with these outcomes will probably incur social demerit points. It will all be part of the fun. Sleep won’t bring relief either. With a restless, tormented night’s sleep Saint Greta will come to you in your feverish dreams and say “How dare you not be happy”.
Something to look forward to.
A form of imprisonment because you are poor.
The ‘State’? Surely not. One of the signature features of modern neoliberal capitalism is that where there’s money to be made the state defers to private enterprise. So your fear of ‘the state’ owning everything is unfounded; instead you’ll be ‘owned’ by corporate interests — they’ll employ you (if you’re suitable and behave yourself), they’ll rent you a living space and everything you need to live in it, provide utilities, food, clothing and so on. Its really just a larger scale version — an upgrade, if you like — to the old company town / company store setup.
They will naturally do what they can to denigrate ‘the state’. They’ll capture it, of course, so it can act as enforcement arm and deal with those aspects of human life that are not profitable, but they don’t want you to see ‘the state’ as “us”, as an expression of our will, because this will undermine their power.
This might sound a bit far fetched but its really how most of us live today.
“Its really just a larger scale version — an upgrade, if you like — to the old company town / company store setup.”
A poor man’s made of muscle and blood
A mind that’s weak and a back that’s strong.
You shift Sixteen Tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter don’t call me coz I cant go
I owe my life to the company store.
TMTCH “company town”
long time
In Schwab’s native Germany, most people rent their homes.
He’s Swiss. Not German.
excellent! lol,
not greta ; )
Another masterpiece, Kit! Keep ’em coming … and have a great new year (if possible).
Spokane, WA: Baby Alex was born with a 95% survivable heart defect, but he was anemic & needed a transfusion. A member of the parents’ church donated unvaxxed blood of the same type, but the hospital claimed they “couldn’t find it” & transfused the babe with vaxxed blood without consent.
The next day the baby had a large bloodclot in his knee; blood thinners were given, but the clot travelled to the heart killing him.
The parents are accusing Sacred Heart’s Children’s Hospital in Spokane of deleting records. They had followed the protocol for directed blood transfusion.
https://www.independentsentinel.com/the-sad-story-of-baby-alex-blood-clots-and-vaccinated-blood/
“Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital”
Nice irony.
Today in the New Normal:
Saffron Barker reveals brother Casey, 27, has suffered ‘major heart attack’ (msn.com)
Can we stop using expression like “recipe for a truly dystopian society”, makes it sound like an imaginary prospect.
Its a bit long winded but how about something like;
“Combine a nationwide……..and social credit systems, then you have the successful enslavement of society, absent of any freedom, and never likely to experience such a thing ever again, ever.
Time to flee?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/30/exiled-chief-rabbi-jews-should-leave-russia-while-they-can-pinchas-goldschmidt-war-ukraine
Stephen Burgen in Barcelona
Fri 30 Dec 2022
Moscow’s exiled chief rabbi says Jews should leave Russia while they still can, before they are made scapegoats for the hardship caused by the war in Ukraine.
“When we look back over Russian history, whenever the political system was in danger you saw the government trying to redirect the anger and discontent of the masses towards the Jewish community,” Pinchas Goldschmidt told the Guardian. “We saw this in tsarist times and at the end of the Stalinist regime.”
“We’re seeing rising antisemitism while Russia is going back to a new kind of Soviet Union, and step by step the iron curtain is coming down again. This is why I believe the best option for Russian Jews is to leave,” he added.
Goldschmidt resigned from his post and left Russia in July after refusing to back the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Pressure was put on community leaders to support the war and I refused to do so. I resigned because to continue as chief rabbi of Moscow would be a problem for the community because of the repressive measures taken against dissidents,” he said.
https://mailstar.net/Diky-Jews-Russia.html
No need to worry, Rabbi … whenever necessary Mossad will send a clear message to the Kremlin; “Hands off the Jews!”. Just like they did by assassinating Darya Dugina.
This is what I see.
on the other side of town, et al : /
ain’t no artistrick either ; )
the woe will roll
Meanwhile, on the ‘other side of town.’
steve earle “other side of town”,
: )
Never heard of Lane Hardin. He is quite a good vocalist.
I agree. Vocals a lot like Skip James, IMO. Great guitar sound too.
If you like “Hard Times” you’ll also like the other side, “California Desert Blues” as well.
How about more “pandemics” created by more non-existent “viruses,” amounting to nothing more than numerous “cases” detected by pretend tests?
You mean, like this? 😡 :
The BS 24/7 variant.
“Taking over” indeed, and i don’t think irony was intended. 😀
Thanks for your existence and happy new year!