Meet Mark Carney – Canada’s Next (Unelected) Prime Minister
Kit Knightly
After officially resigning two months ago, Justin Trudeau is finally stepping down as Prime Minister of Canada. His replacement? The recently-selected Mark Carney.
Regular readers are no doubt familiar with Carney, he’s had quite a few high-profile jobs over the years. As a quick reminder, let’s run down the highlights of his CV:
- 1990-2003: Goldman Sachs (various)
- 2003-2007: Department of Finance, Canada (senior associate deputy minister)
- 2007-2013: Central Bank of Canada (Chairman)
- 2010-2012: Bank of International Settlements Committee on the Global Financial System (Chairman)
- 2013-2020: Bank of England (Governor)
- 2020-2024: Brookefield Asset Management (Vice-Chairman)
- 2020-2025: UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance
- 2025-????: Prime Minister of Canada…apparently
My, there are a lot of banks on that list, aren’t there? Not to mention his special appointments at Chatham House and the World Economic Forum or his regular appearances at Bilderberg. However, the eagle-eyed may note the absence of previous elected offices.
In fact, not only has he never won any elected office at any level of government, he’s never even run before. He will be the first Canadian Prime Minister to have never held a seat in the House of Commons.
Now, we could talk policy here. We could ask ourselves, “what is Carney in favour of?” or “how are things about to change?” but that would waste my time and yours. Look at his résumé. Bilderberg, UN Climate Envoy, Goldman Sachs…we know what his policies will be. The same as everyone else’s.
The only meaningful change he can offer is the further degradation of our supposedly “democratic” system.
The Liberal Party’s leadership “election” is the entire extent of his political career, and (supposing it wasn’t fixed) he won that running against a single opponent with a 37% turnout of one political party. 100,000 people. One-quarter of one percent of the population of Canada.
Three days ago we published a piece on the state of “democracy” in Romania, calling it “the first post-election democracy”. It looks like Canada is pushing hard for that silver medal.
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I love nothing better than the programmed stupidity of “the people.” The “ruling class” is obviously in the process of removing the people entirely from “democracy” – and the people STILL don’t see it. I seriously doubt if they ever will.
In the all too near future, a man wearing a hood and a cape will come out and do a – non-racist! – eeney-meeney and, after choosing the “very best one” will put a beanie on the new leader’s head. And some of the people watching at home will stand up and cheer because “their man” won the democratic election. While others will stand up and boo and swear it was fixed.
There are a lot of similarities with Starmer in the UK. Both Carney and Starmer were top functionaries working for the British government. You don’t get to be the Governor of the Bank of England or Director of Public Prosecutions without being impeccably ‘establishment’ and possibly worse than that. I suspect that is no coincidence, given the US meddling with Canada recently, and with Brexit under Johnson (basically the same issue of US domination and undermining competitors). A person with their own opinions isn’t going to be welcome leading the UK or Canada at present.
Silly title.. heads of state are elected but not by the people. Come on I thought this site was better than this.
His resume beats appeared in a reality tv show called The Apprentice and has Vince McMahon inducted them into hall of fame WWE like Trump.
Just more evidence that Canada is not a sovereign country.
Wont be long before elected means a twitter like.
“His political ambitions have been rumoured for years, but until recently the 59-year-old had brushed off the idea.
“Why don’t I become a circus clown?” he told a reporter in 2012.”
‘How Britain’s former top banker became Canada’s next prime minister
2 days ago
Ben King and Robin Levinson King
BBC News
Reporting from London, UK and Toronto, Canada
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3911lv1pzko
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“Kelly wrote in his autobiography, “I couldn’t say that life with the circus is the softest deal in the world, but it has rewarded this country boy and I would far rather live out my life in the ‘alley’ than in a marble palace.”
Emmett Kelly “Weary Willie.”
https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/emmett-kelly/
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Carney REFUSES to disclose wealth he acquired as Trudeau’s advisor
https://www.rebelnews.com/carney_refuses_to_disclose_wealth_he_acquired_as_trudeaus_advisor
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Window on the Past: The Triumph of a Sad Clown
Ray Cavanaugh
August / September 2019
https://www.irishamerica.com/2019/08/window-on-the-past-the-triumph-of-a-sad-clown/
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“The official cause of the fire remains undetermined. Early investigators said a discarded cigarette was to blame. In 1950, a twenty-one-year-old from Ohio, a roustabout who’d been working the circus, claimed responsibility. He said a Native American riding a flaming horse came in a nightmare and told him to start the fire. He was never prosecuted for the fire but served time for another, unrelated incident. In 1994, he recanted his Hartford fire confession.”
‘Tears of a Clown
William Browning
July 6, 2016
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/07/06/tears-of-a-clown/
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The Ringling Museum to open new Greatest Show on Earth Gallery
Monica Roman Gagnier
April 3, 2024
https://www.yourobserver.com/news/2024/apr/03/ringling-greatest-show-gallery/
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“[Depending on the type of facility,] you cannot touch anything in a museum, and [art] museums are fairly quiet,” she says. “You don’t have to raise your voice. So, you can make the case that when you are in the museum, you don’t have to speak loud and project more particles.” That’s important, as studies have shown that simply speaking loudly can transmit Covid-19.”
‘How Will Covid-19 Change the Way Museums Are Built?
Jennifer Billock
September 16, 2020
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-will-covid-19-change-way-future-museums-are-built-180975022/
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“Before the announcement, the outgoing prime minister, Justin Trudeau, electrified the crowd by telling Liberals he was “damn proud” of his government’s legacy.”
But he warned of dangerous time for the country. “This is a nation-defining moment. Democracy is not a given. Freedom is not a given. Even Canada is not a given,” he told supporters.”
‘Mark Carney to be next Canada PM after winning Liberal leadership race
Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Sun 9 Mar 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/09/mark-carney-to-be-next-canada-pm-after-winning-liberal-leadership-race
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“It’s time to take off your costume.
It’s time to stop playing Prime Minister.” Margaret Anna Alice
Letter to Justin Trudeau
Feb. 07, 2022
https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/07/letter-to-justin-trudeau/
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Drum beat please!
https://youtu.be/x9nmSJ3gesE?si=bJ1m-x6hbVRs9ACO
From this day forth, around trashcan bonfires on … so-called canada, Mark Carney will now be known as … Pennywise the clown 2.0
https://collider.com/stephen-king-pennywise-inspiration/
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“The Great Depression is regarded as one of the most significant economic events in human history. But humanity managed to rebound. Thanks to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, new economic and social deals to combat deflation were put in place. The Great Depression ended with the start of World War II. The new war made unemployment practically vanish, thanks to enlistment.”
’12 Heartbreaking Photos of the Great Depression
https://futuraphoto.com/blog/12-heartbreaking-photos-of-the-great-depression/
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“In March 2024, there were over 2 million visits to food banks in Canada — the highest number in history.”
https://foodbankscanada.ca/hungercount/overall-findings/
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Anteroom of Our Own Extinction
https://off-guardian.org/2021/01/18/anteroom-of-our-own-extinction/
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Rich Folks Hoax
https://youtu.be/e-cAc1AwfAw?si=lMDX37FR8k0nSJr9
Some times in the past Canadians were known as decent well educated people. In the past. In very ancient times.
I would prefer Trump at any day as President for Canada than this mister here. Good luck to our dear fellow Canadians.
They keep screaming Democracy, Democracy, Democracy when that’s the last thing they want for you.
Meet French PM Macron’s 26 years older “wife”: Becoming Brigitte: Candace Owens x Xavier Poussard They ‘met’ when he was 14.
The Mark Carney creature is amateurish compared to THAT.
Gossip Press?
Candy owen looks trannie.
Now, just like Ukraine, Canada has an unelected head of state, too!
Any wonder?
Remember, they invited, celebrated and honoured a Nazi as a guest of parliament.
[Last month] they proposed sending guns — confiscated from Canadian citizens they newly prohibited from legally obtaining and owning them — as gifts to Ukraine, where arms go missing trafficked throughout the world, ending up back on the streets where they came from, in the hands of criminals and terrorists.
Wunnerful, ain’ it?
Just like Germany, too. New right-of-centre Chancellor and Blackrock puppet, Merz, “won” with 28 percent of the vote, and only because his party, the CDU is already wedded to a further right-of-centre party, the CSU.
Within days he threw all party platform positions overboard by stating the country will be going even further into debt – for the arms race against Russia – and is building a coalition with the left-of-centre SPD – the party just voted out and with a paltry 16 percent of the votes.
Is that the will of the people? – Forget “elections.”
NONtario, CANT-NADA, Premier Dog Fart, just won a “sweeping mandate” in a ‘snap-election.’
2025 Provincial election in NONtario had around 45 per cent VOTER TURNOUT.
Dog Fart’s Progressive Conservative Party (PC) won a majority government with 43% of the (45% voter turnout) vote.
Approximately 19.52% of eligible voters in Ontario voted for Dog Fart’s PCs.
SWEEPING MANDATE!!
Seriously ?? we really at that low IQ shock and awe horror that some actor PM MP congress creature has links to the establishment.
Blow me over.
2 minute of hate.
You think by saying more of less the same things using your multi-IDs that it carries more weight?
Using both suzaloop and entitlement in this thread to have a pop at OffG while you defend Carney as you have done in the past with Starmer and Gordon Brown . Your usual M.O. of whataboutism when a perceived (by you) leftist is criticised.
On top of the other basic grammatical errors that you repeat across all monikers, you in using both suzaloop and entitlement made an additional one writing “oppsite”. Not a common word to misspell. Guilty as charged.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/12/19/how-do-we-escape-the-panopticon/#comment-701421
https://off-guardian.org/2024/11/14/rcr-monthly-trump-changes-the-method-not-the-agenda/#comment-696313
Yet, here you are months on, still churning out the same repetitive, boring shite, polluting the comments across multiple IDs and have not been banned for it.
To repeat again, before you try to deflect, I am not a multi-IDer having only one ID – Rolling Rock. Yet, I can spot ones like you easily.
The question is why have you not been banned while others have been pulled up for using multi-IDs?
If you’re asking admin we’ve already talked about this. You do some really great and interesting work, but I’m just confused as to why you have such a standoffish attitude? You are also quite selective in who you target with your meticulous research, when I know full well there are other multi posters here. Any reason why you a) feel the need to censure admin and ignore our past communications about this and b) opt to only call out this collection of monikers? It overall creates quite an awkward atmosphere, which really needn’t be. It’s all very odd, isn’t it? A2
Sam, I will give you reasons why I am interested in this multi-IDer.
First, others whom I may suspect, I cannot confirm based on evidence. So I do not want to accuse anyone of being a multi-IDer without the evidence. Obviously, if you know of them then you can take action.
Second, the one I am calling out, is 100 percent the same person based on the evidence of which I have plenty more. They attack the site constantly but with little to back up their accusations, just generic (often using a generic “you” without specifiying who) mud slinging. That seems unfair on OffG and by doing it using numerous IDs gives the impression that more people think the same about that site than actually do. At one point they had eight active multi-IDs including using two or three at a time in the same article. Also switching from one to another to reply to other people’s comments.
Furthermore, their ThickTok style of writing, pigeon English (despite English being their first language) gives the impression to any casual readers of OffG that the comments section is inhabited by retards. In fact, it serves the other side rather well – if used as an example – by showing that those who question the agendas of the Establishment, the controllers and their minions, are not smart, coherent or articulate. It effectively degrades the OffG comments section and could discourage others from commenting, especially new commenters.
Comments across the board, for example, on Substack and numerous other sites are far more coherent than this commenter. Even the Daily Mail, pretty much the only mainstream rag in the UK that allows comments has articulate, coherent commenters.
Those are the reasons I keep calling this multi-IDer out. Others are less obvious since their grammar and spelling is decent and their points and views interesting and varied. Therefore, they do not stand out, to me anyway.
Thanks for helping to keep the comments moderate! Admin would ideally love the commenting community to be entirely self-moderating, however, it’s just not that simple. The commenter in question is entirely welcome to comment, but obviously not as multiple IDs. We request that they not do this.
Unfortunately identical typos alone, while persuasive circumstantial evidence, are a bit of a slippery slope to use as admin policy and open us up to accusations of authoritarianism. More importantly, our community is responding well to this commenter, helping to keep their views in context. So why intervene? This is how open forums work. Also, and importantly, while the commenter in question is hostile, they are not aggressively prodigious. Overall their output is balanced well by the rest of the community, which is exactly what admin wants.
Commenters who post in great volume and constantly campaign can have a much more negative effect on freedom of expression, and right now this is admin’s biggest focus. We refer to this as pamphleteering, since it has an editorial focus and discourages rather than encourages interaction BTL. It’s a subtle but destructive problem that’s hard to pin down, especially if the commenter in question is generally innocuous in other respects. It is, however, unfair on the community to allow such behaviour to go unchecked, since not everyone has the time or resources to post so prodigiously, and the editorial style conflicts with and detracts from the article ATL.
Therefore we’re reviewing a new policy of only allowing one editorial/newsletter-style post per user per article, in order to minimise pamphleteering. We’ll be trialing this very soon.
Thanks for opening up a discussion about how best to enable and optimise our wonderful community. A2
Thanks.
Yes, it was about them just sticking to one ID.
Never heard of the term pamphleteering with regard to comments but now you have mentioned it, I can understand what you’re referring to. I get the general impression that the volume of comments is still high but the number of individual commenters is less than post-Scamdemic 2023 or even early 2024.
That should read *Pidgin* English.
Although, on second thoughts, a pigeon would be about right.
Spoken like a true dictator.
The Real Edwige , Pilgrim Shadow, Rolling Rock, Erik Nielsen. Your point being. Tom Lasen.
You even comment on your own comments and they all have the same upvotes points.
As mentioned before I am not using different ID;s!!
Get over it. Ed
Yes, why have you not been banned with your shite numerology and pro christian jay dyer wannabee intellect???
As your so intelligent Ed,The Real Edwige , Pilgrim Shadow, Rolling Rock, Erik Nielsen. Your point being. etc etc etc
Why have you not got your own blog yet..?
That’s right I am all those random names who post very regularly, pulled out of your schizo peanut brain. What, I don’t sleep? Trust me I have better things to do than spend 24 hours a day on here.
Whereas, I have presented the evidence numerous times that you are a multi-IDer. So go on then, since you like projecting, post some evidence to suggest I am using more than RR to post? You won’t because you can’t.
You have never denied using more than one ID until now. Getting worried that two of your faves have been outed after the four I outed before got placed on pre-mod? Strange that they have never posted since. Hmmmmm…..
Don’t worry though, you have your others….for the time being.
Also who calls everyone “Ed”? meaning Erectile dysfunction/retarded. Only 15 year old teenagers and you.
https://off-guardian.org/2025/02/25/hold-the-applause-for-trump-the-peacemaker/#comment-710921
Oh look, “start a blog” just as you said to me. You gotta get better at this multi-ID lark.
I know school was a bit shit and you probably got bullied but perhaps you should have stuck it out since you may have learnt how to string a sentence together if you hadn’t been bunking off.
Also, top tip, if you’re going to neck a few cans of Tennents Super and smoke a big fat dooby do it after commenting so the words come out in the right order.
How could they do this? You’d think they’d made a better attempt to disguise their plans
It’s Showtime!
I wonder why the people of Canada don’t DO SOMETHING!!
Wait, never mind. `
Still too well paid off. A few more months of playing with their purchasing power…..
Canada is one of Britain’s colonies, and as such Canadians have no say in which PM is ‘elected’.
Trump is right here again. Why all this red tape between neighbour countries. Canada ought to be liberated like US from British slavery trade and Tea.
But if Canadians prefer being led by the nose by London its another case. Their choice yes?
Canadians are naive and still consider themselves superior to Americans.Everything subsidized by public funds is on the verge of collapse ,in most provinces , especially the health care system.We are at a criticle point and most will vote for the party that brought us here .
They have made this election about Trump, and the tarifs, and I”maffraid people will vote with what construction of the truth they are told.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is just biding their time, to pick up cheap real estate one province at a time!
But don’t be fooled by all those cheap sophistic distractions of self-appointed “rune expertz”, for example! For those who really want to decode the cryptic American UN-“culture”, if not to say the HOLY GEIST of their melting pot, the heavyweights of four letter words are recommended.
Here, incited hatred can only be overcome “in the name of Jesus” by a maximum counter-hatred! In our observation, we must strictly observe that we are exploring a kind of underprivileged ling-cerebral disadvantage, which in this country is an expression of elevated cultural affinity!
https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2025/03/ufc-314-jean-silva-taunts-bryce-mitchell-flat-earth-nazi-hitler-sympathizer-trump
And how could he selected a world leader without an Epstein connection?
Carney is pictured having a good time with Ghislaine Maxwell, at the estate of Carney’s sister-in-law in Cornbury Park – a well-known hotspot of the globalist elite.
Vultures of a feather.
Wonders never cease, man.
Undercover like Trump.
You really hate this ‘hetero family married with a girl’ guy, yes? You and yr like cant forgive him he is normal.
Banker capture of everything and the forever revolving door of talking heads in suits.
Its just good to know that the government is in safe, reliable, hands. (!)
How can you be the Prime Minister if you aren’t an elected MP? Was the Canadian system previously this way or is it a recent bombshell?
The entire system has been hijacked, Jonathan.
One world government corporate fascism. Enjoy…
The WEF did the same in the Netherlands. The shove Dutch MI5 head Dick Schoof front to become unelected PM.
Ever since WWII the Dutch multi-party system with an entry of 5% of the vote has relied on coalition governments. The party with the largest vote gets to form a government. It does not require to be elected in parliament become Prime Minister. Often an outsider like for instance a university professor may be chosen by the succesful coalition partners to become Prime Minister or chosen to become any other minister in that Government. This is however the first time a spook has been chosen! The Netherlands has for may decades been governed by the EU bureaucracy in Brussel. There is only one party that strongly opposes this state of affairs, namely the Forum For Democracy. They are a small party, but has the largest party membership base in the parliament! To regain control of the Dutch government over national governance they advocate Nexit and control of immigration. They are also the only party to expose the Covid and climate scams and stand up for the farmers.
Well, how can you be a co-President of the United States of America without having been elected anything?
You know what they say about dogs – “because they can”.
I found this ‘Overview of the World System..’ very interesting, it can also be downloaded as a pdf for those who are interested:
https://www.gemstoneuniversity.org/overview-of-the-world-system.html
Same $uiturd$ different day.
Also on Carney’s C.V. is the formation of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) in 2021. Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs have since pulled out.
Hopefully, all this is a sign that they’re retreating on the green agenda and they’ll only be doing that if they have evidence that it’s not working, that too many people are not buying into it. Instead they went back to old road-tested devices like inflation and wars and rumours of wars. This doesn’t mean it won’t reappear.
Is leadership of Canada some sort of consolation prize?
I dont know but, my guess is that Global Warming alias Clima Change is a too thick lie and too revealing for the system, so they prefer other market tools.
Virus is as useful as Clima Warming, Global Cooling if we dont do something NOW, Equality, Measles, Tulips, to rig the market.
wow this is so sad
but not so surprising
basically it’s the same model that foisted Draghi on Italy, Younis on Bangladesh, and a long list of junta strongmen on countries of Latin America
look! the hapless democratic parties haven’t been able to transcend their childish squabbling! we need a resolute disinterested caretaker to clean up the mess and restore governability! the more technocratic the better, goes without saying
Globalist on steriods…
Tyrants in suits.
Exactly!
Political parties the world over have been taken over by WEF and other stooges of the billionaire classes. Democracy is such a tired word, it is a theatre production that enables the owners of a country to hide behind puppets … unlike in China where the owners of the country have to balls it out and stand in front of the people and declare who they are. The big attraction of Democracy is that foreigners can run your country, they are the owners behind the curtain, not your fellow citizens. With Democracy, they can pretend that this fact is “hidden”, they can pretend that your fellow citizens run the country, they can pretend that your country is being run for the benefit of the citizens. It is all a scam, your country has been taken over, you don’t know who runs it, but you can be sure it is a set of people with lots and lots of money, enough to buy lots more puppets as they are required. As for Carney, he knows which side his bread is buttered, he prefers status to his own personal principles, if he has any, so he goes with the billionaire flow.
What’s in a name?
Carney (or ‘carny’) derives from ‘carnival’. Which in turn derives from Italian ‘carnevale’, from medieval Latin carnelevamen, ‘Shrovetide’ (literally ‘cessation of meat-eating’), from Latin carn- … In other words, giving up meat for Lent or on Fridays or forever…
So the advent of insects as main diet or fake Bill Gates ‘Burgers’ ad infinitum? Canada take heed.
I don’t think you have your derivations right. I believe the surname Carney comes from a Celtic root meaning something like “warlike,” or “victorious.”
Carnivorous.
Yes, jokes. Wonderful. Except it would be nice if someone could come up with a funny joke.
Carne! Fixed it for u.
Od and definitely kti would not have the guts to do a on the day similar about Trump or any of the right leaning lot.
instead we get framing article HEADERS with the likes of
hold the applause for trump the peacemaker or
Something’s Wrong’: Donald Trump Was Right About Autism.
and hardly any other article calling out the 500 billion stargate grid or 48 hours vaccine of project 25 or crpto world catpital at davos.
Rest assured a suppose ex gruntled ex Gauguin readers (if you believe the back story) now nudges to the right and pushing hate left agenda’s which pushes lot to populist party which is the agenda.
Your personal disenchantment with Mr.Trump is not relevant. We can have different opinions on persons but we should also see the results (if any). Not a reason to be sour.
Goldman Sachs investment banker, central banker, BIS (the central banks banker) and pitbull terrier threatening companies with no further credit (loans) and bankruptcy unless they play ball with the climate doom propaganda by fulfilling its agenda.
Along with his other globalist attributes he is the perfect technocrat to have his arse shoehorned into any Prime Ministerial role. After Canada, perhaps they will just send him from country to country as its ‘leader’.
Technocracy rising? It sure is….
Great, another super rich member of the 1% club is going to save Canada from the other super rich man across the way. The bullshit gets thicker and thicker.
How often can the predator class pull this off at a time when people are starting to see that the system is rigged?
Dumb frakking idiots.
Seeing that the system is rigged and being in a position to do anything about appear to be two completely different things.
The masses have been conditioned from a very young age to obey authority without question if they want to stay off the naughty stair. Add to that long working hours for insufficient remuneration which is then taxed heavily to keep them poor, lowest common denominator tv in whatever time they have left when they’re not working, endless propaganda from the media etc etc. You know how it works. We all do.
Most of the masses are too brainwashed and too fucking tired to do anything but watch what is happening and, if they even sense anything out of place, just shrug and hope it won’t affect them too much. They have been stress tested almost to destruction, having learned that no matter what happens, ‘the likes of us can’t change anything’. By believing that, they make it true. It’s not their fault, per se, but fault is irrelevant when it is outcomes that matter.
As for those who are inflicting this shit on the rest of us, not for nothing are they known as the predator class.
“The masses have been conditioned from a very young age to obey authority without question if they want to stay off the naughty stair.”
True.
Then you grow TF up!
Or you don’t.
Most watch the TV and phone gaze which is designed to distract, wear you down mentally, and make you give up any hope of a brighter future.
It’s a spell that’s hard to break for many,
I phone gaze at OffGuardian and similar sites. Who knows how many people staring at their phone are doing the same? It’s not the device that is the problem but what you use it for. Wasn’t it always?
Perhaps I should have worded my comment better.
How does ‘in a phone trance’ sound to you?
If you have the ability to walk down the street, cross the road, engage in any meaningful conversation, or even go to the bathroom without the device glued to your face, I applaud you.
“Then you grow TF up!”
Some do. A lot don’t.
The interesting thing for me is why this should be the case. What are predictors for which people are able to understand what is being done to us on a massive scale and which are not?
Since there are some apparently very intelligent people who have bought into this nonsense hook, line and sinker then we can’t look at straightforward intellect as a factor.
But there may be a positive correlation between people stay in education for longer and those who ‘trust the system’. Those who leave school at the first opportunity and go into a trade, for example, meet the world head on a lot sooner. They spend less time getting their information from approved sources in order to pass exams.
Then we have those who stay on at school, then go to university, then perhaps stay on and do a masters, then potentially a PhD. Now, we would expect those people to be the most intelligent. But are they? Depends on how you define intelligence, of course. I would argue that these people are simply clever and have good memories. Doctors (not surgeons) would be a prime example of this.
In order to get a degree (in the UK at least) you need to absorb a lot of approved information then write a dissertation, but that dissertation cannot be new, original work – it has to examine existing, approved sources. A masters provides a bit more leeway, but it is not until PhD level that original work needs to be produced. By that point, I would argue that the individual’s brain is so entrenched in modes of research and the use of approved sources, despite having to produce original work, that it is even harder for them to walk away from ‘the system’. That’s before we even get into the dogmatic nature of ‘science’ whereby the scientific community is reluctant to consider anything that might jeopardise grants, status and being published. Max Planck identified the phenomenon when he said ‘science advances one funeral at a time’.
We recently had some work done at home (without going all ‘Tony’ here) and every single tradesman, without fail, knew covid was a lie, weren’t ‘vaccinated’, knew net zero is bollocks etc. They might not have been able to articulate their understanding in depth, quoting sources etc but they still just knew. Howwever, they have livings to make, families to feed, bills to pay etc so while they know something is wrong, they are in no position to pick up a torch or a pitchfork and head for the castle on the hill.
I’m sure there are other factors as well – this cannot be the only one. If might not even be one, but It appears that way to me.
During the Plandemic, it was those who had the least formal education and those with PhDs who were the most vaccine hestitant, to use the phrase of the time.
Those with Bachelors and Masters were the most gullible, due I believe to the rote learning. As you pointed out, your experience with tradespeople confirmed that. The PhDs reluctance I believe, although they are in the indoctrination system the longest, by doing their own research are more free thinking.
There was a publicity hungry exception to to the trades rule, that being Charlie wideboy Mullins, owner of Pimlico Plumbers who insisted all new plumbers would have to accept being a pin cushion to the Gods of Pfizer et al. If ever there was an example of a thick plumber and an Establishment brown-nosing tool he is it.
Now you mention it, I do recall seeing a statistic about PhDs and what was euphemistically called vaccine hesitancy, so I stand corrected on that one. Thank you for pointing that out.
I also remember that Pimlico Plumber guy – had forgotten his name – coming out and saying what he did. It seemed to me at the time that he’s the sort of person who loves being in front of a camera for any reason at all and that was the way to do it back then. Much like many GPs, he appeared to put his own personal ‘interest’ ahead of those in his charge. Shameful, narcissistic tosser.
Hannah Arendt made the same observation about the German public’s acceptance of the Nazi regime and its policies. It was the vaunted “intelligentsia”– well-educated and professional classes– that readily and uncritically embraced and promoted Nazism.
Of course Hitler’s success also was achieved with a base of thuggish devotees. But the controller class leaped on board and moved into the first-class accommodations on the Nazi juggernaut. 🤔
It’s often the intelligentsia behind every scheme that screws over the average Joe. Same with communism, upper middle class types “squealing up the workers”, jerking off waiting for the revolution to be televised while sitting on their sofas in their multi-million pound/dollar Victorian houses in Primrose Hill, London or their loft apartments in the West Village, NYC.
Yet, they would soon brown their undies if the workers ever came knocking on their doors to turf them out onto the street.
Thanks Kit. Brill, as usual.
The Kamala of Canada…woooooo boy!
Correct about the gold medal, Romania managed to (ilegally, again) deny the right to be elected to the “pro-russian, extremist, right wing canditate” (none of these has been proven). One local analyst (college professor, about 40 years old) : “it is better to bend the law here and there, even if the USA will be very pissed off, they will eventually forget about it. The most important for us now is to be in step with the EU and push for war”
Maybe M.Carney will do something bolder and snitch the gold.
Are we quite sure the lawfare in Romania is going to piss off the USA?
No, I am not sure, I was just quoting a “professor”
In any case, the worst that can happen is that the USA will not recognize the Romanian elections. Not sure how big deal, it all depends on moods and whims
The thing is, it is difficult to see why the USA would be pissed off by or not recognise the cancellation of the election of someone who claims to be against the EU and NATO.
Both of which are the enforcement arms of the US empire in Europe, regardless of what Trump and his henchman Musk may try to make their more gullible followers believe. Those poor souls thought their hero Musk would throw his weight behind the cancellee. Unsurprisingly, that did not happen (or has not happened yet, it would be nice to be proven wrong).
Someone who claims to be against EU and NATO ? Isn’t that Mr. Trump himself ? Your logic is quite weak here. There is no need for Mr.Musk to throw any weight for anyone. Please don’t use “poor souls” and “gullible” for something you don’t understand (or it’s just bad faith, more likely). If you are happy that the state is doing well in Romania then please explain why the democracy index slipped towards “hybrid” (although we all know that it is lower than that because whoever makes these indexes, The Economist et al. are paid with globalist money). If you can have a contribution and bring clear information for others to evaluate then you are welcome, otherwise let me say politely that you are a shill.
Gosh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know Trump’s repetitive ramblings were God’s Truth. And I don’t recall saying anything about democracy in Romania. But whatever.
Time will tell if Trump is as (un)committed to democracy as he is to free speech, rooting out corrupt medical practices, releasing information of interest to the public etc.
it sounds very much like the Democratic speech. I am not defending anyone here, Mr.Trump or the Romanian excluded candidate, just the common sense and a sliver of truth. The whole discussion was about Mr.Carney and what can he do to snitch the gold medal from the Romanians, after all the hullaballoo. You are probably lost in a dark wood 😀