This Week in the New Normal #101
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. German Opposition Branded “Extremists”
The German intelligence services have officially labelled right-wing political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) “right-wing extremists”, paving the way for a potential ban.
To be clear, this is not about whether or not AfD are far-right extremists. The powers-that-be have no strong feelings about extremism from either wing, and are happy to use either to serve their purposes in the right circumstances.
This is not about extremism, it’s not even really about AfD, it’s about the meta-narrative of “left vs right”, the kind of stunt done to enflame partisan topics and divide society.
More specifically, it achieves two goals:
1. Normalizing the acceptance of authoritarian over-reach on the left, who will cheer on the banning of opposition parties, just as they already have done in France and Romania.
2. Further enflaming the populist right and fueling the pretense that parties like AfD really do pose some kind of threat to the establishment.
It shouldn’t need to be said, but it’s perfectly possible to heartily dislike AfD and what they stand for, whilst having massive reservations about any “democracy” which allows the sitting government to outlaw political parties at all.
2. Anything you can rig, I can rig better
The Canadian and Australian elections took place this week. Both saw the incumbent “liberal” Red Team win a landslide against the opposition “conservative” Blue Team. Both saw the leader of the opposition lose their seat.
It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
Or that weird thing where Hollywood studios both release animated movies about rats, or penguins, or ants or fish within just a few weeks of each other.
Or that time Canadian PM Steven Harper and Australian PM John Howard gave identical speeches within 3 days of each other.
Almost like there’s a higher authority dictating these things, and sometimes the strings show.
3. The changing CBDC landscape
As the IMA discussed in our recent panel, the rollout of Central Bank Digital Currencies was all guns blazing in 2021, but has slowed and almost stalled since.
Back in January, Trump explicitly banned a “digital dollar” in an executive order, and this Forbes article from 4 days ago bemoans Trump’s “Self-Inflicted CBDC Vacuum”, and the “loss of power” that will accompany “falling behind” the EU and China.
Meanwhile, in the EU the digital Euro is moving to a new stage of development, partnering with 70 private companies to “test digital euro payment functionalities and explore innovative use cases”.
Interesting moves in a story that has been quiet for a while.
BONUS: Fakest PR video of the week
Back to Canada, where this video of Mark Carney celebrating his win is being passed around the internet as evidence he’s a “normal human being”…
It’s fake, by the way. It’s a PR exercise designed to make people think he’s a normal human being. There was probably an absurdly long focus group meeting about what kind of hoodie he should wear and what song he should be dancing to.
BONUS II: BS Award of the week
Former Vice-President Mike Pence has been given the John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for “defying Trump” and “refusing to endorse false claims the 2020 election was rigged”.
It would be sickening if it weren’t rather funny.
This is the modern world in a nutshell, the rich political elite telling provable lies and giving each other awards for pretending to believe them.
It’s not all bad…
Here’s a baby elephant taking his first steps…
First wobbly steps of a baby elephant pic.twitter.com/zz3en8JYEj
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 3, 2025
Happy May Day.
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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention the latest “scary Russia” stuff or the “virus explosion” set to “strike Australia”.
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“it’s perfectly possible to heartily dislike AfD and what they stand for, whilst…”
Why would any reasonable person dislike AfD and what they stand for?
By even assuming there are normal people out there who have such a dislike aren’t you playing along with the right-wing boogeyman trope?
At the very least you are reaching out to unreasonable people on the left. Don’t waste your time. You can’t reason with them because they are unreasonable; they will just take your olive branch as affirmation that their thought processes are valid.
Mark Carney celebrating his win is being passed around the internet as evidence he’s a “normal human being”
Can someone explain this dancing? they all seem to do it.
Let’s leave aside that this survey is entirely freemasonic in its concept – the idea of “flourishing” is masonic and they just happen to ask 22 countries, a masonic master number – what does their own survey show?
People “flourish” most when they’re married, religious and financially secure. Women are not oppressed. The further people get from the modern education system, the more they “flourish”. The British are “flourishing” nearly the least of anyone on earth (just below Australia).
https://theconversation.com/what-makes-people-flourish-a-new-survey-of-more-than-200-000-people-across-22-countries-looks-for-global-patterns-and-local-differences-243671
Israel = NAtional ZIonism.
Klaus Schwab’s wife Hilde is a transwoman.
So what?
It means he is part of the cabal, that’s what.
Being trans does not mean someone is part of the cabal.
Being married to a trans person does not mean someone is part of the cabal.
I wager most cabalists are good old fashioned heterosexuals.
But in any case, one’s sexual orientation/preference/identification does not intrinsically make someone part of the cabal.
There is no such thing!
Imagine, a man, who has his penis inverted, in a vain attempt to be a woman!
I am fucking pissing myself!
You mean a bloke? Man dressed as woman equals transvestite. No such thing as a trans woman.
Dumb and dumber or stupid and stupider?
“For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols”
Aldous Huxley.
The excellent American writer (on the criminality/scams/hoaxes, etc, of the evil ‘ruling class’), Gary D Barnett, has ‘the stupidity of the masses’ as the subject of his most recent article:
https://garydbarnett.com/i-cant-fix-stupid
Thanks Christine.
That’s where I ‘borrowed’ the quote.
Gary is on the ball.
He most definitely is on the ball!
Oops, I should have realised that your quote was from his article, I read it yesterday evening!
He and I exchanged several emails 18 months ago, and also back in 2021.
He commiserated with me that all (and I mean all!) my family members are ‘sheep’, blindly believing what they get ‘told’ on their beloved TVs, and being so apathetic, not wanting to acquire the actual facts/truths. As he said, “You can’t fix stupid”…
We are sailing in the same small sea Christine.
Most days the wind is good.
Some days it isn’t.
Stupidity is humanity’s default position. It used to be downplayed; now its proudly paraded as the height of human evolution. BTW, here’s a YouTube video I stumbled upon yesterday. It’s rather long; but it’s very apropos.
Thanks Howard.
The baby elephant was amazing…bravo.
if the German Verfassungsschutz, that office which, according to its name, is charged with Defense of the national Constitution, was really serious about threats to said document, they might well have condemned the parties making up the current ruling coalition there for recently having pushed through amendments to the country’s charter which essentially make it treason to deny the validity of the greenhouse-gas catechism or oppose the appropriation of trillions for ecological fundamentalism!
previously, if I’m not mistaken, these noble guardians of democracy also excluded a communist party from participating in said democracy
the whole model, it seems to me, is propped up by and sold on some idiotic reading of history according to which the golden years of the Weimar republic would never have come to an end if only the centrist parties then had prevented the NSDAP from luring the ignorant masses into their clutches with their siren song of mendacious criticism, just as now mass rejection of the putrid status quo is self-evidently attributable to Russian propaganda and Tiktok brainwashing campaigns
Everyone in conspiracy land is scared of saying Jesus a psyop
Didn’t need psyops in those days.
Superstition ruled.
So you dont need to be forgiven? You can just go on pissing on everything and die, and thats the way it is and thats it. Ok no problem.
NO Jury’s last week U.K and this week U.K
U.K… always tested on the banking capital of the world first.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has three offices: Our headquarters are at The Cube, Birmingham,
SRA approves first AI-driven law firm
#06 May 2025
We have authorised the first law firm providing legal services through artificial intelligence (AI). While many firms are already using AI to support and deliver a range of back-office and public-facing services, Garfield.Law Ltd is the first purely AI-based firm we have authorised to provide regulated legal services in England and Wales.
Garfield.Law offers small and medium sized businesses, as well as law and other firms, the use of an AI-powered litigation assistant to help them recover unpaid debts, guiding them through the small claims court process up to trial.
We are encouraging the development of new approaches and models due to the potential consumer benefits. AI-driven legal services could deliver better, quicker and more affordable legal services. There are, however, potential risks to the public, so we have been making sure there are appropriate checks in place to make sure that consumer protections are not diluted.
Before authorising Garfield.Law, we engaged with the owners to consider the firm’s processes and assure ourselves that our rules can be met by an AI service. For instance, we have sought reassurance that there are appropriate processes in place to quality-check work, keep client information confidential, and safeguard against conflicts of interests.
We have also checked the firm is managing the risk of ‘AI hallucinations.’ The system will not be able to propose relevant case law, which is a high-risk area for large language model machine learning.
Garfield is not autonomous and will only take a step where the client has approved it, and furthermore there are supervision and monitoring processes in place. This includes greater oversight of claims in the initial launch phase, so that issues or risks can be identified.
Under our rules, named regulated solicitors will still ultimately be accountable for the firm delivering high professional standards. This means they will also be responsible for all the system outputs and for anything that goes wrong. All regulated law firms must also have a minimum level of insurance in place to protect clients.
Paul Philip, SRA Chief Executive, said: ‘The first regulatory approval of an AI-based law firm is a landmark moment for legal services in this country.
‘With so many people and small businesses struggling to access legal services, we cannot afford to pull up the drawbridge on innovations that could have big public benefits. Responsible use of AI by law firms could improve legal services, while making them easier to access and more affordable.
‘Yet trust and confidence in regulated legal services depends on the public knowing that high professional standards are being met. Any new law firm comes with potential risks, but the risks around an AI-driven law firm are novel. So we have worked closely with this firm to make sure it can meet our rules, and all the appropriate protections are in place.
‘As this is likely to be the first of many AI-driven law firms, we will be monitoring progress of this new model closely, so we can both manage the risks and realise the benefits to consumers.’
We have a dedicated team committed supporting innovation in the legal sector. This includes working with law firms and technology providers to test ideas and help develop new ways of working which could benefit the public.
they pollute us with chemicals until our health is ruined, then they sell us their medicine to deal with our chronic illnesses
they undermine the prospect for peaceful relations between peoples with their insatiable thirst for blood, then force us to subsidize their bloated military machines for our protection and security
and now
they create a mountain of regulations so onerous that there aren’t enough hours in the day for a human being to comply with all the paperwork, but give us the miracle of AI to save us by excluding us from the legal process and putting the justice system under the complete control of algorithms
only to be expected!
Added to my list of alternative acronyms:
Automated Injustice.
You have never ever left Canada OG. Your addicted to it and the DM lot.
In the real world in your own country.
The evidence packs about the new WELFARE reforms were published on Friday afternoon
and are also difficult to find on the page itself…..
I’m sure it was a complete coincidence these were put out the afternoon before a long weekend and are also difficult to find on the page itself…..
Loss of PIP could also affect entitlement to the 1-bed v. shared accom rate for under 35s, or to an additional bedroom in HB or UC Housing Costs. On the shared accom rate,
And on the bedroom tax, this FOI response says DWP doesn’t know how many are likely to lose their additional bedroom entitlement as a result of the changes.
Surely local authorities OR blogs (OG paying attention? ) must be concerned that homelessness services and DHPs are going to be even more needed when these reforms come through? what if there is another pandemic then what?
Particularly for parents, it’s probably the main reason people through the WCA and/or PIP. It’s literally not possible to rent privately (in London at least) if you’re not in a position to work your children aren’t small enough to be in a place that’s smaller than you’re deemed to need.
It needs someone brave enough LIKE A BLOG to discuss what is happening at the poor end rather than always moaning about some fake PM.
Give it 5 years OR less Off guardian and this will effect you and your viewers.
they ALWAYS TEST IT ON THE POOR FIRST..
Thousands of people with cancer, cardiovascular disease and respiratory diseases, and more than 200,000 people with arthritis are among the 1.3 million who could be rendered ineligible for the daily living personal independence payment (PIP) payment by the government’s disability benefit plans, according to official data.
214,000 claimants with arthritis – that’s 77% of all arthritis claimants receiving the daily living allowance
38,000 with cardiovascular diseases – 62%
45,000 with respiratory diseases – 55%
38,000 with multiple sclerosis and neuropathic diseases – 48%
23,000 with cancer – 33%
11,000 with cerebral palsy and neurological muscular diseases – 24%
26,000 with psychotic disorders – 23%
If your vaccine injured you got no hope.
Super video of the elephant! Made my day…. The other day it sounded like Bobby K is going to ban mRNA technology through the back door. He is going to see that future “vaccine” development is based on whole viruses rather than DNA fragments extracted from the surface of a virus. Are they able to use mRNA technology to program cells to spit out an entire virus? Just wondering…… Or maybe big pharma will make that claim to bypass Bobby. Getting interesting.
The Deutsche Welle (DW) – like BBC World a wealthy Pravda propaganda machine just now had to report that candidate PM Friedrich Merz had switched his pre and past election rhetoric that much that he couldn’t even keep his own CDU party MPs in line to endorse him. 😆
Hope for other recent post election countries like Canada or Australia??
The German parliament voted ‘in secret’ – if such still exist in today’s world. Better than hand raising and party whips, the mass herding old tech.
If these figures are only 50% correct, we are in for a trip through hell:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-mrna-vaccines-caused-alarming-surge-in-violent-behavior-homicidal-ideation/5886086
Huh, you’d almost think that was the plan….
Whos idea was that, who made that up?
If I were you I wouldnt take every single research report for granted, not even 50% of it. If I found a report interesting, I would check it out in the real world first before making any conclusions.
Pabulum for pondering.
Watch some “footage” of Blue Origin if you need a laugh – it’s difficult to know what’s more ridiculous, the bad CGI or the the design of the rocket that’s so phallic it must’ve originated in one of Jeffrey Epstein’s fever dreams.
They can do better CGI than this so why is it so bad – are they just cheapskates or is it deliberate mockery? The main story here for the lamestream media… why are so many people suddenly turning against Katy Perry?
Deliberate mockery imo
Humiliation ritual.
Throw “katy perry” under the bus, just like her previous handler “russel brand”
Russell Brand.
It is the standard pre-winter scaremongering media campaign for the southern hemisphere. Same as around November time in the northern hemisphere when the same triple/quadruple whammy plague stories are run, always amounting to a nothing burger.
Interestingly, according to the linked article by the Daily Fail if it is to be believed, nearly a million Aussies were jabbed with Covid-1984 gloop in the last six months during the summer there. That is nearly 5 percent of the population, not a bad result for our overlords five years on from the start of the scam. Shows that there are still true believers of The Science (TM) out in the wild and also the poor saps in captivity (care homes and hospitals) who have no choice in the matter.
Care to provide references for your allegation that in Western countries since 2020 “poor saps in captivity” have been compulsorily jabbed with either the Covid death shot or the flu jabs or both? (after all, you wrote:”no choice.”)
Because my impression is that the mass killings in aged care in UK, USA etc. have resulted from a combo of sedatives (e.g. Midazolam) and intubation both of which are contraindicated for what was alleged to be “Covid.” see Mike Yeadon’s good explanation of this.
Rancourt stresses also the psych effects of the entire psyop in his analysis of excess deaths.
But gubbermint-subsidy chasing hospitals decreed a uniform treatment protocol that med staff had to follow and they did.
Naturally, fear-mongered mask-tard normie sheeple relatives did give permission here and there for dementia-suffering loved ones to be jabbed, this being “informed consent”. but that still does not amount to “no choice”, it is just that the choice got shifted from jabbee to a mask-tard relative.
I do admit that there does seem to be an ongoing demand, which I cannot quantify by country or any other metric, by nursing home admin that their nurses and carers get the flu jab in 2025 on pain of dismissal. It is just that I know personally of one such case.
It is true that there was a story in Aust. of men in Aust. Army uniform visiting a nursing home/homes and the old folks allowing themselves to be jabbed with them in attendance because of the uniforms, but I would have to research that one.
Yeah, they can TELL you anything.
It is coercion rather than sticking a needle straight in the arm of a compus mentis person. Although, that most likely has occured on occasion.
Anyone in a care or nursing home requires care from the staff, so only the mentally strongest will argue with the ‘kind’ nurse or carer who ‘recommends’ that they take the jab as a group of them stand around the elderly or disabled person.
When one is vulnerable and dependent on the care of others, for example to be dressed, fed and bathed then one is not in a position to tell the staff to “shove it” and walk out of the home. This is especially true of those in council/local authority care homes where the person or the family do not pay for the care provided. If they were not in some way vulnerable or frail, either physically, mentally or both then they would be living independently.
As far as those with Alzheimers or dementia which are an increasingly larger proportion of care home residents then, yes, the family is the consenting party. Again, not too difficult to coerce them even if they are reluctant, for fear of the consequences of non-compliance for their loved one in the home or hospital.
Therefore, in practical terms it is a no choice situation for many, if not most, albeit not an absolute theoretical one.
probably refusal of the injection will soon be counted as proof of mental incompetence!
There is nothing “theoretical” about what I witnessed in 2021: a resident refused, repeat: refused. the Covid jab from the visiting GP and the normie cried out to me from the doorway, “yes, I am having it, I don’t want to die!” (from Covid).
The jab rate in the Home was officially 80%, btw, so 20% were unjabbed for whatever reason.
I have it from the horses mouthes that in Australia residents and staff – part-time, full-time, consultants – have to have their annual flu shots and since “Covid” those injections, too.
Ditto for nurses (don’t know about doctors) in hospitals as regards annual flu shots.
Given the great range of rules in Australia 2020 to date, it being a Federal State and whose State governments drove the Scamdemic, your statement is too sweeping.
I have it from another horse’s mouth that residents of at least one RACF do not “have to have” their annual flu shots.
In fact, at the time when visitors to the RACF were banned between Oct 2021 and Dec. 2022 from entering unless they had the Covid jab, residents were NOT jabbed against Covid OR the flu against their wishes AND do not have to have the flu jab now.
But as I said, nurses and carers are forced to get the flub jab in 2025.
The old saying was, ‘Australia was built on the sheep’s back’
Still is.
Just different types of sheep.
I expect the looming “virus explosion” also coincides with the autumnal uptake in flu vaccine distribution.
“This is not about extremism, it’s not even really about AfD, it’s about the meta-narrative of “left vs right”, the kind of stunt done to enflame partisan topics and divide society.” AND:
” It shouldn’t need to be said, but it’s perfectly possible to heartily dislike AfD and what they stand for, whilst having massive reservations about any “democracy” which allows the sitting government to outlaw political parties at all.” (reminds me of CJ Hopkins’ latest)
So tell me again Knightley, what is the content of your apparently liberal, “Christian-post-Christian” “heartily dislike”?
………….. that makes you disappear material clashes of very material interest in the UK up the orifice of your own theorising?
– You find the MENA cultural enrichment of London or wherever you are a terrific thing?
– Got any children? Do they bash or just get bashed as obedient dhimmi at primary school while twiddling their thumbs as Remedial English gets taught in perpetuity to everything between Rabat and Kabul via Harare?
– Got a teenage daughter like a Greens ex-Federal minister in Germany, Cem Oezdemir, who recently and finally complained about the sex harrassment from Enrichers his daughter was getting at school?
– Need to compete with low-wage rubber dinghy Africans etc. as an Uber driver/food courier?
– Need to queue with South Asians in an NHS queue for your chronic illness (yes I know South Asians enable the NHS, how did that happen?)
– Need to compete with newcomers for gubbermint-assisted housing?
So you see Knightley, you don’t have to be a Tory Councillor’s wife to feel what happens in 1 jobs 2. education 3. health 4. housing.
No use handwringing about how none of this would happen if only NAT0 left well alone in MENA.
Ditto for Germany. In Berlin: 80% increase in (recorded) rape cases in the last 6 years.
(Reitschuster.de)
90% of the girls and women on asylum seeker boats on their way to the West are raped by male assylum seekers on the boats. (Le Figaro)
Knife attacks massively on the rise everywhere across Europe since the beginnings of the open borders to so-called assylum seekers. When they occur the police and Western media disguise the identity of the perps (it was always just a “young man” or a group of young men).
From Jesse Smith:Technocracy: The Common Good Utopia? (Not!)https://www.technocracy.news/?ns_url=2570&mid=279889&fch=9acbdae7
The Ben of Ben & Jerry icecream highlights a 1935 book by the highest decorated Marine Major general Smedley Butler: War is a Racket..
Ain’t no rackets in Palestine, just dead civilians and dust.
Israeli self defense a racket? Imperialistic Izlam is but not for money, only power. It made Gazan civilians an attack force, same in Pakistan and elsewhere, soon in your own Western back garden.
Israeli “self defense”. Oh that’s good! Springtime for Israel!
Various Islamist leaders are MOSSAD; Hamas was funded by the fascist warmonger Netanyahu via Qatar.
Great book every American should read it!
The New Normal and The Old Normal agree; America Won The War Against
Hitler’s Germany…
And if you dont believe that, are you saying all those American movies lie ?
“The ruling ideas are, in every epoch, the ideas of the ruling class.” – a famous 19th Century philosopher.
We should apply this axiom to every commonly held notion about “history” (as well as “reality”). If you do, you will quickly find that they are either egregious distortions of the truth or outright falsehoods.
The problem being with resounding victories by any political party; they grow even more dictatorial and ruthless.
Hitler anyone?
It’s celebrating we won the war man
Thats why we have this standard of living
and speak english
We won
Thats why we have the nazi nasa
we won
We won the globohomo
we won
no one
Curious: State Intelligence ‘Services’ are never labeled ‘left’ or ‘right’.
they’re supposedly ‘neutral’ – yet the German one seems decidedly
left-wing given it’s pursuit of the ‘extremist’ ‘rightwing’ AfD ?
As for the winner of Australia’s recent election, the Australian Labor
Party – to call it ‘left’ shows how unanchored the label has become. It
is only ‘left’ vis-a-vis the other wing of Australia’s Uniparty, not ‘left
in any traditional use of the label…
As The New Normal is now Normal, should the use of The Old Normal
now become current ? Invoking The Past to expose The Deterioration,
and wot has been lost ?
Well, how do you categorize those fabian/communist/fascist knuckleheads if not left wing?
You learn by watching the 6 0’clock TV noose, or reading the
morning’s Press, or hanging on to every Word by President Trump…
The beauty of personal insults is what they tell us. Or should I say, what they confirm.
Well if we define “left wing” as “anti-establishment” as when it was coined to describe French anti-royalists..
Or use the Marxism-based definition of supporting a government of, by and for the working class as opposed to the bourgeousie/1%/billionaire class…
Or the general definition of advocating for social equality and opposing hierarchy…
…then the globalist banking cabal is certainly not “left wing”.
On the other hand, if we use the perverted Orwellian newspeak definition championed by contemporary established media… sure, they are “left wing”, I guess.
But if so, only because such labels don’t matter, as they’ve lost any coherent meaning (if they truly ever had some) and been reduced to nothing more than a social engineering technique for dividing society. Which.. yeah, I’d say indeed is the case.
Anyway… They like to call their ideology “stakeholder capitalism” but really it doesn’t even qualify as “capitalism”. The real term to describe it is Technocratic Feudalism.
This does not fall anywhere on the “left/right spectrum”. It’s an agenda which no one except the absolute richest eugenicist sociopaths on the planet would ever support without being subjected to years of extensive brainwashing
Exactly!!!
We get $crewed either way.
All right that was the female you say is nut. Whattabout the male?
Re #2 : the key players are slowly but surely being moved into their designated positions ready for the next global crippling pandemic/power outage/cyber attack/whatever……my guess being sometime around 2027/28
My money is on later this year…
Could well be.
But
Bear in mind, the whole thing was supposed to be done and dusted by the beginning of the so-called 21st century.
Or
there’ll be another New World Order along in a minute,
and then,
three come along at once.
Could happen tomorrow!