This Halloween in the New Normal
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. Climate Change is ruining Halloween, too
Everything for everyone everywhere is getting more expensive, and yet it’s always for different reasons. Brexit or Putin or Covid.
For chocolate, it’s Climate Change. Trump too, but mostly climate change. Something about growing cocoa beans and extreme weather events I think. I don’t know, after a few years of doing this, things start to blur together.
Let’s check in on The Guardian:
Ghosts and goblins might not be the only scary things popping up this Halloween. Prices for the holiday’s most popular candy treats are rising, spooked by Donald Trump’s tariffs and climate change.
We recently ran a piece bemoaning the smallification and shitification of confectionery. Clearly, that author didn’t realize it was all climate change’s fault.
To be clear, you’re not being price-gouged by super-monopolies bent on eternal profit, it’s climate change.
Got that?
2. Urban Scary-tales
It’s one of those fascinating meta-phenomena, that Halloween has spawned urban legends to scare the parents of eager children.
There’s the razor blades in the bobbing apples and cyanide in the Pixy Stix!
Scary stories of demonic neighbours bent on seasonal sadism. Tales that persist despite there being no record of them ever happening. Not one single time.
This year, apparently, it’s THC-laced “counterfeit candy” in a bid to get kids baked out of their minds, at least that’s what Good Morning America says.
This one probably isn’t true either. But that won’t stop some people from adding a urine dip test after their candy X-ray.
3. Digital Costumes are making the internet a scary place
Writing on the UK Parliament’s website, Mike Freeman MP is warning of the danger of deepfakes. Apparently, a deepfaked video of him switching parties went “viral”, and this shows that…
We’ve allowed the growth of a dangerous digital space where pretty much anything goes.
He bemoans the “gap in the law” that enables digital identity theft and the “lack of accountability online”.
We all know where this is going, right?
This ad pretending to be journalism from Integrity 360 strikes a similar tone, warning of Deep Fakes meaning you could be conned into talking to pretend people.
In the age of Deep Fakes, we need to be sure we’re talking to real people.
…if only there was some way to digitally identify people!
4. Halloween is racist. Again.
Every year there’s more race-bait outrage about Halloween, usually focused on who can dress up as what. It’s actually quite hard to keep track.
For example, we’ve all heard of “cultural appropriation” and how important it is to avoid it when picking a costume.
And yet, according to this Professor of Psychiatry from Yale, her “black-presenting” child being told she can’t dress up as a Korean girl because her skin is the wrong color is racist. Not just racist but tear-jerkingly, “excruciatingly” racist.
Oh, and wearing a sombrero to dress up as a Mexican bandit is racist, but Speedy Gonzalez isn’t. I don’t know why.
Suggested Halloween Watching
As usual with these recommendations, we try to go outside the box. Nobody needs to be told to watch Halloween on Halloween.
Saying that, a critically and commercially successful mainstream movie is hardly “outside the box”, but Robert Egger’s Nosferatu is a wonderfully evocative and unsettling film.
If you want to be truly scared, then The Haunting (1963) and The Woman in Black (1989) are, quite comfortably, the scariest films I have ever watched.
Mike Flanagan’s loose remake The Haunting of Hill House is very good, and is only held back from being great by a lacklustre ending, nevertheless it is very worth watching. As is his movie Oculus (2013).
To go even further back in time Dead of Night is a classic of early British horror cinema.
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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention dangerously flammable Halloween costumes or how sustainable choices can maximize Halloween fun.
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Good film list.
The difference between cultural appropriation and appreciation is both incredibly important and generally down to an individuals intention, which is incredibly hard to police.
“The West is an endless source of ideas for paintings and stories.” Bev Doolittle
Storyteller — The Western and Camouflage Art of Bev DoolittleOctober 27, 2015
https://wenaha.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/storyteller-the-western-and-camouflage-art-of-bev-doolittle/
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Hiroyuki Hamada
http://www.hiroyukihamada.com
Artist Statement
“Artists are blessed with that rare moment when everything disappears in our studios except for our works and ourselves – when we feel the profound connection to what we have worked on as it melts with the world, space and time. Such an occasion is indeed very rare, but that is what I strive to capture when I struggle in my studio. As our world continues to be subservient to the hierarchy of money and violence, I believe the exploration of artists to perceive the world reaching beyond the framework of corporatism, colonialism and militarism continues to be a crucial part of being human.
How do we share that with other people though? I’ve spent decades of my life as an artist. The more I struggle with the framework of the market economy, as well as the social boundaries created by it, I feel the need to shift my approach in sharing what I can share. That is the general background of my practice as a sculptor.”
https://www.drive-by-art.org/hiroyuki-hamada/
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“One of the most important aspects of aesthetics, of the study of art at all, is that it teaches the viewer or reader how to see and experience more deeply, with more sensitivity, and this in turn (among other things) leads to the ability to recognize the fraudulent. In other words you come to recognize propaganda. It is almost the cultivating of a sub clinical intuitive skill, a sense when a narrative or an image seem counterfeit.” John Steppling
Anteroom of Our Own Extinction
https://off-guardian.org/2021/01/18/anteroom-of-our-own-extinction/
Dont forget the terrorist attack, they love that.
Yes!
Here’s a new normal for ya, On Friday night, imbecile Trump hosted a lavish “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody” party at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, while 40 million low-income Americans wondered if they’d even be able to buy groceries, millions of government and small business employees went without paychecks because of the govt shutdown, and thousands and thousands are being laid off during the holiday season.
The Maga cult of course celebrates anything like this because they so love their trannie hating cult leader and his fellow billionaires.
And no, I’m not saying that Trump started all this, that presidents before him didn’t do some of the same shit, etc., like some suggest. I’m saying those that support this asshole, similar to those that supported Biden, Obama, Clinton, etc., are in effect support a ruling class that controls the entire system of government, and Trump is simply rubbing in people’s faces. That’s what they’re supporting, not just Trump because he is clearly a puppet.
Where are the other USians like you Big Al?
I know quite a few johnny, but the numbers don’t seem to be in our favor.
She knows what’s going on.
https://nitter.poast.org/Davo_Mack/status/1984243117080621535#m
She does.
Should be compulsory viewing for all.
What always spooked me as a kid was scenes when someone would age tremendously in a matter of seconds cf. the closing scene of “She” when Ursula Andress turns into Tutankhamun.
Then there’s the opening of the original “Planet of the Apes” where “something goes wrong” with all the astronaut sleep capsules and the three guys wake with beards and the one woman …. well that scared me so bad I could hardly watch the movie. Never mind the iconic statue of liberty ending. It was the compressed corpse in the capsule at the beginning that terrified me.
“She” was very disturbing (I’m glad I’m not the only one). The eternally youthful that ate humans for breakfast down that pit.
Charlton Heston made it, in some sense in the ‘Planet of the Apes;. Perhaps that’s all one needs to grasp.
Yet as “El Cid” marching out to win the battle as a corpse?…. still difficult to match
OD version of woke right normal, never mentions anything off relevance or happening in real time.
as suppose Christians and alternative to the main stream, it endorses pagan rituals and cooperation death products.
Can we Pagans and Witches have ONE holyday every year? Hween is a commercialization of a SACRED CELTIC HOLYDAY – SAMHAIN a remembrance of ancestors.
No “satan” – that comes from christianity, which also has Day of the Dead immed after SAMHAIN. That’s ancient Latin culture HOLYDAY.
I really wish xians wd cut us non-xians some slack. We must suffer annually through the bombardment of xmas propaganda that begins in NOV and extends to end of DEC. I cannot escape the xian hymms piped into Walgreens and markets all month long.
Shall I go on about “easter” ripped off celebration of Spring/Oestre?
The original resurrecting god was OSIRIS in Egypt.
Blessings to all at this sacred time of year. Remember your ancestors!
Nothing beats blackface as Halloween costume. Guaranteed to offend racists everywhere.
Well, I loved it. I loved Halloween. And I grew up when we could trick or treat without grown ups!
As I grew older I loved coming up with a costume idea and seeing everyone else’s ingenuity on display.
Kids love it. They’ll grow up soon enough and face the real haunted world, so I figure let them enjoy whatever they can while there’s still some semblence of innocence.
But then the Deep State and Illuminati came and destroyed it all.
Every single little children and innocence was destroyed by the white man’s burden and the Moslems when they burned down the two towers at 9/11.
Sunshine was gone, not to talk about all the flowers! Where have all the flowers gone? When will they ever learn? Where have all the young girls gone? Away! https://youtu.be/6SiheJnfwxE .
Yes, those were the days. Better get ya treats ready or you’ll get an egg splattered through your letterbox.
Halcyon days
Exposing kids to witchcraft ain’t good Judith.
Dressing up in costume and getting outside with friends and going door to door and getting candy and just plain having a blast – not to mention coming home, dumping the bag and sorting the candy – is not witchcraft by any stretch of the imagination.
Exposing kids to lots of stuff aint good. Unfortunately, it’s part of living.
The Haunting. Remember it clearly in 1963/4. Don’t know why I was allowed to stay up and watch it, but watch it I did.
I can still feel how frightened I was. Still remember Julie Harris.
That did it for me.
Nothing ever came close.
Totally agree on The Haunting. Could not take my eyes off of Zeta-Jones in the remake. Too hot for a movie like that. Anytime I see Harris in anything, her Haunting character always comes to mind. The housekeeper line was one of the greatest. “AT NIGHT. IN THE DARK”. I texted the video clip of that line to the kids recently. They were like, “Daaaaad……What the Fuck”! They refuse to watch the original. Getting Goosebumps just thinking about it. TCM runs the movie fairly regularly. My high school college prep English teacher saw it for the first time in 1974 during my senior year and spent days talking about it in class. Almost everyone in the class had randomly watched the movie that night. So she ran with it. It grabbed us all. https://youtu.be/Wa3aiugPbSU
So funny, huh? Through the years I have heard the same reaction from a number of people.
Again, funny thing was that I was allowed to stay up and watch it. I guess I was in 4th grade.
I really should try the entire film again.
Maybe. Someday.
Trick or Treating isn’t on the cards for those who can’t even now afford the basics.
Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter): “”The average American taxpayer spends $36 per year to support the SNAP program. The average American taxpayer spends $670 per year on corporate subsidies.”” | nitter.poast.org
$36. I do not believe it is even that much.
‘..shitification..’ – that’s a great word.
The BBC sticking with just one headline for the whole of last weekend – the hunt for the Ethiopian asylum-seeker – made it either the biggest thing happening in the world, or a psyop to bind asylum-seekers with sexual assault & criminality, in the nation’s mind. Who knows..
Also – Israeli ‘hostages’ Vs Palestinian ‘prisoners’ – repeated on the half-hour, for 3 full days. To the stragglers left still balking at this – well done.
Enshitification is a good variant that rolls off the tongue easier, and is an apt description for the effect of the yahoos on anything they focus on.
For example, some of the most beautiful places in the Himalayas are overrun by groups of Israeli “tourists” (India has a cosy relationship with Israel) who are there to buy cheap hashish in bulk (with the result that high quality stuff can no longer be found) and operate brothels with black African prostitutes for other Israeli “tourists” to have fun with.
There are what used to be untouched villages now turned into ugly tourist traps full of hotels with large neon signs and sound systems playing loud computer music on every corner. They have also founded synagogues in two of those villages, complete with Indian police guard with assault rifle at the entrance. They often parade around the town with zionist flags and the streets are covered with zionist posters and even murals, while most restaurants have Hebrew signage
I shit you not.
It doesnt make sense. We are said to be 8 billion here and Israel is said to be 9 million = 0,12% of this. How can they dominate the news or anything like this?
I understand 40 Zionist billionaires in US can dominate US and Zionist families in Europe, but the rest?
If you control the central banks of the world, you effectively control the world.
I understand what you are saying. I just cant get into my head that Netanyahu is the Global Banker’s, the Cabal’s, Illuminati’s Big Boss.
Concerning the topic of Israeli encroachments into developing countries; I’ve seen reporting, that its been discovered, that resort and coastal areas in Thailand were being misappropriated by Israelis. It being illegal for foreigners to own property in Thailand, land purchases are being made through shell companies and proxies within the country.
To be fair however, I’m certain that corporations and private individuals of every other ethnic background are guilty of the very same offences – The World Bank & Blackrock are likely among the biggest offenders the world over.
Speaking of masks, ghouls and dressing up; Was this one of the biggies?
https://www.garydbarnett.com/a-revisit-to-the-now-forgotten-story-about-the-fake-charlie-kirk-assassination-a-connected-psyop-on-steroids/
Gary makes a good argument here.
Going by the phone video of the kill, it looked fake. You can freeze frame it and see digital artifacts like his ring moving around his fingers.
Real journalism, unlike this manure on a blog.
OffGuardian would not have the courage to print this.
In 8 years ‘ time, they will publish a watered-down article on this, while all the time proclaiming they were cutting-edge journalism at the time, keeping everyone informed.
Here’s a 45 min doco about the Banksters and how they launder some of the multi billion dollar illegal drug money;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHgbRYgpGGs
The legal toxic drug market probably dwarfs this.
YES, its really pathetic.
The Justice Department cant do anything because of co-lateral circumstances. Some bank employees could be hurt.
They get SO many crybaby letters from the accused Lawyers who claim human tragedies will follow if they get prison time for breaking the Penalty Code. 😭 .
The Protected Z… class they call it.
Caitlin Johnstone makes some valid points in this piece about the AI behemoth creeping up on us:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/they-want-you-relying-on-artificial-intelligence-so-that-you-will-lose-your-natural-intelligence/
C’mon Caitlin fess up; Did you take the vaccines, or did you do as you suggest in this piece and ‘think for yourself’?’
We’re waiting _ _ _ _
Yeah. Her refusal to speak out against the plague-psyop a few years ago was a massive disappointment on my end. That’s when I dropped Caity. Of course, she’s right about Palestine and much else … but that just makes her an intellectually consistent liberal, not necessarily a true free-thinker.
FWIW, I had the same reaction. In 2020, I was surprised to discover that so many “leftists”– an abused and discredited term nowadays, thus the quotes– more or less uncritically accepted, aka psychologically “bought into”, conventional modern medicine.
Not just pundits and investigative journalists– even nominally leftish politicians like Lula. Taking the top-down official narrative of the Megadeath Virus of Doom scamdemic at face value necessarily implies taking (capitalistic) Big Medicine, Big Research, Big Pharma, Western-based international public health institutions, and “settled science” at face value.
I borrowed a Christian fundamentalist idiom to collectively describe journalists who either explicitly accepted the official Big Lies (a mosaic of Lesser Lies), or declined to challenge and critique the scamdemic, as the “Left Behind”.
For me, this stance was outrageous enough to preclude “forgive and forget” rehabilitation, despite either plaintive or supercilious insistence that everybody gets things wrong now and then, and it’s best to be the bigger person who doesn’t throw out the baby with the rancid, fetid bathwater. 🤨
Stopped reading or even clicking on her articles after she came out as a Bernie Bro. Anyone supporting either of the two political parties and their politicians, including Trump and the republican party, simply has it wrong. Big time. And if they’re that wrong, no sense in wasting time on their other shit.
She writes incredibly well, but only within her very specific wheel house. Her obvious strength is writing about US and Israeli militarism; but even within that area of strength, she has a glaring weakness in that she talks about world “leaders” as if they freely choose their own courses of action rather than carry out marching orders from whomever is really in charge.
On the other hand, the issues that she won’t touch– like 9/11, Seth Rich, the Covid 1984 plandemic and the big pharma/WHO cabal it revealed, etc. don’t even get passing mentions. When she writes about censorship, it’s unintentionally ironic coming from a writer who so vigorously censors herself. Most limited hangouts tell at least a few half-truths, but her MO is slightly different: she just steers clear of certain topics.
I don’t read her very much anymore, but I’d be willing to bet that she hasn’t addressed the mountain of circumstantial evidence that points to Israeli involvement in the Charlie Kirk assassination. She loves to rightfully point out how evil Mossad and the IDF are, and how AIPAC controls US politics; but now when there’s an event that ties all those themes together, her silence is deafening.
She’s obviously terrified of being labeled a conspiracy theorist.
Selective blindness is common among the chattering class.
Nobody is prefect Johnnyyyyyy.
Let us praise each other when we do something good. Caitlin doing fine here!
Cultural appropriation ?
I bet impersonating a dirty antivaxxxer dying of CoviD would be just fine for these hypocrits !
Is anyone else receiving sudden offers for pre-approved credit cards? I’ve rec’d 5 in about a week. What’s going on? A neighbor said she’s suddenly getting them too.
Interesting.
The proverbial ‘postcode lottery’ by the sound of it. You must have a good neighborhood.
No, but they are getting more and more advanced. I am happy I never got the ID shit.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), is funding a $37.5 million national hospital expansion to prepare for H5N1 bird flu and other high-consequence pathogens
They’ve had at least 3 rehearsals, and they’re developing various gain-of-function bird flu variants in at least 8 different countries. Yet the only one reporting on this is Jon Fleetwood. His collection of articles is truly scary.
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/hhs-builds-375m-bird-flu-pandemic
Someone brought this up on Sasha Latypova’s substack this morning. She is going to do an article on it.
Thanks I’ll take a look. Sasha’s one of the most informed people in the world.
Meryl Nass is often a good heads-up on things too.
Its small money if I may point that out. 37 mio $ and some central unit already at 500 mio $. 1 pcs vaccine factory cost about 300 mio $.
Police to be deployed to control crowds expected for Halloween in Japan and S. Korea. These people are brainwashed beyond redemption.
Zombies on the loose?
Reminds me of the Vax Zombies.
We used to hide under the bed until Halloween in San Francisco was over. We called Halloween “license for assholes.”
I second the call for Eggers’ Nosferatu, and his other film, The Witch.
A few others:
Flesh and the Fiends.
The Innocents.
Homicidal.
Eyes Without a Face.
Robin Redbreast.
The Fly. (either version)
Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde.
Eyes without a face?….
https://odysee.com/@WakeTheDead:9/Sean-McCann—Hans-Utter-Investigates-with-Brett-Carollo-and-Sean-McCann-'Eyes-Without-A-Face‘:a
Both previous versions of ‘Nosferatu’ (1922 and 1979) are superior to Eggers imo although there are hugely dubious things about both of them (like Klaus Kinski’s abuse of his own daughter(s)).
Eyes Without a Face, of course, 1960 French film, not Billy Idol.For a low brow version of related theme, Circus of Horrors is a good one.
Watched all three Nosferatus last month. You really can’t go wrong with any of them. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the Herzog version after ignoring it for years. Eggers might be the better horror film, but Herzog might be the better film. I’ll have to re-watch those two.
I love how you “adults” treat horrible movies (listen to the words) like high art. You haven’t been brainwashed and exploited or anything, nooo.
Pfffttt. Go suck an egg.
As per Rolling Rock’s post below, Mexicans love Speedy Gonzalez. They also love his cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez
I forgot about Slowpoke. So we had Speedy and Slowpoke.
Someone was having a laugh putting those innuendos into children’s cartoons.
What innuendoes? You mean sex? Oh, come now.
He’s in there. I saw him. Really.
Tad, you saw him in your dreams— in your head, nowhere else.
See, Tad, there aren’t any real— Tad, listen to me, there’s no such thing as real monsters… only in stories.
There’s no real monsters.
Really? Really.
Really.
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[Mother of Fears] Fighting Real-Life Monsters in Cujo (1983)
25 Apr
Written By Kim Morrison / Senior Contributor & Social Manager
16 min
https://www.ghoulsmagazine.com/articles/fighting-real-life-monsters-in-cujo-1983
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Transexual, Transgender, Transhuman: Colonizing Our Being (with guest Jennifer Bilek)
https://wdjames.substack.com/p/transexual-transgender-transhuman
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The psychopaths in power
https://winteroak.org.uk/2025/10/22/the-psychopaths-in-power/
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https://youtu.be/tLXdoqXbC6k
The psychopaths in power
“The idea of normal people regaining control of their societies is a nightmare scenario for the evil ruling caste, says Lobaczewski.
“Thus the biological, psychological, moral, and economic destruction of the majority of normal people becomes, for the pathocrats, a ‘biological’ necessity“. [49]
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“This summit comes at the most consequential political moment of modern times. Citizens across the world are increasingly rejecting mainstream politics. As IPPR’s newly published ‘anti-establishment index’ shows, the share of voters either voting for populist parties, or not voting at all, across advanced countries has doubled (to 44 per cent of citizens) since the 1970s.”
Progressive renewal: The Global Progress Action SummitArticle
26 September 2025
Harry Quilter-Pinner
https://www.ippr.org/articles/progressive-renewal-global-progress-action-summit
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“I know how the world works, I know how to get things done, I’m connected and I can deliver for the country,” Carney replied.
As for his weakness, he says:
“People will charge me with being elitist or a globalist, to use that term, which is, well, that’s exactly, it happens to be exactly what we need.”
Carney continued: “my weakness as a politician is I’ve not been a politician. So I didn’t go straight into, as you observed, the killer.”
“The point was right, but the delivery was wrong. I’m working on it.”
‘Mark Carney: I’m an “elitist and a globalist” but “that’s exactly what we need”
Candice Malcolm
Feb 15, 2025
https://www.junonews.com/p/mark-carney-im-an-elitist-and-a-globalist
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“The school in question was a combined school,” said Crystal Gail Fraser, who is Gwichyà Gwich’in and an associate professor in history and Indigenous studies at the University of Alberta.
“You had this mix of white settler kids and Indigenous kids who lived in Fort Smith, plus all of the children from Breynat Hall, the residential school nearby.”
‘Untangling Mark Carney’s father’s ties to Fort Smith, N.W.T., Indian day school
Brett Forester
Apr 03, 2025
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/robert-carney-jbt-day-school-1.7501066
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Sakej Ward – Decolonizing the Colonizer
https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2016/01/25/sakej-ward-decolonizing-the-colonizer/
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“Advancing truth and reconciliation, he explained, was a core element in his brief tenure as prime minister prior to the election call. He said it would continue if his party is re-elected.
“That is a fundamentally and deeply-held personal commitment of mine.”
‘Carney distances himself from late father’s views of Indigenous children, residential schools
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-robert-indigenous-people-residential-schools-defence-1.7502997
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This Reconciliation is for the Colonizer
https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2017/12/01/this-reconciliation-is-for-the-colonizer/
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“Like Martselos, Miltenberger says he has good memories of the place where he completed high school at age 18.
He noted a number of prominent people in the N.W.T. were his classmates.
“Bob McLeod (former premier), Ethel Blondin-Andrew (former MP), Stephen Kakfwi (former premier) … There’s so many of us that went at the same time that all went on to be professionals, politicians, chiefs, national chiefs, premiers, (government) ministers,” Miltenberger said.”
‘Mark Carney’s dad was the principal of an N.W.T. day school: survivors
Kathleen Martens
Apr 03, 2025
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/mark-carney-father-was-the-principal-of-a-n-w-t-day-school-survivors/
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“My time at Concordia was really valuable because I entered the Political Science program aiming to understand how government decisions are made.” Mandy Gull-Masty
‘Great Concordian: Mandy Gull-Masty, Grand Chief of Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee
https://www.concordia.ca/cunews/offices/advancement/2024/12/18/great-concordian-mandy-gull-masty-grand-chief-of-cree-nation-of-eeyou-istchee.html
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“As Ellwood P. Cubberley, Dean of the Stanford University School of Education, put it in 1898:
On The Wildness of Children
Carol Black
https://carolblack.org/on-the-wildness-of-children
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Social Distortion
https://youtu.be/LmNa_cjICgs
“My time at Concordia was really valuable because I entered the Political Science program aiming to understand how government decisions are made.” Mandy Gull-Masty
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What is the “Global Public-Private Partnership”?
Iain Davis
Oct. 20, 2021
https://off-guardian.org/2021/10/20/what-is-the-global-public-private-partnership/
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“I understand that the Grande Alliance was not necessarily well-received by some in the Cree Nation. And what I understand is that we have to have more discussions in the future before we have any kind of announcement,” François Legault, Quebec Premier
‘Quebec premier visits Cree community, meets new grand chief
Susan Bell
Aug 16, 2021
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cree-mandy-gull-masty-grande-alliance-development-1.6143120
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“In an email response to CBC, a Cree Nation government representative said COVID-19 has severely impacted their ability to meet with community members to explain the agreement and establish regular channels of communication.”
‘Cree mom hunger striking against $4.7 billion development agreement with Quebec
Christopher Herodier, Susan Bell
Nov 24, 2020
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cree-grande-alliance-heather-house-development-1.5813842
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Is ‘Grande Alliance’ deal in Quebec worth it? Some Cree hunters aren’t so sure
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/is-grande-alliance-deal-in-quebec-worth-it-some-cree-hunters-arent-so-sure/
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Talk of new dams in Quebec election has some Indigenous leaders surprised, others on guard
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/legault-election-cree-dams-indigenous-innu-consultation-1.6581815
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Legault unveils bold economic and social plan to revive Quebec and cut public spending
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/legault-social-economic-quebec-1.7647746
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Quebec: Leading the way with almost 100 per cent renewable energy
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/quebec-leading-way-almost-100-cent-renewable-energy
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I’m reminded of something Red Cloud said: “They made us many promises, more than I can remember. They only kept but one. They promised they would take our land, and they took it.”
World Gone Mad
https://orionmagazine.org/article/world-gone-mad/
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Steve Ballmer – Development
https://youtu.be/rRm0NDo1CiY
The only ones afraid of ghosts, are the ones who don’t believe in them.
“I see parallels between this monster and the kind of economies we have created, which are never satisfied and will destroy us all in order to have more, more, more. I see extreme methods of resource extraction — fracking, offshore drilling, various types of mining — as Windigo footprints. We don’t need to do these things. They are the antithesis of taking only what is given. The Windigo comes with blood on its mouth, always looking for more.” Robin Wall Kimmerer
‘Two Ways Of Knowing
April 2016
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/22248-two-ways-of-knowing
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“Exploitation beyond belief:” An excerpt from “Columbus and Other Cannibals” by Jack D. Forbes
October 12
by Seven Stories Press
An excerpt from Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism by Jack D. Forbes:
https://www.sevenstories.com/blogs/186-exploitation-beyond-belief-an-excerpt-from-columbus-and-other-cannibals-nbsp-by-jack-d-forbes
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Read this piece from Jimmy Thomson; count how many times he claims that everything belongs to canada. canada’s this canada’s that.
canada is a Wetiko!
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Why Canada’s boreal forest is gaining international attention
Jimmy Thomson
https://thenarwhal.ca/why-canadas-boreal-forest-is-gaining-international-attention/
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Is Jimmy Thomson a Wetiko? I don’t know.
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Why Are People Evil? (Jack D. Forbes)June 2, 2020
J”ack D. Forbes (Powhatan-Renapé and Lenape) was the author of Columbus and Other Cannibals , one of the most important books ever written. In this excerpt, edited slightly for publication, he offers the reader analysis of the nature and origins of evil in human beings.”
https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/why-are-people-evil-jack-d-forbes/
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Doug Ford apologizes over ‘hat in hand’ comment about First Nations
The Canadian Press
Jun 19, 2025
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/doug-ford-apologizes-over-hat-in-hand-comment-about-first-nations/
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WATCH: Doug Ford says he treats First Nations ‘like gold’ and then insults them
https://youtu.be/zeIvUO-k5Zk
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Children of the poisoned river
https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/children-of-the-poisoned-river-mercury-poisoning-grassy-narrows-first-nation/
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Klaus Schwab and his great fascist reset
https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/10/05/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset/
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This Is Not a Song, It’s an Outburst: Or, the Establishment Blues
https://youtu.be/lJyawB1E78M
Every Day Is Halloween (Squirrely Version)
Still best album of the year,
Expect tomorrow I get Tortoise and Guided by Voices
Yes, every day. https://yandex.ru/video/preview/493112543890276063 .
My two favorite Halloween movies:
“The Seventh Victim”
“Carnival of Souls.”
Is the dam of greed about to burst?
https://www.winterwatch.net/2025/10/strike-a-match-situation/
The soldiers are ready.
Locked and loaded;
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/10/24/national-guard-washington-government-shutdown
Miss Tulsi Gabbard says the US/UK Leftist’s “Regime Operation and Colour Revolution’ days are over.
With all respect Miss, considering the past we will wait and see on developments in real life if this holds water.
I mean you just succeeded the same in Syria yes? And what are you about to do in Lebanon as the moment?? And in Venezuela???
No problem. They are just short of cash. Dig money will replace it, and everybody will praise it. Dig ID and Dig Wallet saved us…………… 😌 .
Halloween?
What a load of USian shit.
aUStralians have been well and truly sucked in by this excUSe for a celebration, spending millions on the pathetic paraphernalia.
Enjoying some quiet time at home last night we were suddenly assaulted by fireworks for about half an hour. Pity the local pets that were terrorised by the noise.
Sheep in costumes. Bloody hell.
Halloween is Celtic in origin. It came from Ireland and Scotland.
Not this kind of Halloween.
“Halloween originally comes from the Celtic pagan holiday known as Samhain, which marked the start of winter. This is the time of year when pagans believed that the veil between the living and the spirit world was at its thinnest – the time that the dead could visit the earth and druids (Celtic priests) could foresee the future.”
Sun in Scorpio (death/transformation) autumn leaves/fruit die and fall to the ground providing nourishment for opposite sign Taurus in Spring.
As usual, this sacred time has been dumbed down and commercially exploited.
Ain’t no ‘start of winter’ here in Southern aUStralia, 28c tomorrow.
It’s notable that the “holy-day” has completely lost its original meaning. In the UK, the only fixed “holy-days” in the calendar are “Bank Holidays” where they shut down and so does everyone else. There’s nothing holy about Banks, these “holy-days” are a form of blasphemy .
When you realize that the first ‘banks’ on earth were actually Babylonian temples, it all makes sense.
And you deposited by prostituting yourself.
…like a modern wage-slave..
Halloween in Australia
Is the one with the hat a Kiwi, Tasmanian, or …. ?
First of all Its disgusting;
its new commercial concept like grannies and grandma day.
Dressing children up in devils clothing on Samhain and getting them to knock on stranger pervie peoples doors has pedo written all over it.
Say No To Strangers – 1980s Public Safety Film
The nationalists will be upset as there was black people in adverts then.
Oh goody I’m pending. Must be because I mentioned Disney.
“kiddie Porn:” is verbottom on the Adult Site…
Dont mention Disney, it trigger pending.
ADL gets angry.
“Lacklustre”? It was a travesty. Shirley Jackson’s incomparable chiller turns into Disneyland!
In the early 20th century, there was no trick or treat. Trick or treat is corporate. In the early 20th century, adults used to dress up in disguise, knock on your door, come in and sit down and have some cider and cookies, not speak, and you had to guess who they were.
That story is not meant to be some allegory. It’s just a fact you ought to know. The world was/is not always as you think it is/was.
Adults still ‘dress up’.
They’re called $uiturd$.
We get tricked, they take the treat$$$$$$$$.
Guy likes horror movies. So much for him.
Grow up. Horror movies are horrible. Listen to the words.
I have a friend who is a producer in Hollywood. He has to produce horror movies to make ends meet. He insists they don’t put his name on them because he is so ashamed.
If you don’t know that horror movies are classic lowest-common-denominator exploitation, you haven’t been alive for very long.
Newsflash: “disturbing” is not a good word. It is not a good quality. It is a bad quality. All adults know this. The young, in their sociopathy, seem to not comprehend this simple fact.
I can’t understand the mentality of Folks who watch horror movies.
Bad acting, bad scripts, no plot, screaming females and wall to wall blood. Dumb as.
Frightening and boring at the same time! Kismet!
The price of most foods are sky high – its just plain profiteering from the supermarkets they know we need to eat – as for Halloween – the Wokerati – want to ban anything that doesn’t fall into their very narrow Overton Window – one thing that has ben curbed, and I agree with it is the ease of which some youngsters can get their hands on fireworks – and use them in a dangerous manner.
Heaven forbid kids would be naughty. Playing with fireworks when I was a kid was one of the best things – some got burnt but we learned lessons. Others threw them at each other, not so nice but nobody died.
Now if I wanted to buy fireworks at the supermarket it’s like I’m buying TNT for all the faffing about that goes on.
Please, please don’t lecture me on the similarities between fireworks and explosives, grow up and get perspective.
“For your safety” – look where that mantra has taken us; censorship of the interweb and loss of free speech to name only 2.
Scaring kids and old people in the evening with Goth, Dracula etc outfits to extract money and other goodies : a real WEF-lite fest.
CO2, Covid and Russia! are the adult variant, using taxes and out laws.
Mexicans love Speedy Gonzalez.
When the Cartoon Network tried to pull the character’s cartoons, Hispanics in America complained, so Speedy escaped being cancelled.
A woke move that backfired.
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/speedy-gonzales-the-mouse-that-outran-cancel-culture/
Arriba arriba!
Hispanics, as a rule, aren’t all that easily offended or into ‘wokery’. For example, I work with an old guy named John Gonzalez — a wiry, fast-moving little man — whose nickname has been ‘Speedy’ since he was in the Air Force. That’s what everyone (myself included) calls him. He takes no offense at all, and none is meant by it.