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This Week in the New Normal #115

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.
UPDATE: This is not the This Week you’re looking for! Due to a (now corrected) numbering error, your link has taken you to the wrong place. The REAL This Week in the New Normal #117 is HERE.

1. AI will save lives if we let it

“ChatGTP could have prevented a mass shooting event, if only we listened to automatic flags!” That’s the story. Months before the shooting allegedly carried out by trans-woman Jesse Van Rootselaar, interactions with ChatGPT were flagged up by an automatic warning system but the silly humans didn’t tell anyone.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Months before Jesse Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia, Canada, OpenAI considered alerting law enforcement about her interactions with its ChatGPT chatbot, the company said.

While using ChatGPT last June, Van Rootselaar described scenarios involving gun violence over the course of several days, according to people familiar with the matter.

Her posts, flagged by an automated review system, alarmed employees at OpenAI. Internally, about a dozen staffers debated whether to take action on Van Rootselaar’s posts. Some employees interpreted Van Rootselaar’s writings as an indication of potential real-world violence, and urged leaders to alert Canadian law enforcement about her behavior, the people familiar with the matter said.

See, if only they hadn’t been so concerned about privacy and human rights and pre-crime, the police could have done something. We should just let AI automatically record all our interactions and report those it deems necessary directly to the government.

You don’t have to be a genius to read this subliminal narrative here.

2. Facial Recognition Just Keeps on Going

Fresh off facial recognition technology being deployed across The Underground by London’s Transport Police, Merseyside Police are announcing they will be deploying live facial recognition tech at the Everton-Manchester United game as part of a…

“wider policing operation designed to keep fans and the public safe”

As the match plays out, the LFR will be scanning the crowd and…

…comparing faces captured on a live camera feed against a secure, predetermined watchlist made up of individuals wanted for serious offences, subject to court orders, or who pose a risk to the public or to themselves.

Which is just lovely, isn’t it?

3. Migrant soldiers for the EU army?

Foreign Policy has got a great idea:

EU nations should offer enlisting in the military as a fast-track path to citizenship for immigrants.

Because what harm can come from a whole bunch of soldiers who are desperate not to be deported, so will follow any orders at all provided they get to stay in the country?

Or, indeed, what could go wrong with non-citizen soldiers asked to enforce martial law on a native population with whom they share no cultural or linguistic ties?

BONUS: Hilarious “experiment” of the week

The expert scientists over at The Guardian Labs want to see what it will be like living in the future when Climate Change – sorry, “global heating” – has made it all hot and stuff. To that end, they’ve put some guy in a really hot room and had him walk on a treadmill for a long time.

Turns out he gets really hot.

Earth-shattering stuff.

It’s not all bad…

Amazon-owned US supermarket Whole Foods is scrapping their “pay with palm” system after a lot of backlash. The scheme enabled Amazon account holders to add their biometrics (finger/palm prints and facial scans) that would then allow them to instantly pay at any Amazon-affiliated business.

An Amazon spokesman told the Daily Mail that “a lack of widespread adoption” had caused the program to be nixed.

Just a reminder that non-compliance works.

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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention Scotland’s contribution to the “all men are evil” conversation or “digital blackface”.

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Tipo Anatas
Tipo Anatas
Feb 26, 2026 10:02 AM

“… non-citizen soldiers asked to enforce martial law on a native population with whom they share no cultural or linguistic ties?”

This is 2nd-best choice after an army of AI robots.

Edwige
Edwige
Feb 25, 2026 8:16 AM

AI contributing nothing to the US economy according to not some crazy conspiracy theorist but Goldman Sachs:
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/turns-out-generative-ai-was-a-scam

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Feb 26, 2026 8:24 PM
Reply to  Edwige

Not a scam but a buzz word for profit………. 😋 .

Edwige
Edwige
Feb 24, 2026 11:10 AM

https://news.sky.com/story/armed-man-shot-and-killed-after-entering-perimeter-of-mar-a-lago-13510785

Austin Tucker Martin = 666. Did they put “Tucker” in there to imply that “dangerous on-line media” like Tucker Carlson can cause “real world harm” andf thus needs to be censored?

nicholas creed
nicholas creed
Feb 24, 2026 4:44 AM

Let’s delve into the (*current) “conspiracy theory” that the rich and powerful parasite class are consuming Adrenochrome. This conspiracy theory may soon become another conspiracy reality in due course.

When human trafficking networks permeate governments, social services, police forces, educational institutions, and NGOs – the very institutions that are supposed to safeguard children; we collectively reach an impasse as a society that is set to split.

I sense that my post is getting throttled on both Substack and Twitter:

Adrenochrome C9H9NO

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 24, 2026 10:43 AM
Reply to  nicholas creed

If you have something factual, a place, persons, then call the Police. We cant take it seriously if it is just insinuations that some famous do it.
The Police demand proof and we do it too.

Marb
Marb
Feb 24, 2026 4:13 AM

The first Quote from the WSJ about AI Sounds like its Straight out of Robocop 2014
h–ps://archive.org/details/robocop-1987_202311

Antonym
Antonym
Feb 24, 2026 2:34 AM

Epstein hid secret files in storage units across US  from 2003 onwards, which still haven’t been officially searched let alone published by the FBI & co. 

The North Atlantic Swamp.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Feb 23, 2026 5:50 PM

: Former UK Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson has been arrested, due his connections to Epstein, lets see how this one unfolds.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 23, 2026 10:04 PM

As I have pointed out again and again, what would a society do without the Police?
Yes you will say they didnt do enough and still wont hang the guy 3 times and blabla.

But they did arrested the corrupt guy yes? The Police also arrested Mr. underaged trader for illegal trading yes? A thumb up for our Police!
Gentlemen?

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Feb 24, 2026 8:19 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

Police forces around the globe suffer from corruption – but in saying that the police are a necessary force in modern day society – however, honest police officers can only carry out actions on orders given to them from the likes of the CPS – which itself is corrupt to its core, so I doubt the likes of Mandelson or Andrew Windsor will see the inside of a prison for an extended period – unlike you and I they have powerful and corrupt friends, who have influence in that area.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Feb 26, 2026 8:22 PM

The Police is a system. There are corruption everywhere.
To tell the truth I think 98% of all people could be persuaded by themselves into taking advantage of an situation.
The little corruption, “I need it for my family, old sick granny, bla, bla, bla.
“The big guys do it, and my corruption is trifles compared to theirs.”
But, in a civilisation we need the Police, yes.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Feb 23, 2026 5:11 PM

They’re all the same, once the y get into office they give you the bird, never mind that they promised to do this or that when campaigning – once in office they do what they want – or are compelled to do by their handlers.

Is there any point in voting I say no – don’t vote and let the system collapse.

It was Chomsky who said:

If voting made any difference it would be made illegal, or words to that effect.

They (politicians) don’t give a toss what we think or what we want from them.

Tucker Carlson Interview with US ambassador to Israel;

Tucker: “How much does it matter what Americans think? “

Huckabee : “It matters every bit”

Tucker: “80% oppose war with Iran”

Huckabee: “We don’t live in a world where polls dictate policy”

Tucker: “Oh, I thought you said it matters what Americans think.”

Chris
Chris
Feb 23, 2026 3:50 PM

Point #3 sounds familiar. Canada is seeking “… highly skilled foreign military applicants recruited by the Canadian Armed Forces in key roles such as military doctors, nurses and pilots” (https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2026/02/canada-prioritizes-top-talent-in-2026-immigration-express-entry-categories.html).

Antonym
Antonym
Feb 23, 2026 1:14 PM

EU nations should offer enlisting in the military as a fast-track path to citizenship for immigrants.

EU nations should offer enlisting in the military as a fast-track path to state burial for immigrants. How attractive! Won’t feed the family back in the ME or Africa for longer than a few months.

gerard
gerard
Feb 23, 2026 3:13 PM
Reply to  Antonym

Of course Antonym would get up and all rage over this clickbait.

Rome did this with all the captives. The other armies all enlist in times of war.
The UK has a Commonwealth, and what colors and nationals are their armies ? Not British.!
The USA did this with the Blacks and now the Mexicans, as white folks did not want to fight in their bankers’ war.
as recently as 2000 the USA allowed prisoners to fight in Iraq/Afghanistan during the war, nothing like racist ex con nutjobs going over there to give the civilians what for.

Napoleon Bonaparte heavily recruited foreign troops, including immigrants, prisoners, and soldiers from vassal states, to fill the ranks of his Grande Armée, with foreign units growing from 4,000 Swiss to over 90,000 by the end of his reign.

The foreign legion ever heard of them?

The Japanese were not allowed to enlist, so they placed them in real concentration camps and stole their homes.

President Joe Biden has strongly condemned the forced removal and detention of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, referring to the incarceration sites as “inhumane concentration camps” and calling the policy a “shameful” period in American history.

When it comes to reparations, only a certain group who funds 99% of alternative media is allowed it, and anyone else is called thieves.
Unfortunately , after proclaiming the Epstein thing was a hoax, it is clear as day that this baiting is aimed at its right-leaning audience, like you, this type of Laurence fox / Tiny Tommy 10 names posting and like them gets dictates what to write and who to blame to produce race/clickbait headlines like the above.

As the old saying goes there is nothing British in the British museum.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Feb 23, 2026 5:57 PM
Reply to  gerard

Long ago, In California, I knew two veterans of the English army in World War I who were friends.

One was from India. One was so Scottish he wore a tam o’ shanter.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 23, 2026 10:42 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

80 years ago?

Aloysius
Aloysius
Feb 23, 2026 10:52 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

You have no clue, stupid troll.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 24, 2026 10:45 AM
Reply to  Aloysius

Asking a question, my first amendment.
We have a new censor ship man here?

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 24, 2026 3:54 AM
Reply to  gerard

Returning repeatedly to historical events and controversies is a good way to distract from the present, e.g., the article.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Feb 23, 2026 11:53 AM

So Trump’s animosity to Mexico’s President Sheinbaum – has more to do with US firms, not getting access to lucrative silver mines in Mexico, than it does with illegal immigrants coming to the States.

Munk
Munk
Feb 23, 2026 11:46 AM

I wonder if OpenAI might have predicted that a psycho-chemically and surgically-altered young pubescent boy might lose his shit one day, leading to a murderously violent rampage?

gerard
gerard
Feb 23, 2026 3:21 PM
Reply to  Munk

Ow yer

the 2020 edition – The transvestite school shooting wearing a Palestine flag and immaculate passport and plan memo left at the scene of the shooting.
2 billion pound fine for reporting on it.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Feb 23, 2026 10:44 AM

An American woman, a civilian, were following a drone search in Yemen and wrote on social media she thought a special quarry looked suspicious as a nest for terrorist.

AI picked it up and bombed the quarry 4 times. 2 innocent civilians were killed and 2 civilians were wounded. She hereafter got cold feet and regretted what she had done, and paid 300$ to an Aid organisation.
March–May 2025 United States attacks in Yemen – Wikipedia

US was also angry on a cancer hospital in Sanaa and attacked it two times to destroy it completely. Probably also AI who picked up some gossip.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Feb 23, 2026 8:58 AM

I got some New Normal for ya you won’t like:

The Epstein Files reveal Elite Covid Profiteering
The Real Pandemic Profiteers – Sayer Ji’s Substack

red lester
red lester
Feb 23, 2026 11:53 AM
Reply to  Aloysius

Outstanding link, thanks

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 23, 2026 10:45 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

Yes this link is superb, thanks a lot!

rawmilkladie
rawmilkladie
Feb 23, 2026 8:09 AM

facial recognition technology being deployed..

HYPOCRITES

Off guardian is full of shit, when facial recognition technology is used to catch alleged criminals who have to be black, migrants or addicts (poverty porn) the webshit in-house algorithm adx Rolling rock is promoting this as a good thing.
Funny how all the MSM plus woke right is happy with the audit videos when it is catching a caste of people, yet the same off wokian scream fake outrage when it is deployed on them.

https://off-guardian.org/2026/02/19/from-germany-to-brazil-the-social-media-ban-craze-continues/#comment-753229

Rolling Rock
Rolling Rock
Feb 23, 2026 3:14 PM
Reply to  rawmilkladie

It is Hail the house troll using one if its many multi-IDs, rawnmilkladie. Along with landy, eccentric, hypocrite1 and tafeex. Many more before too.

All saying the same thing about OffG. Anyone getting deja-vu when they see the same soundbites from ‘different’ commenters?

Late to the party

Offwokian

MSM Plus

After the fact Kit

Woke right.

They are ALL one person whose main ID is Hail.

Constant slagging off of authors especially Kit Knightly and Iain Davis.

Drove Todd Hayen to quit after a year of trolling and abusing him.

Hail you are not happy unless you make shit up, and take a dump on this website with accusations with no evidence to back it up.

Why are you even here if you hate the site?

Whether the site is real or a limited hangout they still allow you to abuse them. Other people get pulled up for abuse but rarely you with your dozens of IDs over the years.

One of the few p!aces where the comment policy is easy going. Compare with Substack where authors routinely ban commenters after persistent trolling and ad hom attacks.

Eventually this comment section will be finished due to you and more authors will quit. Then you will have nothing left.

rawmilkladie
rawmilkladie
Feb 23, 2026 6:30 PM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

Simply calling an argument a “lie” or “absurd” without providing evidence to prove why it is false is known in logic as an “appeal to the stone,” which is considered a fallacy.

Your giving far to much power to a certain Ladie.

Your standards though IS primark.

If they can’t handle criticism, then maybe they shouldn’t be what they’re not. They’re not authors or journalist if they can handle critiques and only need asslicking admiration from the likes of you; they’re reposting x msm as news, 

When it comes to using multiple IDs, you ‘ re the famous one who is called out on other platforms , CTTF, as a known troll working for you know who. 

pending this will go.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 23, 2026 6:57 AM

The Downvoters have gone Apeshit.
Silly buggers. Go bother the Fakebook crowd.

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Feb 23, 2026 12:03 PM
Reply to  Johnny

I think @anus has admitted doing this – an enthusiastic ‘troll’ who resurfaces from time-to-time

Anus
Anus
Feb 24, 2026 8:32 AM
Reply to  Sam - Admin

Bollocks to you Sam. What a way to earn your keep, “moderating” a bunch of internet grommets, thus spending most of your life online. But if you’re content living such an existence who am I to judge..it’s your sly and duplicitous behavior that I find so abhorrent. And it’s pretty obvious you’re OCD amongst other things! You’re as bad as thicky Sophie who you replaced; petit minded no mark drongos titillated by being globally visible, utterly pathetic IMO.

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Feb 24, 2026 10:38 AM
Reply to  Anus

I won’t argue with you, but I will signpost something. You are displaying symptoms of mental health deterioration. Please make sure you have some support in place, preferably from friends and/or loved ones. Fare thee well and good luck. I shan’t let more like this through out of respect for your commenting legacy here. A2

Rolling Rock
Rolling Rock
Feb 24, 2026 12:01 PM
Reply to  Sam - Admin

Sam, you’re concerned about him for allegedly manipulating downvotes, whoever he really was (previous user name) in the past but you’re not concerned about the troll Hail with multiple IDs who constantly smears and attacks – using ad-homs – both the editor (Kit Knightly) and the guest authors?

I have no idea whether you a paid or do this voluntarily, but either way I tell you, it is only a matter of time before the comments section is ruined for good. You may also loose more authors in the process to add to Todd Hayen.

I find this very strange. There is something going on here, and cannot figure it out.

It certainly is not worth my time defending this site anymore, when you seem not to care either.

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Feb 24, 2026 1:28 PM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

I will never believe that pettiness and resentment should trump normal human decency. I don’t think I’m going to be ground down on that issue I’m afraid. A2

Rolling Rock
Rolling Rock
Feb 24, 2026 2:25 PM
Reply to  Sam - Admin

I do not understand what you wrote. Whose pettiness? Whose decency?

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Feb 24, 2026 4:47 PM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

I was just trying to be normally nice above. I’m obviously sorry if that makes you give up on Offg. But I wouldn’t condescend to argue the point with you, you know your own mind and that’s fine 🙂

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 23, 2026 2:14 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Yourself are the cause because you issued invisible negative waves which hit our emotions, and made us make a sour downvote.
If you guys instead had been issuing positive and happy waves, this life would have had a different direction.

les online
les online
Feb 23, 2026 3:10 AM

In 32 of US’ 50 states 16 is the age of female consent.
In 8 states it’s 17. And in 10 states it’s 18…

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Feb 23, 2026 2:57 PM
Reply to  les online
Johnny
Johnny
Feb 22, 2026 11:44 PM
Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 23, 2026 2:25 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Wrong track. They dont need to force anybody.
They can freely write and sign any Treaty saying ‘respect for every single human rights’ bla bla bla, and…………….still be sure that at least 65% up to 75% of the globe’s population will run to the guillotine.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 22, 2026 11:16 PM

The people are voting with their feet:
https://brownstone.org/articles/what-the-polls-say-about-the-pharmaceutical-industry-and-vaccines/

Oops, backlash can be very unprofitable. Sad that.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Feb 23, 2026 3:28 PM
Reply to  Johnny

It’s impossible to hate these pharmaceutical companies and their front-men/pimps enough.

Yoman
Yoman
Feb 22, 2026 11:08 PM

The likeable Canadian Peter Kelly claims on
his channel “The Woodland Escape” that the
Germans brought the long rifle to America.

According to Wikipedia, this seems to be
true. Even the British copied the Germans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_rifle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_military_rifles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_military_rifles

It has finally been proven (since 1979) why Gö-
ring ordered 2,500 overengineered “drillings.”
Incidentally, “drilling” and “rucksack” are loan-
words from German (just like “flamethrower”).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M30_Luftwaffe_Drilling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_gun

https://germanhuntingguns.com/about-the-makers/history/how-did-so-many-german-guns/
https://www.historytools.org/stories/the-perils-of-perfection-how-nazi-germanys-obsession-with-over-engineering-undermined-its-war-effort

Military experts even claim that Nazi Germany was so
“capitalist” that, despite the large number of manufac-
turers, it did not introduce industrial standards (e.g.,
for multi-compatible spare parts) as Great Britain did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overengineering#Examples

However, this Brit has to manage without a rifle, be-
cause in his country firearms have been abolished
for the civilian population and replaced by dildos.

Never heard ot her https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Kuni_Tremel-Eggert

Only Brit Roger Griffin can explain “palin-
genetic ultranationalism,” because under-
standing its meaning requires higher logic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palingenetic_ultranationalism
https://pdfhost.io/v/c3YnXvZTgr_Griffin

A deeply British “interpretation” of Nazi polycracy.

https://archive.is/c61lv
https://archive.is/lrixj

“Since the 1920s, in the so-called Weimar Republic, the bureaucracy on the national level developed from some single departments to into a complex executive system that maintained the republic. With 20 cabinets in 14 years the bureaucratic system became the anchor of stability and continuity. Adolf Hitler and his followers told their voters to purge the bureaucracy and break its power, which is an example of the hostility by the extremist right- and left-wing parties, that became stronger over times. This animosity had to be dealt with by the bureaucracy.

After the National Socialists took over the government in January 1933 they started to convert the republic into a totalitarian state. In the beginning they tried to get rid of the bureaucracy, but Hitler and his followers soon realized, that they needed the civil servants’ competencies and experience. So instead of abolishing the officials, the National Socialists built up a second bureaucracy inside of the National Socialistic Workers’ Party. Every department of the administration got mirrored by a party organization, which rivaled with the ministries on competencies. Historians call this phenomenon polycracy, which means the coexist of concurrent authorities with the same or similar responsibilities.

We want to illustrate how this polycratic system infiltrated the departments with party officials and working units over time. We expect that the composition of personnel in the departments shifted from professionals to ideologists, as the bureaucracy did shift from a normative into a prerogative state, as Fraenkel wrote in ‘The Dual State.’

To show these effects we use data which focuses on the biographies of the top officials (ministers, state secretaries and directors general) in the national ministries at five points of time: First in the relatively early stage of the developing republic (1920), second in the stable democratic system (1927), then in the beginning of the Nazi-era (1934), at the peak of Nazi-power (1939) and at last in a phase of collapse (1944). With this data we can show the complex nature and the dynamics of recruitments to elite positions in the Nazi-system over time that made possible the strengthening of totalitarianism within a democratic system.”

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 22, 2026 10:58 PM

Sports? You mean corporate goldmines.

When ‘sport’ became fully corporatised back in the late 80s, I stopped watching. It’s just another form of religion for the masses.

Put your hiking boots on and go for a walk in Mother Nature. At least it’s real.
For now.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Feb 23, 2026 2:59 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Not only that is a fixed racket too boot.

Big Al
Big Al
Feb 22, 2026 10:49 PM

Top AI minds think it could end humanity. 50 years ago, I didn’t give the science fiction “warnings” much thought, hell, flying cars and a robot to get me a beer and clean the house sounded pretty good. But now when confronted with reality, I can’t help but think AI is a total game changer, for the worst. This is fucking dangerous. Already, before most are barely cognizant of its rapid deployment, you cannot watch a video and know for sure it’s real. If we thought propaganda and control were bad til now, just wait. I read somewhere one of the inventors said, “if in the wrong hands, this could end humanity”. Well, it’s already in the wrong hands. I should say that again, “IT IS ALREADY IN THE WRONG HANDS!” And they don’t give a shit about the rest of us.

Big Al
Big Al
Feb 23, 2026 4:04 AM
Reply to  Big Al

This place is fucked up. Not only is it going downhill relative to comments and numbers of comments, but it’s infested with assholes. Time to split. Fucking worthless.

Big Al
Big Al
Feb 23, 2026 4:09 AM
Reply to  Big Al

Fucking weasel ass MFers running around giving thumbs down without adding any fucking thing substantive. Ruins this place.

Anus
Anus
Feb 23, 2026 7:47 AM
Reply to  Big Al

Unfortunately, it’s the only option people who are blocked from commenting have. Sam is an OCD control freak and an ignorant fool.

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Feb 23, 2026 11:59 AM
Reply to  Anus

Whatever anus

Scoobis
Scoobis
Feb 23, 2026 9:36 AM
Reply to  Big Al

Want some cheese with that whine?

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 23, 2026 10:59 AM
Reply to  Big Al

Just ignore those ignoramuses Al.
If they were twice as smart they would still be halfwits.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Feb 23, 2026 8:46 PM
Reply to  Big Al

I agree with this – down-voters should at least give a clue as to what in the comment they disagreed with and give their perspective.

Hornbach
Hornbach
Feb 23, 2026 9:02 PM
Reply to  Big Al

Before reading this I was surprised to see downvotes to your previous message, which was absolutely normal. You shouldn’t care about the thumbs up or down, only if there are replies with arguments

Big Al
Big Al
Feb 23, 2026 11:23 PM
Reply to  Hornbach

Ya, guess I gotta get thicker skin.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 23, 2026 4:48 AM
Reply to  Big Al

Why does government form yet another committee or investigative team, or hire yet another consultant? Because (a) it is clueless or (b) wants to evade responsibility. AI fits the bill too.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Feb 23, 2026 6:04 PM
Reply to  Big Al

You’ve made some good comments in the past. I hope you make some more. If I were you, I would look at downvotes as badges of honor. I do.

Thom
Thom
Feb 22, 2026 10:18 PM

The UK media are getting desperate trying to prop up the climate change con – “Why is there so much rain and flooding?” seems to be a strangely common refrain. Because it’s winter in a temperate country perhaps?

Martha
Martha
Feb 23, 2026 12:36 AM
Reply to  Thom

and lots of paved surfaces, leading to excessive runoff and flooding. You’ll rarely find severe flooding in an intact forest.

shearwater
shearwater
Feb 23, 2026 9:29 AM
Reply to  Thom

perhaps it’s because it’s impossible to differentiate normal weather patterns from geoengineered ones

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Feb 22, 2026 9:59 PM

There are also some good news to be had:

The US CDC has a new notice on its website saying that the claim “Vaccines do not cause autism” is not not evidence-based! In the past, the notice states, this claim was upheld in order to prevent ‘vaccine hesitancy.’ (So they lied to us to boost vaccine uptake).

Kudos to Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum (Jewish) for rejecting membership in the US Board of “Peace” because Palestine was excluded from participation.

Also praiseworthy, though probably futile, is that over 80 big knobs from the German film industry and film stars have publicly criticised the Berlinale (Germany’s major film festival) for remaining silent on the genocide in Gaza.

Over 80 UN member countries have condemned Israel’s illegal annexation of Palestinian land in West Bank … but, then, who’s listening?

Good to see that the TeamSpeak platform is experiencing a dramatic increase in new subscribers – even to the extent of full capacity in the US – due to disillusionment with the mandatory age verification on Discord.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 23, 2026 4:54 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

Who’s listening? Not any of the freaks in the “board of peace” led by a raving lunatic.

Jane in France
Jane in France
Feb 22, 2026 8:45 PM

During covid, in France, migrants were employed to check the passe sanitaire at the entrance to hospitals and clinics. They followed orders.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 23, 2026 4:57 AM
Reply to  Jane in France

It was a miracle. Few of these slaves cleaning hospital floors, collecting trash that included deadly PPE and living in slums in any country succumbed to the pandemic.

juleietbrovo
juleietbrovo
Feb 22, 2026 8:38 PM

Just a reminder that non-compliance works. 😂 

Meanwhile in the real world.

Co-op customers trial Age Scan technology at self checkoutThe age verification system is being trialled at four stores in Manchester
26 May 2022
https://www.conveniencestore.co.uk/news/co-op-customers-trial-age-scan-technology-at-self-checkout/667856.article

The self checkout system in every UK shop 2026
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Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 22, 2026 11:39 PM
Reply to  juleietbrovo

Every UK shop? I am gonna be a lonely rider by the end of the year. I leave every shop forever who introduce this kind of bio-visual cam bs.

Chris
Chris
Feb 22, 2026 8:37 PM

Here’s another, courtesy of Springer Nature (in the 20 Feb 2026 Nature Briefing newsletter):

Earlier this week, we read about RentAHuman.ai, a platform on which artificial-intelligence agents can hire human workers to complete tasks that require a physical body on their behalf, such as attending meetings or taking photographs. […]

I was hoping they’d jumped the gun and that particular news item was intended for the 01 April edition, but no.

Jos
Jos
Feb 22, 2026 10:59 PM
Reply to  Chris

Just heard the next feasible date for the round the moon trip following the second setback is – April 1st 😂😂😂You do realise that what’s in the news now is all entirely and deliberately farcical, don’t you?

juleietbrovo
juleietbrovo
Feb 22, 2026 8:31 PM

 what could go wrong with non-citizen soldiers asked to enforce martial law on a native population with whom they share no cultural or linguistic ties?

Have you asked isntreal about this?

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 22, 2026 11:42 PM
Reply to  juleietbrovo

Eugenics.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 23, 2026 5:03 AM
Reply to  juleietbrovo

To some extent, this was historically always the strategy. It is one of the purposes of (a) covert immigration (b) impoverishing the middle class (c) various excuses to leave the areas that the poor occupy in a mess.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Feb 26, 2026 4:07 AM
Reply to  mgeo

The ancient Athenians used to use Scythians as police.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Feb 22, 2026 8:25 PM

I have an idea. Don’t go to soccer games. Watch them on TV.

Meanwhile, I think there are churches that don’t have surveillance. Good places to meet and conspire. As they were during the American Revolution. Cf. Muhlenberg.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 22, 2026 8:30 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

Stop having ideas.
If everyone see soccer at home, there is no money to soccer games = no soccer.
Stop sinking.
All organised religion churches I know of have surveillance.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Feb 23, 2026 3:39 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

No soccer. Good. Play in your back yard.

You don’t know any churches.

Martha
Martha
Feb 23, 2026 12:40 AM
Reply to  Aloysius

“Some” churches don’t have surveillance. But in the US, many do track parishioners with cameras & also on their phones.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 23, 2026 2:47 AM
Reply to  Martha

Dont believe me?comment image .
Moslem Churches. comment image
Christian churchescomment image
Rabbi Arrested For Hidden Cameras In Synagogue Bathing Facilities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ6IkcCeo6U .

The End game:comment image .

Aloysius
Aloysius
Feb 22, 2026 8:23 PM

The authorities and the media are tying themselves up in knots trying not to admit that the tranny murderer is a man.

John Goss
John Goss
Feb 22, 2026 8:19 PM

In a way the world we’re moving into is not much different from the one we’ve moved out of. As far as facial recognition goes, if it doesn’t fit, you’re in the brown stuff.

As a toolmaker, so many years ago, I worked with a guy, Eddie, who was former AEU convenor of Dalmuir Royal Ordnance Factory. He was rather outspoken but he was honest. His major downside to my mind was a certain bigotry against Catholics. He recommended books like “The Catholic Church against the 20th Century” by Avro Manhatton. Because he had made a name for himself as an agitator he had difficulty in the workplace, and knew any mistake he made would be the last. He was a skilled toolmaker. There was a blacklist and he was on it. It will be the same when the AI spies have sorted out us on the other side we, like the good doctors during the Covid scam. They don’t make it easy, not now, not then, not in the future. Unless we get them out we’re stuffed like the Christmas turkey.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 22, 2026 8:11 PM

I can add “..and are suppressing women 24/7 and are sitting on their wallet”!
That is how men are!!

NikkiBop
NikkiBop
Feb 22, 2026 8:02 PM

I love how Off Guardian refuses to call the “man” Jesse Van Rootselaar a man. OG has to be socially acceptable and use his preferred pronouns. Wouldn’t want to offend anyone by stating the obvious. So sick of the games.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Feb 22, 2026 8:27 PM
Reply to  NikkiBop

Sick is right. He’s a sick man. All “transexuals” are. And many of them are violent,.

judith
judith
Feb 22, 2026 9:05 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

And many, I’d say most, are very nice people. Or very regular people. Meaning, some are nice, some are jerks, some are violent, some are slobs, some are obsessively clean – just like heterosexuals.
But everyone’s entitled to their opinion.

Anus
Anus
Feb 27, 2026 6:04 PM
Reply to  judith

I know one who killed her nextdoor neighbour/client on Christmas day. Research Melissa Young. It previously went by Candice, pre-op, but was born Robert, I believe. Sick in the head that’s for sure; total freak. Another I’m aquatinted with is a sweet little “woman”, and one would never know, but sexy she is not. Incidentally, her brother is gay, so not sure if they have a derangement gene of some sort, or if they were perhaps subjected to a twisted childhood..couldn’t actually give a fuck!

MartinU
MartinU
Feb 22, 2026 7:48 PM

Its not important that ChatGPT flagged an individual as a potential hazard because hindsight, as we all know, is 20/20. Its possible that given research these models might be able to predict behavior accurately but as things stand today for every “pass” these likely to be dozens, if not hundreds of, “fails”.

I’m not too optimistic that any advanced technology would be used responsibly. Just today I read a report that Pete Hegseth, our War Minister**, wants to punish Anthopic because the company doesn’t want its technology to be used without restrictions by the military. (If you’ve not been paying attention then you might have missed how AI develops ‘kill lists’ that target individuals deemed important to an adversar; these are then taken out using whatever method is deemed expedient++)

**Strictly speaking he’s the Defense Secretary in the US’s Department of Defense. He doesn’t see it that way, though. He appears to be on some “mythical warlord” kick.

++The Israelis have been deploying this widely (and you’re worried about being unfairly tagged as a football hooligan?).

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 22, 2026 11:50 PM
Reply to  MartinU

Eugenics. Eugenics is the key word in all these examples. Selection and erasing of the unworthy, useless eaters, the dumb, the sheeple, the ‘terrorist’, whomever.

If some innocent should be killed on the way, its just a question about collection on even more biometric data and profile.

Penelope
Penelope
Feb 22, 2026 7:31 PM

The U.S. Congress could vote as soon as next week on whether to block President Donald ‌Trump’s ability to strike Iran without lawmakers’ approval, as the U.S. ‌military prepares for a potential serious conflict with Iran if diplomatic efforts fail.

You think maybe it’s about time? Constitution’s Article I, Section 8 specifically lists as a power of Congress the power “to declare War.”

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 22, 2026 8:20 PM
Reply to  Penelope

Trump is squeezed by the Zionist billionaires who pay for his election programme, and risk to loose money to his mid-way election if he doesnt enter into war with Iran.

On the other hand if he enter into a major war with Iran and dead Americans begin to come home in coffins, he will also loose the mid terms from his American voters.

So yes. Congress could theoretically save Trump but Congress is most known for it’s 3 standing ovations for Netanyahu with not a single Congress member sitting down.

So….? Trump is caught between a stone and a hard place.

les online
les online
Feb 22, 2026 11:02 PM
Reply to  Penelope

The modus operandi of The Genocidal MIGA Mob is “By deception thou shalt wage war.”
Should US congress move to rein in MAGA Man Trump they’ll be persuaded against
such by False Flag attacks on American Soil carried out by the activated Only ME
Democracy’s ‘Iranian Terrorist Cells’…
The only thing stopping a MIGA Sneak Attack against Iran is “How much damage from
Iran’s response does The Only ME Democracy consider acceptable ?”
Asking Grog wont help as it’s been programed to help with the deception. Netanyahu
doesnt give a rat’s arse (He has in all likelihood supplied ISIS with the home addresses
of all The Only ME Democracy’s Supreme Court judges – with orders to get them off
his back.)… And if anyone thinks POTUS Trump gives a rat’s arse about how his fate
might be decided by the loss of some American lives from fighting The Great Satan
thus Saving Little Benny – at his fingertips is the Zionist owned totalitarian US media
giants that were used to persuade Americans there actually was a Killer Global Pandemic
on the loose in 2020… They will decide Trump’s fate – and he knows it…

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 23, 2026 1:05 AM
Reply to  les online

…and therefore he need money to buy out those Zionist owned totalitarian US media giants.
…and from where does he get money to buy out MSM? The Zionist Duus!
Dead end Trump.

But…..Trump is playing 5D chess and he is the One and he can do it! Yes?

Lizzyh7
Lizzyh7
Feb 23, 2026 3:40 PM
Reply to  Penelope

Well, when we see any administration even so much as attempt to revoke, or at least modify, the Patriot Act/AUMF, we might see an actual declaration of war, by a Congress who abdicated any responsibility for declaring war over 20 years ago. Really fucking rich to hear these assholes get up there and whine about Congress not being consulted to “approve” these wars, particularly while voting in increase after increase to the “defense” budget year after year after year. Let’s face it, every single corrupt Congress critter out there, from either side of the aisle, have played this game when it suits them to appear to be against another war, but we never see any of them take any risk to themselves at all to really stop it. Oooh, Congress is gonna demand a vote on it this time, let’s all hold our breath and wait to see what happens, surely this time it WILL be different.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 23, 2026 1:39 AM
Reply to  sandy

Ref: “Don’t let them Borgify us and turn free humans into obedient, trackable nodes in their machine.
Don’t let them steal nature and turn it into a commodity for the elite. Get active locally. Resist immediately. Slow their rollout to a crawl. The future isn’t theirs yet.
We claim it by saying NO!”

What I am saying is: Let them Borgify us, Let them steal the nature. Let them QR stamp out butts. Yes the future is theirs. We cant do anything about it anyway. We are doomed. There fore I am saying YES!

By saying YES, I will get more. By saying NO, you will get less…..$$$……LOL.

sandy
sandy
Feb 22, 2026 6:35 PM

Social media for Agentic AIs is the tip-of-the-iceberg of what WILL go wrong…

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/social-media-for-ai-agents-moltbook.html

ARTIFICIAL intelligence is the voice command utopia promoted by MIT’s Negroponte four decades ago. It seemed pathological narcissism then and many times worse now. Deep public vetting with simulated future scenarios, design and consent should be the default process for any new technology deployments.

Test the SCIENCE FICTION waters Tell YOUR AI to login to your FB account, invite all of it’s agentic friends and have a wilding riot to turn the application, by any meas necessary, into an irreparable stump, just like Gaza is now.

landy
landy
Feb 22, 2026 5:32 PM

FACIAL RECOGNITION JUST KEEPS ON GOING
The 1990 FIFA World Cup (often referred to as Italia ’90) was a pivotal moment in the development of modern stadium security, marked by the extensive use of closed-circuit television (CCTV) to combat hooliganism. Due to the high risk of violence from English fans, Italian authorities deployed heavy security, with 7,000 police officers, Carabinieri, and special forces patrolling the premises.

UK police forces have been using CCTV on football fans since the 90’s
Known fans trouble makers would get visits from the football police task force
telling them not to attend certain matches.
CCTV carried by police and undercover officers would walk on bus;s, trains and pubs to identify known suspects.
If you was an away team fans you would be recorded coming into the town or city’s.

Once again you have seen lies by OG shabby cheap reposting of Msm lies as real news to fool the idiots who believe them, that this facial is a new thing.

Get in the real world off guardian and actually do journalism as your worse than the guardian at least they do journalism.

Observe
Observe
Feb 22, 2026 6:41 PM
Reply to  landy

So your point is that because older, less intrusive tech was used to surveill people previously, newer, better, more intrusive tech being used should not be reported here?

Even if you feel OffG is nothing but a little honeypot, it’s an odd choice to rail against reporting of facial recognition use.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 23, 2026 1:29 AM
Reply to  Observe

He could be an agent smith yes?

Aloysius
Aloysius
Feb 22, 2026 8:29 PM
Reply to  landy

Interesting. Is this the truth?

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 23, 2026 1:30 AM
Reply to  Aloysius

No Aloysius, this is not the truth.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Feb 23, 2026 3:41 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

I wasn’t asking you.

Stop capping my posts. Do you get a quarter a post or something?

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Feb 23, 2026 10:54 AM
Reply to  Aloysius

Its for your own sake. To help you. When you are wrong I correct you.

Small children are reading this site too, why I am afraid they pick up yr wrong world view. I am just telling these small kids what is right!

Hornbach
Hornbach
Feb 22, 2026 9:27 PM
Reply to  landy

1990 FR is very different from “live FR” of today. You can call FR at that time even the fact that stewards had printed photos of some people but today we are ALL in the database

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Feb 22, 2026 5:11 PM

You could’ve added this, (If you knew about it) Canada is euthanising young people as well as the old, a 26 year old guy was handled by (MAID) – Medical Assistance in Dying recently, and in 2022 almost 14,000 Canadians were euthanised – one of the top reasons for being euthanised was folk felt they were a burden on loved ones.

Staggeringly, 27% of Canadians support assisted suicide for people in POVERTY! – Jesus F*ckin Christ.

Starmer will have a field day with this – when its eventually pushed through parliament.

Canada’s suicide service is coming to Britain – spiked

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 22, 2026 8:22 PM

Lack of love.

Aloysius
Aloysius
Feb 22, 2026 8:33 PM

Yes, very good. You have broached the huge fly in the ointment.

Traditionally, all good, proper, well-intentioned liberals have believed in euthanasia. I mean, look at how some people suffer, they go.

Teaching them about the reality is impossible. They get the cognitive dissonance bad.

The reality is that the majority of those suicides kill themselves “NOT TO BE A BURDEN,” and not because they are suffering.

Thus, opposition to euthanasia is right and good and appropriate.

Sonny-Raye Hayes
Sonny-Raye Hayes
Feb 23, 2026 1:41 AM

A mis-use of the word euthanize.

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Feb 22, 2026 4:36 PM

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Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
Feb 22, 2026 3:04 PM

On one its almost Minority Report in nature, which is scary – he progammes AI can decide who should be arrested.

On two, it won’t take that long for facial recognition to be rolled out across the whole of Britain.

On three the EU has been touting a EU army for years now – it won’t happen because EU Atlanticists are utterly loyal to Washington, the EU has allowed Brussels to destroy its economy at the behest of Washington to aid Ukraine – migrants would be mad to join any EU force.

On Amazon – that’s good news one up for the masses, they obviously don’t like to shop that way – for me long live cash I say.

May Hem
May Hem
Feb 22, 2026 9:05 PM

With a spoonerism it becomes “Racial Feconition”.