This Week in the New Normal #112: “What we’re not talking about when we talk about Epstein”
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. Facial Recognition Rollout hits London
The British Transport Police are launching trials of Live Facial Recognition tech in underground stations in London:
Today we’re launching our trial of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology in London.
Watch Chief Superindendent Chris Casey explain the LFR pilot in more detail 🗣️ 📹
Read more: https://t.co/Mh21Et1a0x pic.twitter.com/8mRhxrughD
— British Transport Police (@BTP) February 11, 2026
Isn’t that smashing and convenient? That means they can track all the criminals, fare jumpers – and, of course, everyone else – wherever they might go.
And don’t worry about it, you almost certainly won’t be one of the people who gets misidentified.
2. Universal Basic Income on the horizon?
This week, Ireland announced a new scheme that would see the state pay artists a wage. This “basic income for the arts” plan is only the latest development in the UBI narrative.
This comes hot on the heels of a British government minister claiming UBI will be required after AI displaces thousands and thousands of jobs.
And the great protector of free speech, Elon Musk himself, has been talking up a future of “optional work”, and Nobel Laureates are agreeing.
Watch this space.
3. France banning open fires
By the end of the year, huge areas of France will have totally banned the usage of wood-burning stoves, open fireplace or both. The penalty for ignoring the ban is a fine, which varies by area, but doubles and doubles again for repeat offences.
Want to burn your own wood in your fireplace in your own house in Lille? That’ll be 1500 Euros. Merci.
And why? You don’t need me to answer that – it’s because of pollution and climate change and all the rest.
Most specifically, there’s the “growing concern” of indoor air pollution, which was a talking point at Davos last month, and has been a minor issue for over two years.
It’s a very serious issue, and not even slightly a pathetic excuse to hoover up more personal data. That’s why places like Abu Dhabi, famous for it’s humanitarian record on wellbeing and human rights, are deploying sensors to monitor pollutants. To keep people safe.
…ordinary everyday things are polluting your indoor air, and did you know many diseases can linger in the air for AGES?
Transparent stuff.
4. Store loyalty cards could save your life
Surveillance could spot your cancer early. That’s the line.
Major retailers using your loyalty cards to monitor your shopping habits and sharing that data with the NHS could spot the early warning signs of cancer, apparently.
A major study of 3000 volunteers is taking place, using data from Boots and Tesco, and working with “experts” at Imperial College (It’s always Imperial).
From the Mail:
Now experts at Imperial College London are working with Tesco and Boots to see whether data from their Clubcard and Advantage programmes can save lives.
They believe each form of the disease will have its own pattern of purchases, such as the frequency at which people buy painkillers and indigestion medicine and cut back on – or start to buy – certain foods.
Cracking this code could allow the NHS to catch more cancers earlier, when treatment is cheaper and much more effective and the chances of survival are greater.
A previous study by the same team found that they could successfully use shopping history to detect ovarian cancer eight months before a full diagnosis.
Their expanded study comes ahead of the publication of the Government’s National Cancer Plan on Wednesday, outlining how ministers hope to slash cases and improve treatment.
Oonagh Turnbull, the head of health and sustainable diets campaigns at Tesco, said in a statement:
We hope that with the help of our customers across the UK taking part and volunteering to share their Tesco Clubcard data, more lives can be saved by detecting certain cancers early, building on the success of the first Cancer Loyalty Card study.’
Do you guys think this new study will find that we should monitor people’s shopping habits?
Because I think it just might.
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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention Russia’s “spy pigeons” or the UK rejoining the EU.
There’s a lot of change in the air, a lot of agendas in the works, if you see a headline, article, post or interview you think is a sign of the times, post it in the comments, email us or share it on social media and we will add it to the next edition.
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Sky News Australia has Lefties Losing It:
OFF Wokain has this week in the new normal.
No research, no journalism, just pure reposting of MSM Plus news and regurgitism as real news to the naive viewers OUTRAGE PORN:.
Anyone with a brain cell (sorry editor, this doesn’t include you) knows
The UK has had facial recognition tech in underground stations in London and all over for decades: the camera on trains.
If this is too complicated for the OFF Wokian readers , if it is able to read your number plate/bike plate, it can read your face.
The millions of cameras on buses, train stations , CCTV all over the cities, and even the electric bike hire scan your faces, and every city cab by law has to have CCTV in the taxis, especially if they want those school-run council contracts.
HEY , try this: ask a cabbie. Not rocket science.
Hey try, this get your bike nicked, or phone stolen and see if there able to use the top CCTV FACIAL RECOGNITION to find the person/s? they cant, It is fear porn to keep you (good little citizen) in line to be scared of doing anything.
Another OFF Wokian MSM Plus fear porn. My terms are this :
When MSM Plus stops accepting PayPal , all major credit cards , every different crypto going, and
patrons, then they can give advice on UBI as they all get UBI via the different donations they have on their sites which most of it is paid via the MIC to repost theses horse manure as true story’s.
This is up there with trannie apocalypse they sell via the digital MSM Plus madness.
Like the UK and EU, there is and will not be the police force or OPEN FIRES check police to visit people’s houses or woods and check if they’re using/burning wood.
Pure woke-right MSM Plus tosh.
More British of today: Water bankruptcy new newspeak word. The UK Water Companies claim 85% of all water is polluted.
A very fine and expensive Research Report looking with one eye down in a microscope shows 500 socialists have died because of 85% of all the globe’s water is polluted.
Only 15% of the global water is noble and fine enough to the British Labour Socialist Party, why we must have more taxes and funding.
https://theweek.com/environment/water-bankruptcy-climate-change-scarcity
It remains somewhat astonishing how blind the gen pop are still fixated on the just so narrative that , by virtue of awakening or awareness at the awfulness revealed in the Eps Files , representative governments self righting mechanisms will require a metaphor(course correction, clear out, Nuremberg 2.0 etc etc)
Meanwhile the regimes agenda is moving faster and more easily than ever before as the total tech slavery grid falls into place around the diligent voters, to perfection!
The control system is perfect in a way mankind cannot fully grasp because it is the work of a preternatural intelligence.
Hannah Spencer: Kowtowing to extreme misogyny!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HAy4DjGaAAEZsn8?format=jpg&name=small
https://x.com/sirwg202110/status/2021192709008937284
Feb 10, 2026
Hannah Spencer appears to have submitted to the mob secure votes.
The Green candidate for Gorton and Denton at Madina Masjid in Levenshulme alongside extremist co-leader Mothin Ali.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15562667/Green-candidate-make-breasts-grow-hypnosis.html
She went on to say: ‘Most people in the world engage in misogynistic behaviour. But sadly few people reflect and apologise, or go on to dedicate their life to a fairer future.’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lxdn4w2g3o
The linked article quoted is from the BBC and although on the face of it is warning about misidentification it is actually a subtle propaganda piece in favour of AI facial recognition cameras.
How did Rajah clear his good name? By having to to give more of his biometrics to a third party company, in this case ‘Facewatch’
Furthermore, Sainsbury’s admit Mr Rajah the victim was “misidentified” not by the AI but by “human error”, ie their staff.
At the end of the article Rajah helpfully is quoted as saying:
Nowhere in the article did it suggest that Mr Rajah – the victim – tell Sainsbury’s to go fuck themselves, since he is not an offender. No threat to sue the store nor take his custom elsewhere.
Instead he rolled over and like a good IngSoc citizen accepted being guilty until proven innocent.
The takeaway for the casual reader is that humans are at fault and not the machines, so if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear.
Sneaky.
Thanks for your summary, I never click a bbc link.
Pending purgatory again☹️
Just a reminder: there are no old people or pensioners in George
Orwell’s ‘1984’. Grannies, like The Consumer Economy, are things
in the past. What is depicted, stark naked, is the global control
system at the heart of every society/economy throughout History
that all freedom lovers have resisted…The Great Reset has no
place for Grannies, or Consumers, or workers, only your 0bedience…
Australian Uni Students to get Antisemite lessons:
Lesson 1. You shalt say nothing bad about I****l,
Lesson 2. You shalt say nothing bad about I****l,
Lesson 3. You shalt say nothing bad about The J**s
Lesson 4. Mooslims are bad, bad people,
Lesson 5. Mooslims are really bad, bad people.
Lesson 6. You shalt say nothing bad about I****l.
Lesson 7. I****l is The Only Democracy In The ME…
For a reason: To avoid more 6 million cases, and to avoid many more massacres in Australia on the news and free speech..
you almost certainly won’t be one of the people who gets misidentified
Accuracy remains abysmal -US ACLU c. 2018. Identification fails in ~15% of subjects -Guardian 2017.
Overt monitors have failed to deter violent enforcers -Ava Kofman 2017. And they fail to resolve or reduce common types of crime, let alone terrorism.
This is partly due to racist data used for training and poor video quality. But just as for the jabs that saved us, let us not wait for perfection before spending public wealth.
The reveal so far: He raped half the babies in the country on their
third birthday, and the authorities are wondering how to cancel third
birthdays to stop him…
Standard status in all media February 2026:
Redaction sounds lawful and routine, unlike censorship that only evil communists and socialists do.
“Money and Morality: ‘M’ is the only thing they have in common;
Capitalism and Corruption: They have ‘C’ in common, and lots else.
Crony Capitalism – tells its own story” … (anon) …
The New Normal Reportage:
‘Breaking News: Hamas Didnt Cut the Heads Off Any Babies Last Week !!’
Every time I believe the world couldn’t possibly become more fucked up…..
Total believer of the digital world view.
Grants are still available in France for logburner installations :
https://services.totalenergies.fr/particuliers/conseils/energies-habitat/buches/aides-poele-a-bois-financement-installation
Looks like there are no-smoke zones for open fires but you’d need to be a Neanderthal to burn expensive wood on an open fire.
Are those putting out the fires permitted to smoke?
France is a socialist country since Robespierre. Schizophrenic to the core.
I’ve caught the pending virus again.
What’s the cure?
Oh everyone knows the drill, unmarked dollars to the usual Russian bank account 😉
Da.
Done. It’ll be there faster than you can say “Rootin, tootin, Putin”
Sorry, it’ll be Aussie dollars though, and they’re not worth much.
Supermarkets monitoring health?
That’s hilarious.
Clear the shelves of Coca Cola first.
Then they’ll be getting somewhere.
The world is one big supermarket.
Overwhelming verdict: Jim Ratcliffe was right!
In yesterday’s poll, Mail readers were asked: ‘Should Sir Jim Ratcliffe have apologised for saying Britain has been “colonised by immigrants”?’
Out of more than 34,000 votes, 95 per cent of you said ‘no’ and 5 per cent said ‘yes’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15552765/POLL-Sir-Jim-Ratcliffe-apologise-saying-Britain-colonised-immigrants.html
POLL OF THE DAY: Should Sir Jim Ratcliffe have apologised for saying Britain has been ‘colonised by immigrants’?
Feb 12, 2026
Results presented here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15556653/Poll-primary-school-children-change-gender.html
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First of three articles:
https://www.turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/front-page/politics-a-great-darkness
There’s no escaping these pertinent points below – when it comes the article above, and other articles that point out what’s happening – and what’s coming.
“Most people don’t want the truth. They just want constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth.
Also people will accept convenient lies if it does not disrupt their life”
There is substantially more than usual local opposition to data centers and their ilk in the US. People who never gave a shit seem to be coming out, writing letters, contacting congressmen.
How is this going in the UK?
George Orwell was British. 100% pure and only British.
Orwell was born in India.
You are right. Without socialist India he could not fully had grasped the story.
Obviously shenanigans, not me…
Something mad hit there…
Must have been a mad hella affect.
Could have swore this page was over 30,
Probably best don’t fight is the message
NEXT PLANDEMIC: 3,625 Biolabs, Half of which are in the US
73% do not publicly disclose their locations or pathogen activities
Nipah is 40-75% FATAL in outbreaks in Bangladesh.
Nipah Virus patents show a sustained effort to engineer, functionalize, and embed Nipah’s G (attachment) and F (fusion) glycoproteins across successive mRNA vaccine and vector platforms.
CEPI is pouring millions of dollars into Nipah self-amplifying mRNA injection development. -more- :
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/the-next-plandemic-3625-biolabs-nipah
Nipah is hyped up .. what exactly kills those people?
Toxins and malnutrition
Fuck your vaccine bullshit
No, it’s Nipah that kills them, and it’s stupid of you to assume that I am FOR “vaccines.”
Exactly
The henipavirus G and F glycoproteins were synthesised/engineered and patented well over a decade ago — by the US military, no less.
These two viral-entry proteins are shared by both Nipah virus (NiV) and the closely-related Hendra virus (HeV), so a vaccine against one is expected to be protective against the other.
The soluble G protein is the basis of the commercial subunit vaccine against HeV, which has been available for use in Australian horses since 2014 (in limited use that year, fully licensed in 2015). It is marketed by Zoetis (formerly known as Pfizer Animal Health).
While not commercially available yet, Merial (now part of Boehringer Ingelheim) published a small study (9 ponies) in 2016 of a canarypox viral vector HeV vaccine they made which expresses both the G and F proteins. It would be expected to protect against NiV as well.
So, there is absolutely no need for a modified mRNA vaccine — not when the G protein subunit and the G+F protein viral-vector vaccines can do the job.
In addition, a monoclonal antibody product has been developed for prophylactic use in humans exposed to HeV (e.g., via a sick horse). It appears to be highly effective, although it’s hard to say, as HeV infection in people is rare (only 7 cases since 1994) and the number of deaths (4) too few to calculate a reliable, generalisable mortality rate for HeV in humans.
Same goes for NiV. Far more human cases globally each year, but the morbidity (serious illness) and mortality rates vary widely from study to study.
Lots more to all this. Here is a multi-page, multi-part look at the science and politics of HeV in horses and humans:
Hendra: why not just go ahead and vaccinate?
It may have some lessons for those who have not been living with the spectre of this “deadly virus.”
Oh, and just to finish with a cherry on top, the latest ecological study of HeV in Australian bats (flying foxes, fruit bats) has DARPA as its two major funders. Yes, that DARPA.
Thanks for the summary. I understand that there’ve been cases directly from bat to human, w/o the horse intermediary. I suppose the gain of function stuff is to make it human-to-human.
I agree that, absent biolabs and their gain of function, Nipah is a big nothing.
However, given the thousands of biolabs & the insistence of TPTB that a “pandemic” is coming, Nipah is a possibility.
“I understand that there’ve been cases directly from bat to human, w/o the horse intermediary”
Not as far as I’m aware. All of the documented human cases of HeV infection have involved close contact with an infected horse (living or dead).
It is theoretically possible for a human to be infected directly from close contact with bat secretions/excretions, but you’d have to have pretty lax hygiene standards, as the virus needs to contact the membranes of the nose and/or mouth in sufficient quantity to be infective.
The authors of the seminal viral-challenge study in horses, the one needed for vaccine licensure, conceded that the amount of live virus they used to induce infection and illness in an experimental setting was way higher than any reported in field studies of bat secretions/excretions.
Horses are a deadend host, but the very sick ones may amplify the virus sufficiently that human HeV infection is perhaps more likely with close contact (e.g., veterinary treatment or nursing care of a sick horse). But 7 cases in 32 years? Yes, let’s panic. All together now…
On the other hand, Nipah virus can and does transmit directly from bat to human, and from human to human, especially close family contacts (spouses, family member nursing a sick relative, etc.). That’s the wild-type virus; no need for a frankenvirus.
I agree that NiV may be the next scary shadow on the wall. Since doing a deep dive into HeV, starting in 2019/2020, I’ve been noticing the occasional scaremongering item planted in the US news media — starting or accelerating during covid — that, together, appear to be preparing the ground for a NiV panic in Western countries.
Monkeypox didn’t work. Ebola hasn’t worked. So, now maybe they’ll give Nipah virus a try? It is endemic in some Asian countries, so there’s the added advantage of xenophobia baked right in. Monkeypox had gay men as the boogeyman; Ebola had Africans; Nipah has Asians…
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More broadly, I have been curious about the narrative regarding “the next pandemic.” The last global pandemic was over 100 years ago, and credible arguments have been made against many of the deaths being attributable to a purely viral disease. What makes our current “public health” authorities think that the next pandemic is just around the corner?
The stock answer is collapse of wild ecosystems as wild habitat is lost at an ever-increasing rate to human activities. The story goes that this habitat loss makes zoonotic infection from wild animals to humans more likely, as it increases contact between humans and wild animals.
But that gives absolutely no thought to the fact that, when habitat is lost, so are the wild animals who inhabit it and rely on it for food, shelter, and other essentials of life and reproduction.
So, I’m pushing back against the notion of “the next pandemic.” It is the (or at least an) original sin in this entire pandemics-for-profit-and-control business and governance model. Nothing that comes after that phrase is worth spending much time on, when the entire foundation is a lie.
Chris, Please understand that I am not talking about a natural pandemic, but a plandemic. The “pandemic” that people like Gates, Fauci, Albert Bourla, Peter Hotez, Peter Marks, Ashish Jha, and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusinsist insist is coming is because they are determined that it should occur. Hopefully it will again not be deadly, but only something like the exaggerated covid intelligence operation. Although with so much work on gain of function one cannot rule out something more severe this time.
There was no pandemic
Obviously I wasn’t sufficiently clear. How’s this:
–Gain of function on Nipah BAD
–CEPI spending millions on mRNA vaxxes for Nipah: BADD, as it means they expect to make money on the investment.
If Nipah is fatal and it happens in India, China and Africa areas, people will not care.
What a boring psycho life to sit and plan bs like this in both laboratory, university and corporation facilities. Arent there any humans more?
Penelope, please check out Dr Sam Bailey’s work on “gain of function”. Spoiler alert, it’s bullshit. They can NEVER isolate or see a virus let alone make it bigger / better / more deadly or whatever.
Gain of function
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/covid-19/gain-of-function-gaslighting/
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/covid-19/gain-of-function-garbage/
Last point first – loyalty cards are a form of monitoring what you buy and when you buy it, could it be in the not too distant future, if they don’t like what you are buying they could block you from purchasing it.
Tesco’s already has facial recognition technology, the second you enter the door – it scans your face, lets not forget it is an Israeli technology to spy on Palestinians – in Scotland the colonial admin is putting in place government payouts for artists – its not unsual for colonies to be testing grounds.
UBI will just be another layer of control, we’re being spied on and corralled more and more to be controlled at more and more levels – several countries are in the process of testing a CBDC – when that kicks in and it will, we will be on a short leash financially as well.
Ban, restrict and monitor is what lies ahead of us.
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Love this segment. Reminds me of the Omni Magazine column called Continuum. Miss that magazine. I can’t imagine what today’s articles would be about. Lost my ability to focus on the Magic Eye image for some reason. Must be going “mental” in my old age. Favorite tidbit was why toast always landed buttered side down when accidentally pushed over the edge of a counter top. Based on the height of your counter which is based on the average height of people. Unless you live in Holland. Then it always lands buttered side up…….. Have no idea if that is true…… The toast in Holland part. People are taller so counter tops must higher. Again. No clue if there’s any truth to that. I miss that magazine. Hard to believe so many people had been abducted by aliens….. L. Ron Hubbard must have been a ghost writer for them.
Hey Hemlockfen,
My bro used to get Omni..
Alan Burnham – Science Fiction
I know some people who say they were abducted whom I personally know without a doubt to be lifelong con-men.
Didn’t mention the bird brains, typical.