The Ancient Agonies of the Unelected OverLords
Rosalie Steward
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Poussin
They didn’t have a choice, those infant twins abandoned into the river Tiber. We can only imagine what their Mother went through. What feelings would have washed the womb of the infants, when the Royal Mother knew that her babies would be murdered at birth by her uncle? The Palace servants were ordered to drown the newborns in the Tiber, but the river was in flood that day, so the basket was left to be washed away.
It scars the infant brain – the terror of abandonment, the terror…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/07/the-ancient-agonies-of-the-unelected-overlords/
Rosalie Steward
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Poussin
They didn’t have a choice, those infant twins abandoned into the river Tiber. We can only imagine what their Mother went through. What feelings would have washed the womb of the infants, when the Royal Mother knew that her babies would be murdered at birth by her uncle? The Palace servants were ordered to drown the newborns in the Tiber, but the river was in flood that day, so the basket was left to be washed away.
It scars the infant brain – the terror of abandonment, the terror…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/07/the-ancient-agonies-of-the-unelected-overlords/
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Apocalypse Now: The Government’s Use of Controlled Chaos to Maintain Power
John & Nisha Whitehead
Figure One: Just stop a few of their machines and radios and telephones and lawn mowers…throw them into darkness for a few hours and then you just sit back and watch the pattern.
Figure Two: And this pattern is always the same?
Figure One: With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find…and it’s themselves. And all we need do is sit back…and watch…and let them destroy themselves. — “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” Twilight Zone
Will 2024 be the year…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/08/apocalypse-now-the-governments-use-of-controlled-chaos-to-maintain-power/
John & Nisha Whitehead
Figure One: Just stop a few of their machines and radios and telephones and lawn mowers…throw them into darkness for a few hours and then you just sit back and watch the pattern.
Figure Two: And this pattern is always the same?
Figure One: With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find…and it’s themselves. And all we need do is sit back…and watch…and let them destroy themselves. — “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” Twilight Zone
Will 2024 be the year…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/08/apocalypse-now-the-governments-use-of-controlled-chaos-to-maintain-power/
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This YEAR in the New Normal – 2024 Edition
If our readers are anything like us then you spent the majority of the weekend taking down Christmas decorations and carefully organizing them, despite the knowledge that they’ll somehow become messy again by next December.
That means the new year has officially started, which makes it time for our third-annual special edition of This Week in the New Normal. The one time a year where This Week looks forward instead of back and we try and predict what’s coming.
Welcome to This Year in the New Normal, and here are our picks for the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/09/this-year-in-the-new-normal-2024-edition/
If our readers are anything like us then you spent the majority of the weekend taking down Christmas decorations and carefully organizing them, despite the knowledge that they’ll somehow become messy again by next December.
That means the new year has officially started, which makes it time for our third-annual special edition of This Week in the New Normal. The one time a year where This Week looks forward instead of back and we try and predict what’s coming.
Welcome to This Year in the New Normal, and here are our picks for the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/09/this-year-in-the-new-normal-2024-edition/
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WATCH: How To Be Happy – #SolutionsWatch
So, do you care what The Wall Street Journal says about what “The Science™” says about how to be happy? Yeah, neither do I.
No, you shouldn’t care about what others tell you is the key to your own happiness. But what is the pursuit of happiness? Why is it important? And how do an all-star group of previous Solutions Watch guests answer those questions?
Find out in this thought-provoking and happiness-inspiring first edition of the #SolutionsWatch podcast for 2024.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/10/watch-how-to-be-happy-solutionswatch/
So, do you care what The Wall Street Journal says about what “The Science™” says about how to be happy? Yeah, neither do I.
No, you shouldn’t care about what others tell you is the key to your own happiness. But what is the pursuit of happiness? Why is it important? And how do an all-star group of previous Solutions Watch guests answer those questions?
Find out in this thought-provoking and happiness-inspiring first edition of the #SolutionsWatch podcast for 2024.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/10/watch-how-to-be-happy-solutionswatch/
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Moscow 2030: Creating a biometric paradise
Riley Waggaman
As most of you probably know, Russia’s capital city has been fighting a covert shadow war against Unipolar jaywalking, which is one of the top three threats facing BRICS and the Global South. Probably you read about it on ZeroHedge.
I’m happy to report that the Multipolar Pedestrian Order has made significant inroads with the assistance of facial recognition cameras programmed to publicly shame Muscovites who rudely cross the street without permission:
Source: TASS.ru
The prototype “tracks a pedestrian’s movement … If a pedestrian violates traffic rules, his image, without identification, is transmitted to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/11/moscow-2030-creating-a-biometric-paradise/
Riley Waggaman
As most of you probably know, Russia’s capital city has been fighting a covert shadow war against Unipolar jaywalking, which is one of the top three threats facing BRICS and the Global South. Probably you read about it on ZeroHedge.
I’m happy to report that the Multipolar Pedestrian Order has made significant inroads with the assistance of facial recognition cameras programmed to publicly shame Muscovites who rudely cross the street without permission:
Source: TASS.ru
The prototype “tracks a pedestrian’s movement … If a pedestrian violates traffic rules, his image, without identification, is transmitted to…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/11/moscow-2030-creating-a-biometric-paradise/
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John Pilger: A Life of Fearless Journaling
Daniel Broudy
It’s a strange thing about human affairs, our natural need to feel belonging, and how, if given time to pause and parse what we think we know about the world, we can begin to see through the grand illusions made to manage human perception and to maintain a mediated, tightly controlled false sense of reality.
Such facts moved John Pilger for decades, and his work bore witness to the question of whether belonging in a world of lies should be something citizens should ever tolerate.
Since the tender age of 12, John was interested in journalism when…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/12/john-pilger-a-life-of-fearless-journaling/
Daniel Broudy
It’s a strange thing about human affairs, our natural need to feel belonging, and how, if given time to pause and parse what we think we know about the world, we can begin to see through the grand illusions made to manage human perception and to maintain a mediated, tightly controlled false sense of reality.
Such facts moved John Pilger for decades, and his work bore witness to the question of whether belonging in a world of lies should be something citizens should ever tolerate.
Since the tender age of 12, John was interested in journalism when…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/12/john-pilger-a-life-of-fearless-journaling/
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Report from Taiwan
Johan Eddebo
On January 13, this Saturday, Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary elections are simultaneously held. There’s a lot at stake. The independence movement is facing off with Koumintang and the reunification agenda, with the former poised to really entrench its influence in a geopolitically volatile situation. The election result will tip the scales in terms of Taiwan’s approach to China and the West during the years ahead, and due to the overall political context, the outcome could make a significant impact for the world at large.
What first strikes me when I land in Taipei is how untamed everything…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/12/report-from-taiwan/
Johan Eddebo
On January 13, this Saturday, Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary elections are simultaneously held. There’s a lot at stake. The independence movement is facing off with Koumintang and the reunification agenda, with the former poised to really entrench its influence in a geopolitically volatile situation. The election result will tip the scales in terms of Taiwan’s approach to China and the West during the years ahead, and due to the overall political context, the outcome could make a significant impact for the world at large.
What first strikes me when I land in Taipei is how untamed everything…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/12/report-from-taiwan/
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The Deception of Today’s Push for Diversity
Todd Hayen
We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal…
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
A recurring theme in movies, television, and literature, is the “big lie.”
We’ve always heard the adage, “if you tell a lie big enough, and keep repeating it, more people will believe it.” I think the original version of that quote is attributed to the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Although like with most historical references, Goebbels may never have said this.
Anyway, might as well say he did, eh? Easy enough.
“Diversity”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/13/the-deception-of-todays-push-for-diversity/
Todd Hayen
We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal…
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
A recurring theme in movies, television, and literature, is the “big lie.”
We’ve always heard the adage, “if you tell a lie big enough, and keep repeating it, more people will believe it.” I think the original version of that quote is attributed to the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Although like with most historical references, Goebbels may never have said this.
Anyway, might as well say he did, eh? Easy enough.
“Diversity”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/13/the-deception-of-todays-push-for-diversity/
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Measles: The First Panic Narrative of 2024?
Kit Knightly
Measles outbreaks hit the headlines in the both the US and UK this week.
The UK is allegedly in the middle of a serious measles outbreak centred on Birmingham. The BBC reports:
Birmingham Children’s Hospital has been inundated with the highest number in decades of youngsters with measles
The West Midlands has reportedly seen as many as 167 measles cases in total, the BBC claiming “low vaccination rate has been attributed to the rise.” (pretty sure they mean “the rise has been attributed to the low vaccination rate” but you never go to the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/13/measles-the-first-panic-narrative-of-2024/
Kit Knightly
Measles outbreaks hit the headlines in the both the US and UK this week.
The UK is allegedly in the middle of a serious measles outbreak centred on Birmingham. The BBC reports:
Birmingham Children’s Hospital has been inundated with the highest number in decades of youngsters with measles
The West Midlands has reportedly seen as many as 167 measles cases in total, the BBC claiming “low vaccination rate has been attributed to the rise.” (pretty sure they mean “the rise has been attributed to the low vaccination rate” but you never go to the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/13/measles-the-first-panic-narrative-of-2024/
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Was 2023 REALLY the second hottest year since 1884?
Iain Davis
According to the UK Met Office, 2023 was the second hottest year in the UK since 1884.
Quite obviously, this is complete nonsense. Unless they are troglodytes that never venture out in daylight, why would anyone in the UK believe such absurd drivel?
The Met Office states:
Right, it’s “provisional” drivel.
The UK summer of 2023—where I live—was…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/14/was-2023-really-the-second-hottest-year-since-1884/
Iain Davis
According to the UK Met Office, 2023 was the second hottest year in the UK since 1884.
Quite obviously, this is complete nonsense. Unless they are troglodytes that never venture out in daylight, why would anyone in the UK believe such absurd drivel?
The Met Office states:
2023 is provisionally the second warmest year for the UK according to mean temperature. [. . .] 2023’s provisional mean temperature of 9.97°C puts it just behind 2022’s figure of 10.03°C and ahead of 2014’s 9.88°C.
Right, it’s “provisional” drivel.
The UK summer of 2023—where I live—was…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/14/was-2023-really-the-second-hottest-year-since-1884/
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The Rise of the Political Psychopath
John & Nisha Whitehead
Many years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?”
The answer, then and now, remains the same: None.
There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians.
Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on innocent lives by uncaring, unfeeling, selfish, irresponsible, parasitic criminals and elected officials who lie to their constituents, trade political favors for campaign contributions, turn…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/15/the-rise-of-the-political-psychopath/
John & Nisha Whitehead
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
Richard Nixon
Many years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?”
The answer, then and now, remains the same: None.
There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians.
Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on innocent lives by uncaring, unfeeling, selfish, irresponsible, parasitic criminals and elected officials who lie to their constituents, trade political favors for campaign contributions, turn…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/15/the-rise-of-the-political-psychopath/
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This Week in the New Normal #80
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.
Also, we have a new banner. “The New Normal” meant vaccines and lockdowns when we designed the old one in 2021, it means a lot more now.
1. Every US state gets a Weather Warning
Winter storms hit North America this week, allegedly resulting in every single one of the fifty states getting a weather warning, for one reason or another.
The warnings ranged…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/15/this-week-in-the-new-normal-80/
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.
Also, we have a new banner. “The New Normal” meant vaccines and lockdowns when we designed the old one in 2021, it means a lot more now.
1. Every US state gets a Weather Warning
Winter storms hit North America this week, allegedly resulting in every single one of the fifty states getting a weather warning, for one reason or another.
The warnings ranged…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/15/this-week-in-the-new-normal-80/
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DISCUSS: Davos 2024 Gets Underway
This year’s World Economic Forum annual meeting kicked off in Davos, Switzerland yesterday and will be running until the 19th.
The guest list is as star-powered as ever, including the Chinese Premier, the President of the European Commission, a dozen or more heads of state, the UN Secretary-General, the Chief of the World Health Organization and the US Secretary of State.
Rounding out the cast of characters are over 1600 CEOs of major companies and the heads of dozens of prominent international organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund and Human Rights Watch.
Yes, the world’s *ahem* “great”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/16/discuss-davos-2024-gets-underway/
This year’s World Economic Forum annual meeting kicked off in Davos, Switzerland yesterday and will be running until the 19th.
The guest list is as star-powered as ever, including the Chinese Premier, the President of the European Commission, a dozen or more heads of state, the UN Secretary-General, the Chief of the World Health Organization and the US Secretary of State.
Rounding out the cast of characters are over 1600 CEOs of major companies and the heads of dozens of prominent international organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund and Human Rights Watch.
Yes, the world’s *ahem* “great”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/16/discuss-davos-2024-gets-underway/
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Meet the Thought Police
CJ Hopkins
So, my trial for thoughtcrimes in New Normal Germany takes place next Tuesday, January 23rd. It will likely be a one-day affair. It’s open to the public, so, if you’re in Berlin, you can come and watch at the Berlin District Court, Turmstraße 91, Room 371. The proceedings are scheduled to begin at 12:00 noon.
Yes, that’s right, the German authorities are actually putting me on trial for my thoughtcrimes. I stand accused of criminal tweeting because I mocked the New Normal German authorities and pointed out one of their many lies. Here are the two thoughtcrime…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/17/meet-the-thought-police/
CJ Hopkins
So, my trial for thoughtcrimes in New Normal Germany takes place next Tuesday, January 23rd. It will likely be a one-day affair. It’s open to the public, so, if you’re in Berlin, you can come and watch at the Berlin District Court, Turmstraße 91, Room 371. The proceedings are scheduled to begin at 12:00 noon.
Yes, that’s right, the German authorities are actually putting me on trial for my thoughtcrimes. I stand accused of criminal tweeting because I mocked the New Normal German authorities and pointed out one of their many lies. Here are the two thoughtcrime…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/17/meet-the-thought-police/
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Understanding Power Dynamics & Moving Beyond Divisions: Covid19, Ukraine & Israel/Palestine
Dr Piers Robinson & Vanessa Beeley
This piece – originally published by UKColumn – challenges the position of OffG (and others) on the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel.
The position of the authors is that what we might call “traditional” geopolitics remains a vital topic for the alternate media, and that multipolarity continues to represent a positive alternative to Western Imperialism.
In the interest of fairness we will publishing this and a response by Iain Davis and Catte Black simultaneously.
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The last four years has been a significant shakeup for some people. Many of those…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/18/understanding-power-dynamics-moving-beyond-divisions-covid19-ukraine-israel-palestine/
Dr Piers Robinson & Vanessa Beeley
This piece – originally published by UKColumn – challenges the position of OffG (and others) on the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel.
The position of the authors is that what we might call “traditional” geopolitics remains a vital topic for the alternate media, and that multipolarity continues to represent a positive alternative to Western Imperialism.
In the interest of fairness we will publishing this and a response by Iain Davis and Catte Black simultaneously.
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The last four years has been a significant shakeup for some people. Many of those…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/18/understanding-power-dynamics-moving-beyond-divisions-covid19-ukraine-israel-palestine/
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Interrogating “Multipolarity”: A Response to “Understanding Power Dynamics”
Iain Davis & Catte Black
This piece is a response to an article originally published by UKColumn which challenges the position of OffG (and others) on the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel, maintaining that “traditional” geopolitics remains a vital topic for the alternate media, and that multipolarity continues to represent a positive alternative to Western Imperialism.
This response puts a second case, arguing that what some might call “multipolarity” does NOT represent any real alternative – and that neither “side”, whatever the depth of the objections to each other – have the welfare of ordinary people as their…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/18/interrogating-multipolarity-a-response-to-understanding-power-dynamics/
Iain Davis & Catte Black
This piece is a response to an article originally published by UKColumn which challenges the position of OffG (and others) on the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel, maintaining that “traditional” geopolitics remains a vital topic for the alternate media, and that multipolarity continues to represent a positive alternative to Western Imperialism.
This response puts a second case, arguing that what some might call “multipolarity” does NOT represent any real alternative – and that neither “side”, whatever the depth of the objections to each other – have the welfare of ordinary people as their…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/18/interrogating-multipolarity-a-response-to-understanding-power-dynamics/
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Forwarded from Catte B
Btw - we are now HEAVILY censored on Telegram as well as all other social media (questioning the multipolar binary is the ultimate taboo apparently), so if you think our output is worth it please share it in as many ways as you can - via social media, email anything - to try to stop them silencing us!
Thanks
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It’s Cold in Davos
Sylvia Shawcross
Well, heaven help us—the Gods of Mount Davos are meeting again. We’re now at Wefcon2. Run! Run!
But I digress.
Not.
So let us just examine this with an open mind just so that we the mooing herds can have some idea of how this new year is going to unravel. I do know that they seem to want to reinvigorate “trust” in the general public. It is the highlight of their agenda. Now, don’t be laughing. We know (but they don’t) that they never had our trust in the first place.
How could they have had…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/19/its-cold-in-davos/
Sylvia Shawcross
Well, heaven help us—the Gods of Mount Davos are meeting again. We’re now at Wefcon2. Run! Run!
But I digress.
Not.
So let us just examine this with an open mind just so that we the mooing herds can have some idea of how this new year is going to unravel. I do know that they seem to want to reinvigorate “trust” in the general public. It is the highlight of their agenda. Now, don’t be laughing. We know (but they don’t) that they never had our trust in the first place.
How could they have had…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/19/its-cold-in-davos/
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WATCH: Beware the “Dream Team” Narrative Police
This video from Amazing Polly makes some excellent points. We SHOULD resist all efforts to impose leaders on the “Covid dissident” movement – well intentioned or not.
Is everyone she names a controlled opposition asset? Probably not. Does she name every controlled asset out there? Certainly not.
But that’s not the point. As Polly says, she doesn’t want to start a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/19/watch-beware-the-dream-team-narrative-police/
As the WEF and WHO drum up fear of “Disease X” there is a new set of narrative gatekeepers assembling a phony Dream Team of ‘covid dissidents.’ The trouble is most of them supported all the mandates!
This video from Amazing Polly makes some excellent points. We SHOULD resist all efforts to impose leaders on the “Covid dissident” movement – well intentioned or not.
Is everyone she names a controlled opposition asset? Probably not. Does she name every controlled asset out there? Certainly not.
But that’s not the point. As Polly says, she doesn’t want to start a…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/19/watch-beware-the-dream-team-narrative-police/
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WATCH: Beware the “Dream Team” Narrative Police
This video from Amazing Polly makes some excellent points. We SHOULD resist all efforts to impose leaders on the “Covid dissident” movement – well-intentioned or not.
Is everyone she names a controlled opposition asset? Probably not. Does she name every controlled asset out there? Certainly not.
But that’s not the point. As Polly says, she doesn’t want to start a witch hunt.…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/19/watch-beware-the-dream-team-narrative-police/
As the WEF and WHO drum up fear of “Disease X” there is a new set of narrative gatekeepers assembling a phony Dream Team of ‘covid dissidents.’ The trouble is most of them supported all the mandates!
This video from Amazing Polly makes some excellent points. We SHOULD resist all efforts to impose leaders on the “Covid dissident” movement – well-intentioned or not.
Is everyone she names a controlled opposition asset? Probably not. Does she name every controlled asset out there? Certainly not.
But that’s not the point. As Polly says, she doesn’t want to start a witch hunt.…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/19/watch-beware-the-dream-team-narrative-police/
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Maslow and His Unclimbable Pyramid
Todd Hayen
Everyone knows Maslow and his pyramid of needs, right? Don’t feel bad if you don’t; it is just one of those psychological concepts psychologists like to come up with to illustrate explanations of the weird human mind.
Not to diss Maslow, he was pretty cool. And a lot of these guys (and gals) were rather brilliant in what they came up with. I only know who Maslow was because I had to study him in therapy school.
Here’s the skinny on Maslow—courtesy of Wikipedia:
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/20/maslow-and-his-unclimbable-pyramid/
Todd Hayen
Everyone knows Maslow and his pyramid of needs, right? Don’t feel bad if you don’t; it is just one of those psychological concepts psychologists like to come up with to illustrate explanations of the weird human mind.
Not to diss Maslow, he was pretty cool. And a lot of these guys (and gals) were rather brilliant in what they came up with. I only know who Maslow was because I had to study him in therapy school.
Here’s the skinny on Maslow—courtesy of Wikipedia:
“Abraham Harold Maslow (/ˈmæzloʊ/; April 1, 1908 –…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/20/maslow-and-his-unclimbable-pyramid/
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