Farm Laws Reborn: Tear Gas, Water Cannons and a Toxic Platter for India’s Farmers and Consumers
India could see an authoritarian central government with subordinate state governments under the control of corporate interests and international finance capital.
So says the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a coalition of 40+ farmers’ unions. It contends that the Union Government of India is proposing to undermine the federal rights of state governments by surrendering India’s food security and compromising its national sovereignty under the slogan ‘One Nation. One Market’.
In a December 2024 press release, the All India Kisan Sabha (All India Farmers Union, AIKS) called for nationwide protests against attempts to bring back the three repealed farm…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/09/farm-laws-reborn-tear-gas-water-cannons-and-a-toxic-platter-for-indias-farmers-and-consumers/
India could see an authoritarian central government with subordinate state governments under the control of corporate interests and international finance capital.
So says the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a coalition of 40+ farmers’ unions. It contends that the Union Government of India is proposing to undermine the federal rights of state governments by surrendering India’s food security and compromising its national sovereignty under the slogan ‘One Nation. One Market’.
In a December 2024 press release, the All India Kisan Sabha (All India Farmers Union, AIKS) called for nationwide protests against attempts to bring back the three repealed farm…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/09/farm-laws-reborn-tear-gas-water-cannons-and-a-toxic-platter-for-indias-farmers-and-consumers/
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Let’s talk about…California Wildfires
Unprecedented wildfires have swept the Los Angeles area over the last few days, destroying neighbourhoods and threatening landmarks.
The BBC is helpfully keeping a running tally of the number of celebrities whose homes have burned down.
This is the first time in recorded history that wildfires of this scale have occurred in California in January, according to an expert quoted in the New Scientist:
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/09/lets-talk-about-california-wildfires/
Unprecedented wildfires have swept the Los Angeles area over the last few days, destroying neighbourhoods and threatening landmarks.
The BBC is helpfully keeping a running tally of the number of celebrities whose homes have burned down.
This is the first time in recorded history that wildfires of this scale have occurred in California in January, according to an expert quoted in the New Scientist:
“While Santa Ana fires are nothing new in southern California, this type of explosive fire event has never happened in January before, and it’s only happened once in…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/09/lets-talk-about-california-wildfires/
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Let’s talk about…California Wildfires
Unprecedented wildfires have swept the Los Angeles area over the last few days, destroying neighbourhoods and threatening landmarks.
The BBC is helpfully keeping a running tally of the number of celebrities whose homes have burned down.
This is the first time in recorded history that wildfires of this scale have occurred in California in January, according to an expert quoted in the New Scientist:
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/09/lets-talk-about-california-wildfires/
Unprecedented wildfires have swept the Los Angeles area over the last few days, destroying neighbourhoods and threatening landmarks.
The BBC is helpfully keeping a running tally of the number of celebrities whose homes have burned down.
This is the first time in recorded history that wildfires of this scale have occurred in California in January, according to an expert quoted in the New Scientist:
“While Santa Ana fires are nothing new in southern California, this type of explosive fire event has never happened in January before, and it’s only happened once in…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/09/lets-talk-about-california-wildfires/
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What Jeffrey Sachs and Tucker Carlson get right and wrong about the post-9/11 wars
In a major interview last month with Tucker Carlson, Professor Jeffrey Sachs spelled out in unambiguous terms the nature and reality of the current seismic shifts occurring in the Middle East.
Back in 2018, in a remarkable MSNBC interview, Sachs wrong-footed his interviewers by revealing the US’s covert involvement in the war in Syria. In a debate framed around the question of whether the US should intervene in Syria, Sachs shocked the table of talking heads by informing them it was already intervening via a covert and completely illegal ‘regime change’ operation, called Timber Sycamore,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/10/what-jeffrey-sachs-and-tucker-carlson-get-right-and-wrong-about-the-post-9-11-wars/
In a major interview last month with Tucker Carlson, Professor Jeffrey Sachs spelled out in unambiguous terms the nature and reality of the current seismic shifts occurring in the Middle East.
Back in 2018, in a remarkable MSNBC interview, Sachs wrong-footed his interviewers by revealing the US’s covert involvement in the war in Syria. In a debate framed around the question of whether the US should intervene in Syria, Sachs shocked the table of talking heads by informing them it was already intervening via a covert and completely illegal ‘regime change’ operation, called Timber Sycamore,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/10/what-jeffrey-sachs-and-tucker-carlson-get-right-and-wrong-about-the-post-9-11-wars/
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Normalization and the Resulting Death of “All that Is”
The very thing that keeps humans surviving in an ever-changing world will be the very thing that ultimately destroys them.
Normalization.
Normalization and the accompanying ability to roll with the punches—to be resilient, pliable, tolerant and accepting against all odds—is really our greatest enemy in these turbulent times. Its original intention—to survive all challenges—was a brilliant attribute that our creator built into us. It is a positive attribute if we follow certain rules and avoid believing there is unsaid benevolence and positivity to everything thrown our way that appears to be innocuous. (Things that are really obviously bad are…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/11/normalization-and-the-resulting-death-of-all-that-is/
The very thing that keeps humans surviving in an ever-changing world will be the very thing that ultimately destroys them.
Normalization.
Normalization and the accompanying ability to roll with the punches—to be resilient, pliable, tolerant and accepting against all odds—is really our greatest enemy in these turbulent times. Its original intention—to survive all challenges—was a brilliant attribute that our creator built into us. It is a positive attribute if we follow certain rules and avoid believing there is unsaid benevolence and positivity to everything thrown our way that appears to be innocuous. (Things that are really obviously bad are…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/11/normalization-and-the-resulting-death-of-all-that-is/
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Predicting 2025: Trump declassifies JFK “truth”…and maybe 9/11 too.
In the first of this series I wrote that a major theme of Donald Trump’s second term as President would be re-asserting the fake “anti-establishment” credentials he threw out during his first term.
This mirrors the greater part of the Agenda 2030/Great Reset/New Normal plan since 2022, which has been about trying to wipe out the Covid-era revelation that national governments are franchises of a global power structure rather than separate and sovereign powers of their own.
Our fourth prediction would help both these narrative goals.
I think some time this year they will reveal what wil be framed…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/11/predicting-2025-trump-declassifies-jfk-truth-and-maybe-9-11-too/
In the first of this series I wrote that a major theme of Donald Trump’s second term as President would be re-asserting the fake “anti-establishment” credentials he threw out during his first term.
This mirrors the greater part of the Agenda 2030/Great Reset/New Normal plan since 2022, which has been about trying to wipe out the Covid-era revelation that national governments are franchises of a global power structure rather than separate and sovereign powers of their own.
Our fourth prediction would help both these narrative goals.
I think some time this year they will reveal what wil be framed…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/11/predicting-2025-trump-declassifies-jfk-truth-and-maybe-9-11-too/
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A Voyage into a Complete Unknown Known
I don’t know about you, but I find some movies useful and even entertaining because, like dreams, they exercise my imagination. They project onto my mind horizon-framed memories, my soul into a visual brigantine seeking its Ithaca where I will finally open my eyes and grasp the reality of so many reflections.
As the French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine once said about travel being useful because it exercises the imagination, “All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/12/a-voyage-into-a-complete-unknown-known/
“Every time I ask what time it is, I get a different answer”
Henny Youngman
I don’t know about you, but I find some movies useful and even entertaining because, like dreams, they exercise my imagination. They project onto my mind horizon-framed memories, my soul into a visual brigantine seeking its Ithaca where I will finally open my eyes and grasp the reality of so many reflections.
As the French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine once said about travel being useful because it exercises the imagination, “All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/12/a-voyage-into-a-complete-unknown-known/
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Welcome to 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die
Wondering what to expect from the government in 2025?
So far, it looks like it will be more of the same ill-advised, costly, greedy, taxpayer-funded, dunderheaded power grabs, saber-rattling, graft, corruption, and make-works programming that leaves us no better off than where we started.
Indeed, we’ve been down this road so many times before that there should be no surprise when, no matter who occupies the White House, we find ourselves subjected to more…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/13/welcome-to-2025-where-your-freedoms-go-to-die/
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”
Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher
Wondering what to expect from the government in 2025?
So far, it looks like it will be more of the same ill-advised, costly, greedy, taxpayer-funded, dunderheaded power grabs, saber-rattling, graft, corruption, and make-works programming that leaves us no better off than where we started.
Indeed, we’ve been down this road so many times before that there should be no surprise when, no matter who occupies the White House, we find ourselves subjected to more…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/13/welcome-to-2025-where-your-freedoms-go-to-die/
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Predicting 2025: Covid Origins Revisited
This spring will mark five years since the “COVID Pandemic” began in earnest. By late March 2020, most of the world was in lockdown or some variation of “anti-COVID measures.”
Two days ago China marked – or rather,didn’t mark – the fifth anniversary of the first official “Covid death”.
Our fifth prediction for 2025 is that “the establishment”, or whatever you want to call them, won’t let this anniversary pass without incident.
That’s the best kind of prediction because it’s vague enough that it can’t really be wrong. It’s also an easy prediction to make because they have…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/14/predicting-2025-covid-origins-revisited/
This spring will mark five years since the “COVID Pandemic” began in earnest. By late March 2020, most of the world was in lockdown or some variation of “anti-COVID measures.”
Two days ago China marked – or rather,didn’t mark – the fifth anniversary of the first official “Covid death”.
Our fifth prediction for 2025 is that “the establishment”, or whatever you want to call them, won’t let this anniversary pass without incident.
That’s the best kind of prediction because it’s vague enough that it can’t really be wrong. It’s also an easy prediction to make because they have…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/14/predicting-2025-covid-origins-revisited/
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Bank of England to Open “Digital Pound Lab”
The Bank of England announced yesterday that they will be launching a “digital pound lab” to “experiment” with different “use-cases” and set-ups of the UK’s planned Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
This signals the end of the “consultation and response phase” and the beginning of the “design phase”, according to the BoE’s website.
This is the first real news on the digital currency front for some time.
In fact, after an action-packed 2023 saw at least 135 of the world’s 197 nation states developing a digital currency, things have been eerily quiet on that…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/15/bank-of-england-to-open-digital-pound-lab/
The Bank of England announced yesterday that they will be launching a “digital pound lab” to “experiment” with different “use-cases” and set-ups of the UK’s planned Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
This signals the end of the “consultation and response phase” and the beginning of the “design phase”, according to the BoE’s website.
This is the first real news on the digital currency front for some time.
In fact, after an action-packed 2023 saw at least 135 of the world’s 197 nation states developing a digital currency, things have been eerily quiet on that…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/15/bank-of-england-to-open-digital-pound-lab/
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We Called It: Israel-Gaza Ceasefire
Eight days ago, in our third prediction for 2025 we said…
We already predicted, in our first such article, that Trump was going to be sold as a peacemaker.
Well, just hours ago the news broke that Hamas and Israeli authorities had agreed to a six week ceasefire and exchange of hostages. You can read the full terms of the deal here…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/16/we-called-it-israel-gaza-ceasefire/
Eight days ago, in our third prediction for 2025 we said…
…the incoming Trump admin will be trying to score “peacemaker” points with a deal in Ukraine, that could extend to Israel-Gaza too. A negotiated release of all hostages is also possible.
We already predicted, in our first such article, that Trump was going to be sold as a peacemaker.
Well, just hours ago the news broke that Hamas and Israeli authorities had agreed to a six week ceasefire and exchange of hostages. You can read the full terms of the deal here…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/16/we-called-it-israel-gaza-ceasefire/
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WATCH: Car Freedom – #SolutionsWatch
Anyone who has been car shopping recently knows that modern cars are surveillance and privacy nightmares that take control out of the hands of their supposed owners and places them in the hands of car manufacturers and government regulators. So what do we do about this problem? Joining us today to discuss these issues is Eric Peters, an Anarcho-Libertarian writer and gearhead who discusses the intersection of cars and freedom at his website, EPAutos.com.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/17/watch-car-freedom-solutionswatch/
Anyone who has been car shopping recently knows that modern cars are surveillance and privacy nightmares that take control out of the hands of their supposed owners and places them in the hands of car manufacturers and government regulators. So what do we do about this problem? Joining us today to discuss these issues is Eric Peters, an Anarcho-Libertarian writer and gearhead who discusses the intersection of cars and freedom at his website, EPAutos.com.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/17/watch-car-freedom-solutionswatch/
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Who are the “Elite”?
People are always correcting me when I use the term “elite” to describe that group of “people” (or maybe lizards) who are calling the shots and who created the “agenda” and want the rest of us (useless eaters) either under their thumb or dead.
The people who correct me claim these people (or lizards) are not “elite” which falsely implies “better,” “advanced,” or “special.” They don’t want to give these people (or lizards) any credit they do not deserve. I get it. The clear and indisputable official definition of “elite” is: “A group or class of persons considered…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/18/who-are-the-elite/
People are always correcting me when I use the term “elite” to describe that group of “people” (or maybe lizards) who are calling the shots and who created the “agenda” and want the rest of us (useless eaters) either under their thumb or dead.
The people who correct me claim these people (or lizards) are not “elite” which falsely implies “better,” “advanced,” or “special.” They don’t want to give these people (or lizards) any credit they do not deserve. I get it. The clear and indisputable official definition of “elite” is: “A group or class of persons considered…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/18/who-are-the-elite/
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Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and Gaza
Before my mind was turned to the subject of my title, I started to write a piece called “Are the Dead Nostalgic?”
It’s a touchy philosophical question that has no definitive answer. It seems flippant in an impossible way, which it is, but its flippancy holds a secret message. So I asked the dead who would speak to me and got a few mixed and muffled replies. You can understand their reluctance to say anything. If I heard correctly, one of them said, “You should ask the living.”
Most didn’t answer, which had me wondering why.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/19/martin-luther-king-vietnam-and-gaza/
Before my mind was turned to the subject of my title, I started to write a piece called “Are the Dead Nostalgic?”
It’s a touchy philosophical question that has no definitive answer. It seems flippant in an impossible way, which it is, but its flippancy holds a secret message. So I asked the dead who would speak to me and got a few mixed and muffled replies. You can understand their reluctance to say anything. If I heard correctly, one of them said, “You should ask the living.”
Most didn’t answer, which had me wondering why.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/19/martin-luther-king-vietnam-and-gaza/
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Animal Farm Politics: The Deep State Wins Again
It cost the American taxpayer $24 million to find out what we knew all along: politics is corrupt.
After four years of being subjected to special prosecutor Jack Smith’s dogged investigation into alleged election interference by Donald Trump, the Justice Department has concluded that Trump would have been convicted of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/20/animal-farm-politics-the-deep-state-wins-again/
“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”—George Orwell, Animal Farm
It cost the American taxpayer $24 million to find out what we knew all along: politics is corrupt.
After four years of being subjected to special prosecutor Jack Smith’s dogged investigation into alleged election interference by Donald Trump, the Justice Department has concluded that Trump would have been convicted of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/20/animal-farm-politics-the-deep-state-wins-again/
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Let’s talk about…Trump’s Inauguration Day
Today is the day – Trump 2.0 officially kicks off, and the drama began ahead of schedule.
Over the weekend there was what we’ll chose to call “The Tiktok Gambit”, which saw the Chinese micro-vlogging app banned on Saturday and then miraculously unbanned by Donald Trump on Sunday, despite his not actually being in power yet.
The impact being that The Donald is an anti-censorship hero before he’s even sworn in.
And, of course, in Israel the first hostages have been exchanged. A shameless pilfering of 1981 storylines, but it worked last time so why not try it again?…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/20/lets-talk-about-trumps-inauguration-day/
Today is the day – Trump 2.0 officially kicks off, and the drama began ahead of schedule.
Over the weekend there was what we’ll chose to call “The Tiktok Gambit”, which saw the Chinese micro-vlogging app banned on Saturday and then miraculously unbanned by Donald Trump on Sunday, despite his not actually being in power yet.
The impact being that The Donald is an anti-censorship hero before he’s even sworn in.
And, of course, in Israel the first hostages have been exchanged. A shameless pilfering of 1981 storylines, but it worked last time so why not try it again?…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/20/lets-talk-about-trumps-inauguration-day/
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This Week in the New Normal #96
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. Drinking Milk is Unsettling
Writing in the Guardian – because where else would have her – Arwa Mahdawi asks…
To which I can only respond, “is it?”
This isn’t a new meme. The idea that drinking milk is “weird” or “childish” or “unnatural” or…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/21/this-week-in-the-new-normal-96/
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. Drinking Milk is Unsettling
Writing in the Guardian – because where else would have her – Arwa Mahdawi asks…
Why is it so unsettling to watch an adult drink cold cow’s milk?
To which I can only respond, “is it?”
This isn’t a new meme. The idea that drinking milk is “weird” or “childish” or “unnatural” or…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/21/this-week-in-the-new-normal-96/
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WATCH: Was Bitcoin A Government Operation & Can It Still Be Used To Fight Back?
Long has the origin of Bitcoin been a topic of discussion, debate, and even drawing lines in the sand. The reason for this is largely due to the justifiable concern that the enigmatic “Satoshi Nakomoto” — the pseudonym that we associate with the founding of Bitcoin — might be nothing more than a thin veneer hiding a long-planned government operation. That debate alone has caused major shifts in the blockchain/cryptocurrency communities.
Then there is the next important question to ask: Even if this was started as a government operation (similar to many tools we use to fight back today,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/21/watch-was-bitcoin-a-government-operation-can-it-still-be-used-to-fight-back/
Long has the origin of Bitcoin been a topic of discussion, debate, and even drawing lines in the sand. The reason for this is largely due to the justifiable concern that the enigmatic “Satoshi Nakomoto” — the pseudonym that we associate with the founding of Bitcoin — might be nothing more than a thin veneer hiding a long-planned government operation. That debate alone has caused major shifts in the blockchain/cryptocurrency communities.
Then there is the next important question to ask: Even if this was started as a government operation (similar to many tools we use to fight back today,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/21/watch-was-bitcoin-a-government-operation-can-it-still-be-used-to-fight-back/
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Starmer wants to “Overhaul Terror Law”- Here’s WHY
With every major news story there is an “aha!” moment, the second where the pieces click into place and you realise “Oh, that’s what it’s really about!” Sometimes it’s instant, sometimes it takes a little while.
With the Southport stabbing story it was today, when the media announced that the government will be “overhauling terror laws” in response to the incident.
Writing in The Sun (or, more accurately, having his name attached to something in The Sun), Keir Starmer claims “we are facing a grave new threat”, requiring an “expanded definition”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/22/starmer-wants-to-overhaul-terror-law-heres-why/
With every major news story there is an “aha!” moment, the second where the pieces click into place and you realise “Oh, that’s what it’s really about!” Sometimes it’s instant, sometimes it takes a little while.
With the Southport stabbing story it was today, when the media announced that the government will be “overhauling terror laws” in response to the incident.
Writing in The Sun (or, more accurately, having his name attached to something in The Sun), Keir Starmer claims “we are facing a grave new threat”, requiring an “expanded definition”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/22/starmer-wants-to-overhaul-terror-law-heres-why/
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UK Circling the Drain – Crisis what Crisis?
It is now almost five years since the start of the COVID event. The public was told there was a deadly disease that would affect the entire population, and everyone was at risk.
However, in order to truly understand COVID, that event must be situated within a framework that examines the underlying economic determinants. In fact, many on the “left” are notable for having failed to undertake such an analysis and merely capitulated to the mainstream narrative.
The COVID event had little if anything to do with public health. It was a policy mechanism deployed to manage an impending…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/23/uk-circling-the-drain-crisis-what-crisis/
It is now almost five years since the start of the COVID event. The public was told there was a deadly disease that would affect the entire population, and everyone was at risk.
However, in order to truly understand COVID, that event must be situated within a framework that examines the underlying economic determinants. In fact, many on the “left” are notable for having failed to undertake such an analysis and merely capitulated to the mainstream narrative.
The COVID event had little if anything to do with public health. It was a policy mechanism deployed to manage an impending…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/23/uk-circling-the-drain-crisis-what-crisis/
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UK Gov’t Wants Sweeping Powers to Spy on Your Bank Account
The UK’s Labour government announced plans this week that would further erode civil rights in the country, this time in the name of “preventing benefit fraud”.
The plans include revoking the driver’s licenses of those convicted of benefit fraud, “early morning raids” by “crack teams” from the DWP, and – most shockingly – permitting the government access to private banking information so they can take back money they believe they are owed, without the knowledge or permission of the accused.
In their own classically impartial fashion, the BBC reported this as:
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/24/uk-govt-wants-sweeping-powers-to-spy-on-your-bank-account/
The UK’s Labour government announced plans this week that would further erode civil rights in the country, this time in the name of “preventing benefit fraud”.
The plans include revoking the driver’s licenses of those convicted of benefit fraud, “early morning raids” by “crack teams” from the DWP, and – most shockingly – permitting the government access to private banking information so they can take back money they believe they are owed, without the knowledge or permission of the accused.
In their own classically impartial fashion, the BBC reported this as:
Benefit cheats could…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/24/uk-govt-wants-sweeping-powers-to-spy-on-your-bank-account/
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