You Can’t Patent a Trench: The Real Biotechnology the Green Revolution Forgot
In the summer of 2019, Chennai reached ‘Day Zero’. As the city’s reservoirs shrank to 0.1% of their capacity, the crisis exposed a brutal hierarchy. While millions queued for hours at street corners for government tankers, the city’s luxury hotels continued to operate, fuelled by a fleet of private water tankers siphoning groundwater from surrounding villages.
This is the logical endpoint of an industrial mindset that views the world as a collection of parts to be managed and extracted. It is a system that prizes ‘high-tech’ laboratory-derived solutions while dismantling complex, self-sustaining biological systems that have supported human life…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/15/you-cant-patent-a-trench-the-real-biotechnology-the-green-revolution-forgot/
In the summer of 2019, Chennai reached ‘Day Zero’. As the city’s reservoirs shrank to 0.1% of their capacity, the crisis exposed a brutal hierarchy. While millions queued for hours at street corners for government tankers, the city’s luxury hotels continued to operate, fuelled by a fleet of private water tankers siphoning groundwater from surrounding villages.
This is the logical endpoint of an industrial mindset that views the world as a collection of parts to be managed and extracted. It is a system that prizes ‘high-tech’ laboratory-derived solutions while dismantling complex, self-sustaining biological systems that have supported human life…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/15/you-cant-patent-a-trench-the-real-biotechnology-the-green-revolution-forgot/
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Funny how all these crises and wars contrive to promote the very same narratives and agenda - all roads lead to shortages and rationing it seems
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Forwarded from Edward Slavsquat
Fuel ration cards issued via Russia's MAX messenger will be tested in Chita. [source: Kommersant]
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Widdecombe Murder Means Attacks on Free-Speech Swap Sides
Left, then right. Right, then left. That’s the way these days.
First, they pitch their solution to an imaginary or exaggerated problem from the left-wing perspective, then pitch the same problem-solution combo tweaked to appeal to the right. Or vice versa.
“Online hate speech” is the most obvious example of this in recent times.
It started with the left, who are now fully on board after months of fear porn about the online “far-right” spreading “misinformation” and “hate speech” about illegal immigration, peppered with staged riots and other “violence”.
Fully dosed up on mob-rule Kool-Aid, and safe in the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/16/widdecombe-murder-means-attacks-on-free-speech-swap-sides/
Left, then right. Right, then left. That’s the way these days.
First, they pitch their solution to an imaginary or exaggerated problem from the left-wing perspective, then pitch the same problem-solution combo tweaked to appeal to the right. Or vice versa.
“Online hate speech” is the most obvious example of this in recent times.
It started with the left, who are now fully on board after months of fear porn about the online “far-right” spreading “misinformation” and “hate speech” about illegal immigration, peppered with staged riots and other “violence”.
Fully dosed up on mob-rule Kool-Aid, and safe in the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/16/widdecombe-murder-means-attacks-on-free-speech-swap-sides/
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Flashback: The “Climate Lockdown” Origin Story
If you look up “climate lockdown” with Google – or some off-brand Google substitute that pretends to independence until it actually matters – you will be greeted with an AI summary that begins:
It’s a lie. And it’s a lie that exists because we won.
The AI goes on to say “first appeared on social media in early 2020, shortly after COVID-19 lockdowns were…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/17/flashback-the-climate-lockdown-origin-story/
If you look up “climate lockdown” with Google – or some off-brand Google substitute that pretends to independence until it actually matters – you will be greeted with an AI summary that begins:
A “climate lockdown” is a widespread conspiracy theory alleging that governments and global elites plan to use climate change as a pretext to impose COVID-style restrictions, strictly control populations, and permanently limit personal freedoms.
It’s a lie. And it’s a lie that exists because we won.
The AI goes on to say “first appeared on social media in early 2020, shortly after COVID-19 lockdowns were…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/17/flashback-the-climate-lockdown-origin-story/
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The Eclipse of the Soul
Humanity is unravelling. In the span of just a few generations—scarcely a century—we have witnessed a precipitous decline in the quality of our shared life. What was once a world of craft, connection, and quiet moral coherence has given way to machine-made uniformity, moral drift, environmental squalor, widespread addiction, and a pervasive spiritual emptiness.
The symptoms are everywhere: drugs flooding communities, garbage choking landscapes, ethics treated as quaint relics, families dissolving, and relationships reduced to transactions. Many sense the rot but struggle to name its root. The cause, at bottom, is simple yet profound: we have ceased to value…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/18/the-eclipse-of-the-soul/
Humanity is unravelling. In the span of just a few generations—scarcely a century—we have witnessed a precipitous decline in the quality of our shared life. What was once a world of craft, connection, and quiet moral coherence has given way to machine-made uniformity, moral drift, environmental squalor, widespread addiction, and a pervasive spiritual emptiness.
The symptoms are everywhere: drugs flooding communities, garbage choking landscapes, ethics treated as quaint relics, families dissolving, and relationships reduced to transactions. Many sense the rot but struggle to name its root. The cause, at bottom, is simple yet profound: we have ceased to value…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/18/the-eclipse-of-the-soul/
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A Communiqué from an Author of Harmful and Undesirable Literature
So I have been indicted by the Berlin District Prosecutor for authoring, publishing, and advertising a book.
I’m not joking.
The District Prosecutor is actually going to prosecute me again, this time for the crime of publishing a book. My lawyer received the indictment today.
Now, let me be clear, because this gets kind of confusing. This indictment is a brand new indictment. This isn’t the first indictment that I was already prosecuted for, and originally acquitted, but then had my acquittal overturned by an appellate court after the Prosecutor appealed, and thus will be…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/19/a-communique-from-an-author-of-harmful-and-undesirable-literature/
So I have been indicted by the Berlin District Prosecutor for authoring, publishing, and advertising a book.
I’m not joking.
The District Prosecutor is actually going to prosecute me again, this time for the crime of publishing a book. My lawyer received the indictment today.
Now, let me be clear, because this gets kind of confusing. This indictment is a brand new indictment. This isn’t the first indictment that I was already prosecuted for, and originally acquitted, but then had my acquittal overturned by an appellate court after the Prosecutor appealed, and thus will be…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/19/a-communique-from-an-author-of-harmful-and-undesirable-literature/
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“Fantasia Americana”
A new collection of art works telling the two-hundred-and-fifty year story of the United States of America, from OffG’s unofficial artist in residence, Jordan Henderson [click images for full size].
Jordan Henderson lives in the Northwest of the United States. He works in oil paints, and charcoals. A portfolio of his works can be viewed at either of his websites: Original Paintings – Fine Art Prints....
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/20/fantasia-americana/
A new collection of art works telling the two-hundred-and-fifty year story of the United States of America, from OffG’s unofficial artist in residence, Jordan Henderson [click images for full size].
Jordan Henderson lives in the Northwest of the United States. He works in oil paints, and charcoals. A portfolio of his works can be viewed at either of his websites: Original Paintings – Fine Art Prints....
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/20/fantasia-americana/
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While the Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds the Digital Police State
While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus—cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle—the Surveillance State continues its steady march forward.
The government is watching.
It watches where you go, whom you meet, where you worship, what medical offices you visit, what political rallies you attend, what protests you join, what books you…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/20/while-the-political-circus-distracts-us-flock-builds-the-digital-police-state/
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”
George Orwell, 1984
While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus—cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle—the Surveillance State continues its steady march forward.
The government is watching.
It watches where you go, whom you meet, where you worship, what medical offices you visit, what political rallies you attend, what protests you join, what books you…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/20/while-the-political-circus-distracts-us-flock-builds-the-digital-police-state/
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Faking “Water Bankruptcy” Part 2: Climate Change
Later this year, the UN will be hosting a major summit on the world’s water supply. The Global Water Conference 2026 is being assembled to tackle what the UN is calling “water bankruptcy”, and pursue Sustainable Development Goal 6 in pursuit of Agenda 2030.
Let’s be clear here – we’re not talking about populous arid regions out-growing their aquifer capacity, or aging infrastructure lagging behind urban sprawl. All these are ongoing issues that need to be dealt with – but this is not what the Global Water Conference is aimed at. Rather it’s a focal point for a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/20/faking-water-bankruptcy-part-2-climate-change/
Later this year, the UN will be hosting a major summit on the world’s water supply. The Global Water Conference 2026 is being assembled to tackle what the UN is calling “water bankruptcy”, and pursue Sustainable Development Goal 6 in pursuit of Agenda 2030.
Let’s be clear here – we’re not talking about populous arid regions out-growing their aquifer capacity, or aging infrastructure lagging behind urban sprawl. All these are ongoing issues that need to be dealt with – but this is not what the Global Water Conference is aimed at. Rather it’s a focal point for a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/20/faking-water-bankruptcy-part-2-climate-change/
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Let’s talk about…Andy Burnham, the UK’s Newest Puppet-in-Chief
As of yesterday morning, the United Kingdom has a new Prime Minister, and his name is Andy Burnham.
In a startlingly low-Democracy effort, even by modern standards, a sitting MP resigned his safe seat so Andy Burnham could “contest” a by-election with the express purpose of ousting Sir Keir Starmer as Labour leader.
Less than 30,000 votes – that’s the Burnham democratic mandate.
And ever since that transition became inevitable, the PR machine has been working overtime to sell us the kind of “simple, decent” image.
We’ve been told how he likes his tea (milk first), that he’s…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/21/lets-talk-about-andy-burnham-the-uks-newest-puppet-in-chief/
As of yesterday morning, the United Kingdom has a new Prime Minister, and his name is Andy Burnham.
In a startlingly low-Democracy effort, even by modern standards, a sitting MP resigned his safe seat so Andy Burnham could “contest” a by-election with the express purpose of ousting Sir Keir Starmer as Labour leader.
Less than 30,000 votes – that’s the Burnham democratic mandate.
And ever since that transition became inevitable, the PR machine has been working overtime to sell us the kind of “simple, decent” image.
We’ve been told how he likes his tea (milk first), that he’s…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/21/lets-talk-about-andy-burnham-the-uks-newest-puppet-in-chief/
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The Multipolaristas’ China-Maxxing
Let’s consider the arguments of those who advocate global governance, the people whom Hrvoje Morić identifies as the Multipolaristas. They are often engaged in China-maxxing and are, whether they know it or not, essentially serving as propagandists for the global oligarchy.
Research conducted by analysts working for the South China Morning Post (SCMP)—an English-speaking, Western-aligned Chinese news outlet—suggests that, between 2015 and 2025, a notable shift occurred in the way China and its government were portrayed by the leading Western media organisations.
Chief analyst Jianlu Bi, who is a senior fellow…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/22/the-multipolaristas-china-maxxing/
Let’s consider the arguments of those who advocate global governance, the people whom Hrvoje Morić identifies as the Multipolaristas. They are often engaged in China-maxxing and are, whether they know it or not, essentially serving as propagandists for the global oligarchy.
Research conducted by analysts working for the South China Morning Post (SCMP)—an English-speaking, Western-aligned Chinese news outlet—suggests that, between 2015 and 2025, a notable shift occurred in the way China and its government were portrayed by the leading Western media organisations.
Chief analyst Jianlu Bi, who is a senior fellow…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/22/the-multipolaristas-china-maxxing/
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WATCH: The Return of Schwab, Summer Davos, & Digital Embassies
Tim Hinchliffe discusses the advancement of the global technocratic control grid highlighting the rollout of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), which integrates digital IDs, programmable currencies, and data centers into a centralized system of governance and includes digital embassies for nations who don’t possess their own compute. These interconnected technologies are being used by global institutions and governments to implement a totalitarian surveillance state that transcends national borders.
Tim Hinchcliffe is editor of Sociable, follow him in X/Twitter. You can listen to Geopolitics & Empire through most podcast services, their websiteor follow them on Substack or Twitter/X....
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/23/watch-the-return-of-schwab-summer-davos-digital-embassies/
Tim Hinchliffe discusses the advancement of the global technocratic control grid highlighting the rollout of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), which integrates digital IDs, programmable currencies, and data centers into a centralized system of governance and includes digital embassies for nations who don’t possess their own compute. These interconnected technologies are being used by global institutions and governments to implement a totalitarian surveillance state that transcends national borders.
Tim Hinchcliffe is editor of Sociable, follow him in X/Twitter. You can listen to Geopolitics & Empire through most podcast services, their websiteor follow them on Substack or Twitter/X....
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/23/watch-the-return-of-schwab-summer-davos-digital-embassies/
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Manufacturing Inevitability: Breaking the Myth of No Alternative
The following is an extract from the new open access book The Great Flattening: Enclosure, Extraction and the New Age of Concentrated Power, which can be accessed HERE.
Barbara Harlow (1948–2017) was an influential US academic, activist and literary critic who fundamentally reshaped the study of literature by insisting that writing could be a powerful tool for political change.
She is best known for her landmark 1987 book, Resistance Literature, which bridged the gap between academic theory and revolutionary struggle. That book analysed texts from occupied Palestine and apartheid South Africa as tools for sovereignty.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/24/manufacturing-inevitability-breaking-the-myth-of-no-alternative/
The following is an extract from the new open access book The Great Flattening: Enclosure, Extraction and the New Age of Concentrated Power, which can be accessed HERE.
Barbara Harlow (1948–2017) was an influential US academic, activist and literary critic who fundamentally reshaped the study of literature by insisting that writing could be a powerful tool for political change.
She is best known for her landmark 1987 book, Resistance Literature, which bridged the gap between academic theory and revolutionary struggle. That book analysed texts from occupied Palestine and apartheid South Africa as tools for sovereignty.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/24/manufacturing-inevitability-breaking-the-myth-of-no-alternative/
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I No Longer Trust Anyone
Sad, but true. Since the Covid fiasco, I’ve seen the true nature of people—or at least the nature they were willing to show once the fear got turned up and the herd started moving.
Most of them are still firmly under the sheep banner, content to graze wherever they’re told. A small handful stand under the “critical thinker” banner. Those are the ones I still trust.
The sheepies? I don’t trust them anymore. Did I ever, really? I thought I did, back when I was younger and still believed most people were basically decent when the chips were down.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/25/i-no-longer-trust-anyone/
Sad, but true. Since the Covid fiasco, I’ve seen the true nature of people—or at least the nature they were willing to show once the fear got turned up and the herd started moving.
Most of them are still firmly under the sheep banner, content to graze wherever they’re told. A small handful stand under the “critical thinker” banner. Those are the ones I still trust.
The sheepies? I don’t trust them anymore. Did I ever, really? I thought I did, back when I was younger and still believed most people were basically decent when the chips were down.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/25/i-no-longer-trust-anyone/
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Why Do We Love Sad Songs?
The titular question appropriately arose as our spirits rose during a sumptuous Easter dinner celebrating the triumph of life over death and love over hate. My granddaughter Sophie and I – she, three weeks shy of her eighteenth birthday – discovered that we both love sad songs and wondered why.
Sophie, already an accomplished actress, singer, dancer, and writer on the cusp of a brilliant career, said such songs made her happy. I didn’t know if they made me…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/26/why-do-we-love-sad-songs/
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
A Chinese Proverb
The titular question appropriately arose as our spirits rose during a sumptuous Easter dinner celebrating the triumph of life over death and love over hate. My granddaughter Sophie and I – she, three weeks shy of her eighteenth birthday – discovered that we both love sad songs and wondered why.
Sophie, already an accomplished actress, singer, dancer, and writer on the cusp of a brilliant career, said such songs made her happy. I didn’t know if they made me…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/26/why-do-we-love-sad-songs/
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The Latest Wildfire Panic is Refuted by Data
Wildfires are in the news. With a hot, dry summer it was bound to happen. And, naturally, this is bringing with it talk of climate change.
The Independent is screaming and rending its garments:
The Guardian has an opinion piece calling for prosecutions for climate crimes. Twitter experts are calling for changes to the way we live our lives.
Prince William is saying stuff:
I suppose we…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/28/the-latest-wildfire-panic-is-refuted-by-data/
Wildfires are in the news. With a hot, dry summer it was bound to happen. And, naturally, this is bringing with it talk of climate change.
The Independent is screaming and rending its garments:
Europe is on fire – will the continent’s climate change deniers finally wake up?
The Guardian has an opinion piece calling for prosecutions for climate crimes. Twitter experts are calling for changes to the way we live our lives.
Prince William is saying stuff:
Wildfires ‘stark reminder’ of extreme climate challenge, says William
I suppose we…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/28/the-latest-wildfire-panic-is-refuted-by-data/
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Quick Take…the Fauci Diaries and the Lab Leak renaissance
Dr Anthony Fauci is testifying in front of congress today. Waiting for him, teeth bared, is his nemesis Rand Paul, armed with incriminating e-mails and (allegedly) extracts from Fauci’s personal diary, written between 2019 and 2022.
Suddenly, everybody is talking about Covid’s mysterious origins again.
Familiar names and phrases, like the Wuhan Institute of Virology and “gain of function” are doing the rounds once more.
“It was natural”, say some.
“It was a lab accident”, say others.
“They released it on purpose,” chorus a third group.
My position – and…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/29/quick-take-the-fauci-diaries-and-the-lab-leak-renaissance/
Dr Anthony Fauci is testifying in front of congress today. Waiting for him, teeth bared, is his nemesis Rand Paul, armed with incriminating e-mails and (allegedly) extracts from Fauci’s personal diary, written between 2019 and 2022.
Suddenly, everybody is talking about Covid’s mysterious origins again.
Familiar names and phrases, like the Wuhan Institute of Virology and “gain of function” are doing the rounds once more.
“It was natural”, say some.
“It was a lab accident”, say others.
“They released it on purpose,” chorus a third group.
My position – and…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/29/quick-take-the-fauci-diaries-and-the-lab-leak-renaissance/
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Flashback: The Amazon Wildfire Crisis That Never Was
Given the current hysteria about wildfires on the continent – hysteria which is refuted by data – we thought this would be a good time to remind everyone they’ve done this exact thing before.
It’s the summer of 2019, the Amazon’s regular wildfire season is underway, and for some reason it’s all anyone is talking about.
“The Earth’s lungs are on fire!”, that’s the line. Everyone from Obama down is lamenting the damage and wishing we’d done more about climate change sooner.
Full on South Park “we didn’t listen!”mode.
Just one…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/30/flashback-the-amazon-wildfire-crisis-that-never-was/
Given the current hysteria about wildfires on the continent – hysteria which is refuted by data – we thought this would be a good time to remind everyone they’ve done this exact thing before.
It’s the summer of 2019, the Amazon’s regular wildfire season is underway, and for some reason it’s all anyone is talking about.
“The Earth’s lungs are on fire!”, that’s the line. Everyone from Obama down is lamenting the damage and wishing we’d done more about climate change sooner.
Full on South Park “we didn’t listen!”mode.
Just one…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/30/flashback-the-amazon-wildfire-crisis-that-never-was/
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Why the Odyssey?
If you spent one to two years when you were 16-17 years old and full of wild physical and sexual energy assiduously translating Homer’s The Odyssey from the ancient Greek in little (7” x 4”) gray books where you placed your English translation interlineally, trying to get every word precisely right and the syntax flowing for the hawk-eyed inspection of a Greek obsessed Jesuit priest, you too might have felt wounded like Odysseus by a wild boar.
But the wounds we carry with the years can still impel us “to follow knowledge like a sinking star…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/31/why-the-odyssey/
If you spent one to two years when you were 16-17 years old and full of wild physical and sexual energy assiduously translating Homer’s The Odyssey from the ancient Greek in little (7” x 4”) gray books where you placed your English translation interlineally, trying to get every word precisely right and the syntax flowing for the hawk-eyed inspection of a Greek obsessed Jesuit priest, you too might have felt wounded like Odysseus by a wild boar.
But the wounds we carry with the years can still impel us “to follow knowledge like a sinking star…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/31/why-the-odyssey/
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