The creepy agenda behind Australia’s proposed “bedroom tax”
An Australian think-tank has proposed a radical solution to the supposed “housing crisis” – tax people for unused bedrooms.
The thinking is simple: There are many people, mostly older couples whose children have left home, living in family-sized homes with one or more bedrooms sitting empty. If the state were to impose a tax on unoccupied bedrooms, whilst abolishing stamp duty, they will incentivise those people to sell their family homes and downsize, thus freeing up homes for young families looking to buy.
But is that really how it would work?
Of course not.
What will happen…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/23/the-creepy-agenda-behind-australias-proposed-bedroom-tax/
An Australian think-tank has proposed a radical solution to the supposed “housing crisis” – tax people for unused bedrooms.
The thinking is simple: There are many people, mostly older couples whose children have left home, living in family-sized homes with one or more bedrooms sitting empty. If the state were to impose a tax on unoccupied bedrooms, whilst abolishing stamp duty, they will incentivise those people to sell their family homes and downsize, thus freeing up homes for young families looking to buy.
But is that really how it would work?
Of course not.
What will happen…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/23/the-creepy-agenda-behind-australias-proposed-bedroom-tax/
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Conspiracy Theories Revisited
Parked continually at a cliff-top near my town in Sussex is a dormobile, its windows covered in posters about conspiracy theories, particularly QAnon. Recently I had a chat with the owner, giving him a copy of the Light newpaper, a publication that focuses on powerful forces conspiring against the masses.
QAnon, however, is discredited by critical thinkers as a CIA trap, a fabricated paedophile extortion ring to divert attention from the real paedophile extortion ring (Jeffery Epstein and his ‘Lolita Express’). Middle-class moralists often complain, demanding that the authorities move this man in a van (they would not be…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/24/conspiracy-theories-revisited/
Parked continually at a cliff-top near my town in Sussex is a dormobile, its windows covered in posters about conspiracy theories, particularly QAnon. Recently I had a chat with the owner, giving him a copy of the Light newpaper, a publication that focuses on powerful forces conspiring against the masses.
QAnon, however, is discredited by critical thinkers as a CIA trap, a fabricated paedophile extortion ring to divert attention from the real paedophile extortion ring (Jeffery Epstein and his ‘Lolita Express’). Middle-class moralists often complain, demanding that the authorities move this man in a van (they would not be…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/24/conspiracy-theories-revisited/
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WATCH: The Boys on the Tracks
Many of you are likely familiar with the case of The Boys on the Tracks, for those that aren’t I will be vague to avoid spoiling the experience. What starts with two teenaged boys going spotlight hunting late at night leads to a train accident, a police investigation and potential corruption at the highest levels of government.
Many documentaries and YouTube channels have covered it, I chose to share Stephanie Harlowe’s version because she’s an excellent and thorough researcher who – generally speaking – avoids hyperbole and leaping to conclusions. Highly recommend her work.
It is a fascinating story.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/24/watch-the-boys-on-the-tracks/
Many of you are likely familiar with the case of The Boys on the Tracks, for those that aren’t I will be vague to avoid spoiling the experience. What starts with two teenaged boys going spotlight hunting late at night leads to a train accident, a police investigation and potential corruption at the highest levels of government.
Many documentaries and YouTube channels have covered it, I chose to share Stephanie Harlowe’s version because she’s an excellent and thorough researcher who – generally speaking – avoids hyperbole and leaping to conclusions. Highly recommend her work.
It is a fascinating story.…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/24/watch-the-boys-on-the-tracks/
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The US Government Is Waging Psychological War on Its Citizens: Inside the Deep State’s PsyOps Machine
From viral memes to military-grade influence operations, the government is waging a full-spectrum psychological war—not against foreign enemies but against its own citizens.
The goal? Compliance. Control. Conformity.
The battlefield is no longer physical—it is psychological—and the American people are the targets.
From AI-manipulated narratives and National Guard psyops to loyalty scorecards for businesses, the Deep State’s war on…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/25/the-us-government-is-waging-psychological-war-on-its-citizens-inside-the-deep-states-psyops-machine/
“Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings? … Anything we touch is a weapon. We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire. We come in many forms. We are everywhere.”
US Army Psychological Operations recruitment video
From viral memes to military-grade influence operations, the government is waging a full-spectrum psychological war—not against foreign enemies but against its own citizens.
The goal? Compliance. Control. Conformity.
The battlefield is no longer physical—it is psychological—and the American people are the targets.
From AI-manipulated narratives and National Guard psyops to loyalty scorecards for businesses, the Deep State’s war on…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/25/the-us-government-is-waging-psychological-war-on-its-citizens-inside-the-deep-states-psyops-machine/
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This Week in the New Normal #103
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. Cars – the latest subscription service
Volkswagen announced, this week, that some of their electric models would now come with optional upgrades – not as a one-off purchase, but as a subscription.The BBC reports:
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/25/this-week-in-the-new-normal-103/
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. Cars – the latest subscription service
Volkswagen announced, this week, that some of their electric models would now come with optional upgrades – not as a one-off purchase, but as a subscription.The BBC reports:
German car making giant Volkswagen (VW) has introduced a subscription for UK customers wanting to increase the power of some of its electric cars.…...
Those who buy
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/25/this-week-in-the-new-normal-103/
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Is climate change REALLY making people allergic to meat?
Ticks responsible for giving people a “meat allergy” are spreading further and wider because the planet is warming.
That’s the story, anyway.
The disease is called Alpha-Gal Syndrome, it is a condition where your body produces an immune response to galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, a carbohydrate found in mammalian meat.
It was first noted in the mid-2000s, when cancer patients began to display symptoms of anaphylaxis after being treated with the monoclonal antibody drug Cetuximab.
Then, in the early 2010s, researchers found a correlation between increased alpha-gal antibody reaction and repeated tick bites.
Since then, the prevalence of alpha-gal has been…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/26/is-climate-change-really-making-people-allergic-to-meat/
Ticks responsible for giving people a “meat allergy” are spreading further and wider because the planet is warming.
That’s the story, anyway.
The disease is called Alpha-Gal Syndrome, it is a condition where your body produces an immune response to galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, a carbohydrate found in mammalian meat.
It was first noted in the mid-2000s, when cancer patients began to display symptoms of anaphylaxis after being treated with the monoclonal antibody drug Cetuximab.
Then, in the early 2010s, researchers found a correlation between increased alpha-gal antibody reaction and repeated tick bites.
Since then, the prevalence of alpha-gal has been…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/26/is-climate-change-really-making-people-allergic-to-meat/
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Let’s talk about…Iran sanctions & picking teams for “WWIII”?
France, Germany and the UK are likely to reinstate “sweeping” sanctions on Iran due its failure to follow the terms of the nuclear deal, the press are reporting today.
This follows news that Iranian MPs are objecting to the return of UN inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
This is all about that nuclear missile program that nobody had mentioned in years before the brief 12-day “war” two months ago. The one that, in all likelihood, barely even exists.
As I wrote at the time:
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/28/lets-talk-about-iran-sanctions-picking-teams-for-wwiii/
France, Germany and the UK are likely to reinstate “sweeping” sanctions on Iran due its failure to follow the terms of the nuclear deal, the press are reporting today.
This follows news that Iranian MPs are objecting to the return of UN inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
This is all about that nuclear missile program that nobody had mentioned in years before the brief 12-day “war” two months ago. The one that, in all likelihood, barely even exists.
As I wrote at the time:
Maybe the US really did…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/28/lets-talk-about-iran-sanctions-picking-teams-for-wwiii/
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We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Ethics
Artificial Intelligence, transhumanism and technology will easily take over the world because people never think about ethics while doing whatever job they have that supports all this insanity. Ethics? Are you kidding? Who gives a crap about ethics? We don’t need no stinkin’ ethics.
Most people don’t seem to give a rat’s ass about what is going on in Ukraine, or Israel and Gaza. It is just business as usual. They certainly don’t care about what is happening to art, or even romance and love. They undoubtedly don’t give a second thought to their job supporting the decimation of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/30/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-ethics/
Artificial Intelligence, transhumanism and technology will easily take over the world because people never think about ethics while doing whatever job they have that supports all this insanity. Ethics? Are you kidding? Who gives a crap about ethics? We don’t need no stinkin’ ethics.
Most people don’t seem to give a rat’s ass about what is going on in Ukraine, or Israel and Gaza. It is just business as usual. They certainly don’t care about what is happening to art, or even romance and love. They undoubtedly don’t give a second thought to their job supporting the decimation of…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/30/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-ethics/
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The Silent Singing Bird of Flamboyant Plumage
Whenever I get the infrequent opportunity to walk the wild deserted Cape Cod outer Atlantic beach in the early morning, I exult in the sea’s silent roar. It extinguishes the cacophonous dreck that fills the air of everyday life in a society whose depravity accelerates faster than shore birds can fly.
This morning, because there was a little rain and rough surf the beach was deserted except for the usual assortment of birds. So we sauntered the long strand for an hour until we finally encountered a person as the sun flashed from behind the clouds. Inside the cocoon…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/31/the-silent-singing-bird-of-flamboyant-plumage/
Whenever I get the infrequent opportunity to walk the wild deserted Cape Cod outer Atlantic beach in the early morning, I exult in the sea’s silent roar. It extinguishes the cacophonous dreck that fills the air of everyday life in a society whose depravity accelerates faster than shore birds can fly.
This morning, because there was a little rain and rough surf the beach was deserted except for the usual assortment of birds. So we sauntered the long strand for an hour until we finally encountered a person as the sun flashed from behind the clouds. Inside the cocoon…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/31/the-silent-singing-bird-of-flamboyant-plumage/
This Week in the New Normal #104
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. Reason to hate the media no. 5691
On Friday CNN reported that Donald Trump had “revoked” Kamala Harris’ secret service protection under the simple headline:
But the body of the article explains that former Vice-Presidents only get 6 months of SS protection by law and that Biden had extended Harris’ protection for 18 months…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/31/this-week-in-the-new-normal-104/
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. Reason to hate the media no. 5691
On Friday CNN reported that Donald Trump had “revoked” Kamala Harris’ secret service protection under the simple headline:
Trump revokes Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection
But the body of the article explains that former Vice-Presidents only get 6 months of SS protection by law and that Biden had extended Harris’ protection for 18 months…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/31/this-week-in-the-new-normal-104/
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Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom
Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, and a mass-marketed pseudo-morality that is little more than fascism disguised as tolerance—has shifted us into an Age of Intolerance.
Nothing illustrates this more clearly than President Trump’s latest executive order calling for criminal charges for anyone who burns the American flag—a symbolic act long upheld by the Supreme Court as protected political expression.
This push is not about…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/01/burning-the-flag-or-torching-the-constitution-only-one-destroys-freedom/
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
Ray Bradbury
Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, and a mass-marketed pseudo-morality that is little more than fascism disguised as tolerance—has shifted us into an Age of Intolerance.
Nothing illustrates this more clearly than President Trump’s latest executive order calling for criminal charges for anyone who burns the American flag—a symbolic act long upheld by the Supreme Court as protected political expression.
This push is not about…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/01/burning-the-flag-or-torching-the-constitution-only-one-destroys-freedom/
Psy-Op Alert: The Dundee Dagger Girl
She’s all over American ‘alt-right’ media: the 12-year-old girl in Dundee who brandished a dagger in one hand and an axe in the other, apparently to stop a migrant from harassing her younger sister. Outrage on social media escalated when police arrested the girl instead of the alleged predator. Elon Musk contributed to the viral heroine on X.
But did this really happen as presented, or is this another ‘psy-op’; to manipulate public opinion in pursuit of problem-reaction-solution?
It may be proven that a 12-year-old girl was pestered, and that her older sister, Mayah Sommers, intervened in an unlawful…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/02/psy-op-alert-the-dundee-dagger-girl/
She’s all over American ‘alt-right’ media: the 12-year-old girl in Dundee who brandished a dagger in one hand and an axe in the other, apparently to stop a migrant from harassing her younger sister. Outrage on social media escalated when police arrested the girl instead of the alleged predator. Elon Musk contributed to the viral heroine on X.
But did this really happen as presented, or is this another ‘psy-op’; to manipulate public opinion in pursuit of problem-reaction-solution?
It may be proven that a 12-year-old girl was pestered, and that her older sister, Mayah Sommers, intervened in an unlawful…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/02/psy-op-alert-the-dundee-dagger-girl/
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Fall Fundraiser – Can you help keep OffGuardian afloat?
Fall is in the air, so it’s time for our bi-annual donation drive.
We appreciate that there’s nothing as infuriating as sites dropping banner ads and pop-ups asking for money, so we like to keep it simple and ask one question just a couple of times a year:
Would you like to help keep Off-Guardian alive?
Because that is what we’re talking about, survival. With Patreon gutting our income and social media companies limiting our reach, we just about scrape by.
There are alternative models available to us, true. But we don’t believe in paywalls, we receive zero corporate…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/04/fall-fundraiser-can-you-help-keep-offguardian-afloat/
Fall is in the air, so it’s time for our bi-annual donation drive.
We appreciate that there’s nothing as infuriating as sites dropping banner ads and pop-ups asking for money, so we like to keep it simple and ask one question just a couple of times a year:
Would you like to help keep Off-Guardian alive?
Because that is what we’re talking about, survival. With Patreon gutting our income and social media companies limiting our reach, we just about scrape by.
There are alternative models available to us, true. But we don’t believe in paywalls, we receive zero corporate…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/04/fall-fundraiser-can-you-help-keep-offguardian-afloat/
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PANEL: Preparing To Fight Back And Insulate Yourself From Technological Control
Join Independent Media Alliance panelists Ryan Cristian (The Last American Vagabond), Hakeem Anwar (Above Phone), Kit Knightly and James Corbett (Corbett Report) as they discuss the encroaching surveillance network, the risks to online anonymity, and the best tech tips for maintaining privacy online and more.
You can read the Independent Media Alliance mission statement HERE....
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/05/panel-preparing-to-fight-back-and-insulate-yourself-from-technological-control/
Join Independent Media Alliance panelists Ryan Cristian (The Last American Vagabond), Hakeem Anwar (Above Phone), Kit Knightly and James Corbett (Corbett Report) as they discuss the encroaching surveillance network, the risks to online anonymity, and the best tech tips for maintaining privacy online and more.
You can read the Independent Media Alliance mission statement HERE....
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/05/panel-preparing-to-fight-back-and-insulate-yourself-from-technological-control/
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UN/WEF/WHO: Innocent, Trump: Guilty
I think I have enough sense to know that Trump may not be the saviour many think he is. But I do have to admit that, for me, the jury is still out. It is easy to slip him into either role.
There seems to be much evidence that he is doing a lot of things (albeit in his crazy, whacky, “Trumpian way”) that fit the “shrew paradigm” of a better world—ending the mutilating of children, attempting to make peace in Europe and the Middle East, boosting economic growth through deregulation, strengthening border security, and promoting energy independence—and a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/06/un-wef-who-innocent-trump-guilty/
I think I have enough sense to know that Trump may not be the saviour many think he is. But I do have to admit that, for me, the jury is still out. It is easy to slip him into either role.
There seems to be much evidence that he is doing a lot of things (albeit in his crazy, whacky, “Trumpian way”) that fit the “shrew paradigm” of a better world—ending the mutilating of children, attempting to make peace in Europe and the Middle East, boosting economic growth through deregulation, strengthening border security, and promoting energy independence—and a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/06/un-wef-who-innocent-trump-guilty/
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Saving the Science We Crucially Need
The crisis in science that undermines research is widely underestimated, largely because irreproducible results, ideological bias, conflicts of interest, and fraud are typically discussed in isolation—without recognizing their cumulative impact and shared roots.
Scientists alone cannot resolve this. Citizen scrutiny is essential. But first, citizens should be informed.
Scientific fraud has become industrialized
Fraud is, by nature, elusive. Although improved detection tools (e.g. image duplication analysis) may struggle to catch current fraud, given how quickly fraudsters adapt, they nonetheless provide valuable insights into past misconduct.
Particularly troubling is the fact that fraud is no longer confined to isolated individuals,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/06/saving-the-science-we-crucially-need/
The crisis in science that undermines research is widely underestimated, largely because irreproducible results, ideological bias, conflicts of interest, and fraud are typically discussed in isolation—without recognizing their cumulative impact and shared roots.
Scientists alone cannot resolve this. Citizen scrutiny is essential. But first, citizens should be informed.
Scientific fraud has become industrialized
Fraud is, by nature, elusive. Although improved detection tools (e.g. image duplication analysis) may struggle to catch current fraud, given how quickly fraudsters adapt, they nonetheless provide valuable insights into past misconduct.
Particularly troubling is the fact that fraud is no longer confined to isolated individuals,…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/06/saving-the-science-we-crucially-need/
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Trump’s Contronymal “Peace” with Russia
With all the hullabaloo about President Donald Trump’s “peace” gestures toward Russia over Ukraine and the resetting of US-Russia bi-lateral relations, it is worth remembering the “pivot to Asia” announced by the Obama administration in 2011 and the coup d’état it carried out in Ukraine in 2014.
For those who might not remember, I would recommend two films: John Pilger’s The Coming War on China and Oliver Stone’s Ukraine on…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/07/trumps-contronymal-peace-with-russia/
“They didn’t act like people and they didn’t act like actors. It’s hard to explain.”
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
With all the hullabaloo about President Donald Trump’s “peace” gestures toward Russia over Ukraine and the resetting of US-Russia bi-lateral relations, it is worth remembering the “pivot to Asia” announced by the Obama administration in 2011 and the coup d’état it carried out in Ukraine in 2014.
For those who might not remember, I would recommend two films: John Pilger’s The Coming War on China and Oliver Stone’s Ukraine on…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/07/trumps-contronymal-peace-with-russia/
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A Police State Presidency: When ‘Rule of Law’ Becomes ‘Rule by Gunpoint’
Donald Trump has always been a master of imagery.
From his red MAGA hats to his choreographed rallies, he understands the language of spectacle. Now he has discovered the perfect propaganda machine: AI-generated images.
AI allows the creation of endless variations of Trump-as-warrior, Trump-as-enforcer, Trump-as-savior. These images spread across social media, replicated, remixed, and shared until they become familiar, even normalized.
The latest AI-generated images of Trump, shared on his social media accounts, depict him in the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/08/a-police-state-presidency-when-rule-of-law-becomes-rule-by-gunpoint/
“The world will soon understand nothing can stop what is coming.”
President Trump
Donald Trump has always been a master of imagery.
From his red MAGA hats to his choreographed rallies, he understands the language of spectacle. Now he has discovered the perfect propaganda machine: AI-generated images.
AI allows the creation of endless variations of Trump-as-warrior, Trump-as-enforcer, Trump-as-savior. These images spread across social media, replicated, remixed, and shared until they become familiar, even normalized.
The latest AI-generated images of Trump, shared on his social media accounts, depict him in the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/08/a-police-state-presidency-when-rule-of-law-becomes-rule-by-gunpoint/
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This Week in the New Normal #105
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. “ID Cards will be great if our side does them”
As the resistance to Starmer’s Digital ID plan foments around the country, Conservative agitator Isabel Oakeshott has taken to her column in the Telegraph to…defend them:
Digital IDs work; they create high-trust societies where people don’t lock their…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/08/this-week-in-the-new-normal-105/
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. “ID Cards will be great if our side does them”
As the resistance to Starmer’s Digital ID plan foments around the country, Conservative agitator Isabel Oakeshott has taken to her column in the Telegraph to…defend them:
ID cards can create a culture of trust, but not under this Government
Digital IDs work; they create high-trust societies where people don’t lock their…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/08/this-week-in-the-new-normal-105/
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Quick Take…Inside the “Epstein Birthday Book”
The Wall Street Journal has exclusively released digital copies of Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book”, a document allegedly handed to Congress by lawyers representing the Epstein estate.
The big fuss is the odd note apparently signed by Donald Trump inside the doodled outline of woman’s body, plus another entry making reference to Trump “selling” a woman to Epstein:
For some reason they’re calling this a “bombshell”.
There are also pictures of Epstein with Lord Mandelson, as well as a doctored magazine cover from Alan Dershowitz a note from Bill Clinton and miscellaneous contributions from various notables.
From…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/09/quick-take-inside-the-epstein-birthday-book/
The Wall Street Journal has exclusively released digital copies of Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book”, a document allegedly handed to Congress by lawyers representing the Epstein estate.
The big fuss is the odd note apparently signed by Donald Trump inside the doodled outline of woman’s body, plus another entry making reference to Trump “selling” a woman to Epstein:
For some reason they’re calling this a “bombshell”.
There are also pictures of Epstein with Lord Mandelson, as well as a doctored magazine cover from Alan Dershowitz a note from Bill Clinton and miscellaneous contributions from various notables.
From…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/09/09/quick-take-inside-the-epstein-birthday-book/
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