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This Week in the New Normal #109

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. Atlantic current collapse a “national security threat”

The Icelandic government has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — the currents which bring warm water to the north Atlantic – a national security threat.

To quote Reuters, with added emphasis:
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/17/this-week-in-the-new-normal-109/
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Tragic Idealism and the Art of ‘The Impossible’

The following article is adapted from the author’s new book The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible, which is freely available to read online or download here.

At its best, writing bears witness to truths that society may not want to hear or that prevailing realities make almost impossible. One peculiar kind of essay depicts a vision of human life where moral, ecological and social ideals flourish.

This vision represents what is right, what could be and what must be, yet it remains out of reach.

Critics often dismiss such writing as…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/18/tragic-idealism-and-the-art-of-the-impossible/
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PANEL: The Growing Control Grid & The Prophets of Technocracy

Host Ryan Cristian is joined by IMA members Iain Davis, Catherine Austin-Fitts, Steve Poikonen and Jason Bermas, as well as new face Tim Hinchcliffe.

They explore the growing public awareness of the agenda’s truly bipartisan nature, as well as how specific wedge issues are deliberately weaponized to sow strife and division—often as a distraction from the rapid and alarming deterioration of our freedoms and quality of life.

The discussion also covers the government’s efforts to manipulate or coerce the population into voluntarily accepting what many perceive as a dystopian future, along with the technological advancements that may already be…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/19/panel-the-growing-control-grid-the-prophets-of-technocracy/
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Quick Take…The Covid Inquiry’s (Incredibly Predictable) Findings

The UK’s Covid Enquiry has published its second report, and its conclusion is as relevant as it is predictable.

To quote Sky News:
The response of the UK’s four governments to the pandemic was a “repeated case of too little, too late” and tens of thousands of lives could have been saved had lockdowns been introduced faster, the COVID-19 Inquiry has found

That’s all they were ever going to say, and it’s all we really need to know.

The full report is over seven hundred and fifty pages across two volumes, a Tolstoy novel of irrelevance.

This is…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/20/quick-take-the-covid-inquirys-incredibly-predictable-findings/
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Coronavirus Fact-Check #17: Would an earlier lockdown REALLY have “saved 23,000 lives”?

The UK’s Covid Inquiry just published their Module 2 report, and though it’s over eight hundred words long, most people only really seem interested in this short quote from Baroness Hallett:

Had the lockdown been imposed one week earlier than the 23rd of March, the evidence suggests the number of deaths in England alone in the first wave, would have been reduced by 48%, that’s 23,000 fewer deaths”

It’s being repeated A LOT. But is it true?

No, it is nonsense.

The evidence on lockdowns is clear, they had little to know impact on the…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/21/coronavirus-fact-check-17-would-an-earlier-lockdown-really-have-saved-23000-lives/
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Coronavirus Fact-Check #18: Would an earlier lockdown REALLY have “saved 23,000 lives”?

The UK’s Covid Inquiry just published their Module 2 report, and though it’s over eight hundred words long, most people only really seem interested in this short quote from Baroness Hallett:

Had the lockdown been imposed one week earlier than the 23rd of March, the evidence suggests the number of deaths in England alone in the first wave, would have been reduced by 48%, that’s 23,000 fewer deaths”

It’s being repeated A LOT. But is it true?

No, it is nonsense.

The evidence on lockdowns is clear, they had little to know impact on the…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/21/coronavirus-fact-check-18-would-an-earlier-lockdown-really-have-saved-23000-lives/
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Off the Grid

When people talk about “getting off the grid,” the image that usually springs to my mind is the full-on pioneer fantasy: selling the house, buying 40 acres in the bush, installing solar panels, drilling a well, raising chickens, and growing enough potatoes to survive the next ice age.

I envy those people. Honestly, I do.

But let’s be real—most of us aren’t cut out for that level of commitment, and most of us don’t need to be -— yet. At least for a little while, we can probably muddle along semi-attached to the system—still buying groceries at Loblaws, paying…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/22/off-the-grid/
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Mechanical Mikey and the Theater of War


If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gurgling from the froth-corrupted lungs
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My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori


Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est


On the morning of November 11, I was passing through Pittsfield, Massachusetts, heading north. The traffic was stopped as a Veteran’s Day parade headed south. It was a sight for a musing mind, so that is exactly what I did, sitting in my car watching the…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/23/mechanical-mikey-and-the-theater-of-war/
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WATCH: The Technocratic Dark State

From Iain’s website:

I was delighted that Dr David A. Hughes asked me to join him to discuss my forthcoming book The Technocratic Dark State.

You can read John Titus full review of the book HERE.

The book is due to be published soon, hopefully before Christmas, and you can express an interest and preorder either a physical or digital copy simply be sending an email to [email protected] with the title PREORDER.

Alternatively use the form HERE

The Book is published by Papercut publishing and we will contact you by email, as soon as the book…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/23/watch-the-technocratic-dark-state/
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America’s Crime Syndicate Government: Profiteering, Protection Rackets & a Pay-to-Play Presidency

“It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.”
Michael Corleone, The Godfather


Pay-to-play schemes. Protection rackets. Extortion. Corruption. Self-enrichment. Graft. Grift. Brutality. Roaming bands of thugs smashing car windows and terrorizing communities. Immunity for criminal behavior coupled with prosecutions of whistleblowers.

This is how a crime syndicate operates—not a constitutional republic.

What we are witnessing today is the steady transformation of the federal government—especially the executive branch—into a criminalized system of power in which justice is weaponized, law is selectively enforced, and crime becomes a form of political currency.

While the American police state…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/24/americas-crime-syndicate-government-profiteering-protection-rackets-a-pay-to-play-presidency/
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New Book: Rejecting the Ideology of Progress

‘The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible’ (2025), published by The Critical Globalisation Collective (UK & India), is available on Figshare. All the author’s work is released under an open access framework and is freely available for non-commercial use.

The open access book The Agrarian Imagination Development and the Art of the Impossible is a critique of the dominant global economic and political model often termed ‘development’ and based on a warped notion of ‘progress’. In it, through 16 essays, it is argued that this system, driven by the needs of private (finance)…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/25/new-book-rejecting-the-ideology-of-progress/
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Soft Censorship on Free-Speech Twitter?

We don’t get much engagement on Twitter (X, whatever). At ~63,000 followers we’re hardly a huge account, but an engagement rate of around 0.07% is incredibly low.

Our content generally gets low-double digit “likes”.

For what it’s worth, checkers that claim to able to detect these things say we aren’t shadowbanned.

We’ve accepted that we’re in the soundproof free speech booth, allowed to say whatever we want as long as no one hears us.

But, every so often, we get something to pierce the shield (at least a little bit). That happened on the 21st of November when the…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/26/soft-censorship-on-free-speech-twitter/
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This Thanksgiving in the New Normal

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. Guess who’s back, back again? Bird Flu’s back, tell a friend

We have a new bird flu scare! Just in time for the Holidays, isn’t that weird?

In the US, the “first ever human fatality” was attributed to H5N5 bird flu earlier this week, when an unnamed and ungendered individual (allegedly) succumbed to the disease in Washington State. The deceased was supposedly elderly…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/27/this-thanksgiving-in-the-new-normal-2/
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This Time They’ve Gone Too Far

There is no fool like an old fool, I was thinking, standing on the deck in the cooling night air with a plate of cat food. I called out, and they came—the three of them—soft violet shadows emerging from the indigo dark.

There were once five. Two are gone now. I accept this with a sadness that is clean and uncomplicated. The wolves, the owls, the foxes—they take their measure of life here in the night. Their presence is neither cruel nor kind; it simply is. Loving these three raccoons does not grant them immunity from the wild, nor…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/28/this-time-theyve-gone-too-far/
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It Isn’t That Big of a Deal

Another thing you hear all the time from the sheep grazing complacently on the other side of the hill is, “It just isn’t that big of a deal,” or “It just won’t get to that,” or “Why do you always think the worst of everything?”.

Funny how the same people can be utterly convinced that their own pet catastrophes—Trump returning to power, climate change, systemic racism, white supremacy, overpopulation, or the rise of the far right—are existential threats that will end life as we know it unless we surrender every freedom immediately to…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/29/it-isnt-that-big-of-a-deal/
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WATCH: Spoil the Vote! – #SolutionsWatch

The anti-war crowd likes to ask: What if they started a war and no one showed up? So, perhaps statists should be asking: What if they held a (s)election and no one voted? Join James today for an exploration of ballot spoiling, from Mexican presentations to Irish presidential (s)elections to Nobel prize-winning literature.

Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here andhere.

Follow us on Telegram for regular updates & commentary...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/11/30/watch-spoil-the-vote-solutionswatch/
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Giving Thanks for Our Blessings Means Saying ‘No Thanks’ to Police State Tyranny

“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”
Daniel Webster


We find ourselves approaching that time of year when, as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, we’re supposed to give thanks as a nation and as individuals for our safety and our freedoms.

It’s not an easy undertaking.

The contrast between George Washington’s…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/01/giving-thanks-for-our-blessings-means-saying-no-thanks-to-police-state-tyranny/
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Beneath the Concrete, the Soil Still Whispers

Gleaming office buildings, concrete flyovers and ever-sprawling housing developments and industrial parks, the modern city is increasingly presented as a symbol of progress. But what if this very ‘progress’ conceals a destructive order? What if the modern city represents the command-centre of an extractive, neoliberal order that has reshaped land, labour and life itself?

If policymakers believe that urbanisation is the natural evolution of a modern nation-state, they should stop to consider that it is based on the deliberate outcome of policies that undermine rural self-sufficiency, commodify soil and force agrarian communities into precarity.

Once traditional farming systems have…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/03/beneath-the-concrete-the-soil-still-whispers/
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A Visit by the German Thought Police

Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my wife, and confiscated my computer.

The search warrant was issued in connection with a new criminal investigation of me by the Berlin State Prosecutor. Once again, as in 2023, I am accused of disseminating pro-Nazi material, the pro-Nazi “material” in question being my book, The Rise of the New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021).

Unlike the previous charges against me, which were based on two Tweets featuring the…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/04/a-visit-by-the-german-thought-police/
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The Future of British “Justice” is HORRIFYING

The recent changes being made to British law are undermining the rights of citizens to a fair trial and presumption of innocence, and could turn our legal system into a truly dystopian nightmare.

Here’s how…

The reports

The calls for reforms, reviews and all the other R words come from three relatively recent reports.

First, there was the first report of Lord Leveson’s Crime and Justice Report, which was “leaked” in April:

https://off-guardian.org/2025/04/15/goodbye-jury-trials-hello-digital-id-10-recommendations-from-the-crime-and-justice-commission/

And which we covered in depth here when they were published in July (his second report is due to be…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/05/the-future-of-british-justice-is-horrifying/
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Money for Nothing

British people are glum and grumbling after Rachel Reeves’ budget, but what did they expect? They should know by now that government is an extortion racket.

While many voters regret their decision in last year’s general election, die-hard Labour supporters continue to make excuses: Tory mismanagement and Brexit ruined the economy. Daily Mail readers, meanwhile, have been told that the budget has taken from hard-working families to give to benefit claimants.

This is exactly what the powers-that-be want people to believe, not only as the old divide-and-rule strategy, but because society needs to understand that jobs are disappearing rapidly,…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/06/money-for-nothing/
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