Off-Guardian – off-guardian.org Sept 24, 2023
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. New York’s robot policemen
The NYPD is unleashing a robot police officer on wheels to patrol the Times Square subway, according to the NYT:
The K5, described as a “fully autonomous” security robot, is part of a push by the mayor for more law-enforcement technology…
As much as it’s called a “robot police officer”, in essence, it’s a mobile surveillance unit. A bunch of security cameras on wheels.
This roll-out (see what we did there?) follows New York Mayor Ernie Adams’ trip to Israel where he witnessed how the world’s most democratic police state uses drones to monitor its system of racial apartheid.
Adams has used drones himself in the past, most recently to monitor crowds during the West Indian American parade events.
Right now it’s just an autistic Dalek, blundering about a subway station waiting to crash on the tracks or knock passengers down, but the automation of any kind of surveillance or law enforcement is a bad sign.
2. Zero meat and Rationing air travel to save the world
This is actually over a week old, but noteworthy enough to break the rules.
The C40 – a coalition of 40 of the largest urban centres in the world – released a report last week, “The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World”, which makes several recommendations on how to save the planet.
They list “realistic” and “ambitious” targets for each category.
“Realistically” they want to limit meat and dairy to 16 and 90 kg per person per year, “ambitiously” they want to take that down to zero by 2030.
They also want to eliminate private vehicles completely and limit everyone to just three new clothes items per year (I don’t know if socks count as two, but for the sake of comedy I hope so.)
Their “ambitious target” for air travel is limiting everyone to one short return flight per person every three years.
This has been floating around the idea sphere for a long time, with very little coverage of what it really would mean.
For starters, of course, there would be exceptions: Private jets, diplomatic flights, military flights, sports teams, celebrities…you get the idea.
Secondly, they would make it so you can sell your “air coupons” (or whatever they call them), meaning poor people don’t fly at all and sell their flights to the wealthy. They’ll almost certainly include a “carbon neutral” clause too, meaning if you invest in solar power or plant trees you can “earn” more flights.
You can read the whole report here.
3. The missing F35
Sometime this week an American F-35 jet just disappeared.
Rumours have swirled, with some saying it was brought down by small arms fire from militia groups (unlikely) and others that it exploded in midair.
The F35 has been in production for years, has cost almost two TRILLION dollars and has never worked properly.
After days of speculation, the US authorities claimed the plane had crashed but the (as yet unnamed) pilot ejected and parachuted to safety, They even released audio of a 911 call the pilot made afterwards, using a local’s phone.
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That’s a military pilot talking, apparently. You’d think there’d be protocol in place, that he’d have a dedicated DoD or Pentagon number to call. But no, he just called the local sheriff. Maybe they called a tow truck, too.
Whatever happened, it did generate some fun Babylon Bee headlines…
Bad Luck: Military Announces Lost F-35 Was Carrying Epstein Client List https://t.co/mvOYXjTppk pic.twitter.com/c0ikOJQ43A
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 18, 2023
BONUS: Media lesson of the week
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy found out the Washington Post was writing an article about him, without talking to him at all. He called them and recorded the call on speakerphone…
I Caught Wind That The Washington Post Was Writing A Hit Piece About Me And My Pizzafest So I Did What I Do. I Went on the Offensive pic.twitter.com/5oK2zJqVAs
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) September 20, 2023
Now, whatever you think of Portnoy or his politics, this is a solid lesson in handling the media.
Don’t lose your temper, but be assertive (he is perhaps a little too belligerent). Record it yourself so they can’t lie about what you say. Ask to see the article before it’s published. Say you’ll cooperate if they will be fair (they won’t be, but recording that makes you look reasonable). It’s good stuff.
The squirming of the WaPo reporter is fun to see too. It’s also noteworthy the Twitter video has had almost 50 million views, which is far greater than WaPo’s current readership.
BONUS II: Sabotage of the week
The UK is rolling out its autumn Covid boosters, and somebody somewhere had the genius idea of advertising the campaign on the sides of garbage trucks…
Who had the bright idea of advertising covid vaccines on garbage trucks? pic.twitter.com/0ED2DikaoX
— Dr Clare Craig (@ClareCraigPath) September 22, 2023
…if that is deliberate sabotage from some insider, well played.
It’s not all bad…
The largest Freedom March in a while took place in London yesterday, in no small part due to London’s ULEZ program and the passing of the Online Safety Act. Of course, the media ignored it in favour of covering the rather redundant rejoin march.
There was a freedom march in Toronto too.
People aren’t broken yet.
You can also buy tickets to the “Official Story vs The Truth” event, hosted by Cognitive Resonance in London next Saturday, the 30th of September. It will feature Prof Piers Robinson, Matt Campbell and others discussing 911, JFK, Covid and the censorship industrial complex.
That’s the past and present covered, so here’s the (potential) future; not exactly “positive”, but this short film is fantastic…
…apparently the visuals are all AI generated using the script as a prompt. Interesting stuff.
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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention the rise of the men thinking about ancient Rome meme, or how that’s bad because “Hitler loved Rome too”.
There’s a lot of change in the air, a lot of agendas in the works, if you see a headline, article, post or interview you think is a sign of the times, post it in the comments, email us or share it on social media and we will add it to the next edition.
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Nico has shown the white race the only way to power, victory and glory on this planet: The Book of the Law. That’s why I joined the A.A.
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Have you noticed the moon is not cratered?
It is a spaceship and it has had many impacts on it but no craters. It has many impacts on it but no craters, Looks like it was hit by 22 bullets on a steel wall. Nothing sank into the surface, Look at it!
The Watchers are going to come back when Yahwey takes over.
REPLY TO HENRY MAKOW
Neville Chamberlians team had a 4 year tour of all German weapons sites and factories
Hitler had an agreement with the UK that they would not interfere with the common enemy Russia
if hitler had planed a war with us he would have built up his navy but he didnt as he took our word
our intel services wanted the UK to stay out of any war between germany and rusia
but rothschild bought churchill and put him in place for another war
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I read it some years back and was impressed. Reading “The Sumerian Swindle” again, after all the current “festivities,” my mind is totally blown!
Thanks in advance.
“Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this issue. This issue will destroy New York City!” Eric Adams, Mayor, NYC
“When a particular definition of reality comes to be attached to a concrete power interest, it may be called an ideology. The sociological definition corresponds quite closely to the Marxist understanding of ideology as a body of knowledge that benefits some at the expense of others in society. I want to use a somewhat broader definition of ideology; however, one that corresponds more closely to the common usage of the term as a synonym for worldview. From this perspective, an ideology is not simply a definition of reality that “attaches to concrete power issues”; rather it is a definition of reality that, precisely because it purports to comprehend and explain the world, promises power over the world and legitimates the use of this power. Indeed, the single most important characteristic of an ideology is its promise of control. This is not to deny the fact that ideologies do inevitably benefit some at the expense of others in society for they do indeed; but the attraction of ideology in the modern context far transcends the promotion of vested interest. Ideology’s real attraction lies in its promise of collective mastery over the world, and in its capacity to mobilize mass support for political action. This explains why ideologies are commonly both comprehensive and yet simple, for even as they purport to address all of the problems of the human condition, they must be relatively easy to understand in order to be communicable to the modern mass audience.”.
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann
“The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge” (1966)
I started this post citing the words spoken by Eric Adams, Mayor of New York City, a couple of weeks ago regarding the “migrant crisis”. I realized that this was a turning point for him. A true dilemma. For if what is written in the second paragraph is true, then Mayor Adams’ raison d’etre has been shattered. His ideology, his worldview, has left him stranded. When I first had my eyes opened years ago and learned more and more about the truth of the world, I would wonder – Are there people who really believe these increasingly radical ideas or are they all really only a part of the smokescreen of liberalism and at heart only want what every natural man (who by nature hates God, hates man, and hates himself) wants, that is, to destroy God, His Christ, and all of humanity? I have come to believe that the former is true, and as I watched Mayor Adams’ speech, I could see it in his face. This man looked shattered.
“When the analytical procedures (i.e., science) were first used, the end or goal prescribed by the activity was still in existence (often comprised of an earlier, religiously understood world). Men strove to know the world so that they could mold it to conform to this ultimate goal. Society was analyzed so as to arrive at a form of social life more just or otherwise more pleasing to God; men were concerned with the soul in order to control the path to salvation. But the further men advanced in analysis, the more the goal disappeared from their field of vision, so that today, a research worker might say with Nietzsche “I have forgotten why I ever began”.”
Karl Mannheim,
Ideology and Utopia, An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge (1968)
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you.