Off-Guardian – Jan 9, 2024
If our readers are anything like us then you spent the majority of the weekend taking down Christmas decorations and carefully organizing them, despite the knowledge that they’ll somehow become messy again by next December.
That means the new year has officially started, which makes it time for our third-annual special edition of This Week in the New Normal. The one time a year where This Week looks forward instead of back and we try and predict what’s coming.
Welcome to This Year in the New Normal, and here are our picks for the potential major stories of 2024.
1. US Presidential “Election” and the Decline of the US Empire
An easy one to start off: It’s election year in the US. That means non-stop coverage of which candidates said this about that, endless reporting of (probably entirely invented) polling figures and a few hours of excitement in November when they tell you what color tie the globalist puppet will be wearing for the next four years.
In case the sarcasm was not clear enough:
Democracy is not at stake, democracy is dead, buried, and the 2020 “election” was the establishment pissing on its grave.
This coming election will be rigged. How obviously and in which direction is as yet unclear (I genuinely think they might go back to Trump), and it arguably matters less than it has ever done.
To steal the tagline from Alien vs Predator: Whoever “wins”, we lose.
A more interesting & subtle narrative to observe will be the decline of the US as an imperial power, and how stage-managed it will be. After all, the decline and fall of the US could be used to sell the idea the “right side” has won.
What part will the so-called “election” play in fall of the US? Will we see more January 6th-like incidents and unrest? Is there a chance the election is postponed altogether in response to some as-yet unknown “emergency?
Were Trump and Biden selected in order to discredit the presidency and smooth the way for a change of system? If so, will this trend continue?
Questions 2024 has yet to answer.
Bold Prediction: By the end of the year, we will see mainstream articles both mourning and celebrating the end of US hegemony, and others welcoming the “post Imperial age” and/or “multipolar” or “multilateral” world.
2. AI: Rise of the Machines
2023 was the birthyear of AI in the public consciousness. Everyone was talking about AI art, ChatGPT and so on. Fear of AI allegedly spawned both the Screen Actors and Writer’s Guild strikes that halted Hollywood production in the late summer/early autumn.
The media is full of warnings about it, claiming that AI will make it impossible to know who’s human and who is not.
This is partly true, but it has been so for years. It is no longer safe, or perhaps rational, to believe what you see.
…but we suggest that’s not why the warnings are there.
In 2024 we expect this story to gather pace, and wouldn’t be surprised to see one or two staged “crises” in which AI is reportedly to blame. Maybe a “hack” or a “leak” or a major website like PayPal or VISA crashing briefly due to some AI “attack”.
In the end it will all be about surveillance and digital IDs.
Bold Prediction: By this time next year most social media and online businesses will require some form of digital “proof of humanity” before you can use their services, perhaps relying on a new form of digital identity document.
Lab Grown Meat On Supermarket Shelves
The last we heard of cultivated or “lab-grown” meat, it was being banned in Italy. Good news for everyone, especially Italians.
Then, just before the new year, fake meat was back on the media menu.
On December 19th Forbes reported a US-based “cultivated meat company” had achieved “price parity”.
On December 27th PBS asked “How is Lab Grown Meat Made and Will People Accept it?”
On December 29th a Scotsman column asked “Will King Charles give royal seal of approval to ‘lab-grown’ meat that could help save the planet?”
The same day Longevity Tech asked “Is Lab-grown meat healthier than real meat?”
(sidebar – One minor prediction is that they will stop using the word “real” to differentiate meat from cultivated cell cubes. Expect words like “traditional”, “old-fashioned” or “non-renewable meat” to take over.)
This is no mistake of timing. The narrative is cynically being aligned with the new year to catch people in their annual “self improvement” phase. After all, it’s well known the global population of gym-going teetotal vegans quadruples on January 1st and goes back to normal by February.
…so this one isn’t so much a prediction as an observation: This trend will continue, at least until the spring.
My original “bold prediction” was going to be that 2024 would see lab grown meat labelled “vegan”…but that already happened in 2023. So…
Bold Prediction: By the end of the year at least a handful of countries will have fully approved lab grown meat, and one major fast food chain will be advertising their use of it.
All told, it looks like OffG is in for a busy year, and we didn’t even cover the looming war in Taiwan or the spike in “lableaks” which might cause the next “pandemic”.
Good times ahead. Happy New Year everyone.
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Postmasters prosecuted by CPS while Keir Starmer was in charge
Sir Keir Starmer has been dragged into the Post Office scandal after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) revealed it had prosecuted postmasters while the Labour leader was in charge.
The CPS said on Wednesday night that it prosecuted 11 cases that “involved evidence connected to Horizon” – three resulted in convictions while Sir Keir was in charge.Labour said Sir Keir was unaware of any cases being prosecuted while he was director of public prosecutions (DPP). It turns the focus of the scandal to the Labour leader, after days of outrage at former Post Office boss Paula Vennells and Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey. But he has previously told Sky News that he “carries the can” for mistakes made while he was DPP. It opens the Labour leader up to questions about why he did not intervene in the cases, and attacks over his involvement in the scandal. Starmer is another tricky lawyer type, and totally owned by Rothschild and the jewish lobby Errors made by Horizon software, which was made by tech firm Fujitsu and used by the Post Office, led to the wrongful conviction of more than 700 people over false accounting and theft between 1999 and 2015. Royal mail has the worst record in the whole of Europe for racial and managerial harassment, also ignored by Starmer
this needs to be seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLXuVf8VXz8
I am 18 years old
my friends that went to college
finished with a total left wing mindset half of them were taught they were in the wrong bodies and needed corrective surgery
I never went to college so have my own mind and thoughts
I have been leaning aa lot from websites like this, and know everything the government says is a lie
But what if that chap who says at the end of the war Hitler and his cabinet came by secret submarine to run the UK
and those men hanged at Nuremberg were doubles.
What if our government are secret natzis ? like he says
i often dont know what to believe, but i cant see Adolf Hitler being a small farmer in scotland,
thats too
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there is a condom pocket and large cat flap at back with
a FUCK ME PLEASE logo
and I AM A NATZI NATZI
apply Carl Jones
Infowars has been counting down the election in seconds since it was more than a year off–how irritating is THAT!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IRViaYAp64
Started streaming 2 hours ago #KevorkAlmassian
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa.
“US Presidential “Election” and the Decline of the US Empire”
The Decline of the US empire started many moons ago before me; and I am 68. Oh, and there has not been an honest election that I can recall.
“The media is full of warnings about it, claiming that AI will make it impossible to know who’s human and who is not.”
That occurs now; people walk around like zombies, either from the clot shot or from shock at the way society has disintegrated.
Of course the rest of the article nothing new that is not already happening.
Bishop Willamson explains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfOuZt0a-Q&t=98s
My prediction for 2024:
Second verse … same as the first!
Bottom line: hate to be the cynic, but don’t expect any changes or miracles to veer us off the path of chaos, degradation, and death by a thousand cuts.
That’s all?
That’s pretty dissapointing ..
Daily Mail makes depressing reading these days with the obligatory articles about the Windsors dishing out trinkets to lower class Poms…..for obvious reasons.
One article features a town where all the shops in the center have closed down….the town is pretty much destitute with the council constantly thinking up new ways of extracting money from the very people who can least afford it….traffic fines being very popular.
The average Pom is very long suffering and prepared to put up with so much….in particular the corruption in London….where huge Covid scams were carried out…..transfering public taxes into private hands.
The dumb English must know they’re being taken for a ride…..surely??.
But they simply will not do anything.
While there are 300,000 homeless in Britain….THE GOVERNMENT IS HOUSING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS….and fighting Israel’s wars off the coast of Yemen!!.
AND buying hugely expensive aircraft carriers…..
AND keep in mind the huge amounts of money spent funding Britain’s notorious Secret Police MI5…..to make sure opposition to the destruction of Britain can never arise.
Never underestimate the role played by the treacherous media in all this…..
@David Lambert:
LOL post of the day. Lolol
@Amanda. Makow is full of shit when it comes to the nazi’s.
David Lambert well said mate
fabulous loved it
There is no way that Adolf Hitler came to the UK
to run the government after the war
I cannot see why Rixon allows Carl Jones to put this shit in the comments on natzis