Off-Guardian – May 5, 2025
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. German Opposition Branded “Extremists”
The German intelligence services have officially labelled right-wing political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) “right-wing extremists”, paving the way for a potential ban.
To be clear, this is not about whether or not AfD are far-right extremists. The powers-that-be have no strong feelings about extremism from either wing, and are happy to use either to serve their purposes in the right circumstances.
This is not about extremism, it’s not even really about AfD, it’s about the meta-narrative of “left vs right”, the kind of stunt done to enflame partisan topics and divide society.
More specifically, it achieves two goals:
- Normalizing the acceptance of authoritarian over-reach on the left, who will cheer on the banning of opposition parties, just as they already have done in France and Romania.
- Further enflaming the populist right and fueling the pretense that parties like AfD really do pose some kind of threat to the establishment.
It shouldn’t need to be said, but it’s perfectly possible to heartily dislike AfD and what they stand for, whilst having massive reservations about any “democracy” which allows the sitting government to outlaw political parties at all.
2. Anything you can rig, I can rig better
The Canadian and Australian elections took place this week. Both saw the incumbent “liberal” Red Team win a landslide against the opposition “conservative” Blue Team. Both saw the leader of the opposition lose their seat.
It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
Or that weird thing where Hollywood studios both release animated movies about rats, or penguins, or ants or fish within just a few weeks of each other.
Or that time Canadian PM Steven Harper and Australian PM John Howard gave identical speeches within 3 days of each other.
Almost like there’s a higher authority dictating these things, and sometimes the strings show.
3. The changing CBDC landscape
As the IMA discussed in our recent panel, the rollout of Central Bank Digital Currencies was all guns blazing in 2021, but has slowed and almost stalled since.
Back in January, Trump explicitly banned a “digital dollar” in an executive order, and this Forbes article from 4 days ago bemoans Trump’s “Self-Inflicted CBDC Vacuum”, and the “loss of power” that will accompany “falling behind” the EU and China.
Meanwhile, in the EU the digital Euro is moving to a new stage of development, partnering with 70 private companies to “test digital euro payment functionalities and explore innovative use cases”.
Interesting moves in a story that has been quiet for a while.
BONUS: Fakest PR video of the week
Back to Canada, where this video of Mark Carney celebrating his win is being passed around the internet as evidence he’s a “normal human being”…
It’s fake, by the way. It’s a PR exercise designed to make people think he’s a normal human being. There was probably an absurdly long focus group meeting about what kind of hoodie he should wear and what song he should be dancing to.
BONUS II: BS Award of the week
Former Vice-President Mike Pence has been given the John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for “defying Trump” and “refusing to endorse false claims the 2020 election was rigged”.
It would be sickening if it weren’t rather funny.
This is the modern world in a nutshell, the rich political elite telling provable lies and giving each other awards for pretending to believe them.
It’s not all bad…
Here’s a baby elephant taking his first steps…
First wobbly steps of a baby elephant pic.twitter.com/zz3en8JYEj
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 3, 2025
Happy May Day.
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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention the latest “scary Russia” stuff or the “virus explosion” set to “strike Australia”.
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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Fully preserved Roman road discovered under London street – it ran all the way to Dover
Story by Jake Holden
a 1000 year old road to import migrant scroungers
Archaeologists have discovered a “remarkable” Roman road under Old Kent Road in South east London. It is a section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads – a 2,000-year-old thoroughfare known as Roman Watling Street which ran from the Roman port at Dover to the london immigration office.
The elephant has to get up quickly or a predator will eat it
George Bernatd Shaw said
” if i met a man aged 20 who was not a socialist i would say that man had no heart
if i met that same man aged 30 who was still a socialist, i would say that man had no head ”
The problem is college lecturers choose the dumb kids and fill them up with all this socialist crap
Prof De Mentiev explained in his book that socialism was meant to be a hoax
who would beleive the rich would share with the poor
only idiots and carl jones types take this in
You don’t have to rig elections when all the candidates are part of the same club. Trump looked like the shining light of hope but he turned out to be just another jew. In britain you have the “reform” party, who’re just more of the same. People clutch desperately at straws to stop themselves sinking, but the end result will always be the same. The russians are lucky with putin. Better the devil you know.
LOL…
Slightly off guardian is doing a bit of light relief to round out its litany of doom and gloom and social programing …. just like it’s owners the MSM are wont to do after the usual fifteen minutes of fabricated anxiety inducing pabulum ..
You know the type of thing just before the teleprompt imbecile rounds off its diatribe and flashes it’s veneers with a fake smile…
“and finally we have a story from south shields, Doggy Mcdoogal the grizzled old yorkshire terrier known and loved by everyone on slum street, saves Grandma Macmurty from the foam matress factory fire and is up for a knighthood from King Charlie big ears from his cancer bed..”
Presumably here this is presented as some sort of post millennial ironism… but it’s more likely just guilt…
Apparently, Nazi UK is preparing for a Russian attack. Okay, they don’t mention Russia specifically, but.
This comes after the big reveal, that Nazi UK has developed a drone called Stormshroud, and this is designed to defeat enemy radar. Again, they don’t say who the enemy is, but. This drone will fly ahead of the so say, stealth (lol) F35, you know, the planes who’ve been training in packs of 3 and 4. No formation, just a train of F35’s and they’ve been doing this, with the expectation that Stormshroud will soon be ready.
As I have personally watched these convoys of F35’s in Snowdonia and in Glencoe (Scotland) I speculated the Nazi RAF would be training for a very low level strike on St Petersburg and Moscow, and the most likely take off point will be from Southern Finland.
Such an attack would almost certainly be a nuclear strike on Russia, a decapitation operation, which could be called Operation Guillotine.
I say this, because there’s a huge amount of speculation that Nazi UKraine will launch a massive drone and rocket attack on Red Square, killing Putin and Xi in one blow. This is the sort of reality, MI6 likes to create, and could it be, that at the same time, RAF Nazi F35’s, and others from the ‘Willing’, launch an attack from the opposite direction?
Of course, this is speculation, but RAF training, the Stormshroud, and talk of Nazi UKraine, attacking Red Square, isn’t speculation.
This, just after Nazi UKrainian troops march in London, when Nazi UKraine was aligned with Nazi Germany before and during WW2. The shear hypocrisy is mind bending.
Wanna see some fun? Watch this, because Ritter says everything, apart from calling him Donald Hitler, and his homeland, or das fatherland, Nazi Amerika. After Ritter’s attacks on Donald Hitler, his life must be in serious jeopardy!
https://www.youtube.com/live/G3Q0Y96mO3k?si=Qa1r0ZsTVHo7BF-r
Elections are a myth, they’ve always been SELECTIONS
Mike Pence must’ve been filmed doing some truly awful stuff to kids, like rape and murder for him to be so damn obsequious to the Jewish mafia. Poor SOB. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Is that litany of repetitive “Nazi, nazi, Nazi…” an attempt at brainwashing the readers?
All what Jews and Freemasons do is conveniently outsourced, scapegoated on “Nazis”.
What a strange jewblindness, similar to Daltonism or colorblindness.
can we please hear more from carl jones mum ?
she is a hoot !!!
As far as the AfD is concerned it was high time the Germans remove this bunch of degenerates from ANY political life in Germany by ANY means. Suffice it to say that there was probably no other political party as pro-zionist as the AfD in the history of Germany.
My mum died a while back.
remember this
CARL JONES _ TOTAL C*NT
There are about 18 million voters in Aus and 6 million votes are missing. This leaves two options, they threw away the votes to get the result they wanted OR 6 million voters decided to vote informally. (in Aus you must vote or be fined, informal voting is going to the polling booth and getting your name marked off to avoid the fine and then not filling out the ballot paper).
I like option two, fully one third of the voters did not believe in the election and destroyed their ballot paper. People are silently waking up.
If voting was optional in Aus few if any would bother voting at all.
Come on Wealth voting? What does one expect? But this is demockcrazy! Now the children and grand children of spoiled and divorced “boomers” are at the mandatory polling both and can freely rebel against what their elders (sort of) created. So expect more trannies, porn stars and new honorable pollytickans that have lost their bollocks completely but become millionaires along the way.
IF in a kraal in the deepest Africa a “statesman” like Aussies own Albanese would be presented to the native crowd by the shaman to lead the villagers for a second term even the lamest old and worn out warrior of the tribe or the very old shaky lady with one tooth left in her mouth who works preparing “beverages” – would rebel with all others against that creature and burn the shaman at the stakes instantly. But one lives in the free world and heh its “democracy”!
yes carl jones is a feckin twat
i dont know why he is allowed his bullshit on here
glad him mum chats tho
Rixon that idiot with his natzis natzis
should be removed
he puts me off my cornflakes
he is just an idiot
Former Eurovision contestants call for Israel and broadcaster KAN to be banned
Story by David Mouriquand •
israels crimes against the people have angered many across the world
the murder of the turkish aid workers and nurses have meant turkey is demanding
israel be bombed a ” see how they like it” attitude is growing
BTW that natzi natzi guy is obviously very disturbed please delete him asap
its so wrong that people laugh at carl jones
the poor lad is obviously unwell
please be a bit kind and think before laughing