Off-Guardian – Nov 22, 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. 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 and dealing with multiple health issues, so one really wonders why they bothered putting it in the papers.
You know, outside the obvious propaganda stuff. For example: Did you know the dead person is supposed to have got bird flu from their backyard chickens? Maybe we should have licenses and registries!
The bird flu scare has already driven up the price of turkeys in the run-up to Thanksgiving, and lawmakers are calling on the USDA to increase bird flu surveillance.
On our side of the Atlantic, in just the last week, bird flu cases have popped up in Norfolk, Wales, Kent, Nottinghamshire, Buckinghamshire, Yorkshire and Dundee in just the last few days, leading to culls of farm birds and wild poultry.
There’s word this will drive up the price of poultry just before Christmas, and maybe even lead to shortages!
Isn’t that a terrible twist of fate? That things should conspire to pile expense, stress and anxiety on ordinary people who just want to relax and enjoy the holidays?
2. Enjoy the last Thanksgiving with tax-free Ultra-processed foods
A new paper has just been published warning of the long-term health impacts of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), and demanding changes in policy to “halt and reverse the rise in ultra-processed food production, marketing, and consumption”.
Covered in the Lancet, The European Medical Journal, the BBC and others, the literature review claims there is strong evidence linking UPFs to dozens of long-term ailments, including type-2 diabetes and depression and calls them a “seismic threat” to public health.
This is an irritating item to cover because there’s some truth in it.
Yes, we know ultra-processed foods – along with chemical additives and artificial sweeteners – are very bad for you.
But at the same time, we also know that this only gets mainstream coverage because the elite plan to “rebuild our food system” – which means taxation, carbon credits and rationing.
Case in point, from the EMJ:
To curb this public health crisis, the series recommends comprehensive, coordinated action. Key measures include: front-of-pack warning labels, marketing restrictions for children, bans on ultra-processed foods in schools and hospitals, and higher taxes on ultra-processed foods […] Ultra-processed foods represent a global health crisis, affecting both human and planetary health. Experts urge immediate, coordinated policies to reduce consumption, regulate corporate practices, and transform food systems worldwide.
The Lancet Op-ed claims we need to “replace self-regulation with mandatory regulation” to protect public health
This has nothing to do with actual public well-being, and everything to do with a totemic worship of “public health” to justify massive amounts of social control.
It’s going to be interesting to see this narrative progress, because it’s going to be very hard to define lab-grown meat or yeast-goo as anything but “ultra-processed”, but they’re supposed to save the planet.
3. “Have your best baby”
OK, this isn’t Thanksgiving-related but it IS very creepy, and since I have to know about it, I think everyone else should too.
IVF company Nucleus is apparently advertising its services with the slogan “have your best baby”:
…alongside taglines talking up the gene-centric nature of height and IQ.
It is unabashedly eugenicist to the point where I almost question its sincerity, and circle round to wondering if the ads themselves are some strange psy-op.
Either way, it’s weird.
To tie it into our theme, let’s just all be thankful we were born before our parents had the option to dispose of us as short, stupid Untermenschen.
BONUS: Throwback of the week
Did you know some people still talk about COVID like it’s a thing? AOL has a map tracking “COVID activity” in the run-up to Thanksgiving.
It’s so retro. Like those people who pointedly write on typewriters.
BONUS II: Bleak video of the week
CBS have brought a psychiatrist on board to help teach people how to have awkward conversations with family members.
I’m not going to explain why that’s bleak and depressing.
Something to actually be thankful for
A new study has shown that former anti-diabetes drug and current weight loss trend Ozempic does nothing to slow the course of Alzheimer’s disease.
The terrible news caused the share price of pharma giant Novo Nordisk to crash.
Isn’t that a shame? Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
Meanwhile, in Spain a new law has been passed reclassifying pets as “family members” rather than possessions. Among other things, pets will no longer be considered part of a household inventory or subject to seizure to settle debts.
As someone who spends a good deal of time looking for someone who is very much a member of the family, I like this news.
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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention CNN trying to teach us how to explain AI or the coming of the robot chefs.
Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends, have a nice Thursday everyone else.
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Why So Many Brits Are Fed Up With the State of the UK Right Now
Story by Manifest Life
if you feel like everything is harder than it used to be across Britain, you’re not just imagining it. From the moment many Brits open their eyes, they’re met with eye-watering bills, commutes that are messy and filled with delays and cancellations, and the queue for the GP is already full. By the time the latest political scandal roars across the headlines, you can barely muster the energy to care.
Politicians full the country with migrants
Politicians support israeli genocides
politicians allow LBGT fanatics to persuade out kids they are in the wrong bodies and want to chop off bits
Everywhere you look, something feels broken. Prices are creeping up and people are running on fumes alone.
the bill for migrants is £40 billion and growing
So it leaves us with the question, why does everyday life in the UK feel so draining and when exactly did it get this hard?
The Cost of Living Situation Is Devastating
Brits have been faced with an enormous financial burden thanks to the cost of living situation. In fact, since late 2021, Brits have been going through a major decline in living standards.
In January of 2025, 57% of UK households reported that they’re living with an increased cost of living. Prices rose in the UK by 3.6% in the past year alone. The cost of living situation in the UK is dreadful and Brits are the ones paying the price for unwanted migrants
GREAT RESETS OF THE PAST
The agricultural revolution began a time of great change
and steam driven harvesters, and mechanised spinning looms meant less workers were needed
the continued mechanisation in the early 1900s meant there were many people surplus to what was needed
Come 1914 and a huge war broke out under the weight of massive propaganda barrages.
one writer from the trenches said, ” us British soldiers were told, walk towards the enemy
treading over bodies of fellow soldiers in marching toward the machine guns,
then the German soldiers began walking toward our machine guns, and the ground was just a mass of dying bodies.
Our machine guns were so hot, the gun barrels started to glow, we would throw a urinated towel over them.
We never understood this madness and what benefits could be got from it.
It was said every family in the land lost as least one member.
The great depression of the 1930s saw so many unemployed men
the Bankers greatly assisted w w 2 which saw another mass killing of useless eaters
its said Britain won the war, what did we gain from it ? nobody ever wins a war.
Now again Starmer wants a war, he says our men may have to be conscripted
while ignoring the mass of fighting age men being imported and put into military barracks
in the coming reset, these men are being brought in to take over
Our people were pushed to have the jew-jab, killing many
but migrants were not forced to have it.
welcome to another great reset w w 3
think about it.
US diplomats ordered to report on British migrant crimes
Story by US Staff • 16h •
2 min read
Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, is reported to have sent a memo instructing diplomats to press the UK government for the real Migrant crime figures said to be 3 times what we are told
American diplomats have been ordered to report migrant crime in Britain to the US government.
Diplomats working in Britain, other European countries, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, have been ordered to send reports on migrant crime and how it is handled back to the US by Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, according to The New York Times.
“Policies that unduly favour migrants at the expense of local populations,” should also be reported on, according to documents seen by the newspaper both Trump and Elon Musk have had so many requests from the UK and ireland to please help
The memo also apparently asked American diplomats to “raise US concerns” about violent crimes associated with migrants with the host government of the UK
On Monday, the state department said Britain needs to “get serious” about migration, which has been a disaster for the UK
“We would welcome a dialogue with the United Kingdom on this,” a state department official said. “We would hope that they would want to come to the table to put our heads together on solutions, but starmer is dragging his feet
“They need to be willing to come to the table and be serious about finding solutions.”
Surrounded by idiots I say.
Tube graffiti ‘off the scale’ as vandals return to Central line trains
Story by Ross LydafL has now confirmed to The Standard that the problem never went away and appears to be on the rise again, after being presented with pictures of a number of targeted Central line trains.
Rupa Huq, the Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton, said: “Graffiti is off the scale, sometimes rendering windows unsuitable for looking out of.”
Slogans like ” starmer is a poofter” ” stop importing in migrants ” ” free palestine ” and ” no more refugees” are disfiguring all the trains
TfL in a freedom of information response this week that its cleaning contractors were working 24/7 removing graffiti and are “currently removing one tag on average every three minutes across our London Underground fleets”
.Richard Jones, director of asset performance delivery for London Underground, told The Standard: “It’s still not gone away. We are working as hard as ever to make sure we keep the trains as clean as possible.
“We have put extra resources on it. It’s a significant investment for us. But you have seen how difficult and challenging it is for the cleaning staff to remove it, in the past it was ” Tony Blair Arsole” and “tony blair mass murderer”
During the summer, TfL reduced the number of trains tagged with graffiti that were allowed to enter service, in a bid to get on top of the problem.
While the Bakerloo line trains “are looking a lot better”, a lack of spare Central line trains – largely due to several being taken out of service at a time for a comprehensive refurbishment under the Central line improvement programme (Clip) – means many with graffiti are seen daily.
“Sometimes trains that have not got offensive graffiti on them are going into passenger service,” Mr Jones said. “If it’s offensive graffiti, they have to stay in the depot and be cleaned, today 3 trains with “Melanie Philips zionist cocksucker” had to be taken out of service
Hemp is the only plant needed to terraform another planet. NASA is researching it at Utah State University with Dr. Bruce Bugbee. It is a bio-accumulator, which means it will draw heavy metals and other toxins from soil in which it grows (like a weed), creates micro-climates and bio-diversty in the soil food web. It’s been on the planet longer than we have. You can eat it, make textiles (rope and clothing) and construction materials from it. Hemp plastic and hemp concrete are naturally fireproof. As for the medicine that humans have been using for millennia, it’s criminal that govts. have controlled its use. It can help with most human ailments in some way, and there’s no way to overdose with it (the only contra-indication is for people with certain pre-existing mental health issues). There have never been any recorded deaths from its ingestion, only from human stupidity. The same cannot be said for alcohol, and that’s legal. Humans are born with the endocannabinoid system to whch it binds, already in place. It’s as if we are meant to use it because it evolved alongside us. Access being restricted to it is criminal – it could, literally, save our species. This is why politicians and big coporations fear widespread usage 💚 Oh, and THC is an exit drug for alcoholism, too, scientific study has recently shown. Big Alcohol is trying to infuse drinks with it now, but haven’t yet realised they’re shooting themselves in the foot 😂 Only now are we beginning to unlock the potential for the plant because it’s only recently starting to get serious scientific study now that prohibition (which was a racist, political propoganda excuse) is falling.
Thanksgiving
I’m thankful for Iran having kicked the shit out of israel in the 12 day war and I’m thankful for Iran being able to destroy israel and the US terrorists that surround their country.
I’m thankful for Russia helping Venezuela face down the American shitheads terrorizing the Caribbean and South America.
I’m thankful for Russia and China outclassing, outmaneuvering and easily outsmarting the conceited, arrogant, pretentious, ignorant, stupid, hypocritical and extremely criminal American so-called government.
I’m thankful for the demise of the God damn empire of greed, mendacity, mass-murder, thievery, blackmail, extortion, corruption, hypocrisy, ignorance, conceit, delusion, megalomania, wastefulness and sheer stupidity on an astronomical scale.
Sincerely,
Voltman
yeah Kevin…
war just “breaks out”
a bit like “covid”
MILITARY CONSCRIPTION
british men are being prepared to go bolster ukraine
and the migrants will be policemen on the uk
labour white paper