{"id":317480,"date":"2025-10-28T07:55:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=317480"},"modified":"2025-10-30T07:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:11:01","slug":"this-week-in-the-new-normal-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=317480","title":{"rendered":"This Week in the New Normal #107"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Off-Guardian \u2013 Oct 26, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Our successor to <em>This Week in the Guardian<\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/category\/this-week-in-the-new-normal\/\">This Week in the New Normal<\/a><\/em> is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>1. Bacon causes cancer?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A new study blames nitrate chemicals used to preserve bacon and ham on over 54,000 cases of cancer, according to the ever calm and measured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-15224175\/experts-demand-bacon-BANNED-colon-bowel-cancer-nitrates.html\">Daily Mail headline<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Scientists demand ban on mass-produced bacon after 54,000 cases of cancer are linked to the nitrates-rich meat<\/p>\n<p>As usual with \u201cban bad food\u201d headlines, the angle is how much money [INSERT BAD THING} is costing the NHS:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A coalition of leading scientists says the refusal to ban nitrites \u2013 preservatives used to keep processed meats pink and long-lasting \u2013 has come at a devastating human and financial cost, <strong>with the NHS footing an estimated \u00a33 billion bill to treat preventable cancers over the past decade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2026you don\u2019t need to explain this. Meat bad, bugs good. Ban and tax and blah blah blah.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2. \u201cAssisted Dying\u201d for autism?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Lords Select Committee on the pending Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill \u2014 aka the Assisted Dying bill \u2014 heard interesting testimony this week.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the Royal Colleges roundly came out against the bill, with one claiming it went against everything he became a doctor to protect.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Bill\u2019s proponents had a rocky week. First, Kim Leadbetter MP admitted that the panels proposed by the would not be courts, and therefore would not be bound to hear witnesses from both sides. Then, Lord Falconer came out with this:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lord Falconer says people with \u201clearning difficulties or autism\u201d could, with \u201cproper assistance\u201d, access assisted suicide.<br \/>\nThat should alarm every Peer in the Lords. Vulnerable people don\u2019t need help to die. They need support to live. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M583w3in5R\">pic.twitter.com\/M583w3in5R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Right To Life UK (@RightToLifeUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RightToLifeUK\/status\/1980950411713388694?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The mood is slowly turning on this, partly because they are doing such a poor job of selling it. There\u2019s a good write-up on this in <a href=\"https:\/\/thecritic.co.uk\/assisted-suicide-backers-are-on-the-ropes\/\">The Critic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>3. German court finds doctors not responsible for vaccine injuries<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A German Federal Court has ruled that health care practitioners who administered Covid vaccines are not liable for resultant injuries. Instead, local state authorities must bear the responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>According to Christof Plothe of the World Council for Health, this puts Germany roughly in line with the US system of liability shielding.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just the US, but the UK and most of the rest of the world. We know from leaked contracts that vaccine makers are protected from liability, and that all compensation for the \u201cvaccine injured\u201d has come from state programs.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially \u2013 worldwide \u2013 tax payers paid for the manufacture of the vaccine, the acquisition of the vaccine, the distribution of the vaccine and are now paying to compensate the people injured (or killed) <em>by<\/em> the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The Covid vaccine remains one of the greatest financial scams of all time.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a full report on this on<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/germany-top-court-rules-doctors-not-liable-covid-vaccine-injuries\/?utm_source=x&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=defender&amp;utm_id=20251014\"> The Defender<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>BONUS: Nothing burger of the week<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Google has hailed another \u201cbreakthrough\u201d in quantum computing, following the publication of a paper in Nature, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09526-6\">\u201cObservation of constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodicity\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/22\/google-hails-breakthrough-as-quantum-computer-surpasses-ability-of-supercomputers\"> press coverage<\/a> is fairly unapologetically bigging this up, but there isn\u2019t much to really talk up at this point.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, as it stands, quantum computing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\/news\/2024\/04\/the-quantum-computer-it-doesnt-exist-yet-but-still-we-understand-increasingly-better-what-problems-it-can-solve\">barely exists<\/a>. It\u2019s a system of theories and simulations and algorithms running on classical computers.<\/p>\n<p>So don\u2019t take swaggering bragging about their technological prowess to seriously just yet.<\/p>\n<p>So when they talk about \u201cquantum computing\u201d, they mean a program on a normal computer \u201csimulating\u201d what a quantum computer might be like.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>It\u2019s not all bad\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Our fellow Independent Media Alliance members at Above Phone have released a great new report on the global state of Digital ID titled <em>\u201cLife Under Digital ID: A Global Analysis with Solutions\u201d<\/em>. You can claim a free copy of the report by signing up to their mailing list<a href=\"https:\/\/abovephone.com\/digital-id\/\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other good news, Bill Gates\u2019 \u201calternative protein\u201d company Beyond Meat is facing serious financial problems after a debt restructuring caused its <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/10\/19\/green-flagship-beyond-meat-shares-plunge-after-debt-restructure\/\">share prices to collapse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What a shame.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the UK puts their clocks back this weekend, but the US doesn\u2019t until next week. Take advantage of the temporarily shrunken time difference and call your friends and relatives on the other side of the pond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn\u2019t even mention Justin Trudeau\u2019s collapse into pathetic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/katy-perry-justin-trudeau-dating-tmz-b2852471.html\">\u201ccelebrity romance\u201d<\/a> or the rise of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/oct\/23\/the-police-werent-interested-whats-driving-the-rise-in-private-prosecutions\">private prosecutions<\/a> in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s 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, <a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/submissions\/\">email us<\/a> or share it on social media and we will add it to the next edition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Guardian:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribestar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=CKFB3MH8CGB9U\">Paypal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2025\/10\/26\/this-week-in-the-new-normal-107\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charting the progress of authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. Including this week how proponents of \u2018assisted dying\u2019 are arguing that people with learning difficulties could, \u201cwith proper assistance\u201d assess assisted dying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":280317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317482,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317480\/revisions\/317482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/280317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}