{"id":318707,"date":"2025-11-19T08:16:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318707"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:58:51","slug":"this-week-in-the-new-normal-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318707","title":{"rendered":"This Week in the New Normal #109"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off-Guardian \u2013 Nov 17, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian<\/em>, 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

1. Atlantic current collapse a \u201cnational security threat\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Icelandic government has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation \u2014 the currents which bring warm water to the north Atlantic \u2013 a national security threat.<\/p>\n

To quote Reuters<\/a>, with added emphasis:<\/p>\n

Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern<\/strong> and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios<\/strong>, the country\u2019s climate minister told Reuters.<\/p>\n

What this means in real terms remains to be seen, but as precedent, it is vital. As the article notes:<\/p>\n

This is the first time a specific climate-related phenomenon has been formally brought before the National Security Council as a potential existential threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Expect others to follow, with the aim of putting ourselves on a \u201cwar footing\u201d to deal with the environment.<\/p>\n

The history of social control since the end of the Cold War is the history of trying to create a permanent state of war with a conceptual list of enemies \u2013 drugs, terror, climate change and COVID \u2013 that, for all intents and purposes, do not actually exist.<\/p>\n

2. \u201cThe climate crisis is a public health crisis\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Staying with Climate Change to honour COP30, we have this tweet from the United Nations:<\/p>\n

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We have covered this a lot over the last few years, but this flagrant statement of intent merits a revisit.<\/p>\n

What is the point of this tweet? It\u2019s very simple.<\/p>\n

Currently, most countries in the world have implemented COVID laws, acting as precedent for emergency powers being implemented for a \u201cpublic health emergency\u201d. Conflating \u201cclimate change\u201d with \u201cpublic health\u201d means those emergency powers can be used to (allegedly) tackle environmental issues.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as simple as it is cynical.<\/p>\n

3. The end of paper tickets?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Reported in the Mirror<\/a> last week, it seems budget airline Ryanair will no longer be accepting hardcopy boarding passes. Instead, passengers will use digital passes via their app:<\/p>\n

Ryanair will bring in a major change from Wednesday (November 12) in a move aimed at improving its airport experience for passengers. The change \u2013 which will see the airline adopt 100% Digital Boarding Passes (DBP) \u2013 means travellers will no longer be able to download or print a physical paper ticket, and must instead access it in their Ryanair App.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t check in with the app before arriving at the airport, you\u2019ll face a fee for checking in at the airport.<\/p>\n

No more hard copies, everything digital all the time. It is the way the world is heading.<\/p>\n

BONUS: Suspicious death of the week<\/strong><\/h2>\n

An American pilot died this week, allegedly of tick-borne meat intolerance:<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s a WEF \u201cbio-ethicist\u201d<\/a> talking about engineering humans to be meat-intolerant so we can save the planet.<\/p>\n

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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn\u2019t even mention narrowing road lanes<\/a> to protect cyclists or Scotland potentially allowing sex-selective abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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, email us<\/a> or share it on social media and we will add it to the next edition.<\/p>\n

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Iceland set a precedent recently when a climate related phenomenon was brought before the National Security Council as a \u201cpotential existential threat.\u201d Expect others to follow, enabling other nations to go on a \u201cwar footing\u201d to deal with climate change<\/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-318707","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\/318707","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=318707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318713,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318707\/revisions\/318713"}],"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=318707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}