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.Climate panic reports ahead of COP27 Next Sunday is the beginning of the UN’s climate summit COP27 in Cairo, and this week the media have …
Michael Bryant In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary actattributed to George Orwell but unsourced As we approach the third year of the ‘Covid Crisis’, the once unassailable Covid Story – reported and repeated by politicians, public health mandarins and all mainstream media – has been replaced by contradictions and …
Memes are back again this week, for our quarter-century edition. Yes, it’s already been 25 collections of memes…hasn’t the time just flown by? Well, not for us, but for some people I’m sure. Probably the ones who aren’t doing memes. …shall we crack on? 1. As you’d expect there’s some pretty fertile meme-soil surrounding Liz …
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. A somewhat briefer than usual TWitNN today, as our editor has been felled by a bad case of the ‘flu – sorry, we mean “an …
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. UK’s political musical chairs This week saw the UK’s Conservative Party playing yet another party game – and when the music stopped it was …
Mark Crispin Miller As many of you know, four days ago the excellent Riley Waggaman spelled out, in clear detail, the painful history of Russia’s recent “vaccination” mandate for all Russians mobilized for combat in Ukraine. This solid piece was quickly slammed by Thomas Röper, a German writer living in Russia, who argued, with more …
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. Swift outlines potential CBDC network The international payment network SWIFT announced this week they have plans in place to creat a global network of …
Catte Black A short while ago Riley Waggaman, a fairly frequent contributor to OffG wrote an article alleging that the Sputnik V shot was compulsory for all military personnel, including the newly mobilized. On the face of it, this seems not particularly controversial or surprising. Waggaman cited numerous sources in Russian newspaper articles and Russian …
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. “Stealth Omicron” is “the most transmissible yet” For those of you not keeping up with the Covid news, the latest variant just dropped. It’s …
And the memes just keep on coming. It is August after all – the silly season – and we can all use any holiday we can get. Even just a holiday from taking things seriously. 1. This basically works for “how does anything become anything”. I’m also sure there’s a pun about “bills” to be …
