‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded—and once they are suspended it is not difficult for anyone who has assumed such emergency powers to see to it that the emergency will persist.”
Letter to the New York State Department of Health
I am not a New Yorker, but that doesn’t matter. I am a human being, and I am a defender of human rights, and Dr. Mary Bassett, it appears you are, too.
A Report on the Zeitgeist from the Canadian Prairies
Alas- here we are: suffering a lineage of derision from a federal government that sees us as nothing more than kulaks and fodder to feed an ecocidal extraction regime.
Letter to a Governing Body
We are not your enemies. We have merely made a different choice from you. And contrary to what the propagandists tell you, that choice poses no threat to you or our shared community.
What is the Zeitgeist in Your Country?
We are currently soliciting reports from correspondents in different parts of the world about the political situation in their locales.
Uruguay: A New Journal of the Plague Year
“… being Observations or Memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in Uruguay during the last great visitation in 2020. Written by a scholar who continued all the while in Montevideo.”
Where the heck are we?
It would appear that the government has realised that leveraging the Covid crisis as a means of bringing about the changes needed to usher in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is starting to run out of steam.
Letter to a Holocaust Denier
“Oh, things seeped through somehow, always quietly, always indirectly. So people heard rumors, and the rest they could guess. Of course, most people did not believe the stories of Jews or other opponents of the regime. It was naturally thought that such persons would all exaggerate.”
COVID Jabs: Ineffective, Oppressive and Dangerous
There is no moral, legal or logical argument for mandatory vaccination. The only logical argument, from a public health perspective, would be either to reduce the spread of infection or reduce the impact on health services via some other mechanism. We will explore the evidence which shows that the COVID-19 supposed “vaccines” are incapable of achieving either.
Situation report – January 2022
Yet again, I’m going to attempt to summarise where we are in an increasingly weird and dystopian situation. Yet again, I realise that what I’m now writing could in weeks…days even…be overtaken by events. I’m persisting in producing these situation reports because they help me to marshal my thoughts in a bid to try and understand what’s happening.
Breaking and re-making us
One part of the strategy and tactics being deployed against us is persuading a significant chunk of the populace to do the dirty work of divide and rule for you. Having an atomised, frightened populace makes the project of breaking and re-making us that much easier. Atomisation is a key part of the process.
2021 – spiralling down | 2022 – ‘interesting’
Do you remember March of 2020 when it was ‘just three weeks to flatten the curve’? We do although given how far back that is now, the memory is not exactly an immediate one. It’s not even two years ago but it feels like a lot longer than that as we unwillingly become acclimatised to a new (ab)normal.
Situation report – November 2021
Taking a step back, it’s clear the rollout of vaccine passports is going to be a classic case of mission creep. It starts off with concerts and nightclubs, it will be moving onto pubs and restaurants and before you know it, supermarkets. It moves from what people are willing to sacrifice for the sake of principle to what they need to survive.
I want more than Survival (Holland)
Is it fear that makes it impossible to talk with each other and come to a consensus that fits both everyone involved and our own common sense?
So what about Vaccinations?
Any position that doesn’t opposes the power of the state, will eventually only reinforce it and thus open up the way for the next cycle of crises provoked by the state and capitalism
Rethinking safety, risk and collective care in COVID policy and discourse
Any time corporate media and professional managerial/media class people have a strong unified narrative around what is moral, it is a good idea to think very critically about what’s going on.
Dealing with the new (ab)normal – a situation report
This was first published on The Stirrer Yet again, this is another attempt to try and assess where we are in these weird, disconcerting and […]
What Are We Even Arguing About?
by John Duffy
It happens in war that often the point is lost, and people continue to fight just because all they can remember is fighting.