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. “Progressive” Calls for Legal Assisted Suicide
Progressive Magazine has an article this week calling euthanasia a “civil rights issue”.
Also this week, a review of Spain’s new euthanasia law found 180 patients had “died with dignity” in the first 12 months, while Italy carried out their first euthanasia under their new law.
Last week, Portugal approved their new euthanasia bill at the first reading.
In a piece of interesting timing, French director Francois Ozon just released his latest film Everything Went Fine…which is about assisted suicide.
There’s clearly some momentum building here.
We at OffG have made our views on this clear in the past – legalizing assisted suicide creates a system potentially far too easily abused by both individuals and institutions. This was the case even pre-Covid.
Post-Covid, in a world where we have seen rampant murderous abuse of DNR orders and ventilators and drugs such as midazolam, would be opening the door to possible crimes against humanity on a massive scale.
An issue to keep an eye on.
2.ukraine banning russian books and music
The latest edition of “It’s OK when my side does it” hit the newstands this week, with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky announcing a ban on Russian culture, including books and music.
Zelensky has already banned opposition political parties, this is just one more step down the path to outright fascism.
It’s also faintly farcical in its specificity…
The ban will not apply to all Russian music, but rather relates to music created or performed by those who are or were Russian citizens after 1991.
Artists who have condemned Russia’s war in Ukraine can apply for an exemption from the ban.
So democracy. Much freedom. Wow.
You could almost believe the Ukraine coverage is one giant experiment. Alternating insisting “there are no Nazis in Ukraine” with picture of men with Swastika tattoos, just to see how many of your brainwashed subjects notice the contradiction.
Meanwhile, Zelenksy is probably being encouraged to ban political parties, books and music – not because it serves any kind of purpose – but because it provides a pretext for NATO/the EU to drop him like he’s hot the exact moment it becomes politically convenient to do so.
He might not realise it, but he’s digging his own political grave.
3. Hypocrites of the week
The reactions to the SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade this week were predictably violent – on both sides. Indeed, the massively divisive reactions were arguably part of the reason it was done.
We saw people who insisted they were non-racists calling Justice Clarence Thomas “nigger”, and minor e-celebrities encouraging people to throw Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs at the Supreme Court (apparently that’s not an insurrection now).
But special mention must be made of two people: Justin Trudeau and Jacinda Ardern. The Wonder Twins of the New Normal World Order.
Within hours of the ruling both had made statements condemning it, with Justin Trudeau’s official twitter posting:
Yes, Justin absolutely respects a woman’s right to choose. Just not to choose to remain unvaccinated, not wear a mask, own a gun, attend a protest or donate money to peaceful protesters.
Meanwhile Jacinda Ardern, who during the “pandemic” turned New Zealand into something resembling Nazi Germany if it was run by Ned Flanders, said this in her public statement:
‘Watching the removal of a woman’s fundamental right to make decisions over their own body is incredibly upsetting,’
In the land of vaccine mandates, the hypocrisy is boundless.
BONUS: Quote of the week
Immortal words. Inspiring words. Incomprehensible words.
America is a nation that can be defined in a single word: Asssfhhhtlllmmnfffsh”
Joe Biden
With this, and Joe’s equally embarrassing cheat sheet, it’s getting easier and easier to believe that the office of the POTUS is being deliberately mocked and degraded at this point.
It’s not all bad…
Some good news on the food safety front this week from the US courts, where chemical giant Bayer has been handed two legal defeats on the harms done by their glyphosate products.
The now-standard Neil Oliver monologue…
And since it was reported that Ghislaine Maxwell was recently put on suicide watch, this made us chuckle (credit to HooterG via twitter):
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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention the UK government admitting they have a “disinformation unit” which “works with” social media companies to remove “inappropriate content”, Pfizer and Moderna’s upcoming “future framework” or Glastonbury’s annual indoctrination festival.
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Expect things to get crazier & crazier.
That’s how it goes when we transition from one age to another.
We’re going from the Quaternary to the next age, and the transition will be BRUTAL. Looks like somewhere around 15 out of every 16 folks (if we’re lucky) won’t make the transition.
In 90s I predicted we would see shops selling pot. Everybody said,’No way it will ever happen.’
There are everywhere up here in Canada.
I said the same thing in 2010 about boutique medical offices for euthanasia. Guess what? We already have it but now the govt voted to remove the ‘Sober second thought’ 7 day waiting period.
So, now it’s see a doctor for assisted suicide and it can happen the same day.
The Boomers just can’t deal with old age are opting to check out early.
Martin Armstrong’s Socrates predicts many deaths by suicide and soon. Who would have thought there would so many willing to help.
Cheers
“I said the same thing in 2010 about boutique medical offices for euthanasia.”
Agree 100%, but Soylent Green was almost 40 years in front of you.
Or maybe it is just that they don’t care to be stuck in the freak show anymore. If things keep going in the direction they have been accelerating for the last several years, the big exit might look more appealing soon.
I already largely avoid society and am thankful I can. The contrast from my youth to what I see today is really hard to fathom. ‘Normal’ is anything but to me.
If Ma and Pa were 1950’s normal, and their kids and grand kids are gender-denying freaks who blame them for everything while appreciating nothing, I can understand not wanting to watch the train wreck anymore too.
Good point, Anon.
I’m a boomer and I find it hard to watch how our world is playing out.
It’s worse as I say we are responsible for allowing it on our watch but never did much to stop it.
Our traditional values slid away from the church and a shared sense of purpose.
Now it’s ‘Anything goes, nothing matters, nobody cares.’
(Tip of the hat to JH Kunstler for that line.)
Cheers
No normal GOD fearing people like the direction this country is going, including us boomers. Although things may look dark now, boomers can play an important part in turning this around. My main point is this: with how bad it is here, it’s much worse in other parts of the world. I seriously doubt Yashua would ever forgive anyone taking away their gift of life before it’s time. Especially since GOD is in control. These assisted suicides are another aspect of Satan’s plan.
With all this evil crazy shit goin on I am at a loss for words…… oh wait I got one word
Asssfhhhtlllmmnfffsh
Describes my feelings exactly!
While I fully acknowledge that the medical cartel and the government can’t be trusted with anything, you either own your own body or you are someone else’s property. Suicide is the ultimate measure of self-ownership. As someone who watched his mother suffer and die from Alzheimer’s, I know that had she been given the chance to decide when she was of sound mind that she wished to be assisted in ending her life should such a future befall her, I guarantee that she would have chosen such…and she should have been able to make that choice. And none of these laws ever provides any options for those with dementia or similar, or provisions for future situations.
It’s the ‘assisted’ part that’s the slippery slope.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3183953/swedish-company-develops-plant-based-human-meat-burger
There is no “new normal”.
It’s the same old greed and quest for power shit over our fellow man since the beginning of time.
There are some very old books written about this phenomenon.
Start with the Bilble and then pretty much every other credo says the same thing about it.
It ain’t new.
Must Not Blame the Vax
The list of things “causing” blood disorders continues to grow more absurd….
Blood clots: The nation’s favourite drink could make your blood sticky – increasing risk
Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Professor Mark Whiteley – a leading consultant venous surgeon – cautioned that caffeine could lead to “sticky blood”, thereby increasing your risk of a blood clot.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1636636/blood-clots-deep-vein-thrombosis-symptoms-signs-sticky-blood-risk-factors-diet-tea
If you sell the idea that women should be able to abort mere “clumps of cells”, it is small leap to the idea that society should be able to destroy old “clumps of cells.”