Technology Working For Us? Who Could Disagree?

Facewatch, a facial recognition system used by more than 100 businesses including Sainsbury’s, B&M and Spar to monitor thieves, said it was launching a UK-first feature to “alert police instantly when the most serious offenders trigger a live facial recognition match”.Facewatch’s chief executive, Nick Fisher, said the “unique technical development” would be launched in autumn and would warn police in an average of four seconds when the “worst offenders” were flagged on its network.

Amazing! Who could object? Oh. of course... 

Civil liberties groups have voiced alarm at the development, saying it had “shot on far ahead of the regulation” and was “upending” the way retail crime was dealt with.

Well, it needs upending, doesn't it?  

Charlie Whelton, the policy and campaigns officer at Liberty, said...“It’s not against the law to walk into a shop even if you’ve committed crimes in the past,” he said. “The idea of calling the police on somebody who hasn’t committed a crime, but there’s a concern they might, is really upending the way we do things. And of course, it’s not infallible. These systems do make mistakes, and it’s very hard to argue with that when it happens to you.”

Evidence suggests black and Asian people are more likely to be incorrectly identified than white people.

Aha! This is the reason for the concern, clearly. 

Sarah Lasoye, the pre-crime programme manager at Open Rights Group, said the technology was “entrenching a climate of surveillance across public life”.

Newsflash, Sarah, we already have that, with the proliferation of video doorbells and smartphones. People are already surveilling themselves.

“Fundamentally, it’s an infringement of data and privacy rights,” she said. “People’s faces being scanned without consent and being added to lists is worrying enough, but the speed which Facewatch technology now makes it possible for someone to encounter the police force in the middle of their daily shop is a really dangerous escalation.”

Only if they are a known criminal, and surely you wouldn't want them to go free? Oh, but maybe you would, since you've drunk the socialist Kool-Aid?

She said the technology failed to address the social and economic root causes of shoplifting and “only served to further criminalise working-class communities”.

The working class aren't the demographic doing the shoplifting! 

Suicidal empathy

 A bit late today because I’m under attack … the latest, at 10:19 a.m., is flying bitey insects. Anyway, no matter:

That of course is correct as far as it goes, but it quite leaves out Them, inc. banksters and corporatists, fabians etc. Tag misses the original miscreants who even advertised new, paid lives over here, plenty of girls to rape at will. RNLI were there, with the Navy, to assist.

Whilst the invaders are a massive issue by sheer weight of numbers and too often shocking behaviour, true … the chief miscreants are still those at Davos, Chatham House, Bohemian Grove etc. etc. in lodges, in chessboard-floored upper rooms. Ask Netten the Yahoo or Bliar or Obama how it all works.

There’s also the issue of the female herself. So wishing to be “reasonable”, “loving”, “tolerant”, “welcoming” … others, esp. men of the old type and now Zoomers,, she says that not all are like that … therefore tolerate all wrongness. Wot, until the next rape or stabbing?

Our lot call it suicidal empathy, plus having only half the story.  Now I do not include Tag in that ... a canny lass, quite aware ... but still with a lass's kindness deep down.

And It Won't Have Been English People Happy To See You...

It was the first of four near-death experiences for Sahel, now 23. In the following years he would narrowly escape military conscription as a rebel fighter in Yemen’s brutal civil war, before coming close to drowning and then being shot at as he fled to Europe.

It's yet another ‘Guardian’ attempt to persuade their readership that refugees are all genuine, though if you’re buying the ‘Guardian’ wouldn’t you already believe that?

Before the war began, growing up in Yemen had been a dream, says Sahel, whose father was a university professor: safe and friendly, with beautiful landscapes and a gentle climate, “the best location in the Gulf”. That all changed in September 2014, when the fighting started. “I woke up to the sound of bombs,” says Sahel, remembering the first day of Yemen’s civil war, in which more than 350,000 people died before last year’s ceasefire between the US and the Houthi rebel group.

And of course, he wasn't part of any war... 

His ambition had always been to start his own business. But it was his work as a part-time photographer and model that would ultimately catch the attention of the Houthis and force him to flee the country.“We were setting up a photoshoot in a park when they came with their weapons,” he says. The soldiers accused him of being a spy and photographing military sites. “They grabbed the camera and even after seeing the photos, still took me to their barracks and started beating me. “They kept telling me that I speak English and that I must be working for the UK and the US and taking photos for them. They told me I should come be a soldier with them. When I’d say, ‘Guys, I’m a civilian, I don’t want to get involved with any of you,’ they would say, ‘No, that means you’re with the enemy. Why don’t you fight with us?’”

So he fled. To another African country? Yes, at first.

In 2023, at the age of 21, Sahel left for Egypt, one of the few countries Yemenis could travel to without a visa. Once there, he says he was repeatedly threatened with deportation back to Yemen. Told that it was only a 15-minute trip from Turkey to Greece, he took friends’ advice to try to reach Europe.After finally making it back to shore, Sahel helped a group of people including his two survivors navigate a five-hour trek across mountains.Friends told him he would never be granted asylum in Europe. “They said the only country that still gives that is the UK.”

 More fool us.

In late 2024, Sahel travelled to Calais in France to try to make the perilous journey across the Channel.

His arrival has been a shock – in terms of the weather, and his relief at the welcome he says he has received. “I had gone a long time not seeing people smiling until I arrived in the UK. I felt welcome. You can find humanity and kindness here. I’m not going to be killed. I’m safe.”

Well, not by the State, and peobably not by the British people who have little choice but to tolerate your presence, but your fellow fake refugees do pose a threat.  

Legally able to stay and look for work in the UK since earlier this year, Sahel says he can reflect on both his good fortune and his sense of loss for Yemen, which he describes as “heaven in the hands of the devil”.

And so it will remain, if its citizens fail to fight for it. 

Ann Widdecombe

 This post is more a summary of what people have said (X posts) but it’s also signposts to quite a few youtubes and so on … it’s a complex post, this, but Ann Widdicombe deserves it.

You can criticise me for using this picture but I agree with Loulou here … it’s the real Ann, hopeful, with a future. Now let’s kill the mood:

Let’s face it … this is probably the red line where all except the Uniparty and globopsycho Them themselves are nauseated, appalled … far more than even they could have realised. They have serioysly misread the room.

A range of views:

One of our blog authors, IYE:

https://nourishingobscurity.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/reader-drops-1438/

https://nourishingobscurity.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/reader-drops-1439/

Maybe BBC Verify Should Look Closer to Home

 

"They grabbed me from behind and started punching me, hitting me with spades and machetes," says Daniel Uyirwoth Welo, one of four Red Cross volunteers injured when a crowd tried to open a coffin carrying someone who had died from Ebola.The assault was triggered by rumours - circulating locally and online - that the coffin was empty.

Some in the crowd said, "No Ebola doesn't exist," Welo told BBC Verify, adding that others believed the Red Cross team was there only "to get money".

This is, frankly, pure tribalism and ignorant beliefs about witchcraft that have plagued Africa for hundreds of years,  and to call it 'misinformation' is to imply that they'd take any notice of actual information if they had it.

The attack is one of a series of incidents linked to misinformation during the latest Ebola outbreak, which has infected more than 1,700 people and killed 580 in DR Congo since mid-May, according to government data. False claims circulating in affected areas include allegations that Ebola doesn't exist, that health workers are deliberately infecting people or harvesting their organs, and that the Ebola response is a money-making scheme.

Its in line with the belief that the body parts of albino children have value in muti and that sex with a virgin can cure AIDS - primitive ignorant beliefs that the people of this benighted continent are prone to. And unthinking violence, of course.

In late May, rioters set fire to equipment and two isolation tents at an Ebola treatment centre in Rwampara after relatives of a young man believed to have died from the virus were prevented from taking his body away for burial.

So why does the BBC seek to describe this as mere ‘misinformation’? 

July 12th, AD 927

England’s birthday today, July 12th:

Time to secure our citadels

This Sunday, three items followed Ann Wiidicombe’s murder, which authorities are hiding the truth about. This was my opening gathering of news items:

… but there was another item which, if it is actually accurate, does not augur well:

Seems the demons we were referring to are hard at it and we need two sets of precautions … first is our own home and perimeter defences … and the secong, or rather the first priority, is our spiritual wellbeing. As everyone knows exactly what I mean, I shan’t labour this point.

Demons and monsters

 Men too often dismiss the warnings of our women when ladies are in the perfect place to observe from the side while we charge around fighting dragons. Women are closer to the metaphysical, their babymaking makes them different, they analyse. Sadly, Evil also knows that and draws silly types of women into wrong, e.g. the Woke left, witchery, Kabbalah etc.

But good women, the hen’s teeth, the gems … have immense inner power. If four of them on our side say similar things … then I for one listen:

This was seen by @DarlPattison :

Was it Rupert or someone else who saw a pic of Blair and concluded: “Evil…”? Some people do see it, others start attacking and insulting.

Loophole

A water company boss stripped of her £417,000 bonus over deadly sewage levels is to receive an even greater 'allowance' – which the regulator can't touch. United Utilities chief executive Louise Beardmore is in line to pocket £435,000 in shares a year, which will be paid out regardless of the company's performance. Ms Beardmore expected a £417,000 bonus for 2024/25 but lost it after Ofwat ordered a safety check of a release valve at a reservoir resulting in the death of thousands of fish.

This is why nothing ever changes, no matter how government attempts to regulate, a loophole can always be found, and will always be found.  

The incident, graded as being in the most serious category of breaches, resulted in a fine of £60,000 for the company and the activation of sanctions by Ofwat. If the 'allowances' are approved, Ms Beardmore, 51, will receive nearly half a million pounds in shares a year until 2030 to offset any potential sanctions to her annual bonus.

Shareholders are expected to vote on the changes on July 17.

It's all up to them - will they act? 

Defending the manoeuvre, a spokesman argued the allowances are needed to maintain and attract the necessary talent on the executive board.

The necessary talent to do what, exactly? She's fallen at the first hurdle, hasn't she?

Crisis of faith in our institutions, our "leaders"

 Over at Unherdables, I’m putting the question of faith in a much more apocalyptic, end-times way, almost that dreaded argument-ender of accusing someone of “religion” (cries of anguish as everyone looks away … the fabians have done a grand job on westerners).

This is a secular blog here about freedom, liberty, so I shall abide by the convention and speak only of faith in our institutions, our leaders … in the midst of all the atrocities we are seeing, westwide … the utter inability of humankind, alone, by itself, to overcome “Them” and produce a well ordered society, a Shire, where nearly all can feel safe.

The first crisis of faith is in our leaders and all facets of officialdom, at all levels, right the way down, plus the cancer spreads to private firms dealing with us … the bstds are lying to us coz at best, they don’t care, the troughers … and at worst, they hate us with a passion.

Why do they hate us with a passion? What set all this off, eons ago? Well, imagine that there’s a central entity who detests God’s creation and … but I must stop there as that’s almost “religious”, innit?

Yet now, the British state is not only trying to shut down our access to, say, X … which incidentally allowed Rupert Lowe access to Joe Rogan, coordinated by Elon, which resulted in Rogan’s 20 million finding out about the raped girls industry … which in turn forced Labour to about turn on the deportation of that monster … while Farage was off having a hissy fit, locked into a life or death struggle with Count Tinhead … you get the drift.

And so it goes. Yesterday, a Canadian lady asked me, on X, “Are we winning?” I said, “Line ball imho.” She thought and said, “I’m losing.”

There are ways for the west to come back, never quite like what it was … think of the damage at the end of WW2 … but it is going to take some very hard decisions and a wartime level of resolve on our part. Or else we can pretend that we can vote our way out of it in this fractured electoral system, already wrecked by the fabians. Yes, we can kid ourselves and just enjoy head to heads between Mr. Flip Flop and Count Tinhead, thereby sidestepping any real decisions about Britain.