Certainly donate to this ... what next after that?

This one comes from Daily Sceptic:

Welsh Cinema Shut Down After Refusing To Impose Vaccine Passports Receives Over £34,000 in Donations in Less Than 24 Hours

If you want to support this independently-run business and make sure it can survive its forced closure, donate here. I’ve bunged in £10.

Laudable, sites like ours really should be running that link ... but ... for how long?  And the worthy Toby is an example to follow until the trillions-wasting Them decide on their next outrage.  The spurring effect of Toby's post will last for the weekend, or until the next post is published on top of it. What then?

The spirit in which I'm writing this is not to be clever and auto-sceptical to fill a blogpost, there's a certain seething outrage below the words but also sadness at this poor sod doing the right thing and what will he get for it?

At the same time, YouTube are flooding my 'recommended' with aphorisms - that the person who succeeds is the one who is knocked down but perseveres, gets up, dusts him or herself off and keeps plugging away, but in a slightly different way next time.

Back to the Welsh cinema owner - how much can we do, with our own constant outgoings making it difficult to stay afloat?  I just paid my online bills for the month. What, in practical terms, can be done for this owner?  

As Threats Go, It's Not One I'm Bothered About...

Britain could be flooded with...

Oh no, what now? 

We've endured illegal immigrants, chlorinated chicken, Covid and rap music. What existential horrors await us now? 

...books using US spellings and words if ministers push ahead with changes to copyright rules, say publishers.

Oh... 

Book rights are currently sold in a way that allows them to sell titles at different prices in different territories. This supports the British book industry and authors.

But the Government is looking at an ‘international exhaustion regime’ which could open the way for internet retailers to flood the market with cheap imported editions.

So a cozy protection racket is coming to an end? Usually that's a good thing, unless it might unleash calamities undreamed of, of course. 

Might we get an example? 

The Publishers Association fears this would lead to the Americanisation of books in Britain. ‘We will see an influx of cookies, sweaters and sidewalks instead of biscuits, jumpers and pavements – as well as the missing u’s and z’s instead of s’s that drive Brits bonkers,’ said Stephen Lotinga, chief executive of the Publishers Association.

 I think I'll survive. Now, I need to sort out a packet of Maryland biscuits to go with my morning cuppa...

Rittenhouse, in the broader sense, is about legality today

... and the chance of a fair trial.  Rather than look at the Rittenhouse trial itself in America, this just looks at the implications and what it says about the rule of law.  That applies to us as well.

Let's start with an equally ridiculous farce from some time back:

https://youtu.be/TDvKFO1k0bs

Now how the Rittenhouse trial has disintegrated:

At the Rittenhouse trial, there was no verdict, but there was a period of drama over the HD drone video file the prosecution was supposed to share with the defense, but which ended up being a blurry lower resolution file when they delivered it. It was a pretty stunning interchange.

It's A Cliche, I Know...

...but it's really true that in this country, if you want to kill someone and get off lightly, do it in a car:

A mother-of-two who killed a cyclist in a hit-and-run crash while over ten times the prescribed limit for cocaine and later told police she thought she had hit a fox has been jailed...

Well, I should think so! 

...for five years.

Wait, what? 

Moughan, who has two daughters aged 18 and 12, sobbed on Monday as Judge Simon Hickey handed her a five-year jail term and a six-year driving ban, telling her no sentence 'could possibly do justice in the family's eyes'.

Probably true, but y'know, at least try... 

Ms Pearson said Moughan then drove on towards Selby with a smashed windscreen and on the rims of her wheels as her tyres had been seriously damaged in the crash. She said: 'By 11.55 pm, [Moughan] reached Selby [where] police were dealing with another incident.' Officers were alerted to the noise of Moughan's car as it drove past them because it was being driven 'on two of the rims [and] its tyres were completely flat'.

She added: 'The front windscreen was completely smashed.'

Good grief! 

Moughan was stopped and breathalysed, and when asked about the collision, she told officers she thought she had hit a fox.

They have foxes that big? What does the local hunt use, pitbulls? 

Moughan was arrested and charged with causing death by dangerous driving, and later released under investigation. But two months later, police found her slumped in another damaged car, heavily drunk.

/facepalm 

Neil Cutte, mitigating, said Moughan had never been in trouble before her first conviction in December, had been in full-time employment and was previously 'highly thought of'.

Not any longer... 

In sentencing Moughan, Judge Hickey said: 'It's a tragedy that was completely avoidable.'

Well, yes. And she clearly didn't learn her lesson, did she? I've never seen a case with more aggravating factors. So a five year sentence - which we all know she won't fully serve - doesn't quite seem fitting, does it? 

Weird scenes inside the goldmine

Part one - this morning's events and my somewhat rambling and discursive reaction

That's a line from The Doors' When the Music's Over and there's another - 'all the children are insane'.

At 5 a.m. [it's now 06:19 and I'm up, sipping coffee], I just had three missals from different parts of the world which, by definition, never sleep.

One was my Russian mate who sent this:

https://youtu.be/KSgK_DHPBfU

Haiku sent this at almost exactly the same time:

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.” - Terry Pratchett

It's All Becoming Much Clearer Now...

The outgoing head of the UK Border Force has triggered a political row by describing ‘bloody borders’ as ‘just such a pain in the bloody a***’.

Paul Lincoln’s incendiary remarks – made in a speech to mark his departure as director general of the Border Force...

It always is, isn't it? 

Like the Army general who lays into the modernisation programme while keeping his mouth shut and his pension growing until retirement day. You only get their real thoughts and character when you aren't paying them any more.

Mr Lincoln, who left his position last month as part of a shake-up by Home Secretary Priti Patel...

It seems she's doing something, after all, then! But will it be enough?

Ignorance and self-preservation - a winning combination

Learn your history properly by making an effort and digging through alt-sources:

#  1913 - They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

#  May 30, 1919 - Prominent British and American personalities establish the Royal Institute of International Affairs in England and the Institute of International Affairs in the U.S. at a meeting arranged by Col. House; attended by various Fabian socialists, including noted economist John Maynard Keynes. 

#  1920 - It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the nineteenth century, and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads

#  It was no accident. It was a carefully contrived occurrence. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might emerge as the rulers of us all.

#  1932 - The manifest necessity for some collective world control to eliminate warfare and the less generally admitted necessity for a collective control of the economic and biological life of mankind, are aspects of one and the same process.

Deliberate idiocy?

The reason I'll not be voting UKIP:

That means that I, and I imagine many others, are now effectively unrepresented by any party.

All right, let's move onto this one:

NatWest tracking its customers

... in order to harangue them about their carbon footprint bollox.  Via Rossa's mother:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/11/11/natwest-tracking-your-carbon-footprint/

Not a lot of point selecting parts to quote as the whole thing needs reading, down to the last comment.

And so to this one:

Comment on Gab:

There's a reason this is starting to happen, and the answer is terrifying. There is a climate coalition rife with Soros influence that also involves Al Gore and John Kerry's sons that is quietly advocating to make the act of contributing to climate change in any way illegal. If they can list "climate change" as a diagnosis or a cause of death, they can consider you an accessory to murder for emitting more carbon than the powers that be allow.

"I Didn't Know My Own Mind..."

"...so neither do you, and you must be prevented from doing what I did for your own good."

The current proposals to allow adults to give “informed consent” would not have protected me, nor indeed the thousands of others like me who willingly undertook conversion therapy because we believed it was the right thing to do. Indeed, everyone we knew believed it was the right thing to do.

...

I am a relatively strong person, and it nearly broke me – sadly many others are not so lucky, and tragically come to a point of believing that the only way out is to take their lives. That’s why conversion practices need to be banned outright, with no exceptions.

Does that include the sort of 'conversions' practiced by the transgender clinics as well, I wonder? I bet it doesn't! 

The government needs to think again. First, it must learn from the experiences of survivors and prioritise their concerns, for we are the true experts. We know better than anyone what needs to be banned, and how best to do this.

There's a reason we don't let victims determine the punishment for an offender for any other crime. So why should we let them determine policy?

Second, the government needs to listen to the senior human rights lawyers who have set out in the Cooper report why religious freedoms can and must be limited when significant harm is being caused.

Does anyone else suspect that all religious freedoms is really what is meant by this? Or only certain religions? 

Fare Well; My lovely!

 At 11.00 a.m. this morning, I stood alone and silent, partly for all those veterans who died so that others may live free; but mainly in memory of the One I lost some five months ago.

She was the mother of my kids, now all grown up and away, she was my companion, my love and my life.

She was taken from me by a cruel fate which placed her in a hospital which did not obey its own rules, and she died without even a caring hand to hold from the man who had promised, some fifty-three years earlier, to love and protect her “Until Death We do Part!”

I have made my formal complaint to the Trust and Hospital, and we shall see what weasel words they produce in reply!