Play Silly Games, Win Silly Prizes…

Tyler had three weeks earlier “caused upset to some very dangerous young men” by uploading a drill music track to YouTube, the court heard. Ms Carberry said the lyrics mocked, “in pretty vile terms”, Tanueh’s associates, in particular one member of the group who was stabbed, though not fatally.

And, following an unsuccessful armed attack just over two weeks before the fatal stabbing, Tyler “taunted the group” after he managed to escape unhurt, she told jurors.

Some people walk to their appointment in Samarra. Some people run. 

Some people, it seems, don't even need to leave the house any more, they can keep it via YouTube! 

For how long can the cracks be papered over?

Andrea Widburg, American Thinker:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/twitterfiles_no_5_drop_paints_a_damning_picture_of_twitters_maoist_culture.html

Bari Weiss has just published the fifth installment in Elon Musk’s exposé about the rampant corruption in Twitter. This matters because Twitter is no ordinary company. Even more than Facebook or other social media sites, it was the dominant platform for political speech in America—and Twitter employees were Maoists waging a cultural revolution against President Trump and anyone who voted for him.

I’ll load Weiss’s tweets below, but here’s the quick summary:  On January 8, Trump loaded two tweets, one saying that the 75,000,000 Americans who voted for him would be heard and the other saying that he would not attend Biden’s “inauguration” (or, as I always think of it, his “installation”). Those Twitter employees in charge of analyzing tweets concluded that Trump’s tweets had not violated any policy.

The zealots on Twitter’s bloated payroll (most of whom had graduated from America’s hard-left colleges), however, were having none of that. They were adamant that Trump had violated the policy against incitement. As one employee stated in the company’s Slack channel, it was “pretty obvious he’s going to try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules.” 

In other words, these proud products of America’s academic system firmly believed that they had to violate their own rules in order to prevent Trump from continuing not to violate their rules.

Why this matters for us:

Why are we in blogs “in business” anyway?  This is a different question to why are we blogging? We would be blogging anyway, as all our little blogs do, most likely dealing with this official’s or that’s over-reaching, a bit like Private Eye used to do, the MSM would be doing the lion’s share of the investigative reporting on matters worthy of “high journalism”.

Instead, we find ourselves doing the MSM’s job for them, meaning we are “in business” for no pay, whilst they serve their Marxist masters as we see all about us (posts passim). All institutions are riddled with this cancer, the shell showing cracks which are either papered over or flatly denied via counter-attack. One example of the counter-attack is “community standards”, which takes us straight back to Ms Widburg’s article.

Plus all the rest of it.

Something stinks at Sistah Space: and it ain’t the sewers

It is really tough when a true Attention-seeker gets some of the attention she seeks, but does not really deserve; but then attracts the attention of someone who smells a really Black Rat, and then that same someone proceeds to demonstrate that the same smell which helped to demolish the totally innocent (but perhaps confused by an ethnic dress ensemble) 83 year-old Lady Hussey, is present right down the murky financial trail, inclusive of a staggeringly high increase of administrative expenses (4703% year on year increase).

A Gentleman who writes under the pseudonym of James, with a Twitter handle of @JustPikachoo; seems to have read of the seemingly concocted “Racist” conversation between Lady Hussey and Marlene Headley , a black ‘British’ woman also known as Ngozi Fulani, who was dressed in “Ethnic” style: and, quietly and without any fuss, decided to do a deep crawl through the truly complicated space which was ‘Sistah Space’s’ financial background. 

In 176, that is One Hundred & Seventy Six Tweets, our friend @JustPickachoo, lays a dynamite trail of seemingly weird and convoluted statements, and reckons that the Charity Commission should be investigating this rather weird and convoluted ‘Charity’: which seems to have inveigled Hackney Council into providing free rental space; but then went on to threaten that Council for not doing or giving more. That same ‘Charity; which has been granted a lot of cash from the London Community Foundation of £12,000.00, from the Greater London Authority of £40,000.00, and from Comic Relief of £60,000.00.

Our Tweetering friend @JustPickachoo also states that should any of the truly murky decisions and financial pathways be deleted, which is in itself totally illegal: he claims that he has already got the goodies copied out and stashed very safely. When “James @Pickachoo” finally delivers the .pdf which he has been compiling to the Charity Commission, it should prove very interesting reading!

She Forgot To Add 'Unless You Come In On A Dinghy'...

Coffey, secretary of state for environment food and rural affairs since Rishi Sunak took office in September said: “It is not the role of government to provide free food.”

Well, that should stop the flow of illegal immigration! Suella can put her feet up and have a mince pie... 

In her first grilling by MPs on the environment, food and rural affairs committee since taking up the post, she also said she was “very disappointed by the water companies” and acknowledged concern over sewage flows into waterways. She said water company bosses were being summoned to account for their actions next week, and that they would be subject to more monitoring and would have to submit “real-time data”. She stopped short of promising to crack down on sewage flows into rivers and beaches.

Well, of course! I mean, we wouldn't want to upset people who aren't doing their job, would we? It might make the Cabinet nervous... 

Coffey did, however, give comfort to those hoping for an expansion of renewable energy across the UK countryside. She moved away from the position adopted by Sunak in his leadership campaign, when he rejected solar farms on UK agricultural land, and said a government review of land use to be published in the first half of next year would take a “balanced” view.

She told the committee that land graded 3b for agricultural use – judged to be moderate quality, capable of producing cereals and grass – could be used for solar farms.

We need more food production, not less. Why do these 'conservatives' think there's votes in humouring the eco-loons?

Wind Power?

 

So we can truly depend upon all that Power from Wind Turbines?

12:40 PM · Dec 11, 2022

When abuser enablers cast themselves as angels for good

Before even getting to the issue itself, the use of tactics is apparent - the statement by the child porn enablers is presented in white, with black typeface, front and centre, with its weasel words, whilst that of detractors is cast to one side in a blackened sidebar to the right.  

That is quite similar to casting Trump as orange man by excessive manipulation of colour, an old tactic. I call that many things but two things it is not is transparency and fair dealing. That's before we get to the actual shadow banning.  These people are criminals, inc. those who "resigned".

"Trust and Safety"?  "Digital safety"? Then it gets to what they mean by that ... reducing "hate speech".  What the hell does that mean?  Read on:

Firstly take the lady Code of Vets.  What was her crime against these three, plus that first cow sacked?  She attacked the treatment of veterans, ex service personnel, too many on the streets, homeless, when govt should at least have looked after them. She and fellow ex service personnel coordinated help for those vets.  

That was a crime in the eyes of that gang of four ... yet read that blurb in white background and they'd have you believe they were working for "good".  If you go into the background of that lady, a grandmother for goodness sake, you get quite a different picture to that presented by the gang of four.

And there it is above ... they were happily allowing Twitter to be used for child porn and all sorts of sicko, inhuman things, whilst banning, suppressing, people such as PD railing against child abuse. Go to the post on pizzagate, go to comments and there you see PD's works and those of many who concur.

Those decrying child abuse enablers such as Hewitt and Harman for example (PIE) ... what does this gang of four do?  It bans the whistleblowers and calls it "hate speech".  Who are the disingenuous here?  Community guidelines?  Enabling child abuse?  Systematic, global, elite child abuse?

To my mind, it's too kind speaking only of prison.  And they know it full well.

Verily, whoever said “you’ll know them by their fruits” knew what he was talking about. People … we really must look beyond the woven spell of weasel words and look at the fruits of these people’s mindsets and actions … at what they’re really about.

We've Seen How Other Economies 'Succeed', Julia And Winsome...

The cost of living crisis affects all of us, but it doesn’t affect us equally. One of us struggles to afford the spiralling price of the weekly shop, while the other can shop as before, unaffected by rising food prices. One of us fears turning on the heating to keep her house warm, while the other can heat her home and travel for some winter sun without a second thought.

This isn’t how an economy succeeds.

...and while it might be good for the wall-building trade, I don't much fancy it in my country.

Instead of squeezing low earners, the chancellor should have matched his actions to his rhetoric and taxed wealth at the top.

Here you go, Julia! If you don't think you're taxed enough, the nice people at the Treasury will gladly accept your voluntary payment at that link.

Do be a dear, though, and come back to the 'Guardian' and tell us all when you've done it, eh?

Person of the year and Condemned of the year

1/7 The “news” of Zelensky’s “Person of the year” award (Poty) triggered a raw-throated guffaw in many. Poty, instead of the mass-murdering, money-laundering creep he is … it’s in the same area as Kathleen Hobbs supervising and eventually certifying her own election by shutting out voters who were certain not to vote for her.

2/7 I wrote that just then because if you strongly disagree with what it says, its tone, then odds are you’ll not like my suggesting we run our own awards and see what happens.  I suggest we run Person of the Year but also its diametric opposite … Condemned of the Year … and not have it as any particular site’s awards but in general, across, say, our sites, Gab, Twitter, via email, however you like to send your entries.

It started last evening, suggested end date is next Tuesday evening. As some bunny will have to collate all votes, best we get some structure to it and thus I suggest:

3/7 Those you are nominating for the two awards

1. In each case, nominate three people only, max, for each award.  
2. It must be a person, a human who lived on earth in 2022, not an organisation nor group.
3. It need not be three but no more than three, and in no particular order, seen as equally good or equally bad.
4. You can nominate for one award but not the other, or both, or none, as is your wont.  
5. You can change your entry any number of times up till the end.
6. It finishes Tuesday evening, December 13th, results the following day.

4/7 Those nominating

1. You do need one moniker only, real or invented, not changed thereafter.
2. It can be family members but remember - each entrant must have a moniker, real or made up, voting only once.

5/7 Method

1. I'll advertise it on Twitter, Gab, at sites I post at, you can too, wherever.
2. They are not any site’s awards per se, just "the" awards. 
3. Entries can be sent any which way - by comment at a site, then that blogger sends the numbers to me, or by friend, by email, telephone, skype, whatever.
4. There's no list to choose from.
5. I'll continue to advertise it until Tuesday evening.
6. There'll be interim reports.
7. Results will be just overall numbers, not anyone's moniker, next Wednesday.

6/7 Person of the Year

Any field of endeavour but please describe lesser known people and why you're nominating them, no need to do that with well known figures.

7/7 Condemned of the Year

What they're sentenced to need not be specified, just that they are condemned.  Feel free to say why though.

In both awards, although it concerns 2022, they may have been doing this a long while.

Any questions if unsure ... please ask. Entries close next Tuesday evening.

Remember, 'They Work For You'...

...while the police, who won't bother to turn up for your burglary unless the criminals are injured in the course of the crime, well, they work for them, clearly:

Retired teacher Fran Swan and yoga instructor Beverley Glock both tried to register for a meeting in a nearby village, hosted by West Dorset MP Chris Loder. But after they submitted questions about sewage in the online registration form, Mr Loder wrote to say the meeting was specifically for villagers in Chideok - but said he would 'see what he could do'.

And what could he do to ensure democracy was upheld? Well...

And at 7.30pm last Thursday, the night before the meeting was due to take place, a police officer arrived at Ms Swan's home to ask the 70-year-old about her intentions.

What a snivelling little weasel of a man. And what a misstep by the police. 

And it gets worse: 

Mr Loder told the Mail it was necessary for him to inform the police about 'anything out of the ordinary' as he and his family have received threats in the past.

The Tory MP added that it was 'unusual to receive the interest of two people who were not invited to attend a localised surgery', and cited the murder of Sir David Amess who was stabbed to death at a constituency surgery in 2021.

But not by a retired yoga instructor and teacher from a nearby village, Chris, so even the bumpkin farce down there in Dorset should have performed a better risk assessment.

A Dorset Police spokesman said officers from its neighbourhood policing team 'wished to understand the intentions' of the women 'to ensure that public safety was preserved and any lawful protest could be facilitated'.

He added: 'Dorset Police would like to apologise if the attendance of a police officer to the home address of individuals going to the meeting caused alarm.'

I suspect that was exactly what they wanted to cause.  

Stupidity as a genuine factor in the malaise

Guest post by Lord T.

[JH: The first video displays in full … the others will be shown one by one over a few days.]

This is the stupidity stuff:

1. Everyone underestimates the number of stupid people
2. The probability that a person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic
3. A stupid person causes loses to others without gains to themselves (consistently)
4. Non stupid people underestimates the danger of the stupid
5. Stupid people are the most dangerous people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O9FFrLpinQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFL5NoM9GVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn8atxGyb-k