Happy New Year, And Welcome, 2023!

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And when they pull the plug?

Confession time.  I’m almost exclusively buying on Amazon now, from goods to food. Part of that is heart, part covid/jab nazism, partly that I can better control my personal space.

However, I have no illusions:

https://voxday.net/2022/12/31/the-coming-big-tech-implosion/

Amazon’s model was to sell the hardware at or below cost and make the revenue from content and services. It’s a perfectly good model, if those services and content are as engaging as video games, or user data can be folded into ad targeting. None of this is true for Alexa, and it never will be. But if Amazon cuts and runs, hundreds of millions of users have had an intimate part of their life ripped out. One, furthermore, they considered paid for when they bought the gadget in the first place. How badly does Amazon want not to do that? It costs billions. It can’t keep paying. But it can’t just let it go.

Google is in an even worse position, not from the amount of red ink currently bleeding from its Cloud division, but because of its room to manoeuver is far less. There are around 4 billion email accounts in the world, and around 1.8 billion of those are Gmail. When you run a service for that many users, they run you.

Amazon is also getting absolutely hammered by the increase in transportation costs. Given that its core business runs on very thin margins, there is no way it’s not running in the red now.

I remember clearly what Svali said in 2000 in that Centrex interview (Toronto) … that the artificial support is going to be suddenly withdrawn at some point.  She was referring to fiat money, stocks and bonds, I’m referring to Big Firm services such as what I’m using.

If people stop visiting stores such as Morrisons, then what do they do the moment Amazon or the stores drop deliveries?  When the costs to them far exceed the revenue from us?

There is a box of cheese and chutney bites which costs a fair(ish) … well look at it for yourself:

Given the costs to them leading to delivery and given that it certainly saves pensioners who would usually phone for a car there and back, I consider those prices not unreasonable.  I calculate that I save from £10 to £20 per week on food … that money goes towards lekky.

And if it all suddenly stops?

Brave New World?

First, the article:

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/12/30/the-dangerous-new-cult-calling-for-permanent-lockdowns-in-the-name-of-equity/

The New Yorker has published a disturbing article by Emma Green (’The Case For Wearing Masks Forever’) on the political activists in America demanding we lockdown forever in the name of racial justice. They sound like textbook left-wing loons, but we know from bitter experience that these post-Christian, quasi-religious cults have a nasty habit of infecting state bureaucracies, particularly in public health – and that already appears to be happening with respect to this cult.

That paragraph had it all.  Look, I know there are readers who can’t stand any reference whatever to “Christian”, conflating a proven system of self-governance with its sometimes very weird exponents, devotees … and yet the references are cropping up more and more, aren’t they?

It’s basically this Brave New World thing, some sort of fresh-faced conscienceless William S Burroughs nightmare of yoof rampaging, doing the most inhumane things in the name of lurve.  

Tell you what brought this on … it was footage on Twitter I think.  There’s a double issue here … first and foremost, what the hell is going on that people stand back and film atrocities on their cameras but no one attempts any assistance … there are no real men left? It’s not only egregious feminazis at fault here.

What would have happened in the past would be for seven or eight of us to pile in and start laying into these thugs.

But then again, we’d just not see scenes like that.  If this is what really happened, I can’t believe the girl was so damned stupid in the first place.

Typical road, throughfare, she’s at the curb, regulation phone out, typing into it, eyes not watching.  How much does an iphone cost at the moment?  Might have been a black girl, tall, could not tell from a distance.

Scooter goes past, yoof grabs her phone and continues, she chases, a car suddenly swerves in front of her, hitting scooter guy, who somehow gets up and runs from the other side of the car. Someone gets out of the car and starts laying into the girl. She’s on the ground, he starts kicking her, sinking the boot. Other yoofs run in and join in the kicking. No one else does anything but records it.

Sit back and think.  Ghetto?  Life’s cheap among yoof today? Just look at the lack of culture, from movies to music … utter dross.  Yoof as a whole … perfectly happy with that?  This is the Democrat mafia world they want? Or is the whole thing a set up, theatre?  Crisis actors?

It’s not beyond the realm of possibility you know. All paid good money.  Purpose?  To dismay and demoralise the ordinary citizen. To add to the whole deathjab and climate thing.  Some enormous, global psy-ops going on … stage four of Marxism, before the stage five utopia.

Was She An Orphan, Graeme..?

E-scooter deaths have doubled since police stopped seizing them on the roads, a coroner has warned after a 14-year-old rider died in a collision with a minibus.

Fatima Abukar was riding a battery powered e-scooter in East Ham, London, when she lost control while alongside a minibus and fell under its wheels.

And...her parents? Shouldn't they have come in for some stick too? 

In a report calling for action to prevent future deaths, Graeme Irvine, senior coroner in east London, said there was a direct correlation between the rise in deaths and Scotland Yard’s decision last November to no longer routinely seize e-scooters being ridden illegally on public roads.

Are we really losing any potential brain surgeons? 

Britain’s biggest force announced officers will only confiscate them from repeat offenders or when ‘necessary to keep the public safe’.

I'm not sure how you can have 'repeat offenders' if you don't enforce the law in the first place... 

Consider these, ladies and gentlemen

And:

And:

Consider also Rishi Sunak the unelected PM with the conflict of interest over the mRNA jabs.

Consider this also concerning a company called Serco:

https://nourishingobscurity.wordpress.com/2022/12/29/reader-drops-242/comment-page-1/#comment-4470

Consider everything which has happened since, say, January 6th, 2020 as a nice round date.  Everything normal, fine and dandy is it?  Society running smoothly under our beloved leaders?  Boris returning and Princess Nut Nut telling pregnant women to get jabbed soon?

Chivalry Is Dead, No Flowers Please...

Karen Alcock, 41, faced a judge at Lincoln Crown Court following the death of her daughter Kyra Leanne King.

She was charged with being the owner and/or in charge of a dog which was out of control causing injury resulting in death. Alcock today pleaded guilty while Kyra's father Vince King, 54, denied the charge.

Oh..? 

Alcock will be sentenced next year while King will stand trial next June.

Addressing them both, Judge Simon Hirst said: 'Miss Alcock you've pleaded guilty and taken responsibility for what's happened and that will stand you in really good stead with the court when it's your sentence time.'

Counting on a pussy pass, I'm guessing? 

'Mr King you wish to have a trial as is your right.

'Given that your defence is effectively this is nothing to do with you, it's all to do with Miss Alcock, I'm afraid Miss Alcock will have to wait till the trial to be sentenced.'

What a fine specimen of manhood you chose to breed with, Miss Alcock.

Lincolnshire Police said the dog was being kept in isolation at secure kennels and officers were seeking a court order to have it destroyed.

Once again, the expense could all be avoided if ppolice shot the thing on the spot... 

Is it our favourite demographic itself …

… or is it someone organising them for some purpose?

First, the beloved NHS:

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/12/26/nhs-orders-interview-panels-to-justify-hiring-white-job-applicants/

Woke NHS bosses are forcing interview panels to explain why they have hired a white person over a non-white applicant. The Daily Mail has more.

A policy at the Royal Free in north London requires staff to compile reports justifying why the successful candidate was deemed ‘more suitable’.

They must write to the trust’s chief executive with evidence on how they scored the non-white applicant and come up with suggestions on how the candidate can improve for next time.

Frustrated staff say the system is a ‘tick-box exercise’ that is adding yet another level of bureaucracy to an already creaking NHS.

Ministers recently pledged to crack down on “waste and wokery” that costs the NHS billions of pounds, with trusts told to cut “diversity and inclusion” jobs to focus on frontline care.

On Saturday the Mail revealed how the NHS is offering more than £1million of “woke non-jobs” in hospitals and trusts at a time when it desperately needs more cash for patient care.

The latest policy applies to interview shortlists that involve both white and non-white applicants, according to documents seen by this newspaper.

It has been in place at Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust since July 2018 for staff in senior positions, but was expanded in recent months to any role within the trust. If a white candidate is chosen, the panel chairman must write a report explaining why they were “more suitable” for the role. It does not apply the other way around.

Then the big freeze across America:

This is not the looting of the Family Dollar stores by our fave demographic, it’s Paris and the Kurds:

… but there was “extensive footage” in video after video of our fave demographic over in America looting and trashing various stores, of yoofs, faces even showing, carrying goods out and running … it went in and on and then two things happened:

# The footage completely disappeared off social media.

# Someone asked, “Why?”

Why the looting and trashing? No, why the “extensive footage”?  Why did someone have cameras at the ready at the stores?  Why did no authorities move in to arrest the savages?  Would this aid the favourite demographic cause in any way?  Advance it?

Perhaps there’s a different agenda going on there.  Same in Paris.  Understandable why so much footage in Paris … Manchurian sent out to kill some Kurds, Kurds hated by Erdogan who wants to join the EU with Micron support among others. Were these even Kurds?

Either way, it’s hardly a normal situation on any of the items in this post.

Have They Thought Of Taking This To Its Logical Conclusion?

McDonald's has opened up a fully-automated restaurant in Texas, which is completely run by machines so you don't have to speak to anyone, and it has left people on the internet divided.

Between those who think it's a great idea, and those who think it's a wonderful idea, I assume? 

In a press release, the fast food chain explained that the restaurant, which is now open, is geared towards customers who are planning to 'dine at home or on the go,' so there is no seating inside the restaurant and it's 'considerably smaller than a traditional McDonalds.'

It described the new concept as a 'fast and seamless experience for both customers and crew.'

'There's never been a McDonald's restaurant quite like this before,' the press release stated.

And oh, what the 'staff' will miss! So...why stop at automating just the food delivery?

 You know it makes sense!

The Twelve Days until and including Epiphany

This post, ladies and gentlemen, is starting now at 00:12 GMT, just into December 26 … or in other words, we have just entered The Second Day of Christmas.

This was the previous discussion which this post follows on from:

Any “Day of Christmas” includes a morning, an afternoon and an evening.  Where the confusion can come in is to ask, “Well when, then, is the night? Shirley it follows evening?”

Logic would agree with that but this is not logical from here-on-in.  In Russia, yes, there was evening, followed by night next calendar day. However, in the west, we might ask, “What are we doing tonight?” … meaning, “What are we doing this evening?”

When applied to Twelfth Night, it’s not a reference to the nighttime after midnight but to the period before and ending with midnight January 5th, before Epiphany begins.

Let’s say we now agree we’ve ticked over into Epiphany, January 6th … what then is Epiphany, what does it mean?

Were we to accept the Wiki explanation above, which imho is a good one, then what coincided with the visit of the Magi … let’s not define them for now, nor their number … usually 3 (western) or 12 (eastern)?

Was it not Herod asking the Magi to report back to him, once the Magi had found this child, “in order to also worship him or pay homage”?

And by the Magi failing to report back, instead going home by their own routes, did that not infuriate Herod in the story, leading to the dream in which the Holy Family of Three were warned to fly into Egypt tout suite?  Meanwhile, Herod pronounced his edict or whatever.

Christmas wishes

While there are many quite rightly enjoying this with family if they still have one intact:

… let’s spare a thought for those in not such a good position … for example our contributing reader at N.O. who lost his mother yesterday, our own co-author here who sometime back lost his wife to the NHS, all the other victims of the NHS and health crims all over the west banning correct medicines and pushing damaging procedures … taken to its logical end game in Canada … it just goes on and on.

To those looking after ageing relatives, to those, including me, who are ill because the boiler is dead and there’s no hot water or heating, to those who lost their jobs in 2022 due to Woke mania, to the unjabbed vilified by everyone from govt to your average karen, to those defrauded, from the Donald to Kari Lake, to those subject to the rulings of the corrupt judiciary … it just goes on and on.

To the situation in Paris where certain invaders took it upon themselves to enrich Christmas this year on the streets and in shops, to children telling their parents they’re now tranny, to the corrupt pollies gorging themselves over their Christmas dinners after shafting their people … are there any I’ve forgotten?

It just goes on and on.