That 11 minute “flight”

Up front, I’m undecided on whether it happened or not … without knowing, due to having no interest in it, though many readers do to a point, my feeling is that something went up and at the other end, a capsule parachuted to earth. End of.

By the way … fair warning to have the mute button ready once the screeching starts.

Many were not impressed:

Taking A Leaf Out Of Anti-Litter Campaigns – ‘Take Your Trash Home With You’

The US is revoking the visas of all South Sudanese passport-holders and will stop any more of its citizens entering the country. The Department of State said South Sudan was “taking advantage of the United States” by failing to comply with US efforts to return people to the east African country, adding that the measures would come into effect immediately. “Every country must accept the return of its citizens in a timely manner when another country, including the United States, seeks to remove them,” it said.

Yes, but they don't, so it's about time someone forced them to. 

“All visa appointments are cancelled, no new visas will be issued, no existing visas will be effective, and hence NO ONE from South Sudan will be entering the United States on a visa until this matter is resolved,” he said in a social media post.

And will America be poorer for it? 

Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, said Washington would “be prepared to “review these actions when South Sudan is in full cooperation”.

Heh! Your move, South Sudan! 

The ephemeral nature of the net just now

 In my early rounds this Tuesday morning, I went to Gab to see Julia mainly and there was a notice: UK visitor detected. Whaaaa?

Then the screed from Andrew Torba … entire text reproduced below:

ACCESS RESTRICTED BY PROVIDER

After receiving yet another demand from the UK’s speech police, Ofcom, Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.

This latest email from Ofcom ordered us to disclose information about our users and operations. We know where this leads: compelled censorship and British citizens thrown in jail for “hate speech.” We refuse to comply with this tyranny.

Gab is an American company with zero presence in the UK. Ofcom’s demands have no legal force here. To enforce anything in the United States, they’d need to go through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request or letters rogatory. No U.S. court is going to enforce a foreign censorship regime. The First Amendment forbids it.

Ofcom will likely try to make an example of us anyway. That’s because the UK’s Online Safety Act isn’t about protecting children. It’s about suppressing dissent.

They’re welcome to try. The idea that a British regulator can pressure a U.S. company that’s IP-blocking the entire UK is as farcical as it is futile. If anything, it proves our point: censorship doesn’t work. It only reveals the truth about the censors.

We proudly join platforms like Bitchute in boycotting the United Kingdom. American companies should follow suit. The power of the UK’s parliament ends where the First Amendment begins.

The only way to vote against the tyranny of the UK’s present regime is to walk away from it, refuse to comply, and take refuge under the impervious shelter of the First Amendment.

The UK’s rulers want their people kept in the dark. Let them see how long the public tolerates it as their Internet vanishes, one website at a time.

I’ve posted this at Unherdables plus OoL but shall continue at UHCHQ with details about those particular sites.

And It’s No Surprise They Allocate Them To More Of Their Own Kind, Is It?

On a cold morning in the heart of London, recently arrived refugees and more established migrants gather in a community centre. Their mission? To decide how £500,000 in funding will be used to support people like them.

Not 'the community', or 'the borough residents'. Just more moochers and fake asylum seekers. Are we mad? 

The initiative is part of the Borough of Sanctuary grants programme, which takes the government’s commitment to devolution a step further, using it to empower migrants and refugees. Islington in north London is one of the boroughs that has been recognised for its work welcoming people seeking refuge, people with experience of seeking asylum and those migrating, and is a participant in the scheme. The council recruited 18 people living in the borough originally from countries including Afghanistan, Ukraine, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Iran and Sri Lanka to decide how the funds should be allocated.

I wonder if there are similar programmes in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka to assist UK people who have fled the insanity for a new life?  

Having faced the challenges of navigating a new country, language barriers and the complexities of the asylum process, their insights are shaping how the grants are distributed to ensure the funding reaches those who need it most.

'Those who need it most' not including the mugs taxed to the hilt to pay for it all, of course... 

At a time when openness to refugees and migrants is often considered politically toxic, Islington council said it wants those people seeking asylum to feel not only welcome but also empowered to shape their local community. “We’ve got 250,000 residents in Islington. How many know we’re a borough of sanctuary? Probably not that many. I want all 5,000 people who work for Islington council to know we’re a borough of sanctuary,” said Sheila Chapman, an Islington councillor who leads on equalities, communities and inclusion.

And the ratepayers of Islington? Don't they get a say? I mean, they are mostly dim progressives but not all of them.  

Chapman added that welcoming people is not just morally right but also beneficial. “People who have fled war-torn places or persecution are the ones with the bravery, courage and ingenuity to get from there to here. They are the people you want.”

They are the people their country wants too, if it's ever going to break out of the Third World, did you ever think of that?  

Sovereignty

The Holy Grail touched on it:

1215 and Magna Carta was hardly anything to do with us plebs, even educated ones … it was all about the barons.

Cut to today and it’s all about parliament as sovereign, meaning our Beloved Leader in 2025.

Interesting eh? So Chas III jets off to Rome to urge Net Zero but he’s apparently a nothing anymore, now head of the Muslim faith … you see anything from him today about Palm Sunday?  Yep, it’s today in Christendom, such as it is these days.

Well, in the old Nourishing Obscurity, before ggl stole it, there was a series of posts on sovereignty and it seems that way back in the past, someone decided it meant The Crown … notice that there’s no mention anywhere yet, except from Michael Palin, of “the people”.

Right, so this Crown … meaning the monarch?  Well interestingly … no … it means the City, entry to which even the monarch must beg.

And who’s in charge there? Well the Royal thingy of International Affairs for one (meaning Airmiles and Virginia Giuffre perchance?) … or maybe Rothschild as one esteemed reader/commenter has mentioned … I mean, there’s that photo, yes, of Rothschild tapping Chas III on the chest as a headmaster might with a pupil at a boys’ school.

Any mention yet of the people?  Free Born John? Captain Ranty?

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Heatwave

With my heater still on at 0648 BST, soon to go off, there is this:

Oh noze, we’re all going to melt … well at least Julia’s washing might dry out there on the line.

More Huge Fines, Quicker!

And keep them coming until they learn!

Two academics behind a gender-critical film have taken legal action against their union, accusing it of discrimination and harassment after it campaigned on social media to stop the documentary being screened.

The film is part of a continuing debate about gender politics and free speech in UK universities. Last week, the University of Sussex was fined a record £585,000 for free speech breaches after a three-and-a-half-year investigation into the resignation of Prof Kathleen Stock, who was the target of protests over her views on gender identification and transgender rights.

O’Neill and Wayne, who describe themselves as gender critical, believe sex is a matter of biology, that it is impossible for a human to change sex, and that sex is important in a range of different political and social contexts.

Why are these beliefs 'explained' in the article as if they were fringe beliefs that aren't simply common to 99% of the population?  

They also do not subscribe to gender identity theory, “namely the belief that people are born with an internal sense of gender which may or may not correspond to their biological sex”, the documents state.

Again, just like 99% of the UK population.  

They claim these are protected beliefs and their union has discriminated against them contrary to section 57(2) of the Equality Act 2010.

The union is fighting back, of course. They've chosen a side, and it's one that hopefully will cost them dearly. 

The union – or respondent – denies it has discriminated against O’Neill and Wayne. Documents before the tribunal said: “The respondent’s conduct was proportionate and necessary in the interests of advocating the rights of others. Accordingly, the reason for any less favourable treatment was not the claimants’ gender-critical belief or lack of a belief in gender identity theory.” Denying harassment, the union’s defence stated: “The conduct of the respondent was to highlight its commitment to supporting its members that identify as trans or non-binary. The respondent’s conduct was proportionate and in line with its current support for its trans, non-binary and LGBT+ members.”

If this is your line in the sand, then I hope you have large coffers - it's going to be expensive.  

Will the real opposition please stand up?

Both Julia and I have run the gauntlet of the censorious PTB making out we’re somehow doing wrong in some way … similar happened straight after Trophtuos with many pundits immediately labelled “far” this or that.

And now we have the egregious Phillips dropping any inquiry which might just point the finger at Britain’s shame … Farage is going Uniparty as well now and that’s a dilemma for Reform … to work so hard, just to elect another one of Them.

Or we could look across the pond at the autopen issue which does raise the question of any legitimacy at all for the past four years.

See Roobeedoo for that one.

And that does raise the question of legitimacy in the UK:

Yes, you can make the case that with FPTP, a vote of around 20% of the eligble vote is hardly a mandate and you can make the opposite case that them’s the breaks … the gerrymandering, parachuting and FPTP is what was voted for in the referendum by the citizens of this land … producing that massive parliamentary majority, not unlike Boris’s 80 plus … both branches of the Uniparty, esp. since Pigboy Dave’s and subsequent ignoring of the referendum, display an arrogant disdain for any real legitimacy, which has resulted in this from our Steve across the way:

Bitchute threw in the towel today:

‘After careful review and ongoing evaluation of the regulatory landscape in the United Kingdom, we regret to inform you that BitChute will be discontinuing its video sharing service for UK residents.’

https://www.bitchute.com/ukregulation

Is there any real opposition in the UK today?

And What Would Have Been Lost If They Hadn’t Saved Them?

The alarm is sounding in the UK's first drug consumption room. A man in his 30s has overdosed in the "using space" – a room in the Glasgow facility where nurses supervise injections in eight booths.

Obviously, it's working just fine.  

He had only arrived at The Thistle minutes earlier, animated about being searched by police on the Gallowgate. Staff rush to help, bringing him from his seat to a crash mat on the floor. Our film crew is ushered out of the area while an ambulance is called and staff work to save his life.

I've only one question: why? 

Eddie Kearney, a harm reduction worker, tells us that the man had already taken drugs three times that day. "He's using a 'snowball', he's using heroin and cocaine," he explains. "He's been in there two minutes and he's on the floor."

And the title 'harm reduction worker' is a sick joke, isn't it? It supposes that the heroin and cocaine trade - which this initiative is helping to keep going -  causes no harm. 

Less than an hour later, the alarm sounds again, for another man in his 30s. He had been led to reception by workers from a charity, then made his way to the booths to inject heroin. Lynn Macdonald, the service manager, tells us it is another medical emergency.

"The first four weeks, there were no medical emergencies, and then this week we've had five. "It could be a batch of drug that is problematic. People are noticing a difference in the heroin when they making it up, saying they are noticing a green tinge to it."

But it doesn't stop them injecting it, of course. Nothing will. They are addicts.  

Lynn Macdonald later told us: "I am absolutely convinced that had we not been present during the overdoses we've seen within the Thistle, then people would not have survived."

And you feel that this has somehow been a good thing for society? 

V.E. Day today

Orphans remember all who fought and those who died.

Some of those “elitists” above.