Armistice Day Remembrance

H/T debbie@dunibear

Two days ago, I posted this:

Today is the Tuesday in question ... Armistice Day ... please be upstanding at 11 a.m.

Just what can you say online to criticise the deathcult?

This is the first of two posts from me today, the second being at 10:30 a.m. on Armistice Day Remembrance.  The two, to my mind, are not unrelated.

And so to this highly dangerous topic ... anyone remember Charlie Hebdo? Tina Peters?  Lucy Connolly?  Allison Pearson?  This post puts Lord Toby's view but of course, it's highly Libertarian, at odds with the reality, as seen by the cult itself, growing every day, as seen by the WEF and UN controllers of all western institutions, inc. the UK "govt" who direct that maximum prejudice be brought to bear on any westerner criticising the cult in any way.

Lord Toby of Acton, as head of The Free Speech Union, plus The Daily Sceptic, had a post up yesterday in emailed newsletter form and part of it read:

In a landmark Employment Tribunal case, a judge has ruled that criticism of Islam is protected under the Equality Act. The Sunday Telegraph has more. 

It is the first time a court has ruled that “Islam-critical” beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010. Previous claimants had been told such views were not “worthy of respect in a democracy”.

The decision follows a 2021 ruling that Maya Forstater’s gender-critical beliefs were protected under the same law.

Ms Forstater later won her discrimination claim and her case has reshaped public debate on gender ideology. Mr Lee, whose final hearing in February will decide whether his posts on X were an expression of his protected belief and whether the regulator discriminated against him, thinks his case could have a similar impact.

Now, is there anything else with a bearing on our ability to openly criticise in florid language about monsters and paedos? Well that depends if you're personally criticising as part of a public discussion, or if you are recording thoughts as a comment on someone's blog or vlog or whether you are the admin of a blog, a publisher, a platform owner or user, or an airspace provider, a device seller, e.g. Apple ... or any other link in the chain from you putting it until it being read by readers.

Lord Toby opines, protected, in parliament and in his online articles which offer him less protection ... yes go ahead, he says ... feel confident, emboldened by related cases.  A legal opinion, still to be tested in court.

On the other hand, there is ample precedent to show that the UK govt, plus local plod, take an entirely different but immediate (for you) view on it ... with maximum prejudice.

How does Radio Genoa get away with it? He's not UK based, it was on X, which is the U.S. ... whereas we, now, are in the UK, with a UK provider, and under ggl blgr rules.  Also, you did not have your 18 years of blogging summarily removed last year, you have not been temporarily banned.  We have.

And whose door are they attempting to bash in? The easiest target, yes? Will they look for the brave Anon behind his anonymity when he calls for burning this, destroying that?  Well you'd be surprised ... ggl blgr records IPs, even if the email is untraceable ... admins can't see them but ggl blgr can, plus (can) sell them on if it is their wont.

But to answer the question ... they're more likely to go for the blogger, vlogger or tweeter. Both Julia and I know that and we take the risks we each, separately, do.   It's one thing supporting Remigration, it's quite another badmouthing the cult originator, drawing bombs on his head.

We're dealing with serious, murderous nutters here, either at high masonic temple level or at stormtrooper ground level, machete between the teeth, gleam in the eye ... or else some female plod trying to bash a western citizen's door down.

There are two ways around it at this stage ... use different words which people know mean something, e.g. calling a loose woman a 304.  There is that. I use the word deathcult and avoid the M or I word afa possible.

There is also the method I ask you to employ ... by all means use Anon in comments but also include a moniker somewhere in there. You see, I have a particular understanding with ggl blgr in the light of last year's blog theft, and that's been an effective method so far.

Is it fear of multiplod, led by a little woman with no previous personal power, breaking the door down? It's far more the likelihood of the blog being stolen again and both perps banned from all blogging on the platform.  In this, I'm attempting to protect my partner's own blog.  Mine has a different set of obstacles, so that's another story.

The iniquity of it all?  Oh quite ... quite agreed, in line with Lord Toby, a libertarian stance, ra ra ra. But we're also realists at the same time and as Capt. Ranty well knew ... it's one thing being in the right ... it's quite another the way the State interprets this right.

Do I hide in a dark cupboard, unseen by any baddies?  Judge for yourself across all platforms and accounts. Do we look like we're hiding away? But there's still such a thing as keeping our powder dry in order to fight another day.

Grim, Hopefully, As It Should Be In Our Prisons....

A British teenager - eight months pregnant and charged with drugs smuggling - is awaiting sentencing in prison in Georgia, South Caucasus. A payment of £137,000 by her family will reduce her sentence but what are the days like for Bella Culley, incarcerated 2,600 miles (4,180km) from home?

Who cares? Why the focus on this particular idiot drugs mule? There's plenty of them to choose from... 

Lyanne Kennedy says her daughter has been boiling pasta in a kettle and toasting bread over a candle flame but is now allowed to cook for herself and other women and children in the unit, and is learning Georgian. "She now gets two hours out for walking, she can use the communal kitchen, has a shower in her room and a proper toilet," she says, describing the improved conditions since a transfer earlier this month.

"They all cook for each other," Ms Kennedy says. "Bella has been making eggy bread and cheese toasties, and salt and pepper chicken."

Perhaps if she'd showed such skills in a job in her local cafe, she wouldn't have decided to smuggle drugs into a country that unlike the UK, doesn't ptovide holiday camps for the incarcerated felons it houses. 

Miss Culley claimed she had been tortured and forced to carry the drugs but was warned she was facing 20 years in prison. But, for a "substantial sum", she could be released, she was told. Back in Tbilisi City Court last Tuesday, the teenager heard her family had managed to raise £137,000. Not the amount needed for her to walk free but enough to reduce her sentence significantly, to two years. She is due in court again on Monday to hear her final sentence. Ms Kennedy says the family is doing everything they can to get her home "where she should be".

And she's now been freed. Blood money is acceptable in such a country, clearly.

Ms Kennedy, who has been traveling back and forth between the UK and Georgia, says her daughter is getting on well with staff and prisoners and she had been able to take in baby clothes for her. Her daughter's full story "will come in time", she says.

No doubt, once she's hired a ghostwriter. I assume the restriction on profiting from crime won't be applicable?

Social media

It's very much a threat to TPTB because it's so organic ... no knowing who's going to combine, what snippets or nuggets of truth are going to come through.

But TPTB have their own way to hit back ... controlling platforms, putting Woke lefties into the control room, e.g. as Elon seems unaware of ... more on that further down. Shadowbanning, as I am algorithmically suppressed at X. Julia's had her issues with Them as well, plus elsewhere ... an endearing feature of our resident wild animal.

For those who basically just do a bloground every so often, even daily, the extent of interconnection might surprise ... Rebekah Brooks was heavily connected but nefarious, we're interconnected too ... for right or wrong?

Where to start?

Both those chaps are longtime colleagues but it draws others in too who see it. This is typical of my timeline below ... Bobbie had run footage of three old cars from the early 60s:

Uh huh ... who?  Bobbie's a regular Brit, checked out Kitty ... girl who loves her dog, awwwww. Texas girl. Went back minutes later, she'd been banned from X. Now ... was it on account of me or because of something else?  Maybe even protective.  And so it goes on ...

Checked out Sheri:

Uh huh ... obviously follow back ... news out of Florida now.  Lopez Bretts?  Checked, Latina, on hold there with her ... too much of the mammary.  Sophia?  Long time friend, Soph ... so easy to respond as she put up the perfect profile pic ... the nature of the female beast, so to speak.  Soph once posted this:

Forever being banned, speaks her mind. Good gal, Soph.  Ex NHS nurse, refused the jab.  Harry Rag ... longtime friend, we collaborated over Meredith Kercher, we were on Team Meredith ... remember? The other side were the State, with Knox and the Italian son of a Berlusconi colleague ... nuff of all that now.

It's not all girls though ... though it might seem it:

SBML is one of our boys ... quite interested here in the new generations as well ... CV seems Gen X Millennial, Young Bob is 17. Now if we can spread the word on them ... apparently the deathcult and Antifa hate them ... well done, lads.

Through all this, the notion of "ragtag" I really like ... came from Lord of the Rings ... Gandalf, Viggo, Frodo, what a bunch ... v Sauron and minions.  Allies, strange bedfellows, war of the world ... what's not to like?

And here's our Gandalf now (go for it, sir):

Poppies and related matters

Andy mentions that Longrider has a post up on this poppy business, Lammy etc. in 2025.  I added, in comments:

Agreed, plus two other factors:

* There’s that 100 year old WW2 chap who said it was hardly worth the effort looking around now.
* The new “commercial” poppies with the year stamped on them, so we cannot use them again.

I had about seven of the old sort with the cloth or paper petals but they *were* getting a bit tatty, so I threw them out, headed into town to buy more. There *were* none, only these slick, tiny, commercial badges with year stamped. That was in 2023 … never again.

What I particularly did not like was the man selling them. How much, I asked. He said “donation”, which it always had been, I took out a fiver to put in and he looked down his nose, not even a nod. That was the last time. How much is the CEO on p.a.?

Just Like Every Other Government Promise Then?

The government is facing questions over tens of millions of pounds owed to suppliers who worked on upgrades to three prisons in England. At least 40 companies are believed to be owed the money for work they carried out in Birmingham, Liverpool and Dorset, before lead contractor ISG entered administration in September. The small and medium-sized firms say they should have been protected because the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) promised to pay for the projects through ring-fenced Project Bank Accounts (PBAs).

And they lied. 

But two companies working on an upgrade to HMP Birmingham have told the BBC the PBAs were "not worth the paper they were written on".

Is any government promise ever worth that? 

The MoJ declined to comment.

Of course it did. 

Mr Crumbie said he felt "very bitter" not to have been given the protection PBAs promised. "We were quite clearly told the money was safe," he said.

Did you start the work when the government was different, Mr Crumble? If so, more fool you. 

The Cabinet Office withdrew its guidance on PBAs in July, despite describing them as a "pioneering new way of paying supply chain members in construction". The BBC asked why this had happened and when new guidance could be expected but has not received a response.

They don't feel a need to explain themselves to the taxpayer or voter. So, all those in the building trade, tremember this when the next election rolls round, eh? 

The shadow goverment

 Jim Ferguson with Liz Truss:

In a fearless interview, Liz Truss just tore through the illusion that Britain is run by its elected leaders. “Even if someone is bad — like Starmer or Reeves — at least they’re elected,” she said. “These other people — the technocrats — can’t be removed. That’s the problem.” She laid it bare: unelected bureaucrats, from the Bank of England to the Home Office, hold the real power. They fail at every turn — financial stability, inflation, the asylum system — yet no one gets sacked. Truss named the truth most politicians fear to utter: “The unelected are far too powerful — and they’re never held to account.” She praised the American model, where Trump brought in innovators like Elon Musk, people chosen for results, not ideology. Then she dropped her vision for Britain — bold, unapologetic, and patriotic: End the economic death spiral. Get fracking and rebuild British energy. Cut taxes, build freely, unleash enterprise. Stop funding illegal migrants in luxury hotels. Grow the economy by freeing it — not strangling it. This wasn’t nostalgia. It was rebellion — against the unelected power that has hijacked democracy itself. Liz Truss is saying what millions already know: Britain is being run by people no one voted for. And she’s calling time on it.

The obvious question is ... however to rid the shadow world of its power? The pollies can't do the nuts and bolts stuff, the bureaucratic part ... so who will? How to get such people doing it without seizing power?

Aren't We Forgetting Something, BBC News?

The family of a young boy who was left with life-threatening injuries after he was thrown from the 10th floor of London's Tate Modern art gallery have said their "little knight" has achieved his goal of being able to run, jump, and swim again.

The boy, who spent months in intensive care, has continued to gain cognitive endurance. His family said although his memory skills were still very limited, they were functional and improving, so he was "acquiring a general knowledge at his own pace, which increasingly allows him to be included with other children".

Bravery was found guilty of attempted murder in 2020 following a trial at the Old Bailey. He was handed a life sentence and told he would serve a minimum of 15 years in prison.

Heartening as it is to hear good news, it's strange that their update on progress doesn't include a mention of the progresss made by his attacker - perhaps because its not quite so heartwarming.

Restating the bleedin' obvious ... yet again

With X swamped by US content at 5 a.m. Tuesday, what are the UK headlines?

Well obviously the Huntingdon train but after that, the Chagossian vote and then this one ... a restating of the bleedin' obvious we've known for how long now?  This is an Xer, Jim Chimrie, doing just that:

The BBC stands accused of the most serious breach of trust in its history. An internal whistleblower has revealed that Panorama – the Corporation's flagship investigative programme – deliberately doctored a Donald Trump speech to make it appear he was urging on the Capitol riot. In reality, Trump had told his supporters to march "peacefully and patriotically" to make their voices heard. The BBC cut that line, spliced in phrases from another part of the speech, and broadcast the fake version a week before the 2024 US election.

The BBC didn't "misreport" Trump. It doctored him. It took an hour-long address, sliced it into pieces, and stitched together a line that never existed – turning a call for peace into a call for violence. It then ran the footage under dark music, cut to scenes of rioters, and presented the lie as fact to millions of viewers. This wasn't clumsy editing. It was fabrication. It was intent. The Corporation made a man say words he never uttered, to feed a story it had already decided was true. That is not journalism. That is propaganda. The revelation comes from an internal BBC adviser, Michael Prescott, who served on the Corporation's own standards committee. When he raised alarm at the distortion, senior executives dismissed his concerns. The Director-General looked away. The chairman said nothing. The culture that once prized truth above all now protects deceit in its own name. And it fits a pattern. The same BBC that forged Trump's words has whitewashed Hamas's war crimes. It commissioned a Gaza documentary narrated by the son of a Hamas minister, paid him, and told the public he was part of the "Hamas-run government" – as though that were somehow different from Hamas itself. The same delusion runs through their coverage: terrorists are "militants," victims are "combatants," and Israel's self-defence is "aggression." Like all Britain's great institutions, the BBC has been captured by a Leftist-Islamist ideology that prizes grievance over truth and allegiance over honesty. It speaks the language of compassion while serving the cause of those who despise the civilisation that funds it. From Whitehall to the classroom, from the Met to the newsroom, the infection is the same – a new clerisy that believes moral virtue gives it the right to deceive.

Just look at the date of that quote ... the year. The disease is always the same: ideology before evidence. The BBC now begins every story with a sermon. In America it was "Trump the menace." In Israel it is "the occupier." In Britain it is "the oppressed versus the privileged." The facts are trimmed to fit the creed. When reality resists, it is edited out of existence. They call this "narrative integrity." In plain English, it means lying for the greater good. It's why the BBC can run a campaign ad claiming that "the more you try to drown out reality, the harder we'll work to establish the facts" – even as it drowns them itself. It's why it lectures others about deepfakes while producing its own. This is not accidental bias. It is the logic of a captured institution that sees its mission as moral correction. The BBC no longer trusts the public to think; it instructs them what to think. It decides which truths are dangerous, which lies are useful, and which stories must be rewritten for the cause. And here is the irony. The broadcaster that once gave Britain its common voice has become the greatest source of distortion in the land. It claims to defend democracy, yet it meddles in elections abroad. It claims to stand for impartiality, yet it silences dissent at home. It claims to fight hate, yet excuses those who preach it. The BBC's real product today isn't news. It's obedience. When a state broadcaster edits words to invent guilt, it stops being a mirror and becomes a weapon. The BBC's greatest lie isn't what it said about Trump or Israel. It's what it says about itself: that it can be trusted. "The same BBC that forged Trump's words has whitewashed Hamas's war crimes."

When (And Why) Did We Ever Stop?

The answer of course is perhaps that 'we' didn't, but we've imported more and more people who never had that respect.

Impatient drivers must "show respect" for funeral corteges after a hearse was side-swiped, delaying someone's funeral and causing £20,000 of damage, a funeral director has said.

He said similar situations were happening "weekly" and drivers had even become abusive.

Which drivers? Are we talking about imports here? Be honest!  

The National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD) said it was a growing problem across the UK.

He told the BBC a cortege should be treated like a train on the road and pleaded with drivers to be patient. "It's happening weekly... someone will cut up a hearse or not let us out at a junction cutting in between the cortege and separating families," Mr Griffiths said. "It's just a lack of respect."

Is it because we have imported a huge number of people who didn't grow up in cultures where this respect was commonplace? 

I'm of an age and a culture where my father - who often wore a flat cap due to his Yorkshire heritage - would stop and remove it if a cortege passed while he was walking in the street, and if driving, would always slow down...  

The funeral director, who said he tried to keep off main roads and recently added white flashing lights to his hearses, urged motorists to let funeral processions go ahead, adding that a "few extra moments" was all they needed. 

"It's just wrong not stopping and letting the whole cortege go so all the family can stay together as a mark of respect," he said. Mr Griffiths' remarks were echoed by Modris Kesans, the founder of Kilvey Carriages in Swansea, who said: "The public are in too much of a hurry... they will even cut in front of a horse drawn funeral carriage."

Is it really 'the public' Modris, or a subset of them? 

Stopping for a cortege is a "tradition" amongst road users, it said, a "moment of dignity and respect for the deceased and their family".

Wrong tense, I fear. We didn't change the tradition. we changed the populace.