With thanks to Righteous Gleb for a thoroughly appropriate rejoinder to the Galloway post 👇🏼.

Whilst we're on audio, the below clip is one of this morning's song thrushes demonstrating its vocal range. The single dog bark is, I'm afraid, a dog.

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From the Register of Interests for DEFRA’s Science Advisory Council.

Felix Eigenbrod is a member of Extinction Rebellion Scientists. DEFRA thinks this is fine.

I don’t agree.

‘Scientists for XR is a decentralised and self-organised group that includes scientists and academics located in the UK.

There are a huge range of strategies - from traditional campaigning to civil disobedience - where scientists’ positions, skills, expertise, credibility and networks could be invaluable.‘

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https://www.scientistsforxr.earth/

Ten years ago in 2014, the infamous phone call between Victoria Nuland & Geoffrey Pyatt was leaked.

The American officials are heard hand-picking the Ukrainian government, including "complicated electron" Klischko (Mayor of Kiev) 😂 - who Nuland thought was too much of a dodo-head to be in government itself.

Nuland bet on Yatsenuk, who became Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Oh yea, and "Fuck the EU" - she says. 😂

Following yesterday's budget, a reminder that the man delivering it cannot be relied upon to determine, correctly, his wife's nationality. The look on the face of his Chinese counterpart seems to betray the enormous disappointment at the thought that the United Kingdom is represented by this man.

At least he got to fly home at the end of it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siR3mkCivvI

Though she rests on the bench at the moment, CamillaR appears to be aiding and abetting Oxford University Press (OUP) in a gigantic data harvesting exercise.

Buck House announces and manages the 500 Words competition, aimed at tiddlers. What is not made clear is that OUP records every submission for every year of the competition. Though the literary output of five year-olds may not appear to be of much significance now, it is not hard to see how themes from childhood could be used against them if they bump up against certain obstacles later in life.

During a somewhat nauseating BBC report this morning, the teachers inside the chosen school seemed a little dumbfounded by this admission from the OUP rep.

This is from Morgan Lerette, a former private military contractor, about the dire situation at the USA/Mexico border.

'The US government is allowing human trafficking of minors from the US-Mexico border. Politicians don’t want to put their name on it so they’re contracting Private Military Companies (PMC’s), the same used in Iraq and Afghanistan, to move unaccompanied minors throughout the US.'

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https://lawenforcementtoday.com/frightening-us-government-sanctions-human-trafficking-at-the-border-private-military-contractors-moving-minors-into-the-us

England. Police in Manchester say an officer’s behaviour was unacceptable and must never be repeated after video emerged of her dragging a rough sleeper across the ground and deliberately “stamping” on his stomach.

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The video posted above is a sign of things to come. Contained within the provisions of the Criminal Justice Bill is guidance on what the Government is calling 'Nuisance begging and rough sleeping'.

Does anyone sitting in Parliament imagine that police will exercise discretion when it comes to working with the (very limited) nuance contained within such provisions?

'Replace the outdated Vagrancy Act 1824 with a suite of modern replacement powers to enable the police and local authorities to respond to begging and rough sleeping where it causes nuisance to the public, including by obstructing shop doorways and aggressively begging by cash points.'

Of course—and you guessed it—nuisance may be defined by anyone that decides they are experiencing 'harassment, alarm or distress'.

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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-justice-bill-2023-factsheets/criminal-justice-bill-nuisance-begging-and-rough-sleeping

Stickers are now in the UK Column shop. Sold in packs of 5.
https://shop.ukcolumn.org/product-category/stickers/

I have only recently managed to listen to David Rogers Webb talking to James Delingpole, mostly about the discoveries which have populated his book, The Great Taking.

I have not read the book–and I hope the answers lie therein–but I would like to find the particular points of law which substantiate his claims. If you do know of the legal or financial instruments which refer to his descriptions, may I ask that you post them in the comments, please? This applies to whichever part of the world you may be in, or know about.

The book has prompted a rash of videos about this, and related issues, so please post any of those you consider especially good, too.

Thank you very much.

If you have no idea what this post is about, I would encourage you to listen to the interview as it's fascinating. It may well turn out that we own less than we thought, and I really can't see anyone being happy about it.

Goodness, imagine what the world would be like if people cared this much about the wanton destruction of trees that hadn't starred in Hollywood blockbusters.

'Before entering the greenhouses, we must walk through disinfectant to stop diseases contaminating the site. The blue plastic covers put on our shoes will be incinerated when we leave.'

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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68497720

Gaslighting. From The Critic, 2021.

Advertising censorship on the back of a magazine, August 2021.

The Week asking a question which was very much open to interpretation.

The strangest of times, that's for sure.

Further proof that all trials were compromised. How could they be as much as 10% out?

August 2021; a reminder of the corporate madness which gripped those in the COVID Cult.

This is an internal communiqué to the personnel of Gloucestershire Constabulary.

On a boring, but important, technical note, none of the items listed as 'PPE' were ever actually classified as such. However, the reason for listing them like this is to be able to use employment law to enforce the use of them.

The entire charade, from start until now, has been manifestly dishonest.