I’m a nostalgic sort of fella. I yearn for those times when our politicians used some degree of rational argument to influence the electorate. The era where politicians appeared to hold some transparent values and principles that they would use to inform policies that were – purportedly – in the national interest; the era where politicians were obliged to listen to the views of ordinary people (or risk being displaced at the ballot box); where explicit policy proposals could be meaningly debated and criticised in the run up to an election.
Alas, things are not what they were.
We now have a homogenous batch of political parties all broadly following the same agenda, an agenda seemingly set largely by global elites who operate outside of any democratic system. And behavioural scientists – commonly referred to as ‘nudgers’ – play a pivotal role in levering the compliance of the masses with this top-down authoritarian mission. By means of their (often covert) deployment of psychological strategies that weaponise fear, shame and scapegoating, they facilitate the control of ordinary people. And to perform this essential role requires a huge resource of behavioural science expertise. Consequently, nudgers are everywhere.
As part of an ongoing research initiative to explore the U.K. Government’s deployment of behavioural science during the Covid event, I have scrutinised official documents and made a series of Freedom of Information requests. These reveal the scale of nudge activity being routinely utilised to secure the public’s compliance with top-down diktats. The findings are remarkable.
For ease of comprehension, I will divide the state’s behavioural science resource into five categories:
- Government advisory groups
- In-house employees embedded in Government departments
- The Behavioural Insight Team (aka ‘Nudge Unit’)
- The ‘Government Communications Service’
- Private advertisement agencies
1. Government advisory groups
When global elites announce that there is a world-wide ‘crisis’, governments typically respond by gathering a group of experts to advise them on relevant actions to take. Early in the Covid pandemic, the U.K. relied on the recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and its subgroups. One such subgroup was the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), whose membership was mainly comprised of behavioural scientists and prominent psychologists who have expertise in the deployment of nudge techniques.
A key element of the SPI-B’s remit was to advise on “strategies for behaviour change, to support control of and recovery from the epidemic”. At the start of the Covid era, the group was asked to “provide advice aimed at anticipating and helping people adhere to interventions that are recommended by medical or epidemiological experts”.
High profile behavioural scientists Professors David Halpern and Susan Michie also participated in the full SAGE forum, as did co-chairs of the SPI-B (Professors Ann John, James Rubin and Lucy Yardley).
All-in-all, it is clear that the Government’s expert advisory groups during the Covid event were well stocked with professionals who specialised in the craft of behavioural science.
2. In-house employees embedded in Government departments
While the pandemic advisory groups offered a wealth of nudge expertise, a far greater behavioural science resource was embedded within Government departments. The size of this permanent in-house resource has been revealed by a series of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.
In 2019, the Department of Revenue and Customs had 54 employees in its Behavioural Research and Insight team, while the Department for Work and Pensions employed 16 people in its Behavioural Science Team. A more recent FOI to the Department of Transport found that, in 2022, it had the equivalent of six full-time behavioural scientists at a total annual cost of £299,000 per annum. And – more pertinent to the Covid pandemic – an FOI response in November 2023 confirmed that the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) hosts a Behavioural Science and Insights Unit that employs 29 people (24 of whom are behavioural and social scientists) with an annual budget of £958,000. Meanwhile, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) recently acknowledged the existence of a Behavioural Science Team, as did the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.
Professor James Rubin, a SPI-B Co-Chair, referred to this departmental behavioural science resource in his evidence to the current COVID-19 Inquiry. Bemoaning that his own group had insufficient influence on Government communications, Rubin stated:
We were one group within the Government system looking at behavioural science of which there were many other groups… there were teams within UKHSA, there was the DHSC.
3. The Behavioural Insight Team (a.k.a. ‘Nudge Unit’)
In 2010, the Behavioural Insight Team (BIT) was conceived in the Prime Minister’s Office of David Cameron as “the world’s first Government institution dedicated to the application of behavioural science to policy”. According to the BIT website, its team rapidly expanded from a seven-person unit working with the U.K. Government to a ‘social purpose company’ operating in many countries around the world. From 2014, the BIT was collectively owned by the U.K. Government, Nesta (an innovations charity) and the BIT’s own employees. In December 2021, the BIT was wholly acquired by Nesta for £15.4 million.
The BIT routinely receives requests from a wide range of Government departments to provide advice to communicators about how to maximise the power of their messaging. Throughout the Covid pandemic, the BIT produced multiple advisory documents, some of which encouraged the use of fear, shame and peer pressure as a means of enhancing the effectiveness of the Governments pandemic communications.
Strikingly, during the Covid pandemic, the BIT was awarded two lucrative contracts with the Government. The Cabinet Office allocated up to £4 million to the BIT for a three-year contract (2019-2022) to provide “Behavioural Insights Consultancy and Research Services” so as to furnish this heart of Government with “frictionless access to behavioural insights to match central priorities”. As for the Department of Health and Social Care, it paid BIT £1 million for a 13-months contract (March 1st 2020 to March 31st 2021) for “Various work for Test, Trace, Contain and Enable agenda”.
4. The Government Communications Service
As if the collective nudging might of the SPI-B, BIT and in-house behavioural scientists was not enough, there is also the Government Communications Service (GCS). Operating within Whitehall, this group of civil servants is led by Chief Executive Simon Baugh and boasts employing “over 7,000 professional communicators across the U.K.”
The GCS incorporates a Behavioural Science Team based in the Cabinet Office. In a recent document, Alex Aiken (Executive Director of Government Communication) celebrates how the GCS Behavioural Science Team has accelerated progress towards the “goal of embedding behavioural science expertise across the Government Communication profession”.
5. Private advertisement agencies
In April 2020, the Cabinet Office approved spending of £216.8 million for “Advertising, Marketing and Communications” in relation to a “Covid campaign 2020-21”, with the bulk (£194 million) of it dedicated to Covid-related advertising between April to December 2020. However, a FOI from March 2022 indicates that – in actuality – the Cabinet Office spent far more: over £5 million in 2019-20 and £370 million in 2020-21. A range of advertising companies have benefited from this spending, but the two major recipients of state funding have been Manning Gotlieb and Mullen Lowe. These large, Government-favoured agencies employ their own behavioural scientists to determine the content of their adverts and videos – for example, the powerful (and ethically dubious) ‘Look them in the eyes’ campaign.
An advertising agency insider has confirmed the high profile of nudgers within their creative world. Julia Bainbridge – a founder member of the Freuds agency, one of several advertising companies commissioned by the U.K. Government – recently stated: “Behavioural science is now mainstream and high profile, particularly in my field, which seeks to change people’s behaviour for their own, and the social good.” In the same article, Bainbridge goes on to say: “Behavioural science is now being deployed, at the highest level to address ‘wicked’ problems, from vaccine hesitancy to tobacco consumption, throughout the world.”
In conclusion, behavioural scientists – these paternalistic overseers of right-think – reside in every cavity of the state’s infrastructure, nudging our thoughts and actions to align them with globalist goals (for example, digital IDs, Net Zero carbon, a meatless society and less travel for the masses). Rather than rational argument and open debate, we are being furtively nudged, on an unprecedented scale, to obey the doctrines of the world’s elites. Regrettably, for ordinary people, conscious deliberation prior to decision making is rapidly becoming a rare commodity.
Dr. Gary Sidley is a retired NHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist and co-founder of the Smile Free campaign. This article was first published on his website Coronababble.
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How is this even legal? How is this not theft? At the very least, GoFundMe could have refunded the donors. But distributing their money to causes they did not donate to and may disagree with seems completely out of order.
Also, these last two years have made it very clear that protests and causes genuinely in support of human rights and freedom will always be smeared and opposed by the establishment. If ever a cause receives establishment approval in the future I will question why.
You beat me to it, surely this is totally illegal?
I agree – my first thought.
I for one will NEVER support anything on gofundme again. Literally day light robbery
Same here. I have supported causes via GoFund…never again.
This is theft. It is stealing and whoever runs GoFund should be arrested and charged accordingly.
Let’s have a list of the names then, and their addresses. Who made the decision to steal the money for the truckers’ cause?
But no different to what governments have been doing over the last 2 years with taxpayer’s money (both present and future).
Come to think of it, when have governments not done it?
Yes – how dare they steal our money, that is the government’s job.
Should anyone approach me to fund their skydive, marathon etc via GoFundMe, I’ll decline and tell them why.
You can get a refund, but you have to request it before the deadline.
After the deadline you can still go round to their homes and extract your money in one way or another. Send in the bailiffs if they can’t pay, or don’t want to. Take their cars.
You shouldn’t have to request a refund. If your chosen cause is blacklisted by GoFundMe, the amount you paid in should be refunded automatically.
With respect, all that we can say for sure is that you can request a refund.
Whether you’ll get it or not is a very different question.
Trust, like virginity, is a one time deal.
Agreed.
Also, I was just thinking of you the other day haven’t seen you on the speccy comments for ages it seems.
It is legal. The money is being refunded automatically without the need for a request. On one level, it’s the same as being refunded ticket money for a theatre show that gets cancelled. However, the double standards argument is correct, and $10 million probably means millions of donors, who will probably never use the platform again. But I don’t understand how a comprehensive refund can happen and also redistribute the funds to charities it sees fit. They can’t do both! #confused
The refunds are only occurring because of the outcry. Until then, they were going to donate the funds to causes of their own choosing.
Modern-day Robin Hood’s, bless them. So nice to have such high principled defenders of fairness and justice.
[Sick-bag please!]
“How is this legal/not theft?”
Probably covered by T&Cs but any consumer contract can be challenged about unfair small print however freely entered into.
I can see Regulators taking an interest in this unilateral expropriation of consumer funds and perhaps they will be forced to include in future advertising
“GoFundMe will realocate your donation if we decide your chosen recipient is unsuitable”.
Even though GoFundMe accepted them as a client on the first place and presumably did DUE DILIGENCE.
I imagine there are many GFM clients worried about their future income now that company has sullied its reputation with GFM investors concerned for the same reason.
At least alternatives to GFM have been given free publicity.
I can see regulators turning a blind eye. Can’t have the plebs rising up and challenging the New World Order and being well funded to do so.
I believe it’s in GFM’s t&cs that they can redirect donations if they decide to.
Time for them to be boycotted: get woke, go broke.
Of course it’s theft. Presumably state approved theft. So that’s OK then!
Maybe they heard BLM have lost $60,000,000 dollars & needed a refill?
I think this may be out of date. I received an email this morning saying my donation would be refunded. If you want to contribute, you can do so via Give Send Go, Freedom Convoy 22.
There’s been stuff everywhere telling people not to go for the refund but to get a chargeback from their bank which will cost GoFundme $10-15 a time.
Just seen this
GoFundMe steals Trucker Convoy donations — Fight back « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)
“If you have donated via GoFundMe, please contact your bank and dispute the charge to your credit card or bank account. That will mean GoFundMe will need to return the money and pay a fee of $15USD.”
*UPDATE: In a panic GoFundMe now says it will offer refunds to donors “automatically”. Perhaps the thought of 120,000 donors demanding chargebacks with fees was a bit frightening, or it might be all the people reporting the group to Attorney Generals and asking for investigations into what is surely illegal?”
Brilliant.
share far and wide!
Great idea!
They seem to be taking only US dollars. Is there a way of contributing through sterling?
Donate here if you wish:
https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022
““We will work with organizers to send all remaining funds to credible and established charities chosen by the Freedom Convoy 2022 organisers”
Ask the people you’re stealing from who their stolen money should be given to?
The have to refund as they only hold the money in trust and don’t have ownership of it
Or they would in this country anyway – UK
It doesn’t change the fact that Gofundme will only collect money for their ‘chosen’ causes though…..never use them!
Doubtless done in collusion with the Canadian government, with their legal advice and with a promise of compensation – because GFM’s reputation will be absolutely trashed, and losses will be staggering.
This is what is at stake for Trudeau and his WEF-dominated cabinet…….indeed the WEF and Gates dominated plan to jab the world.
Little people failing to comply, protesting and sharing resources is a direct threat to what they have planned for us……and they will breach moral codes and the law, and abuse their power to do it.
The WEFs plan is to have a few favoured giant corporations in each industry so that people will have no choice but to use their products/services. That will end our ability to vote with our wallets.
Is Trudeau still hiding? Isn’t it time to hunt him down and drag him out? His bodyguards are also traitors against the people of Canada.
Time to make a citizen’s arrest? One of the ‘joys’ of the English legal system.
Entirely peaceful … arrest him and arrange for him to go on trial.
A sentence of 40 years without parole should do it. Just my opinion …
I wonder if there will come a time before long when being associated with the WEF will make a politician unelectable.
too many people don’t know anything about the WEF, the role it has played in all of this and what it is doing for people to work that out.
I guess I won’t ever be using GoFund Me ever again.
They clearly can’t guarantee they won’t just steal my money and redirect it somewhere else.
But hey this just one of dozens of things that have changed in the last 2 years. One more thing you never imagined in a million years could happen and is actually happening.
What terrifies me is that I’m no longer in the least bit surprised.
Yes, it is frightening to basically have no faith or trust in any large public or private institution/entity anymore.
Who will use GoRobMe after this?
Great new name for them! 🙂
should be GoFudgeMe or something similar.
DeFundMe
I hope the markets do just that when they reopen
They’ve done that to Farcebook. Zuckerberg was close to tears, apparently. Couldn’t happen to a more worthy person.
Well you’d be miserable too if you lost 31billion dollars overnight and unable to fund your next yacht or helicopter purchase or trip to space.
Meta not working out quite so well for him then…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse:
https://youtu.be/Ibm3WhfLk08
Also good! 🙂 lol
When you understand just how corrupt the leftist, collectivist, globalist and politically correct elites in government and in big business are, and how duped the masses are by their ideological lies, the only solution is to look for principled groups outside the leftist consensus. They are only ones you can trust to at least try to resist the dictats of power.
People motivated by principles that make them resistant to elite pressure, whether government or business.Some Christian groups are appropriate, in the current zeitgeist.
Don’t let the “right” off the hook by pretending that they are really “left” (if those terms mean anything any more).
They certainly have meaning, as discussed here at length on occasion. But I see no significant forces in the state or in big business that are effectively opposing the almost universally dominant Blairite leftism (globalism, collectivism, political correctness, wokism in general, hatred of anything that tends to be conservative – family, religion, patriotism) at the moment.
You are likely to be sacked, harassed or imprisoned for expressing conservative or traditionalist points of view, or have your business shut down by big corporate power if you are explicitly conservative, but not if you are leftist.
Once upon a time, not so long ago, the leftists were the ones opposing the greed of big corporate power. At some point, those who regarded themselves as their leaders turned “leftism” into absurd jiggery-pokery wokery, and decided that what used to be called the working classes were unworthy fools.
The leftists were always what they are now – people who arrogantly believe they know how best to build the world better, and are willing to smash any resistance to radical change because their cause is just.
The right were always what they are now – the various people and institutions who resisted the left.
At various times, leftists have had more or less justice in the particular reforms they we pursuing, and that was generally the basis of political debate.
At the present time, the left (in its Blairite, woke form) is utterly dominant, with our political, academic, business, social, and cultural elites all by and large pushing the leftist agendas to a greater or lesser degree
There might have been times when siding with the left was the right thing to do. Now is not one of those times.
“not so long ago, the leftists were the ones opposing the greed of big corporate power”
And mostly pushing, as the alternative, brute, crushing state and union power, whether knowingly or not. But even when not, they were actively trying to destroy any institutions that resisted the radical changes they were determined to push through.
That is their definitional nature.
Most of the leftists I knew (admittedly in the last century) were neither arrogant nor stupid. They fought for freedom of speech and opposed brute power of any kind.
The ones I still know, with some exceptions, are vehemently opposed to the lockdowns and mandates, and give upticks to you and many others on this site (including, when he was here, “Anti-Socialist”). People are more complicated than any label.
The leftists you know probably have more in common nowadays with the classic conservative right, which is why the likes of Dave Rubin, Russell Brand have now found favour on the right.
Many ordinary people on the Left in the sixties and seventies were in favour of free speech and defending human rights. The Left have morphed into an intolerant coalition of power-hungry authoritarians. They no longer defend free speech or anyone’s rights bar their own. But maybe that’s how it always ends up, e.g. Soviet Russia, the Eastern communist block, North Korea, China, etc.
“Many ordinary people on the Left in the sixties and seventies were in favour of free speech and defending human rights.“
On free speech you can argue coherently that in the sixtiers and seventies the conservatives were against free speech and the leftists were pushing for it, because they saw breaking the controls on blasphemy and pornography as a way to destroy structures they felt were in their way.
When the left became the establishment those who were merely pushing free speech as an instrument turned on a sixpence and now see controls on supposed “hate speech” as a way to suppress dissent from their agendas, and are now confident the state and big business jackboots will never descend on them.
Anyone truly in favour of free speech as a priority would, as you suggest, be with the anti-woke right, today.
In 1968, when students in Paris revolted, they tore the city apart carrying banners that read “Marx/Mao/Marcuse.” In 1965 Marcuse developed the concept of ‘Repressive Tolerance’, which is the ideology underpinning the drive to silence, by any means possible, any and all opposition to their cultural Marxist agenda.
Your point being that even as far back as the 1960s there were authoritarian leftists fighting to suppress free speech? Fair enough. Though my recollection of the wider UK political divide in the 1969s and 1970s, when I became aware of it, is as I described previously, nevertheless.
“People are more complicated than any label.”
Of course they are (as much those on the right as on the left). But that doesn’t mean you can’t make meaningful comments about the forces at work in the world.
If you support freedom of speech and oppose brute power in the US today and you don’t support the Republican Party, then you are probably doing your cause harm without understanding how. That’s because the way the issues align at this moment, they are pushing back against the main threats to freedom of speech and to basic political liberty, which come form the Democrat aligned elites. In this country you have no mainstream party to support, because they all push woke globalist panics and collectivist state power, so it’s necessary to look amongst the fringe parties if you want political representation.
There were times in the past when that wasn’t true. and doubtless there will be times in the future when it again won’t be true. But that’s how it is today.
In general, I agree. I prefer to see the enemy as authoritarianism, rather than the “left” or “right” (at any time), in the interests of building as broad a coalition as possible.
Authoritarianism comes from all directions and it’s always dangerous. Very interesting things happen to those who become “the establishment”.
That’s fair enough, and resisting authoritarianism is usually a good thing. But a deeper understanding of politics is beneficial I think, otherwise there’s a likelihood of falling for manipulative nonsense like the idea that the Blairites were “not left wing”, that so many fell for. Their rival faction on the left liked it because they thought it would help them to recapture the institutions of the left that they’d lost to the Blairites and the Blairites themselves understood that pretending to be the “moderate centre”, between the old left and the “Conservative” supposed right, was the route to power. It worked, and with the final submission of the “Conservative” Party hierarchy after 2005, we’ve had Blairites in office pretty much continuously since 1997.
Especially there’s a need for old lefties to understand it. They struggle to raise their heads out of the Marxist class-based, ownership is all tripe that they were indoctrinated to think was the be all and end all of politics. Too many of them could never see past that, which played a big part in their repeated utter routs by the Blairites.
The name Anti-Socialist can only mean that they’re a fascist. And that doesn’t have anything to do with the left even though they might call it on wikipedia national socialism it has nothing to do with socialism.
100%
Rumours circulating that Mr T and his family fled to Australia when the troops refused to fire on the freedom fighters
Link?
LOL Two down-votes for asking for a link?!
Impolitely….
Oh please, please, pretty please can you please give me a link to prove that the rumour isn’t just a rumour drifting through the air like so much wishful thinking?
Turdeau would feel at home in the world’s largest concentration camp.
I hear he likes the uniform
He’ll never live all this down.
Macron’s Marauders?
That technicolour swastika is right on.
Nope he came down with the scariant below
I had to
That donation site seems to be having a few problems right now. Probably being hit by TPTB….
https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022
Yes 100% will be a concerted effort.
https://strangesounds.org/2022/02/censorship-at-its-finest-facebook-removes-page-organizing-dc-freedom-convoy.html
Facebook fact checked the British Medical Journal and said it was spreading disinformation.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vBpbV2TGbac
REPORT: Facebook Vs British Medical Journal Pfizer trial whistleblower article
Facebook has also lost around $200+billion in stock market value in one day, and is losing users.
What a shame, never mind.
Now that’s what I call good news.
Never used FB or Twatter. Never will. A blight on society.
I was reading an interesting article on Herr Schwab’s and his father’s connection with a Swiss German engineering company. Daddy Eugen (quite a suggestive name) seem to have run the factory in Ravensburg during WWII, and used labour that was very possibly less than keen to work there.
Thereafter, according to this lengthy article, young Klaus went on to work with the same august company, which was by then providing items for the South African nuclear arms industry.
Can anyone provide the link? It’s well worth a read if you can track it down.
delete
Klaus Schwab strolling along a beach. Not for the faint hearted (or recently vaccinated).
Eeeek!!!
What must any aliens think, observing us?
Not a member of the Free Speech Union then?
Ahem….
Maybe this one https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/schwab-family-values/
That’s the one. Looks legit to me, but maybe it’s not been Fact Checked enough by Klaus Schwab and Melinda and Tony?
Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb. The piece is by Johnny Vedmore.
“Double-standard?”
Duh!
I regard this as theft. I donated for a specific purpose – to support the truckers, not for Canadian charities. I will never donate through GoFundMe again because I can never be sure where my money will actually go. #DefundGoFundMe
I think GoFundMe may just have shat on its own doorstep.
In future, to be avoided like the Plague.
I did think using GoFuckMe was a bad move so no surprise really. You can donate to them here now and these guys won’t pull it !
https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022
Hey Go Fund Me!
Go Fund yourselves!
Latest updates on Freedom Convoy.
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/nomorelockdowns
Brilliant – the farmers joining in to reject the globalists plans – no wonder MSM is so quiet about it.
Are you watching GB News – start covering it before it is too late!
Love GB News. Don’t always agree but refreshing to have all sides of an argument.
Imagine my shock! It’ll come as a massive surprise to all here I’m sure but apparently they were using worthless/fraudulent 45 cycle thresholds in PCR tests. Never!!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/04/shambolic-covid-pcr-testing-rules-meant-one-three-isolated-never/
How surprising!
Pro Heneghan is quoted in the article:
Have to say that – unusually – I very much disagree with his point. It’s really not important, in the same way as we don’t obsess over people who may or may not have a cold or flu.
I’ve found him not to be that great throughout, he’s a bit too Julia Heartly Brewer for me, can’t resist throwing out a ‘our world beating vaccine roll-out’ every appearance.
I will never forget the moment when I heard my normally level headed scientific sister say that it was important to know the number of cases of covid. When I asked why [thinking I didn’t need to explain in depth that the testing is fraudulent and a lot of the positive ‘cases’ were false] she said “so you know where it is spreading”.
That was the moment that I knew she was lost. And then she got jabbed.
We knew the PCR test was fraudulent all the time but TPTB were happy to use it to prolong a pandemic that never was!
but quick to swop it out for LFTs everywhere when they wanted to control the “reopening” – for their purposes.
Surely that is theft?
Not despite, because of the BLM riots.
They’re kindred looters in spirit.
More evidence the crooked Establishment is terrified of this trucker protest for freedom and wants to shut it down before it spreads.
Too late?
https://twitter.com/electionwiz/status/1489949964356792325?s=21
This is blatant theft. I would maybe, kinda, sort of understand if they returned the money, but to take the money and do with it as they wish? Heck no, I would be suing them for theft.
And making a big noise about doing so.
Apparently there’s been such a furore over this stealing by Gofundme that they have decided they will automatically refund donor money , rather than people have to ask for it back.
I’ve never used this outfit to donate, and they can take a running jump. Unfortunately that will affect people who deserve to receive donations, but as far as I can see, there’s not much difference between Gofundme and Organised Crime (or Governments!).
Is it actually because of the furore or the potential for a massive cost to them in bank chargeback fees?
I rather think that it’s the former, as apparently the internet is lit up with people outraged by this action.
Part of an email from El Gato Malo about this is attached. I can’t get it all in legibly, a pity as his remarks on this episode are well worth reading.
“GoFundMe also allowed numerous BLM-related fundraisers”
Ingraham: BLM under investigation
Let’s not forget that BLM is a thoroughly evil organisation based upon a lie, a modern blood libel, against the US police and US society in general, asserting contrary to clear statistical facts that they selectively murder black people for “racist” reasons.
That huge numbers of well intentioned or politically delusional people around the world fell for it is hardly surprising now, given the similar gullibility over the covid panic and the climate alarmist panic. It’s generally all about virtue signalling and wanting to align with the elite-approved, status indicating position.
Always spread one’s bets. I hope the lorry drivers (NB the British term) can find two companies to accept further funds on their behalf. Then if one gives problems, they still have the second option.
Catherine Austin Fitts’s talks seem more and more relevant. Use local banks/credit unions if possible. Or in the UK, maybe use a mutual like Nationwide for the current account and not a ‘big four’ bank. If not Nationwide, use a small bank.
Nationwide are mutually woke.
Hey now! BLM has empowered many POCs into home ownership… It just happened to be mansions, and about 7 of them per person.
https://consult.justice.gov.uk/human-rights/human-rights-act-reform/
Just responding to the consultation for the “modern bill of rights” in the UK. Trying to emphasise individual freedom over collectivist “common good” stuff which is clearly dangerous, as we have seen. You have until the 8th March.
If Musk wanted to make a statement, he would simply drop $10M himself…
and not miss it
The right question to ask is:
Why does donating money to someone today have to involve some fucking intermediary? Surely a bank account would do?
“The right question to ask is:
Why does donating money to someone today have to involve some fucking intermediary? Surely a bank account would do?”
You need to know which bank account to drop it in though.
Publish it through your own website? It’s not that hard, really.
How does a typical wellwisher hundreds or even thousands of miles away know which seemingly worthy websites are more likely than not to be genuine and which not?
That’s the service funding platforms provide (to some degree, at least). There are no absolute guarantees, for sure.
By checking the domain owner and/or SSL certificate? At least that’s what these things are for. Also, the bank account holder. The same due dilligence you do while shopping online, basically. Oh wait… most people don’t – and that’s why we have monopolies like Amazon/eBay. Pardon, I forgot.
“Oh wait… most people don’t “
Indeed. The vast majority wouldn’t have a clue about that kind of thing (though nominal domain owner is only one small part of checking authenticity in this kind of thing, anyway). Hence, as I said, the demand for (admittedly largely imaginary) reassurance from companies like GoFundMe.
Taxes? Banking restrictions?
Do you deal much with banks and tax authorities these days?
Setting up a company, charity or whatever takes time. Any individual who all of a sudden starts receiving “unusual” amounts of funds in their account will automatically have it blocked and would need to justify the source and purpose of funds.
Most people aren’t really aware of this, but long before covid, our freedom has been clamped down on big time by financial institutions – pushed by states and large corporations – under the pretence of stopping illegal activity.
Try doing anything unusual with your bank account. Or even not that unusual, just substantial. Financial freedom was lost long before we started losing our health freedom.
None of the problems you mention are in any way eliminated by opting in to receive payments through some scammy Internet marketing company. If you have trouble sending your donation overseas, you could use PayPal. Or crypto (although that option obviously reduces the number of potential donors, so should be only used as extra).
Why not just give the truckers food, accommodation, and pay to fill their trucks up with fuel? Get the money from the MPs!
Ok. You make the list of truckers with their account details and organise the donations so they are distributed fairly. 🙂
Well, yeah. As we’ve all discovered. But prior to this episode, it was assumed it was a channel to raise funds without bumping into those problems.
In any case, you’ve answered your own question. They don’t send it directly to someone’s bank account because it doesn’t work.
Am not surprised. Please research getting your own at home bitcoin node on a Pi computer. Run your own lightning payment channel. 99.9% less transaction fee’s, sometimes zero if it is peer to peer.
The quicker we get off self serving market-makers the quicker more of your money will work for you. Stop using these evil woke platforms and I include Paypal, who won’t be long behind GoFund
MeWhateverISay I suspect.Unfortunately the on and off ramps for bitcoin and other crypto are also highly regulated. And as a medium of exchange they are very limited. So you’re still under the same scrutiny and control.
Cash continues to be the freest form of money.
https://getumbrel.com/
Once you have your crypto off the exchanges you are not controlled.
In the scheme of things this illegal action is a minor inconvenience that shows their real colours.
The butterfly effect has been set in motion.
The psychopaths, well-read and psychopathically intelligent as they are, have not yet quite realised what Absolute Beauty and Love they have unleashed upon them.
’Cleanse me, deep in the fire
I have
Become Pure Water’
Like Water we shall converge. Beautiful. Peaceful. Mighty. Unstoppable.
The time is Now, sisters and brothers. It is happening.
A pithy summary:
Surely seizing funds not belonging to Go Fund Me is theft?
They had a rethink.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gofundme-steals-9-million-canadas-freedom-convoy-truckers-under-pressure-trudeau
Too late – damage done – if I was to send them money to route to a cause I would EXPECT my money to go to that cause, irrespective of whether or not they “agreed” with the cause or not.
Fact – they were happy to let the Truckers set up the funding page and take donations. Until of course they had their collar felt by the globalists on Trudeau’s behalf because he was too much of a coward to do his own dirty work.
Man I am mad about this.
That donation site is getting hammered.
A pity their office in California isn’t getting hammered.
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“The implication to many was clear – that the Covid-19 vaccine is linked to the excess mortality, and months of vaccine injury reports were now spilling over to actuarial data – which is beginning to show, among other things, that younger, working-age people began dying in greater numbers as vaccine mandates hit – for a disease which primarily kills older, non-working age individuals. The counter argument, often presented without evidence, is that the increase is due to people who postponed elective surgeries and other medical treatments during the pandemic.”
I have a huge amount of sympathy with the Canadian truckers cause, but I wonder if they have considered that stopping traffic flowing in the world’s cities is precisely what many of the globalist enviro-mentals aim to achieve.
Is that why Turdeau hasn’t done much to try and end it? Are they secretly clapping their hands with glee?
Good point, but I think Turdeau was found wanting and ran away. Will he soon be pushed out for letting things go this far…?
Couple of years ago I couldn’t even spell sinic but now I is one.
That would be confusing the means with the end.
Tackling climate change, or appearing to more like, is not an end in itself. It’s the means by which they control the population and enrich themselves.
They’re not actually looking to tackle climate change. They don’t believe it’s necessary any more than you or I do.
So no, I don’t think they are pleased about the truckers. Unless they can spin the whole thing to their advantage, which I’m sure they are working on as we speak.
Me? I’m not working on anything….
Good point stewart, have an uptick.
Remember though, don’t pledge it to ‘gofundme’ or they will donate it to concrete68.
Won’t be using GoFundMe ever again thats for sure.
Use chargeback and it costs the bastards to refund your card.
How to trash your brand in one easy lesson-a marketing case study for the ages!
Except among the sizeable proportion of the population who are fully on board with all the authoritarian measures. They’ll be clapping the move like goofy circus seals thinking GoFundMe are the best ever. Don’t be to shocked if there is a push to pressure GoF**kMe into donating the money to an association of LGBTXYZ+?!$& Truckers. (They’ll set one up quickly if necessary.)
Spot on. A majority of some Western countries will actually clap GoFundMe for attempting this open theft.
They’d cheer from their rooftops to see GoFundMe distribute the Canadian Trucker’s funds to fact-checking NGOs. After all the “hard work” the fact-checkers did through the plandemic, they need a bonus.
Perhaps, GoFundMe were attempting to get two birds with the one stone by rewarding lying cretins like the fact-checkers, whilst at the same time humiliating the truckers.
I don’t think it will be very long until we see groups of very angry people paying visits to the offices and headquarters of disgusting outfits like GoFundMe, MSM, et al. Some people are definitely going to lose it when they realise that much of the deaths and injuries caused over the last two years were done on purpose. And inflicted in a way to purposefully cause the maximum humiliation.
Think of that husband on his phone in a hospital car park begging to be allowed in to say goodbye to his dying wife. He was refused point-blank to be with his wife in her last few moments on this earth.
Whilst buffoon Johnson and his whale hugging piece-of-fluff partied with their sycophant cronies in 10 Downing St.
A Ratner moment, I hope.
The next President of the USA is getting in on the action:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gofundme-steals-9-million-canadas-freedom-convoy-truckers-under-pressure-trudeau
On Telegram there is a message that all donors are being refunded. There are alternative means to donate identified.
I don’t think it has been a good day for GoFundMe.
Brilliant!
Should be called “go fund woke approved causes only ” snappy hey .
What total shameless bias .
These hosting providers should be neutral but they never will as the Lefts long march has really infiltrated everything .Thats the real horror show here.
Ugh, more Musk worshipping.
The guy backing the truckers…while building driverless truck systems to replace them, what a guy!
They are actually finding it very hard to create the artificial intelligence that is needed for the successful running of driverless vehicles.
At first, they thought they would be able to easily replicate the human brain. But they are finding that they can’t. Some experts claim that they will never be able to create the AI needed to run driverless vehicles.
But where we have to be very careful is that they may take another route to create the AI needed to drive vehicles. It’s a possibility that they might use transhumanism as a substitute for their failure to create slave vehicles.
They may have already done a field trial during the plandemic by using the coerced “vaccines” to test the installation of nanotechnology in humans. Perhaps a technology that someday will be able to computerise humans, basically making cyborgs out of them.
Then they’d have the perfect obedient slave class. A quasi human you could program to drive your car, do odd jobs around your home and then be locked in a cupboard overnight.
When rational and the resident trolls on here read this, they’ll probably drool from their woke mouths at the prospect of someday being able to go to a store and buy a small boy for their pleasure
Natural intelligence is scarce enough. Look at the zombie hordes.
The country is gone to hell. Some time ago in a major London hospital I had a disgusting little camp male receptionist (about 18 years old) openly flirt with me. I kid you not, if I had been willing, I believe this filthy little twerp would have got into the nearest broom closet with me.
I’m very far from being an Adonis, so I suspect this camp cretin’s only criteria for prospective lovers are that they be male and have rectums. Therefore, he probably flirted with all males that went near his reception desk. All hospital receptions are saturated with CCTV, so, surely management knew what this filthy idiot was up to. But in this woke era, it’s alright for him to act like this.
Check out Mr Grindr? This vile creature had no problem attracting young males!!!!!!
You might have seen this already – Dr Charles Morgan on Psycho-Neurology.
Bio-hacking. The medical benefits are used to ‘sell’ the tech of course, but the nefarious uses are immediate and obvious. Literally hijacking another person’s mind by transmitting thought waves into their brain using graphene nano-particles and high density data transmission like 5G.
I’ve just downloaded it. Thank you.
He also touches on the ‘hive mind’ concept of having many brains accessed simultaneously to solve complex problems – precisely why Musk is also invested in Neuralink. He wants to use human brains to create an ‘A.I singularity’, and his Starlink satellites will provide the necessary bandwidth and global coverage.
He’s a psychopath.
It feels likely that it’ll get built eventually regardless, he’s giving factory workers a job, coders, etc. Rather him than Zucker I suppose.
Look into the history of how McDonalds replaced skilled cooks/chefs with easily replaceable production line workers to see that battle was lost a while back. Those guys will go the way of the supermarket check-out worker soon too.
I don’t see the genie going back into the bottle on automation.
The only real thing to decide eventually is who will have to fix the machines while everyone else has no work to do, and how those people’s existence will be supplemented. Or I suppose if it will be easier just to cull us, but that’s a question for the WEF.
…That, or who will face the machines and save humanity 🙂
GoFundMe have an office in Dublin, Ireland. It’s probably just a shoe-box office with an answering machine, and being used as a basis to temporarily move profits into and out of Ireland to avail of their very low corporation tax. Many big corporations have such tax avoidance offices like this in Ireland.
But it’s Saturday evening, so perhaps a few Irish fellas with their tanks topped up with Guinness might call round to GoFundMe’s office in Dublin, just to see if anyone is home?
https://www.solocheck.ie/Irish-Company/Gofundme-Ireland-Limited-581748
https://www.businessworld.ie/technology-news/GoFundMe-announces-new-job-openings-at-its-Dublin-office-573744.html
Maybe Mr Musk could find a few million down the back of his settee to send.
That’s a blatant attempt at theft as this money isn’t owned by GoFundMe and the company was never authorized to control its distribution. When refunding the donors, it becomes interest fraud.
Politics to the right of BLM is also clearly not an appropriate label. When you don’t desire to support gangsters keen on suppressing civil liberties to enable private profiteering would be more fitting. That’s neither left nor right.
The truckers are brilliant, go fund me is a disgrace. Watching this anti mandate movement spread round the world is simply wonderful – I feel like the cavalry is coming over the hill.
Meanwhile, in an English village, a lone angry woman amuses herself by removing covid instructions stuck up in public places. There are no council exhortations left on the rec. any more, they are all in the bin where they belong. Soon the village will be totally devoid of covid rule displays. Just my small contribution to the fight.
Good for you! Have a star.
Thank you!
There is a great, silent army of covvie notice removers at work, all over this land. Keep up the good work!
PS. If you want to get rid of them, put them in the bag with the dog poo. That’s what I do.
Well done. I’m wondering why our council haven’t removed their red Maintain Social Distancing (or whatever the cretinous fearporn WEF nonsense says) signs now it’s an endemic cold.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/givesendgo-sees-massive-surge-traffic-one-million-donations-canadian-truckers-12-hours-relentless-ddos-bot-attacks-ceo-givesendgo-sends-exclusive-statement-gateway-pundit/
Isn’t one of the rules of success in a war is the cutting off the financing to your opposition? Well, its turning ugly to say the least.
In a further demonstration of fascistic corporate manipulation Trustpilot has now suspended their GoFundMe review page, as irate donors to the truckers cause had the gall to post their views and one star reviews on Trustpilot’s site. Not a good day for these clueless psychopaths.
This is what Trustpilot are saying if you try to access GoFundMe page:
I wonder, is there a site to leave a review of Trustpilot? Increasingly, I don’t trust them
You could look up the CEO’s e-mail address, easy to find nowadays. If you a) really feel angry, and b) use Twitter, you could put out a tweet with the e-mail address, so that other people can also send him/her a suitable e-mail.
Companies don’t care that much what people say, unless it starts affecting their reputations. But they are terrified of reputational damage. They’ll do anything to avoid that.
The comments are priceless. No wonder they stopped further reviews.
Scam Exposed: You Cannot Trust Trustpilot!
Trustpilot is supposed to be a service you can trust. It is supposed to be the one that tells the truth about online services and their reviews, however, we put it to the test and can see nothing but a flawed system verging on corruption.Trustpilot is just another company built to make money and deliver a product that is completely pointless whilst damaging companies on the way!
https://spainsnews.com/scam-exposed-you-cannot-trust-trustpilot/
What a surprise! (In case you don’t know any “rating” site makes money from selling good ratings to the rated.)
Here’s another link to moans about GoFundMe:
https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/gofundme
Reiner Fuellmich instigates a Grand Jury investigation of the Covid Plandemic – live now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELTFNkCdzjA
https://zeeemedia.com/interview/john-o-looney-funeral-home-whistleblower-most-deaths-are-vaccine-deaths/
Latest interview with John O’Looney, mentioning his stay in hospital. Outspoken and honest as usual.
It’s good. But I feel that his colleagues in the industry are cowards for not even giving off the record briefings to confirm that they see similar things going on. Or they could agree to a short interview with GB News, with their voice either disguised or spoken by an actor. Then they wouldn’t lose their jobs or lose business.
After all, lots of doctors have now spoken out *on* the record, like he has. Undertakers? Not really.
It’s interesting that he thinks he may not have had COVID, but something else. ‘Real flu’? It’s probably more serious than COVID for a man of 50.
He is impressive, but it is because he directly sees the human damage in his industry. (Mentions in this interview he used to be a bouncer!)
Says that during his hospital stay that staff quietly supported his stance.
Consultant wanted to put him on remdesivir. A representative of Oxford university wanted to put him on baracitnib and Tocilizumab, which he refused.
O’Looney says in the interview below that a hospital mortuary assistant told him there has been a 600% increase in thrombosis deaths in the last year
Letter by Senator Ron Johnson following up Renz’s testimony.
https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/services/files/FB6DDD42-4755-4FDC-BEE9-50E402911E02
The Honorable Lloyd J. Austin III Secretary Department of Defense
Based on data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), Renz reported that these whistleblowers found a significant increase in registered diagnoses on DMED for miscarriages, cancer, and many other medical conditions in 2021 compared to a five-year average from 2016-2020.
For example, at the roundtable Renz stated that registered diagnoses for neurological issues increased 10 times from a five-year average of 82,000 to 863,000 in 2021.
There were also increases in registered diagnoses in 2021 for the following medical conditions:
Hypertension – 2,181% increase
Diseases of the nervous system – 1,048% increase
Malignant neoplasms of esophagus – 894% increase
Multiple sclerosis – 680% increase
Malignant neoplasms of digestive organs – 624% increase
Guillain-Barre syndrome – 551% increase
Breast cancer – 487% increase Demyelinating – 487% increase
Malignant neoplasms of thyroid and other endocrine glands – 474% increase
Female infertility – 472% increase
Pulmonary embolism – 468% increase
Migraines – 452% increase
Ovarian dysfunction – 437% increase
Testicular cancer – 369% increase Tachycardia – 302% increase
Renz also informed me that some DMED data showing registered diagnoses of myocarditis had been removed from the database.
Following the allegation that DMED data had been doctored, I immediately wrote to you on January 24 requesting that you preserve all records referring, relating, or reported to DMED.
I have yet to hear whether you have complied with this request.
I was going to post it – thanks for saving me the trouble.
This is really shocking information, I heard the clip and was shocked but to see it in print…. Silly question: why haven’t they pulled this stuff?
Dis-respect to the US Senate? There was a fuss in 2020 when Youtube removed Dr Pierre Kory’s evidence to a Senate C’tee. It reinstated it later.
GoFundMe essentially claims that the Convoy fundraiser is guilty of
“the promotion of violence and harassment”. How on earth?!? GoFU, you are the ones in breach of your own BS. Hypocritical bullies.
“We now have evidence from law enforcement that the previously peaceful demonstration has become an occupation, with police reports of violence and other unlawful activity.”
Occupation, really? Grow up.
Police reports of ‘violence and other unlawful activity’. What violence, what level of violence, what circumstances and by whom? Ditto the ‘unlawful’ activity.
These people (the hypocritical) make me want to be thoroughly sick. These are the real abusers, and it is the hypocrisy and the ‘pure as the driven snow’ bollocks that I really, really detest.
BLM looting, killing, arson, intimidation … all ‘largely peaceful’. FFS!!!
Just GoFU. And while you are there, try to raise some decency for yourselves. Try to honour and abide by your own gospels, instead of – as many do – just using them as purely window-dressing slogans.
You, and your kind disgust me.
“Police reports of ‘violence and other unlawful activity’. What violence, what level of violence, what circumstances and by whom? Ditto the ‘unlawful’ activity.”
All these questions. Don’t you understand that expecting the authorities to answer such questions is tantamount to disloyalty, trying to get them to reveal their sources and methods. Are you in the pay of Vladimir Putin perhaps?
other unlawful activity presumably means people urinating in parks.
The interesting bit here is that these people have now shown their true, naked colours for the first time: With 10 million dollars, the temptation was just too great. So, tried to snatch it away and distribute it to their buddies. Credible charities is nothing but code language for NGOs broadly in favour of, if not directly involved in, global Corona politics. Presumably, Masks4All is a credible charity. And similar entities.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/this-medical-data-from-the-us-dod
This medical data from the US DoD is explosive. Mainstream media has been ordered to ignore it.The DMED data exposed by attorney Tom Renz and Senator Johnson is a smoking gun. General Austin should order all military docs to speak the truth. But he isn’t. Why not?
UPDATE: They are not thieving bar stewards at GoFu**me, they are refunding all the donations in full. This is not wire fraud nor is it honest services fraud. Anything but allow themselves to be of use to decent people defending liberty.
Will never use the platform again.
Sick to the back teeth of the Covidian claptrap.
I’ll point out to anyone I wish to support that I’ll make a cash donation or send a cheque but these virtue signalling prices are off limits.
Should have read pricks not prices.
https://cacuk.uk/how-to-respond-human-rights-act-reform-consultation/
Very good advice on how to respond top the Human Rights Reform Bill
It’s an Agenda-driven piece, which says it wants to “balance” our individual rights with the “rights of society”…
That proposition is a FALLACY.
There is no society without individuals, therefore the “rights of society” DEPEND on the rights of each individual being upheld. They cannot, and must never, compete with individual rights.The ‘Reform’ proposal also seems to want to put more power into the hands of legislators, and give less discretion to our judges, who are supposed to be there to CHECK and BALANCE the legislative powers!
Please have a go at responding to the consultation… make a start NOW (you can save your answers to continue later, up until 8th March). I know some people are struggling, but there’s no reason why EVERYONE can’t participate, to the best of their ability.
This is exactly what digital money is all about. Not convenience but control.
No wonder they hate coins and banknotes, which you can physically hand over and they can’t confiscate.
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I donated a modest amount to the Freedom Convoy via GoFleeceMe, err…. GoFundMe. Today I received an email saying they’ll refund the amount to me in a few days. I replied to them thus:
I am sure that left them shaken and crushed. 😉 I will, of course, donate to the Freedom Convoy, either through another platform or directly.
Theft that should be dealt with as such and very long jail terms handed out.
Well, anyone who wants to be funded via GoFundMe will get nothing from me.
I’ve always been suspicious of crowdfunding websites and rarely use them. The actions of GoFundMe will, I suspect, make many more reluctant to give through these platforms. The consequence will be that fewer people will use them and good causes will suffer as a result.I propose a Defund GoFundMe movement.
I believe go fund me had to refund all contributors now and another site is being used for donations.
Anyone who is as outraged by this as I am can donate to the Freedom Convoy at GiveSendGo here: https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022.
Without a medical qualification between them the tech billionaires of Google, Youtube, Facebook & Twitter have been cancelling, censoring & banning highly qualified medical personell during the past 2 years who have not followed their agenda. GoFundMe is the latest tech company that thinks it can ride roughshod over the public. Zuckerberg is now seeing by following in the footsteps of the Reichmaster for Propaganda Joseph Goebbels is not profitable going by the sudden drop in Facebook’s share price this week
If GoFundMe has a physical HQ in Canada I’d suggest the truckers head for it and drive their rigs right through any such building.
I would add that I would advocate ensuring that the building was empty of people.
Good that DS let this article stand, even though GFM is pretending to backpedal. I see that Governor De Santis had something to say about it.
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