(0149) More after my second sleep, maybe closer to 7 a.m. for Steve and DAD reports. (0256)
4. A new type of investigative journo is about
… from the emerging generation:
If the wonderful chaps and chapesses of the older generations … Pre-Boomer, Boomer, Gen X … have had our day … move over, it’s Millennial, Gen Zee and Alpha now … then here is one of the new brooms in this item.
Now, do we oppose or do we support the young? Should we show him, in this case, the rudiments of presenting maps, eliminating white space between map and obscured heading?
3. Having knocked Richard Tice
… for a long time now (see Mon 2), yet I must here turn around and praise him for getting it right:
2. The Reform split
.. is summed up in this X article by Connor Tomlinson:
“”You come here, you commit crimes, you should be deported… My view is, firmly, that you start with the illegal migrants: that you detain them and deport them.”
@RupertLowe10 reiterates his commitment to mass deportations of foreign criminals in British prisons, and every single illegal immigrant in the UK.
@prwhittle mentions Nigel Farage ruling out mass deportations, in an interview with Steven Edginton, and Lowe explains Reform allows for a plurality of opinion, and that he doesn’t “have to parrot the party line.” When pressed on Net Zero immigration, Lowe also says he disagrees with Reform’s policy: explaining that a one-in, one-out immigration policy leads to “losing your best people and replacing them with even more lower grade people… lots of people who are so strongly of the view that their culture is better than the Christian culture that they’re coming to.” “If you come to this country, you live by our laws, you speak our language…” I would think that, given Rupert Lowe’s rising popularity, his stance on illegal and legal migration would be a better policy prospectus for Reform to adopt. A great interview with
And therein lies the Reform dilemma … Farage/Tice policy versus members’ perceived policy articulated by Rupert. Farage owns 60% of Reform and is finding funding for it as a potentially alternative govt, which he’s doing well … yet he’s at odds with majority party thinking.
1. Romania
This is an example of where X is poor … not in the content but in the layout:
That bit is fine (in terms of layout, not speaking about content here) but were you to click on the Bertrand part to expand to “read below the line”, you’d lose the Yanis part, the intro. He only way around it is the way I’m doing below:
“This is an absolutely bombshell: the story about the cancelled elections in Romania is even far more sinister than previously thought. A new report from investigative outlet http://snoop.ro (https://snoop.ro/anaf-a-descoperit-ca-pnl-a-platit-o-campanie-care-l-a-promovat-masiv-pe-calin-georgescu-pe-tiktok/) reveals that the TikTok campaign which was cited in the declassified Romanian intelligence documents (summarized in my post below) as evidence of foreign interference – and used as grounds to cancel the presidential election – was actually paid for by the ruling National Liberal Party (PNL), the very party that supported cancelling the elections! According to the investigation, the campaign called “#EchilibrușiVerticalitate” that the intelligence services claimed was “identical to Russian operations in Ukraine” was organized by a marketing firm called Kensington Communication, hired by PNL (the ruling party), who paid Kensington over 1 million RON for it (about $210,000). Kensington then used a platform called FameUp to coordinate 130 influencers with specific scripts and messaging guidelines.
This puts the declassified intelligence documents in an entirely new light. What they presented as evidence of foreign interference was actually a campaign paid for by the ruling party. The same party that then supported using these allegations of “foreign interference” to cancel an election they were losing. Even more bizarrely, confronted by journalists, Kensington Communication initially denied using the hashtag but later admitted to creating the campaign for PNL, claiming it was meant to be called “#echilibrusiseriozitate” and was changed to “#echilibrusiverticalitate” without their knowledge. Yeah, right… This means that either the Romanian intelligence services didn’t know this was a PNL-funded campaign when they used it as evidence to cancel the election (which raises huge questions about their competence), or they did know and didn’t disclose it (which raises even bigger questions about their integrity). In any case, it seems to indicate that something extremely sinister happened in Romania: a ruling party used intelligence services to cancel an election based on “foreign interference” evidence that they themselves paid for!”
Link to the X post of Bertrand
If you’re not on X … and I’m sure it’s a ploy to get you on, you’ll not be able to read the attached nwspaper report plus the police response, plus he then goes into a second tweet which shows the actual response in English, which supports the contention at the top.
Right … how can I, here, bring the entirety of the content to you, the Unherdables reader? I can’t, beyond linking to the original Yanis tweet which still requires you to go to X.
Thus, you’re relying, if unwilling to go there, that what I say is so. As I’m not forcing you to do that, philosophically, then it leaves you in a “behind paywall” situation, without actually having to pay money.
Now, before we attack X or Bertrand for this, remember that there are two versions of X membership or account … unverified and blue tick verified. The $8 (or whatever it is blue tick) requires personal information I’m not supplying … thus I can give you no url from here to that article in the public sphere … which appears to be bad …
… until you think it through. Nole is very much public enema n1 globally right now … this above is therefore a protective device behind a safety barrier, which the gremlins can’t get to, tamper with. Plus it makes business sense at a time the weaponised Them are trying to bankrupt him for obvious reasons.
Thus we are all involved in this fight for civilisation and though this whole “non-gelling” difficulty for blogs and journals above creates headaches for little bloggers … yet I can see why.
Which, in Granny-Harmerland, means the stasi consider anyone repeating it a baddy. Which we know is bollox but this is war right now, innit.