A World Run By Algorithms

You might not have heard of the algorithm that drives the world. Very few people have, though it can determine much that goes on in our day-to-day lives. The food that we eat, our schedule at work, and when the train will come in to take us there.

Somewhere, in some server basement right now, it’s likely working on some aspect of your life tomorrow, next week, in a year’s time.

Maybe unawareness of the algorithm’s workings was bliss. The door to Plato’s Academy in archaic Athens there’s said to have borne the legend ‘let no one ignorant of geometry enter’.

That was easy enough to say back then when geometry was firmly grounded in the three dimensions of space our brains were built to cope with, but the algorithm works in totally higher planes. Four, five, thousands or even many millions of dimensions.

Perhaps, though, we should try slightly harder to get our heads around it, because effective though it clearly is, the algorithm is steering into a spot of bother, and the algorithm might not be quite as reliable as it once appeared.

Algorithms are behind numerous ordinary, but still significant, decisions in your life.

The code frequently replaces humans, but it doesn’t mean the results are infallible. An algorithm can be just as imperfect as its human creators.

Basically, the Facebook algorithm evaluates every post. It scores posts and then places them in descending, non-chronological order of interest for each particular user. This process occurs every time a user, and there are 2.9 billion of them, refreshes their feed.

Three examples of algorithms are as simple as the recipe for baking a cake, the way we use to solve a long division problem, the method of doing laundry, and the functionality of a search engine, but the question is, are algorithms dangerous?

There’s a long history of investigations of how flawed design, unintended bias, and negative interventions can cause algorithms to initiate enormous financial losses, facilitate unfair judgments, violate laws, and even cause deaths.

Algorithms can save lives, make things easier, and conquer chaos, but still, experts fear that they can also put too much control in the hands of corporations and governments, perpetuate bias, create filter bubbles, cut choices, creativity, serendipity and could result in greater unemployment.

So, what are algorithms used for in real life? Well, algorithms lie at the core of computing, and if you observe your surroundings, you’ll find several algorithms working to solve your daily life problems, such as social media networks, GPS applications, Google search, e-commerce platforms, Netflix recommendation systems et cetera, all these applications are powered by algorithms.

Is there a perfect algorithm, no there is not, and they frequently contain the prejudices of the people who have created them, but they’re still extremely useful and they’ve made all of our lives a lot easier?

So, what is a Google algorithm? It’s a complicated system utilised to retrieve data from its search index and immediately delivers the best possible results for a query. The search engine uses a variety of algorithms and multiple ranking factors to deliver webpages indexed by relevancy on its search engine result pages (SERPs).

So, how does a TikTok algorithm work? The TikTok algorithm is a system that makes content suggestions personalised for each user. It determines which videos a user might like based on their personal interests and displays them on the user’s For You Page and as a result, the For You Page is highly personalised for each user.

Basically, algorithms run the world and it’s a secret code that’s controlling our everyday lives, and we’re being watched, monitored and documented 24/7, it’s no surprise that some people have had enough, and the whole thing is extremely insidious and worrying, although at the moment algorithms are coded by humans – it’s the natural learning AI we need to watch out for.

At the moment these algorithms can only control your life if you let yourself become dependent on them and get addicted to devices and social media.

Unfortunately, most people have become addicted to these gizmos and social media, and of course, our cell phones, when we’re calling out for pizza.

As Inflation Ramps Up, Britons’ Pay Plunges At A Record Rate

Britons’ spending capacity is declining at a frightening pace as wages are outstripped by runaway inflation.

Regular pay decreased by 3 per cent in real terms in the quarter to June, the most destructive since comparable records started in 2001. Including bonus earnings were down 2.5 per cent.

Using the headline CPI inflation rate that doesn’t include housing costs the situation was even more alarming, with a 4.1 per cent drop in regular pay and 3.6 per cent in total pay.

Meanwhile, there are worrying signs that the employment market is slowing down, with vacancies declining for the first time since 2020, albeit from record levels.

In cash terms wages are going up sharply, by 5.1 per cent for total and 4.7 for regular pay, but inflation is swelling even quicker, with fears figures will show CPI in double digits and prompt the Bank of England to push up interest rates again.

CPI inflation struck a new 40-year record of 9.4 per cent in June and is predicted to rise to about 11 per cent later this year.

The ONS said the number of UK workers on payroll increased by 73,000 between June and July to 29.7 million.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate rose to 3.8 per cent for the quarter compared with 3.7 per cent for the earlier period.

Vacancy numbers hit 1.274 million over the three months from May to July, dropping by 19,800 in the first signal the UK’s hot labour market could be cooling.

ONS director of economic statistics Darren Morgan said that the number of people in work grew in the second quarter of 2022, whilst the headline rates of unemployment and of people neither working nor looking for a job were little changed, and he said that the total number of hours worked each week seems to have stabilised very little below pre-pandemic levels, and that redundancy was still at extremely low levels.

He also said that the number of job vacancies remained historically very high, it fell for the first time since the summer of 2020, but that the real value of pay continues to decline, and he said that excluding bonuses, it’s still falling faster than at any time since comparable records began in 2001.

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi said that the stats indicate that the jobs market is in a powerful position, with unemployment lower than at almost any point in the past 40 years, which is good news in what are difficult times for people.

Of course, we shouldn’t be overlooking the furlough for COVID and with that, there was always going to be a price to pay, along with Brexit which is like a weight tied to a swimmer’s foot, and its effects will be felt for years to come, and denying this is simply denying the truth.

The United Kingdom is plunging into the sea with the weight of too many people living here with the fat and greedy bleeding everyone dry, and if you go into shops there are more and more shelf serve tills with hardly any attendants. Ultimately, everything will be manned by robots and machines. Some call it progress, but it looks like the human race is committed to making itself redundant, and the Terminator movie is beginning to look a lot like a prophecy, not a fantasy.

The Tories have destroyed this country and it’s time they were voted out. They’re wealthy snobs who have no idea of the struggles we all face every day.

An Elvis Biographer Claims His Family’s History Of Incest Destined Him To Die Young

An author has claimed in a biography that Elvis Presley’s premature death was unavoidable and brought on by genetic flaws caused by incest in his family tree.

In Elvis: Destined to Die Young, Sally Hoedel claimed Elvis’ premature demise from a heart attack at 42 was a foregone conclusion brought on by flawed genes handed down from his maternal grandparents, who married despite being first cousins.

Sally Hoedel, a lifelong fan of Elvis Presley, told a newspaper outlet she was motivated to research the book after noticing similarities between the rocker’s demise and the demise of his mother Gladys Presley, who also died in her forties.

Much like Elvis Presley, Gladys suffered a sudden period of intense health decline and substance abuse, leading to her demise at 46 of heart failure.

Gladys’ three brothers also died at similar ages to her of heart or lung-related illnesses.

Sally Hoedel said that it ceased being a coincidence by the time it got to Elvis Presley because there was so much going on in that family tree.

Elvis Presley was discovered dead in his Memphis, Tennessee bathroom on August 16, 1977. His demise was officially ruled as being caused by cardiac arrest, but the role drug use played in bringing that about has long been subject to controversy.

Elvis Presley was known to have become addicted to multiple prescription medications throughout the 1970s trying to cope with the demands of a decade of famously gruelling touring.

But in her book, Sally Hoedel claimed Elvis Presley’s decline was not driven by overindulgence or reckless drug use, but that he was overprescribed medication to mitigate illnesses he’d already developed and was being exasperated by his tour demands.

She said that Elvis had various health problems but he concealed them so well that over-medication is what we remember now. He often took too much, and there were issues there, but you have to question why he was taking those pills in the first place.

Sally Hoedel argued the clues to understanding Elvis Presley’s death lay in his mother, whose demise came almost 19 years to the day before her sons.

Like Elvis, Gladys’ health deteriorated unexpectedly and rapidly in her 40s. She also developed a substance abuse problem of her own, dying as a drunk on August 14, 1958, days before her son was due to begin his military service in Germany.

I’m guessing that out of this a new film about Elvis’s life will appear, with all the insects and malicious stories, but the fact is he was a legend and always will be.

His mother always looked so glum though. I don’t believe that I’ve ever seen a photograph of her smiling.

And whether the steady diet of high-grade drugs on which Elvis was dependent, wasn’t a factor. Or the fried sandwiches and huge burgers that blocked his arteries, no, evidently it was all predestined by his DNA.

Elvis Presley was such a wonderfully handsome man, and it’s such a shame what happened to him, and clearly, it wasn’t his family DNA that was the issue. Food was his addiction along with the medication that he was taking, and sadly addiction is an extremely bad habit that’s very hard to kick.

The man has been dead for 45 years, I believe it’s time to let the poor man be because it actually doesn’t matter now.

Maybe it’s not good marrying your first cousin, but I believe that his addiction to medication and extremely unhealthy lifestyle was a huge factor in his demise. Sadly he didn’t really have anyone to look out for him apart from those that benefitted, and his death was a tragic ending.

Pensioners’ Petrol Voucher Scheme Could Be Revived By Liz Truss

Liz Truss will look at reviving a project said to have been thwarted by Rishi Sunak in which oil companies fund petrol vouchers for pensioners.

Downing Street officials held discussions with the bosses of large firms on the prospect of a voluntary scheme to reduce the cost of living.

Under the proposals, the oil colossi would have funnelled some of their profits into a fund that would have been utilised to assist those who are struggling.

Bernard Looney, the chief executive of BP, is understood to have been a supporter of the ideas and was prepared to put in more than £1 billion.

Instead of going ahead with the plan as chancellor, Rishi Sunak chose instead to levy a windfall tax on oil and gas companies, and a source close to Liz Truss said Rishi Sunak thwarted it because he’s only keen on ideas he thinks of himself, but Liz Truss said that she would look again at the proposals for a voluntary scheme if she becomes Prime Minister.

The Tory leadership favourite has ruled out imposing a further windfall tax on oil and gas firms, but her camp has said she won’t ditch the current levy introduced by Rishi Sunak earlier this year.

Petrol prices are already starting to relax thanks to plunging wholesale rates, just weeks after they hit a record high. Wholesale prices fell 10p a litre by the start of July, 20p by the middle of July, and 30p from August 4.

The AA has said prices at the pumps are on course to drop below 160p a litre.

Figures collected by the motoring body revealed petrol was on average 175.2p a litre, which is substantially down on the record of 191.5p set on July 3.

Diesel also seems to be dropping, from 190.01p a litre a fortnight ago to 185.9p last week. Rishi Sunak slashed fuel duty by 5p a litre in March but encountered ridicule when he posed for a photo opportunity at a Sainsbury’s in London.

It emerged the Kia Rio he was filling up belonged to a supermarket employee. He also struggled with his contactless card.

Rishi Sunak’s supporters insisted his campaign was not doomed even as a poll showed Liz Truss maintains a commanding lead.

With only three weeks until Britain’s next prime minister is picked, the Opinium survey puts the Foreign Secretary 22 points ahead.

However, Liz Truss is clutching at straws because pensioners need lower home utility bills, not lower petrol, although that would be nice too, but of course, people will be forced by Liz Truss to be grateful for her charity. And of course, it’s never noted how they will eliminate the benefits to the hundreds of scroungers coming to the United Kingdom every day in their dingies.

And Liz Truss knows perfectly well that pensioners most in need likely don’t own a car, that’s because they can’t damn well afford one! So, what’s the point of petrol vouchers? And this is not only ridiculous but condescending as well.

Petrol prices should be lowered because people need to get to work, and essential for trips and businesses.

What about giving pensioners a decent pension and decreasing the pension age down to 60 years old again because at the moment all the government want you to do is work till you drop, in the hope that by the time you’ve actually got to pension age you’ll be dead anyhow.

There are people out there that will have worked all their life, but will never see the pension that they paid into – this is called stealing money that doesn’t belong to the government, but they will keep it anyhow because they won’t care once you’re dead.

The Duke And Duchess Of Cambridge Move Into The Four-Bedroom Adelaide Cottage

Prince William and Kate Middleton’s move to a four-bedroom dwelling on the Windsor estate will mean not having a live-in nanny for the first time in their children’s lives.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are reportedly ready to uproot their family from Kensington, west London, to Adelaide Cottage in Berkshire this summer in order to be nearer to the Queen.

According to a newspaper outlet, their young children won’t have Spanish Norland nanny Maria Borrallo on hand because she will live elsewhere.

Maria Borrallo was engaged by Kate and William, both 40, to help look after Prince George, nine, when he was eight months old and she now cares for Princess Charlotte, seven, and Prince Louise, four, too.

The Spanish supernanny trained at the prestigious Norland College which has been producing childminders for the wealthy and famous since 1892.

Re-erected in 1831, the Cambridge’s new Grade II listed retreat is just a brief walk from St George’s Chapel and Windsor Castle and sits proudly on the 655-acre royal estate in Berkshire.

Sources close to the family suggest the Cambridge’s were keen to be closer to the Queen, 96, who’s suffered episodic mobility problems in current months and also secure an exemplary school for their three children.

George, Charlotte and Louis will be pulled out of their current prep school in Battersea and are all expected to start school locally when the new academic term begins in September.

The move also symbolises a new start for the senior royals and their five-strong family as they continue to cement their position among the most influential members of The Firm.

One source told a newspaper outlet that Kate and William were extremely eager for a modest home to start their new lives in Windsor, and Adelaide Cottage fits the bill because it’s a four-bedroom house and they don’t require any more as they have no live-in attendants, and they had no other needs than a nice family home near to schools and the Queen.

And they were adamant that they didn’t want anything too flashy or anything that required remodelling or additional security so as not to be a hindrance to the taxpayer.

Their children are now sleeping through the night, so nannies will show up before breakfast and depart after bath time, but no doubt servants will be right nearby, so even if the Cambridges want to appear as ordinary as possible, they’re not.

Just because the staff are not living there, it doesn’t mean there will be no staff at all. I’m sure there will be a full-time housekeeper, gardener, and the nanny will continue full-time even if she lives elsewhere.

Of course, there will be a nanny around someplace because William and Kate will never be completely responsible for taking care of their children. Although it’s wonderful that they want to be near the Queen.

However, I don’t understand why people would have children for someone else to raise them, and as much as William and Kate come across as a typical family, you would have to be deluded to believe they don’t get much help.

And I just love the term ‘cottage’. It’s a rather impressive building which I would term ‘mansion’. I just find this so amusing.

I guess congratulations would be in order, well, if they start mowing their own lawn and doing their own grocery shopping, then I’d be really impressed.

The end game here is that their children will be brought up by nannies, so let’s stop this drooling nonsense about them being amazing parents et cetera. At the end of the day most people won’t be interested in their concerns, they will be worried about the rising cost of living.

Prisoners’ Harsh Reality When They Leave Prison

YOU have done a crime and have been put in jail. The reason being is that you have executed a crime and there’s the hope that being in prison will rehabilitate you. Does this work ‘it makes little or no difference’.

The best that you can hope for in prison is that you are treated with decency, dignity and self-growth. Unfortunately, in some prisons, it’s indecent, and unsafe and allows no such growth and further damage to those that have had to survive there.

But what happens when you come out of prison?

Every day behind bars is just one day closer to when a prisoner comes out of jail, and for some, the thought of that moment when they walk through the gates to become a free person once again is the only thing that keeps them going, but how, after years of being mainly confined to the four walls of a cell, does a prisoner begin to even start again and reintegrate back into society?

One day you’re in the confines of those walls and then you’re being released.

You’ve already packed up the belongings that you’ve accumulated while in jail and now all you want to do is get up and go.

Prisoners are then taken to reception where they will go through a discharge process, which includes having the items impounded from them on arrival – returned.

An officer reads your licence conditions which you then have to sign, and then you walk out the gates, and for a lot of prisoners no one is there to meet you and some don’t even have anywhere to go.

Some are fortunate, they have friends or family to stay with, and for some, there are bail hostels they can go to but they’re extremely limited, but the reality of it all is that for many the reality of being back on the outside is a giant disappointment.

It’s not easy coming out of prison and this is why numerous people re-offend.

If you are lucky to get into a bail hostel it’s still difficult because even though you have an address you won’t have any bank account even if you had one before you went in because it would have been closed down and without any utility bills, drivers licence or passport you won’t be allowed to open one up. You won’t have any credit record and because of this, you won’t be able to rent, and it constantly becomes a vicious cycle.

But if you don’t have any help, you’re essentially on a one-way street back to jail, because at least there you had a roof over your head.

On a released prisoner’s first day out from the inside, there will be a series of appointments to organise things and meet your probation officer, and if you’ve been fortunate to have been given a bail hostel then you will likely end up in an area that you don’t know and have to find these places in the first place, which is even more brutal if you’re a person with learning problems.

The system is not for you to not re-offend but to make sure that you do.

Prisoners are given a £76 prison discharge which is supposed to last until their benefits are paid.A

If you are lucky enough to be sent to a bail hostel, the time limit is three months stay or less because they just don’t have the room so are now booting people out after 8 weeks.

Some prisoners are lucky enough to be linked up with agencies on the outside, but for a lot of prisoners, the grim fact is they will potentially end up homeless because the probation service can only assist so much, so it’s pretty much up to you to find a place to live.

But there are difficulties with staying in a hostel anyhow, because you may have been a drug user before going into prison and while in prison you became clean, and then you came out of prison and are sent to a hostel around drug users again, which is challenging.

In prison, you count the days until you’re free and until you can see your family again, but in some cases, it’s just a big disappointment, you’re free, but it’s just not what you thought it would be.

You step towards the gates and there’s no one there. There isn’t a taxi waiting to pick you up, you’re just given a travel warrant to get the train or bus.

Another massive shock after a time on the inside is how much the world on the outside has altered. Depending on how long a prisoner has been incarcerated, for some, it’s a completely unknown world.

You’re not used to the traffic, you’re not used to the crowds, and you’re coming out and starting all over again.

The release process from jail might be improving a bit, but more should be done to support those reintegrating back into society, and the bottom line is that without any support you’re not going to be able to survive.

There needs to be more duty of care and the process of coming out of jail needs to be seamless.

There never used to be anything in place so it is improving but it’s still not flawless, but if you don’t have help coming out of prison, it will just feel like punishment after punishment.

Everyone leaving prison should have a safe and suitable home to go to on release because allegedly our reforms to probation are designed to foster long-term rehabilitation so that it can ultimately reduce offending, but it doesn’t do any such thing.

For months a prisoner will have waited for that moment of release, but little do they realise what lies ahead of them, and many are released with no external support and nowhere to go, in a metropolis they may have never seen before, which leaves them not knowing whether to turn left or right upon leaving the prison.

And when you leave the prison you will discover that your months of dormancy have taken a toll on your physical strength and you might struggle to carry your bags or wander very far.

You have to see probation, which is an important meeting, otherwise, you’ll instantly be recalled back to jail for missing that, and then it’s onto the Jobcentre, and all in an area that you might not know.

You’re given a discharge grant on release which is supposed to get you through the first few days, but in fact, this money will have to last a lot longer, 5-6 weeks before you get any benefit payments started.

So the delight of getting released was short-lived, and then the reality of it all soon sets in, and of course, there’s a stigma of having been in prison, so very few employers are keen to take on an ex-con and it’s near unattainable to get any insurance for anything, and having lost your home and savings, private rentals are now outside your means.

Your prison sentence doesn’t end when the prison gates open, and before you were imprisoned you would never have been able to comprehend why prisoners would ever want to go back, but once you leave you’ll be able to fully understand why.

Prison isn’t easy, it isn’t nice by any stretch of the imagination, and it isn’t a holiday camp as people often say it is, but it does offer stability and structure.

Some people in jail have no family, no accommodation nor a life to return to. Some have no life skills, having spent most of their adolescent and short adult life in one institution or another, and for many, coping alone on the outside in a strange city will be too much for their mental health, so it’s easier to ensure that they return to prison by committing another offence.

From the outside, this might sound bizarre, but for someone who’s homeless with no money, prison is at least a roof over your head, especially if that’s become your norm. SO IF YOU BELIEVE THAT BEING IN PRISON REHABILITATES, THINK AGAIN!

Royal Mail’s Strike Could Be The Biggest Industrial Action Of The Summer

115,000 Royal Mail workers have voted to go on strike in what could be the largest industrial action this summer.

It’s being called the summer of discontent by many, along with London bus walkouts scheduled later in August and the railways set to grind to a standstill once again in the next train strike.

The cost of living crisis is partly to blame, and Royal Mail is no stranger to this after April saw stamps go up in price thanks to inflation. But now the postal service is encountering a fresh challenge as thousands of its employees have voted for strike action this summer.

Royal Mail workers voted overwhelmingly for strike action on July 19, but no date has yet been fixed when the walkouts will take place. The vote took place among more than 115,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU).

CWU general secretary Dave Ward, who’s also backed the Enough is Enough campaign to tackle the cost of living situation, said there’s now a small window for talks to sidestep strikes before the walkout dates are set, while Royal Mail said it was dissatisfied by the vote, adding that in the event of industrial action, they have contingency strategies to minimise customer disruption and will work to keep people, businesses and the country connected.

The vote comes just after Unite union made a decision to suspend three days of walkouts scheduled at Royal Mail on 20, 21 and 22 July. The trade union’s members voted by almost two to one to return to negotiations rather than move forward with the scheduled strike, following new proposals by Royal Mail on jobs, pay and conditions.

Unite official Mike Eatwell said that Unite’s members had accepted the senior management’s return to the negotiating table to improve upon the jobs already put back into the crucial delivery and collections services and that Royal Mail’s changed approach was evident but there was further to go.

With more than 115,000 postal workers voting to strike, CWU were on course for what could be the biggest industrial action to hit Britain this summer. The Union said that the vote could leave no doubt that postal workers were united and that they were demanding the proper pay rise they deserve, while Royal Mail bosses are giving themselves massive bonuses.

The price of a First Class stamp will rise by 10 pence to 95 pence, and the price of a Second Class stamp will increase by 2 pence to 68 pence, and postage for a large First Class letter stamp will increase by 16 pence to £1.45.

Royal Mail has been run into the ground since it was privatised, and privatisation is a big con, and when it all fails, guess who comes to bail them out? Yes, it’s us the taxpayer!

Most posties enjoy their job, being alfresco and meeting great people, but due to years of transformation, they now have to trek 4-5 hours if not more. They don’t walk with just one bag of mail but have to go back to their van and go through 10 plus bags weighing 10kg plus.

The hot weather is intense at the moment, and it’s appreciated when someone offers them a cold drink, this can mean so much to a postie in this extreme heat.

They will be striking soon, but of course, none of them actually wants to strike. They lose pay and will end up still delivering the same amount of mail but late.

They’re striking due to management taking bigger bonuses and awarding themselves free shares. Paying big bonuses to shareholders, yet awarding posties 2 per cent, providing they accept changes that include trekking for 6 hours plus, starting after 8 working Sundays on pro-rata as part of their shift patterns.

Posties are not greedy, overpaid, lazy people like some press like to make them out to be.

In this heat, no manager has offered them water or even asked if there are areas they can get water from. No offer of starting their shift early, no checking to see if they have hats or sun cream. On the contrary, they’ve been asked to take out mail from other duties to make up for staff shortages due to holidays et cetera.

Ukraine Is Now Unlikely To Ever Be Occupied By Vladimir Putin

Ben Wallace said that Vladimir Putin is now unlikely to ever succeed in inhabiting Ukraine, as Britain promised more economic and military aid for the country.

The Defence Secretary said Russia’s attack has faltered and is beginning to fail in numerous areas as he co-hosted a conference of contributors in Copenhagen.

He also described enormous losses of both personnel and military equipment it’s suffered in the near six months since Vladimir Putin launched a special military operation on February 24.

Mr Wallace said that they’d failed so far and were unlikely to ever succeed in occupying Ukraine.

Mr Wallace said their attack had faltered and constantly been remodified to the extent they were only concentrating in parts of the south and in the east, a long, long way away from their three-day so-called operation.

He said three days are now over 150 days and almost six months in, with enormous significant losses of both equipment and indeed Russian personnel.

The United Kingdom pledged to send numerous launch rocket systems to Ukraine as well as precision-guided missiles which can strike targets up to 50 miles away, designed to defend against Russian heavy artillery.

Mr Wallace continued that President Vladimir Putin would have to gamble that come August, come a few months in, they would have all got bored of the conflict and the international community would have gone off in other directions.

He said, today is evidence of the opposite, and that they’d come out of the meeting with more promises of finance, more promises of training and more promises of military aid, all designed to help Ukraine succeed, to help Ukraine stand up for its sovereignty and indeed to ensure that President Vladimir Putin’s initiatives fail in Ukraine as they rightly should.

Mr Wallace’s comments come as Denmark has joined the United Kingdom in offering more support to Ukraine.

Germany, earlier seen to be hesitant in giving total tangible aid to Ukraine, is also making what Chancellor Olaf Scholz describes as a tremendous break from its past by sending weapons to the war-torn country, but Mr Wallace disclosed that allies will shortly need to start buying weapons from other nations or putting orders in factories to boost ammo supply to Ukraine as their own reserve supplies were exhausted.

He added that their ongoing support sent a very clear message, that Britain and the international community remained opposed to this illegal fighting and would stand shoulder to shoulder, delivering defensive military assistance to Ukraine to help them defend against Vladimir Putin’s attack.

But it’s comical, Britain’s got money for weapons, but not for its own people, and why is the United Kingdom paying for this fight by sending projectiles? It appears that our government has lots of cash to chuck at a war that has nothing to do with us, this is not a UK war it’s a Russian and Ukraine war.

Will Ukraine be paying us back for everything that we send to them because after all, in the end, nothing is for free? Or are we being that naive because generally, the UK gets nothing back, it never does because we’re a charity for the World?

But then Britain is always on the lookout for a good war or conflict someplace and even if we’re not fighting in it, there’s cash to be made from providing arms, technicians, spares, advisors and then once the country has destroyed itself we go straight in to help to build everything, infrastructure, systems et cetera, but of course, for a price.

After Anne Heche’s Organs Are Checked For Donation, Her Life Support Will Be Turned Off

Anne Heche has been officially announced brain dead and will be taken off life support after suffering a brain injury in a fiery LA car crash last week, her friends and family have said.

The actress, 53, who’s in a coma and in critical condition, will remain on a ventilator to determine whether any of her remaining organs are viable to be donated, per Anne Heche’s wishes.

Anne Heche, who’s been hospitalised at the Grossman Burn Centre at West Hills hospital north of Los Angeles, suffered a severe anoxic brain injury, a statement from her family and friends said. Such an injury is caused by a sustained lack of oxygen to the brain.

A representative for her loved ones said that they wanted to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers for Anne’s recovery and thank the dedicated staff and wonderful nurses that cared for Anne at the Grossman Burn Centre at West Hills hospital, but unfortunately, due to her misfortune, Anne Heche suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma, in critical condition, and she was not expected to survive.

They added that it’s long been her choice to be an organ donor, so she will stay technically alive until the check is done.

The statement continued that Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her abundant vibrancy.

More than her incredible talent, she saw extending compassion and joy as her life’s work, especially moving her hand for acceptance of who you love. She will be remembered for her fearless openness and dearly missed for her light.

The actress, 53, was last reported still in a coma battling for her life in the worst state you could imagine after slamming her car into a house at 90mph while high on cocaine.

It was said that cocaine was discovered in Anne Heche’s bloodstream following the horrific collision, but officials confirmed that she’d not been consuming alcohol, despite being pictured with a vodka bottle in her cup holder.

A close friend of the actress told a newspaper outlet that she was in a terrible state and that the smoke inhalation was life-threatening, and that it would be a miracle if she recovers from this and comes out of the coma.

Her spokesperson said the actress lost control of her car as it careened into a home, and ignited a fire that badly burned her, leaving her in an extremely critical condition.

And although it’s extremely sad, thank goodness she didn’t take anyone with her, although she nearly did, and thankfully, by her own hand, she was her only victim with her poor choice to drive. She could have also taken out an entire family of innocents as well as the poor woman whose house she destroyed.

The drugs caught up with her, which is extremely sad, but she was reckless, and it destroyed another woman’s life. This woman has lost irreplaceable possessions, which is sad all around.

She took drugs and then drove into a house at 90mph and this was a foreseeable and moronic self-flagellation, and it’s sad that she’s gone but so fortunate that she was her only victim, although a lady lost her home, a lifetime of photos and keepsakes, and financially she may never come back from this.

There will also be the financial strain that will take its toll and her life has been shredded apart, although I’m sure the homeowner is a forgiving person who would have been more concerned about the loss of life.

For The First Time In 40 Years, Polio May Be Spreading In Britain

Health chiefs cautioned that Polio may be circulating in the United Kingdom for the first time in almost 40 years.

Officials have discovered traces of a vaccine-derived version of the virus in sewage samples in parts of London and say it’s probably transmitting within the community.

Parents are being encouraged to ensure their children are up to date with their polio vaccinations, especially after the pandemic when school immunisation schemes were disrupted.

All British children are supposed to have had the first of three polio jabs as a baby, but uptake in London drags behind the remainder of the country.

Polio spreads through coughs and sneezes or contact with objects contaminated with faeces, causing permanent paralysis in around one in 100 cases. Children are at a higher risk.

According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the virus was noticed various times between February and May and has persisted to mutate.

It’s believed that someone inoculated with the live polio vaccine, which uses a diluted version of the virus abroad, journeyed to the United Kingdom and divested part of the pathogen in their stool, but health officials insist the threat to the public overall is excessively low, with urgent investigations now underway to locate anyone who’s been contaminated.

The last time someone caught polio within the United Kingdom was in 1984 but there have been dozens of imported cases since then. Britain was declared polio-free in 2003.

It comes as London fights a bout of monkeypox, another rare viral disease that was until recently restricted to regions of western and central Africa.

The UKHSA said it discovered several closely affiliated polioviruses in specimens gathered from the London Beckton Sewage Treatment Works in Newham.

No cases have been confirmed yet but the UKHSA said it’s possible there’s been some spread between closely linked people in North and East London.

It’s normal for traces of the virus to be occasionally detected as part of routine testing of sewage, but the findings are generally a one-off.

These generally come from people who were vaccinated with the live oral vaccine overseas and then travelled to the United Kingdom. People given the oral vaccine can shed the weakened live virus used in the vaccine in their faeces for several weeks.

Most countries have changed to polio jabs that use inactivated pieces of the virus but some developing nations still depend on the live vaccine.

But what do the government expect with all the uncontrolled immigrants that are being allowed into our country? And it will get far worse by 2025, and there will be unprecedented competition for immigrant workers because there’s an increasing crisis in this country because immigrants will work for less money and more hours, whereas, British workers don’t want to work for less money and more hours.

This is the absolute opposite of what Brexit stands for, and it’s because it’s less appealing for skilled workers, but then Brexit was consistently a silly idea, and the timing couldn’t have been worse with de-globalisation, shortening of supply chains, worker shortages, excessive cost increases for transport, essentially every financial trend is the contrasting opposite of what Brexit stands for.

This is just another excuse to force vaccines onto people, especially when people’s immune systems are compromised right now since COVID jabs were introduced, but then the Tories don’t do experts and believe that the science is all wrong, but then those that are spreading pestilence to everyone are the ones that are evil.

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