New York Extends Its Eviction Moratorium

New York legislators voted Wednesday on extending an eviction moratorium for renters who are behind on rent because of the pandemic, as approximately $2.3 billion in rent relief funds go unused.

The moratorium was also revised after the Supreme Court last month struck down part of the law.

Governor Kathy Hochul called the Legislature to return with a goal of putting evictions on hold until January 15.

New York’s previous eviction moratorium, which included foreclosure protections for property owners, expired Tuesday.

The extension gives more time to distribute the roughly $2.3 billion of mostly federal funding earmarked for the Emergency Rental Assistance programme.

The programme was approved in April and opened to applications on June 1, but as of August 23, only $203 million of those funds had been distributed.

According to US Treasury estimates, 28 per cent of New Yorkers behind on rent who applied to the programme were still waiting for a response, while 70 per cent had yet to apply.

In making her case for calling the session, Hochul said she believed that many New Yorkers could go homeless if evictions were permitted to proceed.

She said that they weren’t going to intensify what’s already a crisis in terms of the homelessness problem, and they weren’t going to let people who through no fault of their own lost income, would not be able to pay and faced eviction.

According to a survey by the US Census Bureau, as many as 700,000 or 21 per cent of New York renters are behind on rent, totalling approximately $2.3 billion in debt.

New York trails only California, which has more than 750,000 people behind on rent, totalling more than $2.8 billion in debt.

New York legislators also changed how the moratorium works.

In an August 12 ruling, the US Supreme Court nixed part of the law that enabled tenants to delay eviction proceedings just by filing a form stating they’d had a pandemic related hardship.

The court said that landlords should have the ability to challenge those hardships in court.

The new bill allows landlords to challenge applications for tenants they believe have not suffered economic hardship in court.

Landlord groups and state Republicans, however, say the change doesn’t go far enough, and Joseph Strasburg from the Rent Stabilization Association, a landlord group, told CBS 2 that they’re going to ask their attorney to make a motion to enforce the Supreme Court order and to stay the new legislation.

Rental assistance should go directly to the landlord, not to the renter, that way the landlord gets their money directly and can still pay their mortgage if they have one on their home.

But this is all about delays until the landlords are so much in debt that they lose their properties to foreclosure or some greedy property investment corporation, who will give them pennies on the dollar, but then this is the plan folks.

Why doesn’t New York pay the rent of those that they claim to support instead of putting it on the backs of the landlords? The reason why is because they want these landlords to go into default because you can’t have a socialist society if people own their properties, and this is just a government takeover of private property.

The government aren’t working for you anymore, especially when that government introduces laws restricting what you can do with your property, and people should wake up because this is about the government taking over private property, and in the end, you will never own anything if this is permitted to continue.

They just want you to be poor serfs reliant upon them!

Don’t Use The H-Word

Downing Street defended Boris Johnson after admitting he’s been in the West Country with his family since Sunday.

No 10 said the Prime Minister was continuing to work on matters including the fallout from the withdrawal from Afghanistan while away with pregnant wife Carrie and their son Wilfred.

The Prime Minister’s official spokesperson said that Boris Johnson was expected back at his desk in London on Thursday, but declined to describe the trip as a holiday.

Pressed whether Boris Johnson was working full time, the spokesman responded that the Prime Minister was continuing to work.

The time provoked critique from politicians trying to support constituents with loved ones still in Afghanistan.

Leeds North West Labour MP Alex Sobel said that if it wasn’t a holiday, what was it? And he said that MPs hadn’t had a briefing call since Thursday and that he was on over 200 family members stuck in Afghanistan and not a single response on a single case.

This makes Boris Johnson the worst possible leader at the worst possible time. But then when is a good time? Perhaps when he’s no longer the Prime Minister.

This man appears to have a permanent holiday. The only time he pops up is when he’s raiding the dressing up box or wearing a hi-viz to costume play as a member of the working class.

And coming to an airport near you soon. “Sorry Madam, you can’t fly today because your digital passport is out of date because you failed to have your 6th booster jab last week.”

When Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, he should have accepted that his life would dramatically change, and surely he must have realised by now that it’s not a holiday every day of the week.

Parliament needs to realise that as well. After all, they’re just about the only place of work that shuts down for the summer. Could you imagine the Bank of England doing that, or prison services and such? There would be chaos, but Boris Johnson there is chaos, but he seems to be the only one that’s living in Alice In Wonderland and is still chasing that damn rabbit.

And if Boris Johnson retired, he wouldn’t be missed because he’s totally ineffectual whether he’s here or not, and if it’s work, why take the wife and son. He must be as dense as treacle if he believes people are going to swallow that one, and why on earth did this comedian put himself forward to be Prime Minister when he has neither the ability nor interest in doing the job.

Of course, Boris Johnson’s lifetime dream was to become Prime Minister, but he’s struggling, and little by little that light might dawn on voters, that this impostor is a disaster who lies, bluffs and twists his way nonchalantly through life, destroying what he doesn’t understand or care about – ordinary people, which is everything except his own self-centred desires.

And clearly, Boris Johnson has a somewhat different definition of work from the rest of us, and it seems that when the going gets tough, Boris Johnson goes on holiday. We saw it with the floods, COVID, exams disasters and now Afghanistan.

Continuing to work the spokesman said, well, that will be a first for Boris Johnson.

And MPs have almost become celebrities now, where once upon a time they were hard-working, now they’re just in it for the money and photo opportunities.

Foreign Offenders On Our Streets

Reading terror attacker Khairi Saadallah, 26, was released from prison just 16 days before killing three men in a knife rampage

The number of foreign criminals freed from prison onto our streets has reached a record high of around 11,000.

Official numbers show that at the end of June, 10,882 foreign national offenders had been released from prison but not deported.

All were subject to deportation because they were given prison sentences of at least 12 months.

The staggering total was up by almost 1,500 in a year, which means that four foreign offenders a day, on average, were released to live in the community in the past 12 months.

The latest total has soared by 176 per cent since 2012 when the figure stood at less than 4,000.

More than 3,000 foreign offenders have been living in the community for more than five years after completing their prison terms, and Home Office data revealed that a further 4,000 have been on the street for between one and five years – the numbers surged during the pandemic.

Hundreds are believed to have gained their freedom after applying for bail under laws that said they could only be kept in immigration detention if there was a realistic possibility of imminent removal.

Because international flights were grounded in the early stages of the pandemic, and international travel remains problematic, the offenders successfully demonstrated that they should be released.

Instead of staying locked up until they’re thrown out of the country, they’re being released to be managed in the community, but many abscond, potentially putting the public in danger.

Deportation is also normally blocked by human rights issues, such as offenders maintaining their lives will be at risk in home countries such as Syria.

Last month a Home Office charter flight to Jamaica saw 43 offenders hauled off an aircraft at the last moment, with some insisting they would be in danger from criminal gangs in their home country.

In the meantime, the Home Office is deporting far smaller numbers of foreign subjects who have no right to live in the United Kingdom, including convicted offenders, failed asylum seekers and immigration offenders.

A newspaper outlet reported how in the year to March there were only 2,420 enforced returns, down from a peak of more than 21,000 in 2004.

David Spencer, of the Centre for Crime Prevention, think tank, said the latest numbers were unbelievable and profoundly disconcerting for law-abiding British nationals.

He said that they were told that Brexit would make it easier for them to regulate their borders and expel foreign offenders but the figures clearly show that this isn’t the case.

It appears that our politicians, from all parties, don’t care about the indigenous population.

Our government doesn’t seem to be fit for purpose and is failing the British people.

If these people come to our country and abuse our hospitality by perpetrating a crime then they should be deported immediately, not to be trialled in our country at our expense, but to be trialled in their country at their countries expense.

However, statistically speaking, once they get their feet on British soil, they’re highly unlikely to be deported, and the United Kingdom has become a cesspit created by our government.

These criminals are saying that they fear for their lives back in their own country, so they’re not being deported, but what about the rights of British citizens, they have a right to feel safe in their own country.

Boris Johnson, it’s time to make a new law. All foreign nationals that perpetrate a crime while in our country must lose their rights and be deported straight back to their country.

But of course, while Boris Johnson continues to be the master of chaos and confusion, this aberration will continue.

Could Motorists Be Taxed For Every Mile They Drive?

Downing Street has opened the door to charging motorists for every mile that they drive, saying the tax system must keep pace with the switch to electric vehicles.

It came after Tony Blair’s think tank warned that billions of pounds of new taxes would be required to fill the possible shortfall created by moving away from petrol and diesel vehicles.

A report published, said that road pricing, under which drivers pay per mile or per minute spent on the roads, could replace the £30 billion revenue generated from motoring taxes every year.

Asked about the think tank’s proposals, Boris Johnson’s official spokesperson didn’t deny the idea and said the Government would set out its own plans in due course, and he said that they wanted to ensure the tax system encouraged the take-up of electric vehicles and that revenue from motoring taxes kept pace with that change.

One Whitehall source said that while officials weren’t yet working proactively on road pricing schemes, there was a circle to be squared there.

The paper, by the Tony Blair Institute For Global Change, urged ministers to explain how they intend to replace current motoring taxes inside a year, warning it may become politically impossible if they delay too long.

But the idea was rejected by motoring groups, with the AA saying a road pricing scheme was likely to backfire because many motorists will see it as a poll tax on wheels.

The group added that motorists should be given a guaranteed free miles allowance before any charges kick in.

In July, the Government unveiled its transport decarbonisation strategy, part of the push to reduce carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050, but failed to demonstrate how it will close the financial gap created by moving away from fossil fuels.

The Tony Blair Institute report predicts that, by 2040, the Treasury stands to lose as much as £260 billion in revenue without any new taxes.

This would be due largely to the reduction in fuel tax and vehicle excise duty (VED) receipts, both of which fully electric cars are excluded from.

The paper also warns that delaying too long threatens to weaken the Government’s levelling up agenda.

This is because people in the more prosperous South are more inclined to be able to afford the higher upfront costs of electric cars, but will pay next to no tax to use them.

But I worry that in the end, there won’t be half the vehicles on the roads because people are struggling now, never mind heat pumps, and all the rest of the green nonsense they’re attempting to push down our throats, and if this goes through, it will most likely be the well off and elites on the roads, as well as in the air, and Boris Johnson should walk back his world-leading over-optimistic plans and Blair should go somewhere he’s wanted.

This policy will devastate families who live all over the country, and those who have to drive miles to get to work, and families won’t be able to afford to visit, or drive miles to take their children to school or get to work every day.

This is complete garbage, and they shouldn’t be targeting motorists in the first place, which creates a tax deficit bubble. Many people can’t afford an electric vehicle in any part of the country until manufacturer’s start producing smaller electric vehicles, and introducing a price per mile will finish off town centres and shops. It will also drive people out of jobs and it’s just another tax on families.

BBC’s £159-A-Year Licence Fee Will Not Increase

The BBC licence fee will rise by less than inflation over the next five years as ministers are concerned over the increasing costs of household bills.

Discussions between the government and the BBC over the £159 a year TV licence are set to close in the coming weeks, and ministers are said to have rejected calls from the corporation for the price to rise in line with inflation like previous years.

A government source said that the BBC was a hugely important national institution, but that equally these were difficult times, and the source added that nobody wanted to punish the BBC but that it had to be subject to the same efficiency as everyone else.

Another source said the BBC had warned that not increasing the licence fee in line with inflation could lead to significant cuts to quality programming.

The fee currently earns the corporation £3.2 billion a year, but there are calls from Tory MPs to reduce it as they point to the success of paid-for streaming services such as Netflix.

One Tory MP said that it doesn’t play well in the red wall and that they didn’t believe that they should be getting any more when they pay Gary Linekar God knows how much.

Ministers have so far resisted suggestions that the licence fee should be frozen or cut, and according to a source, they’re likely to take a mixed approach with below-inflation increases over a few years before it rises in line with inflation near the end of the five years.

Greg Dyke, former director-general of the BBC, said that it was difficult to see why it shouldn’t increase with inflation given the competition it now faces. He said that the BBC has had a good run in terms of quality drama, for instance, but that costs lots of money, and that a lot of money goes on the news and that it needs to be properly financed.

Lord Grade of Yarmouth, a former chairman of the BBC, said that times were hard and that the BBC wasn’t immune from what was going on in the rest of the country.

The government is said to be concerned about increases in the cost of living.

The BBC seems to be obsessed with rap and street culture which are of no interest to the preponderance of licence payers, and it’s criminal that we have to pay a licence fee for the likes of Gary Linekar and the rest, but it seems the jokes on us good folk.

The TV licence should be scrapped because it was intended for a time when technology was very different and there was a real monopoly for a national broadcaster, but now we can choose between hundreds of providers, and there are many that don’t even watch the BBC channels.

The old world is over, and let’s be honest, it’s a complete rip-off and a disgrace at how much it costs, and we’re now watching its slow and inevitable death, and the BBC should be planning for the impending moment when they will have to adapt to the competition, and many people don’t see why they should be paying so much for their service, and the BBC is in denial of what will ultimately happen.

And there’s no doubt about it, the TV licence needs to be scrapped, but then Boris Johnson likes having a state-owned broadcaster, who will broadcast whatever he tells them to. Just stop paying for the licence fee, and don’t let any capita insectors into your home.

Singer’s Opera Dream Is Under Threat

A music student fears her odds of fulfilling her dream of becoming an opera singer could be ruined without an operation to reduce the size of her breasts.

Maddie Boreham, 22, says she’s in agony because of back pain, which is making it increasingly difficult to stand straight and sing.

The 5 foot 8-inch singer is crowdfunding through the internet to raise the £7,000 she requires for the operation to reduce the size of her 34KK breasts.

Describing the impact on her performance, she said that as an opera singer, you have to hold yourself in a certain way when you sing, and she said that she was rehearsing for a concert recently, doing a chorus piece, but that by the end of the day, she could hardly stand anymore because of the pressure her breasts were putting on her back, and that rehearsals were agony for her now.

Miss Boreham, of Kettering, Northamptonshire, is due to graduate from the Royal College of Music in Kensington, west London, next June.

She added that the pain she’s feeling because of her breasts is getting worse and she’s struggling to stand up straight to sing for long periods, and she said that she’s been working for years to become an opera singer, but that she’s at a point now where if she doesn’t get the surgery then she’s not going to be able to carry on, and she worries that she will face a lengthy wait to have surgery on the NHS, adding that it doesn’t feel right to put added stress on the NHS right now.

Ideally, she said she would like to reduce her cup size to a C or D.

To donate to Miss Boreham’s appeal, visit uk.gofundme.com/f/maddiesnewchest

I just don’t understand why this isn’t being done on the NHS, given that it’s causing her medical problems and affecting her daily life. It’s not like women have any control over their breast size, other than general weight control, although you wouldn’t expect her to be given priority over a cancer patient, and I’m sure that Miss Boreham wouldn’t either.

Sadly, this was one of the cuts a few years back, but annoyingly they will give fertility treatments to a woman who’s already had children, but treatments like breast reduction were considered irrelevant.

This is one particular operation that should be done on the NHS because not only can it cause health problems, but psychological problems as well, and why should she pay when the cost to the NHS for a breast reduction would be far less than the continuous cost for musculoskeletal problems – this is not a cosmetic procedure.

But let’s hope that her singing career eventually busts out. However, her back must be in agony, and I can’t blame her for going private, and of course, the aftercare is better too.

And just because the good Lord gave her an extra helping, doesn’t mean she should be penalised because of it, and I hope that she does get her breast reduction because it beggar’s belief when we have all these new dinghy arrivals who will get treated, yet someone with a genuine problem like this can’t get relief.

It’s not just the back pain, it’s pain that they can cause to the neck and shoulders. Rashes because large breasts trap heat and moisture underneath them, causing persistent rashes and skin infections, along with shoulder grooves, numbness and headaches, and in some cases shortness of breath.

Channel 4 Is Condemned For Putting Women In Danger

Channel 4 has been accused of running a creepy bus advert that puts women at risk because it says the person sat above a section of the advertisement ‘loves being naked.’

The broadcaster’s endeavour at humour to promote Naked Attraction has rebounded amid criticism it’s improper given how many sexual attacks occur on public transportation.

Others have also expressed concerns that children and young people could find themselves sat in a seat with the wording directed at them.

Transport for London has announced that it’s essentially reassessing whether these adverts should continue to run.

Under the heading Altogether Different, the advertising panel which covers almost the length of the bus has three descriptions of people written out with an arrow pointing up to the person who is sat above it, inside the vehicle.

One is captioned ‘Loves Naked Attraction’, another ‘Hates Naked Attraction’ and the last one reads ‘Loves Being Naked.’

Naked Attraction is Channel 4’s dating program, hosted by Anna Richardson, where a contestant picks a partner based on what they look like without any clothes on.

Writer Tracy King put a photo of the advert on social media along with her critique of it. Her post got thousands of responses.

She wrote, what the hell is this creepy bus ad? And that you can’t just label non-consenting passengers like that, and she said that doesn’t Channel 4 know how many sexual attacks take place on buses?

She added that people should be extremely careful with adverts that include the public without their permission, and she said that if they’re going to make the public the subject of the joke then the joke certainly shouldn’t be a sexualised one.

Others joined the critique calling the advert inappropriate and disgraceful, and one said they’d been disgusted by it.

Concerns were expressed about the fact that children and young people sit in these seats and also that it could lead to people being targeted.

Lothian Buses in a tweet said it had passed on concerns expressed by one of its customers, and Channel 4 has apologised, and a spokesperson said that it was not their aim to offend and that they apologise if it has done so.

Who thought this advert was a great idea? They must have realised that it would be embarrassing to people, men, women or young children, to inadvertently sit in that seat and be laughed at, but then, of course, this isn’t surprising from cesspit TV.

Not only is Naked Attraction the most ridiculous show I’ve ever seen and so pointless, but the program also shouldn’t be allowed to run, not after these ridiculous adverts.

But then the advert appears to have generated a lot of attention, which I guess is the point of advertising, but even so, this is so obviously inappropriate.

The advert is trash, also offensive, and the TV show is puerile.

The TV show is offensive, and I’m not a spoilsport, but this is just a foolish gawking program, all the while encouraging leery and superficial behaviour in society, and I can’t believe that this rubbish passes for entertainment.

This is terrible TV and pure cringe, and whoever thought up the idea was probably doing it for a laugh, but the shock factor has gone, time to ditch it – the show is disgusting, never mind the bus advertisement, and then we wonder why western culture is going down the pan, it’s because our values are being eroded by the rubbish spewed on our televisions.

Holy cow!

Amusing footage was caught the moment a calf was captured riding in the backseat of a vehicle in a Wisconsin McDonald’s drive-thru.

Jessica Nelson recorded the incident in the Marshfield drive-thru as she sat three cars behind the Buick Sedan with the cow’s face staring out of the back window.

‘A whole freaking cow!!! Tell me you live in Wisconsin without telling me you live in Wisconsin’, she posted with the video on Facebook, a nod to her home state’s famous dairy industry.

The caption on the video read that there was a whole cow in the back of that vehicle.

According to Jessica Nelson, Mosinee, Wisconsin, was originally convinced the cow was fake and didn’t realise that there were two other calves in the backseat as well.

The owner, identified only as Bernie, also said that the cow in the video was a calf as well.

Nelson told a newspaper outlet that she thought it was fake at first. Who puts a cow in a Buick? But then its whole head moved, and she said that she just took the video of it because she was so blown away that there was a cow in the back of a Buick.

The video became an overnight success after Nelson posted the video on August 26, and she said that she woke up to 52K views, over 2K shares, and at least 6 news sources reaching out to use her video, all because an old man drove through McDonald’s with a cutie cow and that she wished she was able to give him all the credit because all she did was just shoot the video.

Since the video was posted, it’s received 215,000 views along with 344 comments and 2,000 likes on Facebook, with one user saying that there was nothing wrong with taking a cow to get a burger, and another added jokingly that they hoped the cow was wearing a diaper.

However, it does make you wonder if fast food restaurants are that desperate for food! And we know there’s a milkshake shortage at McDonald’s, but what the hell!

Perhaps it was just a good lesson for the cow, that if it doesn’t behave, it will end up like its mother, a patty in a fast-food sandwich.

But in all fairness, the cow did look like it was looking out of the car window enjoying the scenery, and I know that McDonald’s are having problems with their supply chain, but this really isn’t the answer. Of course, there’s nothing like bringing your own meat with you.

However, this cow looks quite happy and seems to be treated a lot better than a lot of farmers treat their livestock, and this brings a whole new meaning to Animal Farm.

The United States Puts Pressure On Britain To Hand Over Prince Andrew

It’s been reported that the United States has put pressure on Britain in a bid to force Prince Andrew to co-operate with investigators over sex abuse allegations.

Investigators investigating the case of Ghislaine Maxwell and other associates of dead billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein are said to want to speak to the Duke of York about his association with the paedophile financier.

Officials from President Biden’s government reaffirmed the US and UK’s close relationship when it comes to offering legal assistance in criminal affairs amid mounting frustration over Prince Andrew’s unwillingness to engage with investigators.

A US government official told a newspaper outlet that the US and the United Kingdom have a close, fruitful and resilient law enforcement and mutual legal assistance relationship.

And it was said that they remain in close contact on many active cases daily and would proceed to solicit assistance in criminal matters as they provide similar assistance in return.

Prosecutors last year sent the British government a formal request, known as a mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT) submission, asking for access to the prince so they could speak to him.

The MLAT is a method used in criminal investigations to gather material from foreign nations which can’t easily be obtained on a cooperative basis but it’s understood the Duke of York has yet to co-operate.

And it’s been reported that Prince Andrew remains a person of interest to prosecutors in the office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, but they don’t expect to be able to question him in the foreseeable future.

As a person of interest, the Queen’s son is viewed at least as a possible witness, and interviewing him would form part of the investigation into potential co-conspirators.

Prosecutors earlier this month said Prince Andrew, 61, had endeavoured to falsely define himself to the public as eager and willing to cooperate, but had provided no interview to federal authorities and had repeatedly declined requests to speak with investigators.

It comes as Virginia Giuffre, who said she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein, filed a civil complaint against Prince Andrew in Manhattan federal court.

Virginia Giuffre, who used to be known as Virginia Roberts, claims Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have unwanted sexual intercourse with Prince Andrew at the London home of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s alleged Madame.

If the FBI want to interview Prince Andrew, why can’t they simply hop over to the United Kingdom and question him with his lawyer present?

And there must be many more in the US who went to far more parties and weekends at Jeffrey Epstein’s house et cetera, but they seem to be hell-bent on speaking to Prince Andrew, but I’m guessing that’s because he’s a high profile person around the world, whereas the others are seemingly far less, but then I’m guessing he’s an easy target as the Royal Family don’t argue back.

However, if Prince Andrew has nothing to hide, then the Royal Family should just hand him over, but we have to be careful here because let’s face it nobody out there is for truth and justice now.

And whether we like it or not, Prince Andrew has certain legal protections as a UK citizen, and anybody in his situation wouldn’t be stupid enough to give up those protections freely and just get on a plane to the US to testify under oath.

World’s Most Northerly Island Is Discovered By Accident

A team of Arctic researchers believe they’ve stumbled across the world’s most northerly island.

The Danish scientists had been intending to travel to Oodaaq, which lies off the northern coast of Greenland, and previously held the title of the northernmost island, but instead, they wound up on an obscure piece of land even further north and realised only when island enthusiasts pointed it out to them on social media.

Expedition leader Morten Rasch, from the University of Copenhagen, said that they were convinced that the island they were standing on was Oodaaq, which until then was listed as the world’s northernmost island.

However, when photos were posted of the island and its coordinates on social media, several American island hunters went crazy and said that it couldn’t be true.

The island, which may have been formed after a major storm, is half a mile north of Oodaaq and consists essentially of small mounds of silt and gravel.

The university said that it measures just 100 feet by 200 feet and rises to 13 feet above sea level.

The team hope to call it Qeqertaq Avannarleq – Greenlandic for ‘the northernmost island.’ And they added that the island may disappear when another storm hits.

I just hope they leave it alone because it seems that whatever is found, humans have got to take it over.

And apparently, a new island has been identified in the Antarctic, which is deemed to be melting, and sea levels increasing, with land being submerged as a result – I wonder how that works. But it’s okay, a new island has been discovered, so all is good. Better be careful though because someone will have their eye on it – perhaps it will become Santas new base station!

But of course, this discovery was brought to us by global warming.

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