Thursday

Thursday too, with items 9 onwards, is now here:

https://nourishingobscurity.wordpress.com/

8.  From Rossa's mother

It's an article from a Bank of Oklahoma attendee:

1. BOK Center holds at least 19,000. The area outside the convention center set up by the Secret Service and Tulsa PD had a U-shaped squeeze shoot to funnel the crowd down to an area about. 50 feet wide and 600 feet long with an outdoor stage adjacent to the BOK entrance.Trump was supposed to be able to speak to the overflow group from this stage.

2. Entry to the “Secure Area” NOT the BOK center was about 5 blocks away where you had to pass “screeners” who took your temperature, made you put on a face mask and gave you a green band to proceed to Secret Service Security.

3. If the temperature screeners left their post- the entire entry to the BOK Trump rally was shut down.

4. And that is EXACTLY what happened today about an hour after we got through security.

5. The BOK center just before the doors opened had block off every other seat in the arena so the arena could only hold about 9500 people.

6. After continued back and forth with the trump campaign, something happened to allow more people in (in groups of just 100 at a time). We had to wait about 30 minutes each time for them to let just 100 of us trickle into the building. I am not talking about their security- we had already passed through metal detectors and everything. You could actually run into the building each time they would let just 100 of us in at a time, but that was just just wrong and corrupt on BOK management’s part. They removed the stickers/rule on every other seat – that is true, but only after they shut down all entry to the “event location”.

7. I looked over at the screening area and told my wife- something fishy is gong on- 2 hours before the rally – the screeners have left. I told her- no one can get to the stage/overflow area or the BOK center with the “temperature screeners” gone. It is like the people that collect tickets say- I am done we are leaving.

8. They left their posts and from what I am learning- thousands could not get in to the first checkpoint because the temperature screeners had to put green wrist band on you to gain access to the Secret Service security checkpoint. No green band— no entry to the security check point.

9. I think the BOK management told the screeners – we have reached the capacity for what we are letting into the BOK center, so shut down- do not allow the other Trump supporters to get a temperature check and no more green wrist bands. Do not issue green wrist bands so they can get into the holding area to see the stage for the outdoor Trump Rally.

10. It was all a setup to make it look like the crowds did not show up. The crowds DID show up and after 5pm,- 2 hours before the event- no one was there to let them get to security.

11. With only about 3/4 of the building full, and no overflow crowd-then. CNN boasts that the rally was a flop. The only thing that was a flop was BOK temperature screeners turned away thousands of attendees that never got to be near the rally.

This is pure political corruption at it’s finest. I was there- the super high energy crowd was there. they need to fire the BOK manager that oversaw this disaster. President Trump- we as the crowed tried, but with corrupt BOK management your crowd was downsized. We need a re-do without a crooked BOK building manager. On top of all that, even Uber was not accepting payments for any rides to the downtown area for the event. I hope this backfires on all the crooks.

7.  Notice for all readers of NO

[Meaning the other site].  FoS has mentioned that it's not loading at all - that's right, there's a major reconstruction underway just now.  Blogging is here for now.

6.  We've moved forward, in a backwards direction

Clearly, as a political blogger, there is no point me blogging at NO unless I can post things like this:

.......

From Gab

Woke leftists are calling for statues of Jesus to be torn down.

C are being fired for posting Bible verses on social media. 

C are being kicked out of places they rent for "liking" Charlie Kirk tweets.

C are being arrested for preaching the Gospel in the streets.

Pinterest is censoring Bible verses and Christian terms.

C in China who join Zoom calls for worship are later arrested by the CCP.

.......

I chose that text as it's quite provocative and here's what happened.  With plug-ins temporarily disabled, including Classic Editor, I pasted the above and tried to work out a way to post it in the dog's breakfast called 'Blocks'.

And in keeping with everything currently going awry, it published, didn't it?  Went back to Classic Editor, reactivated it, meaning I could see to blog, pasted in a new post - refused to publish.  Lesson from WP is obvious - use their new rubbish format and if you can work out how, you can post even provocative material.  Insist on Classic Editor and you can post a few paragraphs of simple text.  That's my choice.

Meanwhile, regular browsers continue to refuse permission to see the site or log-in.

But not in OoL - OoL happily opens and I can post the above.

Right, things are being done within NO just now and I appreciate those.  More when there's any news.

5.  Tucker Carlson [June, 2020]

“This is not a momentary civil disturbance. This is a serious, and highly organized political movement…It is deep and profound and has vast political ambitions. It is insidious, it will grow. It’s goal is to end liberal democracy and challenge western civilization itself. This is an ideological movement… Even now, many of us pretend this is about police brutality. …We think we can fix it by regulating chokeholds or spending more on de-escalation training. We’re too literal and good-hearted to understand what’s happening. …But we have no idea what we are up against. ..These are not protests. This is a totalitarian political movement and someone needs to save the country from it.”

Svali, illumined dissident [CentrExNews.com, 2000]:

The random factor in all of this is how the average citizen reacts. It can't be predicted, although [the] leadership will often invent different scenarios, and try to decide how they will act if the ordinary citizens react in an unexpected manner.

Event 201 for example, at Johns Hopkins?

I was told that around 2020, the ... agenda would be revealed openly. I don't know if this is accurate, or just propaganda that I was taught, or if they have changed this date since I was in the group.

These are NOT nice people and they use and manipulate others viciously. They cut their eye teeth on status, power, and money. 

As I mentioned before, the CIA and the [cabal] are definitely linked. The top leadership in the CIA are also [cabal] leaders. I mentioned Dulles and Gottlieb as men I knew personally as a child and young adult.

Senator William Jenner of Indiana [Feb. 23, 1954], before the U.S. Senate:

"Today the path to total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by Congress, the President, or the people.

We have a well-organized political action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state. It has a foothold within our Government, and its own propaganda apparatus. One may call this group by many names. Some people call it socialism, some collectivism. I prefer to call it 'democratic centralism.' 

The important point to remember about this group is not its ideology but its organization. It is a dynamic, aggressive, elite corps, forcing its way through every opening, to make a breach for a collectivist one-party state. It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government without our suspecting the change is underway.


This secret revolutionary corps understands well the power to influence the people by an elegant form of brainwashing. We see this, for example, in the innocent use of words like 'democracy' in place of 'representative government.' " 

4.  Grrrroan

Going to say it once more - females should not be on the front line of battle, nor racing cars [along with Bubba Wallace], nor should they be flying planes. It has zero to do with the exceptions where they don't die and don't wreck whatever it is - they are a liability in :

a)  Certain fields not naturally suited to them, e.g. STEM
b)  The type of Woman pushed into or who is clawing her way into these things 'to prove herself' men's equals.

And this doesn't help:

Jessi Combs: US racing driver given female speed record in 2019 fatal crash

All must have bleedin' prizes.  We don't try to have babies for women, we can't dance like them, we can't run the home economy like them, we can't nurture like them, we can't ease the fevered brow like them.  In the things women excel in, they can't be matched.

So what is the bleedin' point of forcing them into things where they cannot win, not without huge logistical support?  It's political, criminal and insane.

3.  Report on proceedings so far

To say it's a nightmare is an understatement. Even at ONO, I can't run the 'Nameday' post format because when the subheading is coloured and in bold, it causes issues.  The simple act, on WP, is to move down two lines and start typing in plain text, as this is now.

Not in Blgr. In Blgr, ALL text then comes out coloured and in bold. To fix it means deformatting the previous numbered subheading, then typing, then reformatting - too many steps on a regular basis. At WP, it was perfectly easy.

ONO is not a blogger friendly platform, nor is it a reader friendly platform with its comments mechanism, as you've discovered. Not for any length of time.

Alternative? There is WPdotcom [currently the archive]. We've been through all that - WPdotcom is a nightmare inside because of this stupid editing thing some script kiddies thought was cool to inflict on bloggers.

The only viable way is WP NO [or the WPdotorg version] you know as NO. But here's this morning's story about that:

NO itself

I actually did get it to the point where both site front page and dashboard were instantly accessible without special help, just as with OoL for example. Good eh? We were moving along well.
Went in with a 'Thursday' post, intending to surprise readers and it contained links and embedding code for a Twitter item - should be all right because Twitter is a saved app here. Got into the site fine, moved around doing this and that, fast, not an issue.

Now came the post [still copied on clipboard], clicked publish. 404. Went out, came back in and tried again, would not publish - this time the MS page said site could not be found.

Tried again [at least I was getting in easily]. Tried to publish, took me to a page which was taking the p***. After the blurb about diagnostics, it asked if I'd like to play a game in the meantime. Next time I'll screenshot it so you know I'm not having you on here. What a thing to tell someone who's been stymied.

Bottom line

If I post a short post of a few paragraphs, no links, no Twitter item, no images, it sometimes publishes as you can see over there. While I do need to cut down images, image sizes themselves have expanded in size, for the same item. So a small picture of, say, 470px across, which used to take up maybe 50kb, depending on many factors, now could be up to 120kb - you see how that is going to make the space usage soar.

Just on that point - Blgr here say I can have a background image as you can see but they say the limit is 300kb. They then say the image needs to be 1800px by 1600px so as to not upset the formatting. There is no image whatever today which is that size and under 300kb - it's like wanting a Ferrari for £2000. Reason I mention this is that whoever is telling us these things clearly does not blog.

Reason I can't switch comments on over at NO is this - if I try to post something it does not like, it not just refuses but takes me out of the site and then in perpetuity, with all sorts of bells and whistles going off. Short of clearing cookies, rebooting, restarting the router, buying a new laptop, there's no way out of it. That, to me, is not what blogging is about.

Various techies are giving conflicting advice. One says it's BT, another says rubbish, it's not the provider. One says I'm toxic and yet I can operate in every other site except NO. One says it's my IP but BT keeps changing that and it's not been a problem before last Friday, then it suddenly did what it did. So what happened last Friday then?

To repeat myself - I can get in fast via the special method, also via the regular method if I restart the router. In both cases, all is good until I try to post.   That sets off alarm bells, notice panels etc. After that, the site cannot be reached by any method.

I'm sure you see how impossible that is. I think the issue is not my name, otherwise I'd be blocked in many places - it's something else and the notices keep referring to 'the site' not responding. What does 'the site' mean?

I do suspect someone is doing this and feel it's related to IP addresses. That's where I now am. I'll try to post this at NO [no links, no other code] after restarting the router again.

What to do?

There'll have to be a major change that's for sure, and that I'll be discussing with host[s] today.  This is illustrated best by mentioning the chap who helps with the boat.  He was here ready to start not long ago, not cybertechnical in the least, did not understand my blathering on as I have online here about the issue - all he saw was sunshine out there and a boat needing building.

And he's right.  Just how much longer must this go on?  You'll notice I mentioned above, in passing, 'I do suspect someone is doing this' and then moved off that and onto IP addresses.  But it would be the easiest thing in the world for someone technically adept, someone earning big money in the cyber world out there, to type in some code which makes the very mention of certain words, names, links, set off the clobbering process I've mentioned.  Now how do I explain that to a tech rational mind who suspects no skulduggery in the world and only sees things in terms of putting in the right code in and ticking the right boxes?

I'm sufficiently rationalist to see how code works - you have to cover all bases and therein lies the skill. There is no emotion in this - if you have failed to type in even an asterisk, you negate the whole thing.  So you keep plugging away until the variable at fault is found. If it takes a techie weeks to find it, just how long does it take a man who has a boat to build in the good weather?

So the rational mind then asks, in that calculated way: 'Well you'll have to decide then, James, won't you?'

Yes.  But first, there are some things which can still be tried.  While the weather beckons outside.

2.  Plain, stark barking

... and we don't mean Tallbloke:

https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/italian-glacier-covered-to-slow-melting/#more-48596

1. From Gab

Woke leftists are calling for statues of Jesus to be torn down.

C are being fired for posting Bible verses on social media. 

C are being kicked out of places they rent for "liking" Charlie Kirk tweets.

C are being arrested for preaching the Gospel in the streets.

Pinterest is censoring Bible verses and Christian terms.

C in China who join Zoom calls for worship are later arrested by the CCP.

[H/T Chuckles and haiku where applicable]