110 Responses to Weekend 18th January 2025

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  1. StewGreen says:
    January 19, 2025 at 1:36 am

    7pm prog on Radio4 had fake news
    minute 1m 28s “Claudia Sheinbaum new president of Mexico is climate scientist and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize”

    5m53s “The now Doctor Sheinbaum won the Nobel Peace Prize, she was part of an international panel of Climate Change that shared the award with Al Gore”

    Fact check “in 2007, the IPCC and former US vice president Al Gore were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
    IPCC scientists and staff are specifically not allowed to say they themselves won the Nobel Peace Prize
    https://canadafreepress.com/article/nobel-committee-rebukes-michael-mann-for-falsely-claiming-he-was-awarded-th

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  2. Zephir says:
    January 19, 2025 at 4:00 am

    Does this remind you of cities run by the far left in the US ?

    “Shoplifting gang’s reign of terror in Surrey’s ‘Beverly Hills’ left a designer store worker so traumatised that she quit. So why did police want to let them off scot-free?

    Early last year Paige Mengers began to fear that it was only a matter of time before robbers targeted her designer clothes boutique. Crime gangs, she noted, were systematically raiding stores selling ‘pre-loved’ Chanel and Hermes handbags worth thousands. ‘The same bags we sell,’ says Mrs Mengers. ‘I had a bad feeling we would be next.’

    And so with growing unease, she set about fortifying the business she had worked tirelessly to build.

    In her flagship boutique, Phoenix Style, in the Surrey town of Cobham, she installed the latest CCTV, along with anti-theft devices, including security cables for the bags, among them a second-hand £16,000 Hermes Birkin.

    Like the shop’s priciest vintage wares, beat bobbies are rarities in Cobham, so Mrs Mengers paid for a private security firm to advise staff on crime prevention. Meanwhile a panic alarm linked to a police station was fitted at Phoenix’s sister store 13 miles away in Wimbledon Village, South West London. ‘The safety of my mainly female staff is a prime concern,’ she says.

    Anxieties partly assuaged, her business continued to flourish. Then, last week, despite her best efforts and considerable financial outlay, Mrs Mengers’s worst fears were realised.

    In the space of 24 hours both stores were targeted by the same two robbers, who used wire cutters to slice through cables and steal four bags worth more than £17,000 in total.

    Staff called police immediately in both cases. A sales assistant would latter recall being rooted to the spot, shaking with terror. She was so traumatised by the raid that she has now quit her job.

    To Mrs Mengers’s fury, neither Surrey Police nor the Metropolitan Police ‘showed the slightest interest’ – despite staff activating the panic alarm, which went unheeded, and making available pin-sharp CCTV footage of the robbers. So clear were their faces, she says, ‘they might as well have been on television reading the news’.

    After Mrs Mengers posted a video on Instagram decrying the efforts of Surrey Police and asking the public to help her catch the culprits, she finally got a visit from two officers at 11.30am last Wednesday. ‘I said to them: ‘Why are you turning up now – two days late?’

    Their reply left her dumbfounded. ‘It’s because you made a significant noise on social media,’ the officer told her.

    Mrs Mengers says today: ‘So this is what it’s come to: you have to gather all the evidence yourself and then shame the police on social media before they decide to act.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14300481/Shoplifting-gang-Surrey-police-handbags.html

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  3. Zephir says:
    January 19, 2025 at 4:01 am

    News of the raids came the same week a tech boss hit out at Surrey Police after they dropped an investigation into a break-in on his home within days.

    Bebo founder Paul Birch said CCTV footage showed three thieves – at least one armed with a crowbar – smashing their way into his mansion in Surrey. They stole items worth £500,000, including a £6,000 Rolex watch and seven Chanel bags.

    The family said officers took 12 hours to turn up after the raid on December 11, paused the investigation because of the Christmas break – and then dropped it due to lackof evidence.

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