David Craig, on May 27th, 2022Friday/Saturday blog
Is having Sky or Netflix essential to preserving life?
As our financially-incontinent chancellor splashes around money which we don’t have, I began to wonder how impoverished the supposedly ‘impoverished’ really are. The professional bleaters and moaners in the mainstream media (MSM) warn us of an ‘apocalypse’ from rising prices, in particular energy prices. We’re told that by the end of this year 40% of the UK’s 30 million or so homes (12 million homes) will be in ‘fuel poverty’. Apparently many of these 12 million homes in ‘fuel poverty’ will have to choose between heating or eating.
Sounds pretty grim, huh?
To highlight the great ‘cost of living crisis’, the MSM have had no trouble in finding loads of fat, ugly, sexually incontinent women (sorry I meant “angelic single mums”) with dyed pink hair, piercings and tattoos all claiming they were on the brink of starvation and financial ruin. So I wondered how I could test whether things were really as dire as the MSM professional bleaters and moaners claim. Then I came across this news item in a specialist online media magazine:
“According to UK audience measurement firm BARB, the number of UK households with a subscription to any SVOD service is now 18.8 million homes (66%), up from 17.4 million in Q3 2020.” (SVOD – Subscription Video On Demand)
The report went on to explain:
“Netflix is the market leader, subscribed to by 16.8 million homes. Amazon Prime Video is in second place with 12.5 million subscriptions, while Disney+ is subscribed to by 4.8 million households. Sky’s streaming business NOW is in 2.3 million British homes”.
These are just the homes with video streaming. So, as far as I understand, these figures don’t include the 8+ million homes with Sky TV subscriptions. Though I imagine there will be quite a lot of overlap between the 8+million Sky TV subscribers and the 18.8 million SVOD subscribers.
Furthermore, the report goes on to explain that many homes do what is called “subscription stacking”:
“Subscription stacking is also becoming increasingly normalised in the UK. The proportion of homes with an SVOD service that subscribe to two or more services has risen to 65.3%, up from 58.3% in Q3 2020”.
This means that more than 12 million homes have two or more video subscription services (65.3% of 18.8 million homes).
I accept that rising fuel and other prices may force many homes to end their TV subscriptions. But I also suspect that some of those claiming dire poverty have several widescreen TVs in their homes and at least one TV subscription.
I hadn’t realised that having a subscription to some TV/video service or other was now considered as essential to the preservation of human life as heating and eating.
You learn something new every day.
Are Zuckerberg and Clegg accessories to the Uvalde primary school massacre?
From what little I understand, the guy who carried out the Uvalde primary school massacre announced his murderous rampage on Facebook prior to the shootings. I believe the shooter made three Facebook posts – one in which he announced he was going to kill his grandmother, a second in which he announced he had shot his grandmother and then a third about half an hour before the primary school attack in which the shooter announced he was going to attack a local primary school:
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/25/texas-elementary-school-shooting-uvalde/
Facebook has loads of complicated algorithms and thousands of supposed ‘fact-checkers’ which mean than any posts questioning the official progressive, woke, libtard narrative on any issue get flagged and deleted. For example, if you dared suggest that the WuFlu leaked from a Chinese Wuhan lab or cast doubt on the effectiveness and safety of the miracle Pfizer mRNA vaccines or claim that catastrophic man-made climate change was a load of nonsense, you’d find that your Facebook posts rapidly disappeared and even that you were banned.
But apparently posting that you’re going to shoot your grandmother, that you’ve just shot your grandmother and that you’re about to massacre a load of primary-school kids is considered quite acceptable by Mr Zuckerberg and his sidekick, Nick Clegg.
I wonder if Facebook’s inaction in reporting the shooter to the police could in some way make the company accessories to the massacre? I hope the bereaved parents sue Facebook, Zuckerberg and Clegg. That would cause a bit of consternation for the woke social media mega-corporations who are trying to control our lives.
(Heavy Germanic accent) Vee have vays to make you obey! Vee kontroll ze future!
And on the subject of people trying to control our lives, can you spot the difference between these two famous, much-admired German orators?
First, here’s self-appointed ruler of the universe, Klaus Schwab, opening the latest World Economic Forum meeting for the ruling elites at Davos:
And here seems to be Mr Schwab’s role model:
Plus ça change!
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I also wonder about the claims of poverty. This is what happens with creeping socialism. It creates state dependency and destroys personal responsibility. Little Rishi is doing all he can to increase that, and at the same time he is part of the government that created the problems in the first place. My mother experienced real poverty and saved rather than spent all her life, and still didn’t have much, but eventually most of it went to pay for four years in a care home. Perhaps it really is best to let the state take over, and Schwab assures us we will have nothing and be happy.
Mark Steyn’s impression of Schwab giving this speech is brilliant. Have you ever wondered why there are never any subtitles to Hitler’s rants? It is because he was saying the same as Schwab and the rest of them – Make Germany Great Again, Build Back Better, trust me.
A major difference: Schwab is Semitic and Adolf was anti-*******.
But it is looking as if the final result might turn out to be more or less the same swan song.
The squeeze on living standards can be clearly seen by examining the recent experiences of my big sister.
As a fully qualified dog walker, she has had to augment her income by pole dancing and works in gentlemen’s clubs throughout the UK, dusk till dawn.
As many of David’s readers will be able to attest, it is customary for members of the audience to make donations of cash to such performers by cunningly wedging £5.00 notes into their knicker elastic .
Recently however, big sis has complained that many of her punters are putting her off her stride by interrupting the show , demanding she gives out change, in the middle of her act !
Other well meaning , hard working, single dad’s desperate for a bit of well earned R&R, now that they can’t afford a Netflix subscription, have compounded her problems by stuffing handfuls of loose change into the same receptacle, which on close inspection, usually turns out to be one and two pence pieces with the occasional low denomination, foreign coin thrown in.
A few days ago, she was left with no option but to do this after only her first dance. The club manager told her it was too early for her to be going through the change.
Given the seriousness of the circumstances our society is faced with, it’s good of David to cheer us all up with a clip of Adolph Hitler complaining that he can’t find a parking space. Given his unpredictable nature, I would still prefer him living next door to the new Dr Who.
Schwab’s father, an engineer by profession, ran the German branch of the Swiss company that manufactured ‘Heavy Water’ for the Nazi atomic bomb project during the war. So it’s rather doubtful that the family was Semitic.
Schwab Jnr is merely the latest manifestation of the belief of the ethnic German elite that they have the God-given right and duty to rule the entire planet. Nothing new there.
I see little evidence that anyone actually watches television nowadays. In the block in which I live no-one even owns a television, and the days when if you glanced in someone’s window when passing you inevitably saw a flickering TV screen are long gone. Laptops and mobile phones have largely replaced them.
I have no love for our Chancellor, but he does seem to have been quite clever, re-cycling the energy companies’ sequestered profits back to them via consumer subsidies, rather than using ordinary taxpayers’ money to subsidise the vastly increased costs of a publicly-owned company like the French government has done.
Apparently. Schwab’s real mother was 100% Semitic. The Semitics consider anyone who has a Semitic mother to be Semitic. Theirs is a matrilineal not a patrilineal system of classification.
I tried looking at the site called j**watch dot com, but it no longer exists It did exist a month ago.
https://fitzinfo.net/2021/12/20/wefs-klaus-schwab-is-jewish/
OCCUPY MARS
Cheer up, folks. Here is an excellent example of what free men are capable of achieving.
These top-flight engineers sound as if they are dreamers, but they get most of these crazy-sounding ideas to work in practice.
By the time we are ready to leave this planet we will have discovered how the treacherous nihilistic woke stunts become what they are. Which means that they won’t be coming with us.
Go up SpaceX’s Starship-catching robotic launch tower with Elon Musk! –