I just had a reminder of how effing stupid/weird/insane a lot of conspiracy squirrels are

Short version: article from somewhere about how some feminine hygiene products 'may' be contaminated with something dangerous.  Which led to 'The rich have been setting things like this up to reduce the number of serfs, so the rest will be easier to control!  Look it up!"

No, thank you.  If I want to read fiction, there's much better stuff out there.


Another thread over on Bookface, Takei was once again whining about stupid Americans and guns, which led to the inevitable Brits insisting how much more wonderful it is over there, etc.  So, to bring up some past hits from (formerly Great)Britain,
One of the biggest police forces in the country fails to record more than 38,000 reported crimes each year, including a quarter of violent offences.
Greater Manchester police (GMP) were graded “inadequate” at recording crime, and a watchdog found officers were also wrongly cancelling recorded violence, robbery and sex offences.
Hey, they've got to keep those crime numbers down somehow.


The Crown Prosecution Service's Violence Against Women and Girls report showed that convictions for rape, domestic abuse, sexual offences and child abuse have reached a record level.
At the same time,
In May a judge criticised a police officer and the CPS for their handling of accusations of gang rape against four agricultural students, which fell apart just as the trial was due to start. He said they bore responsibility for failing to disclose “game-changing” evidence to the defence teams of the men.
Translation: "You had evidence that these people were innocent, and you hid it.  Because convicting an innocent person is apparently not a problem for you."


Express.co.uk has pieced together shocking testimony from victims, campaigners and local residents in a large-scale investigation series being revealed throughout this week. 

They all told us how police and the local council is still "failing" thousands of vulnerable girls. 

It reveals how organised, criminal gangs of paedophiles are still using the town as their own personal fiefdom, peddling underage girls for sex as part of a multi-million pound crime empire.
There's a lot more.  I may collect some of them into a single post of links.


On the mess in Europe,
As the waves upon waves of migrants from the Arab world and Africa started to break in greater and greater numbers across the shores of Europe a few years ago, I warned that if they did not find some way to keep these teeming millions out - and return as many as possible back that were already there - that eventually this would force the European nations to be something that they did not want to be. The mainstream Center-Left and Center-Right parties would have to become more nationalistic or the people would continue to turn to parties and individuals who did not share liberal ideals.

No one, not the indigenous population nor recent legal immigrants would be better for it. All is unfolding with almost mathematical precision.