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UNO Project, THE TIMES 1991—and BBC

run by St Barths Human Research //

hence all to be returned to victim as it was....as science projects always returned to their former

Lynne – they track everything at the lab, all can be returned- insist it is returned.

Intellectual Property--

lab calls this REDUCTION part of an EXTREME EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM- Health Ministry Minister Arnold signed for- your lives are forfeit you are so vulnerable that it is easy to strip you and mess with you-

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WE ARE DECENT, USEFUL, HARD Working CITIZENS - with a lot of talent-

daughter Rachel De Souza head mistress of Victory Colleges

son Project Engineer for Becktels USA

two younger sons destroyed by lab called SIBLING TESTS- tortured remote mercilessly- third son crippled from years of torture of unimaginable cruelty- it would take Nuremberg trials to get anywhere near what has been done to both boys, fourth son has no feeling in Genitalia (Mohammad and yussuf) and scarred for ever/ cheated endlessly and left penniless- because the lab used them as young children and destroyed their normal life proceedures as can be seen by the difference between the two children brought up by my ex and me and these two, played with by the lab constantly from early teens and before-

11.7.13 TODAY WE BEGIN THE LIES ABOUT THE ACCOUNTS- UP TO NOW WE HAVE COUNTED IT HONESTLY – WE OWE YOU ABOUT £6,500+ £11,000 taken from the HYPO by all the Pak Operatives

SSE—I put £100 on to your gas bill, I was going to create small bills afterwards but you had the meter but in.

Everything is being oovered with lies since the last week--

lab st barths human research has copy of everything on lab computer and I want copies of everything I have done sine they began persecuting and terrorising me- I have not even started about the remote torture, which has been unbelievable

UNO signed something to give ST Barths Human Research permission, but were not told what the lab was actually doing- UNO told them they had to let the victims know what they were doing. After the act, they put something over a tv progr. (they have a studio at the BBC and a director Sydney, who works for them-) or music etc-- when it is far too late, often a long time later- and bank cheating, never...........they just say, we have 'used' banks.

St Barths Human Research "we will average her. We intend to steal absolutely everything she has.they came to the UK in 1947- penniless refugees we intend her to get out like that, we cannot afford a scandal- our Pakistani operatives to drive you out and kill you if you don't go, as our abuses and crimes were too many- including using your children when very young-

used also as King's whipping boy - separated by lab as Royal/sexing used as for Royals-

Lynne lab person - the lab tracks everything they have had stolen and can return it-

****HOUSE BREAK IN’s Since 23 May to 1st June—at least five, Pakistani Operative opened doors remote, more copy cat break ins to before- “WE SENT THREE WEST INDIANS DONE FOR VIOLENT CRIMES IN AND SOME MORE MIDDLE EASTERN GIRLS TO ROB HER—“ half a dozen oil pastel sketches on black paper and some books with texts taken and goods.. lab pakistani St Barths Human Research operative it is what Dr Meyer Edgeware Rd wanted- Dr Meyer some will be returned, but doctored and downgraded!

--leave once cod liver oil tablet left on stairs, once wardrobe door swinging, three time elastic tied to Ugo out—uses Carribean, more local girls and Slovak..

I was ordered to by Anna Grey of The Ministry of Health. I want everything returning- my papers and my goods stolen – they call it thieving therapy.

Anna Grey Health Ministry, junior Secretary (to keep her safe from law) I will give her a little pay out to pay for their lives if she asks for a therapy to be taken into account, nothing else.

-I WISH FOR EVERYTHING TO BE RETURNED- PHOTOS, PAINTINGS, TEXTS academic and creative AND THAT MONEY TAKEN BY LAB STAFF

Tracker is on and all thefts are followed--

I am not asking for compensation- I just want ALL that is mine back and will go then.

microsound/ all operatives have stolen something of value, the lab directed them and rolled savings and pension out of her bank account-

program signed for by someone at U.N. "we did not tell him what we were really going to do"

Royals gave permission, shown bogus film by second porn starlet, with Renate head supplanted

/studio at the BBC director Sidney/ all goes throughEmley Moor mast/ Guys Hospital aware/ paid for by USA Human Research 63 million, and 7 million by Brussels, who have called abort many time, not intended like this/

began interference in our lives 1983- began program 1991 THE TIMES insert/ anything goes as long as you cross the t's and dot the i's/beaming our lives to New York sister lab, beam looped to all world to strong receivers/ set off alarms at St Monica/ USA give us all you have- outlawed programs, unusable programs etc

put all family on monitor and copied my work from beginning and lab members used as their own, Cosmopolitan etc. all of us have suffered/

Lab-we will turn it round and make them guilty - used a banned psychiatrist Karl for info on how to destroy- dr Meyer Edgeware Rd London,- John and Lauren Redbridge neighbour of Milliband and daughter Fay, used all my work.

Operative Simon french- gave all my work painted and written and raised artificially wife Jean Beaumond, now using her husbands name as I have put her name everywhere-

to cover gross misconduct- bossess moved to Health Ministry so untouchable by law (former lovers, Minister Arnold, several Senior Civil Servants- bossess Anna Grey gave my uni work to friends and Ministry Personell- my family history to Junior Health Minister- who wrote 27 pages into his book =former jews from east, ???? my family were rich artisans and we come from the lush Urals 500 years ago, not sandy Isreal, poor workers??? Pamela Pensions, given my UEL german texts for daughter who was studying German, I am naturally tri lingual! -- translations are lodged at the Goethe Institute in London )

silver medal for poetry, / father’s pocketwatches The Iraaqi thief for the lab stole our large bottle of Channel 5 from your eldest son.

Pakistani operatives had each of the local thieves take five items out of home--

16.07.2013 another thief sent in, took personal address book by phone and other stuffs—will check.

Taken Criminal Slang Dictionary

European Mythology dictionary

Other books...

(used it the other day) Paki operative using local Slovaks (we are repeating all previous crimes- took address book in 2010---) TO QUALIFY ALL THEFTS Dr Meyer Edgeware Rd London has told us to say you are Starting again and have to be stripped of all things—

This means they are still opening my door by laser from the lab St Barths Human Research as only I live here and I NEVER leave a door open

DR MEYER ASKED US TO STRIP HER OF EVERYTHING—THE FENCE FROM FIRTH PARK SELLS HER STUFF AT PUBS AS DOES THE ENGLISH THIEF UP THE HILL...

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3.June 2013- GIVE HER TO US< WE WILL DESTROY HER FOR YOU- Mohammad-

"we had no defence for what we have done so we had to phase her out.."

3.June 2013 More of my texts disappeared from my Folder, China Write—

9th June, found another of her poetry books, translations of Ukrainian poems/Slovak

Leather handbag— Pakistani sent in 2west indian druggies – we took 6 items It took half an hour. All our sons shirts too-

Paki lab op – Leoni Sheffield HallamUni stole and used my Grimsby School of Art work besides 300 Euros etc and Marrisa Longley College- Sheffield stole 3 paintings, whole book of paintings Two Months in St Petersburg—etc 45 and 46 Lloyd Street Sheffield was a set up by Op Sayed..

Adam Kahn Hiinde house lane took my box of stories he had stolen from cousin in Danrell to cousin at 59 Idesworth rd Sheffield- who then passed to west indians 59 HornDean road-sheffield – thw carib women there have been copying it all – though it is clearly marked, Sheffield Uni Writers Group, / Sheffield Art College Psalter lane Sheffield – etc as their own work sending it off, as the lab watches.. Pakistani’s want every single thing to be stolen.. so I retunn to Germany naked they say—because we were EXVELLENT citizens

Firevale Group of West indians are still passing the notes and essays and poems they wrote round theiir community though they know who and what I am--

Three blogs off Facebook, anna now rules the uK

9th July 2013 another break in, left things about, tried out stuff Lilly of tthe valley etc put one or two things back downgraded – insturctions to paki lab operatives, confuse.. Sketch Pad

Adam Kahn Hinde House Lane Sheffield moves my stolen box of family history texts, texts from Psalter Laner art college daily diary, University of Sheffield writers Group etc to cousin at 59/61 Idesworth Road Sheffield

Massive numbers of drafts and emails from off my computer which lab St Barths has wiped and not sent on

hacking into all poetry sites constantly, wiping off and changing into rubbish poems-- and MY folders- taking off paintings,poetry, essays etc

spring 2003 lab began shredding a mass of your letters at the lab St Barths Hum Res- we used trick form to always get your post first..just one director.

Intellectual property

WE WILL REPLACE IT WITH INFERIOR COPIES WE WILL MAKE

3.June 2013—Paki Op- I sent in a thief last week, he took TWO MORE SKETCH BOOKS FILLED WITH YOUR LIFE DRAWINGS- I want you to have all copies and others the real thing..

Lab Lloyds Bank—we autograph your sketches and paintings with our own names-

**************I do not need their copies, paintings, sketches or writings, or essays I wish for my originals, or the copies from ANNA GREY MINISTRY OF HEALTH- copies from her monitor..I do not need their stupidity..***

(already one of my stories a copy of theirs)

From Luggage June 2012-John Appleyard Barnsley

used two Iraqi thieves:

I WANT IT ALL RETURNING

30 water colours stolen by lab

15 books full of texts by lab

endless diaries AT LEAST 20 stolen 9.4.13

photographs of family from war and before/ President Masaryk and Russian Major liberating Europe

large new box Windsor Newton paints- and small box..

use local thieves everywhere to steal originals:"let them destroy them and we will keep copies"

ie 60 Torsten Rd Sheffield, Amy- Idesworth rd Sheffield and numerous carribeans in area have box of my work, Art degree College Diary, Creative writing degree, Literature and german degree etc

24 Popple street Sheffield thief, son has signed my sketches as his own passed onto friend

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NO M.A. CERT PERMITTED- LAB bossess ANNA GREY I DO NOT WANT ANYMORE EDUCATION-- SHE IS A SECOND. TOLD GERMAN STUDIES PROF DOING EXPERIMENTS BUT NOT WHAT- I wish the return of my MA certificate NOW

Teaching books stolen by lab in suitcases stolen by lab/ in parcel from Italy stolen by lab- also reading books from posted packages

I wish the teaching books returning now

Two Spelling teaching books, one taken by west indian induced to break in/ science teaching book- (I think lab)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------families of- AND lab operatives and even spin doctor Meyer all used my work constantly from beginning - there is nothing you can do about it-

whilst destroying all I tried to achieve

Ana Meyer- sells copies of my sketches to design centres, recently another to Calvin Klein.£300, also to Paco Rabin, M&S, Top Shops etc she has hundreds of my work over 25 years. Niece also Topshops/nephew has all recent work/ etc

Fay daughter of Redbridge John the sadist killer and wife lauren, who wrote my stories as jewish stories to People's Friend

Fay has copied paintings by the dozen and sold them as her own and stories

Jean Beaumond, copied paintings and stories wife of operative Simon.Now using her own name and work, after having used all mine

writer Brierley given my diaries to put into his books as padding--

THE LAB St Barths - Health Ministry ESTABLISHES CERTAIN FAVOURITES AND USEFUL STARS AS LONG AS THEY ARE PREPARED TO USE YOUR /MY WORK- THEY ARE PUT IN THE WAY OF CONTACTS TO RAISE THEM, WHICH THE LAB THEN ENSURES--- THE BIGGEST SCAM EVER IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND-I quote-

Alyson, destroyed paintings even as she cannot draw, by inking them, I WANT THE COPIES On the lab MONITOR sells my work by signing the originals - list is endless, Mrs Pocklington Cricklewood, etc I am told afterwards, by 'their methods' over tv program, microsound, over music etc - which the asian operatives use for sexual and other abuses, also during nights, Meyer, she will think she dreamt it and weaken. Harrassed through Colleges and Universities- 'we wanted to use you not a lecturer. we gave the marks.'

Bernice manageress of St Barths presently, has three of my books printed several of my poetry RETURN

Alan Manager of St Barths presently has three of my books - has printed several of my poems etc RETURN

Dr they call Harry, recently retired from Middlesex Hospital, London, has several books of mine, "I have taken all I want from them"

also sons of ALan and Harry used my thesis of Jews in Germany - for A level to get into prestigious colleges, School of Economics and London Uni. told lecturers it was jewish work (my info came from Hungarian writer not published..)

I WANT ALL COPIES OF MY UNI WORK BACK-- ALL THE DEGREES-- Myer even had art college paintings stolen

Op. Mohammad I took some of victims book home and gave the rest to Fay to use as her own. the staff are all given all her work from off the computer, to use as their own..

24.4.13 all her poetry books except one stolen from luggage coming from Spain

23.4.13 Dr Myer Edgeware Rd took five books full of life drawing sketches,about 200 sketches in all

lab distributes the papers to people I want them back

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several papers to MohsinKahn

several to Sister in Law Christine

a lot to Bernard, jewish Refrom Doctor formerly sheffield hospital

lab itself, 20 of your paintings from luggage by OPERATIVE MEGAN who also took money from LLOYDS BANK ACCOUNT twice 110-and 80

all the Pakistani BIBI ETC operatives take 150 from bank account

Operative Amina, takes £280 off HSBC moneys into machine puts into Pakistani woman's acount

Firth Park Bank Clerk takes off £400 only records - did not check till got home

Market, give stall £20 does not giver approp change operative

fleeing to Germany I put money in Hypo bank-- each of eleven pakistani operatives took £1000 from HYPO- bank account - they call it rolling it out..

Berlin Human Research paid to take part incase I flee over there- come to lab

Werner ties my computer to their at the lab

all operatives given all my log ins and bank account numbers

Megan I took about 20 family photographs- including from baby places, irreplaceable, refugee never to be seen again

luggage from Spain slit open box- took three books filled with poetry etc to Bernice, manageress of the lab

Leoni 46 Lloyd street, essays / designs etc from Grimsby school of Art Foundation/moneys from purse £300/ 2 phones etc spring 2012 lab tuned thieves

Marissa 45 Lloyd street WHOLE BOOK of sketches/ designs, goods

9.4.13- 20 diaries from box----

Alyson /Meg wrote my s stories from illegal processing as her own, WORSE she defaced 20 of my sketches—I am primarily an artist who teaches.

LAB OPERERATIVE SCRIBBLE ON MY SKETCHES AND BURN THE ORIGINAL COPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BBC- 5.7.13 I made a book of sketches using your work, including a lot of from your life drawings-

THE LAUREN GROUP – Jewess..

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UPON RETIREMENT I INTENDED TO WRITE PAPERS ON THESE TEXTS AND PRINT PAINTINGS--as books

re two books already PAPER BATTLESHIPS and THE LEFT FOOTERS--

many poems printed in INBOX books and others

exhibitions at Sheffield Library and Art Tower Sheffield Uni amongst others- Islington Library, Leeds Library etc

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three weeks ago-Slovak 24 Popple st Sheffield/sketch books from bedside/diaries and texts-son tracing sketches (3 lots of them now)

3 months ago/ Iraqi teenager Robey St Sheffield/four text books full of work poetry Uni degrees

oct 2012 Earl 95 Lloyd street - MASS of Uni texts and goods and 96 Lloyd st -west indians 2/3 entries

7 Lloyd st now at Manor estate-2 west indian/ chinese goods, sons£1000+ money from pockets and texts-- chinese jacket purple worth £500

wensley estate sheffield/ older west indian 3/4 entries sold my goods to local african wmn 4 pure silk robes £300 at least, and many other items brought from teaching in China-

Photographs of war time, russian friends given me- in Russia

GCE certs/ Sheffield Uni Russian cert/Sheffield Poly Cert Art and art history foundation also all several Scotland Yard clearance forms since 2002 yearly.. \Baptismal forms etc etc

4 silk robes China £300/sketch books etc etc by Wensley Estate sheffield Thief west indian

Earl Marshall Rd thief used by Lab- Firvale sheffield 4 russian carved boxes/ two sets beautiful cards etc# taken because we said "the Hungarian human research chief paid to come to England, did not like Russians" (?) in boxes ready to post as presents to my grandsons beautiful sets of russian cards, I bought on trip russia with Twinning Donetsk Sheffield with Sheffield University.

Sheffield Fence, Firth park, short blonde stubby nose all manner of stuff from China including catholic prayer plates/ etc things I bought in Qingdao Church and also memory baptism by my goddaughter Jun jun at Qingdao Church Christmas Eve 2003

Firvale west indian family, boys and Idesworth Rd Sheffield/ entered and robbed many texts used by the whole family and cousins even now, even read one in class as his own

Amy 4 Idesworth road used / several Rasta types, / 60 Horndean Rd Firthpark ALL using my work

Adam Kahn, HInde House lane Sheffield, entered stole box of books full of texts, 8 years from Sheffield Univerisity writers groups/Psalter Lane College art diaries/ sent them to cousin in Darnhall, then to Idesworth rd west indians - several Carribean women/Idesworth RD, Tideswell Rd Firth park and Firvale Sheffield, copied and copying still them, now the young men are copying them/ incl now 56 Horndean Rd.

Operative Mustafa sent Slovak in again last Wednesday-- stole more art materials,etc and son's stuff..

cards from 1914 before- cards from friends, all manner of such different cards etc

sent MY ACTUAL sketches to Calvin Klein and Paco Rabin, signed with their names, cutting off comments I made at the time and dates - then all of them took some of my work and signed with their own names-

the entire work, including degree level work, to Stefany, placed in school and used

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HEALTH

November 2003- Wayne, lorry driver who threw 80 of my books for European Libraries into disused warehouse in east London-" may we hit her body Steven/ yes, bodies can be healed" 3pm hyped heart, so pounding. Since then used daily, including dredger on brain at nights, all night everynight some form of torture remote is used/little known technology..

SLUGGISH SYSTEMS HYPED REMOTE FOR WATERHEADS, MENTALLY HANDICAPPED AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED

I would needs write a book hence they steal my diary as I recorded a lot of it in them-

MONEYS

each operative has to train to roll money out of my account

3 weeks ago, £100

Megan some months ago, twice £120 and £80 IN total some £6000+ no matter where I move it/ tried moving to germany Hypo bank- each Pakistani operative told to roll out£1000 for himself- one took £2000- used bank of England to do this? they have also falsified cheques etc they call it and EVERY CRIME THEY DO AS AN ISSUE - not a crime, anything, even deaths

EVERY TRICK IMAGINABLE IS TRIED so I get massive power bills when I rarely use my gas fire, phone bills I have not used etc

every other type of trick tried, with de-energy anything can be made to happen- most sophisticated machine ever, given to cleaners and carers by the most corrupt group ever to exist

I had sold house to escape several times

Student at leipzig Uni, sister Uni of UEL for one year, Deutsch bank gave Polishstudent same card, she took grant out, left me penniless, Barclays constantly used - owe us a ton and lloyds

The lab has been taking my money none stop- trying to make us into beggars they say..because the former boss Steven had taken massive loans and got into debt-

all operatives have to try out all crimes and take for themselves, after service in the lab from cleaners and carers they are all moved to prime positions and middle management

ALL nightly BULLYING HAS TO BE HEARD TO BE BELIEVED-

evidently the Prince and Queen were shown a bogus film and file and told it was me, for permission. Not the government, then they too were told lies.

The worst killer is John of Redbridge- he says he hated me from the start, I have no idea who he is, or why as I am a very quiet person, traditional etc They decided to break up our marriage at the beginning, which they do often, as with Royal couple-- but I know he is very, very rich -

Their Pakistanis call it teasing, call me a whore/tart etc constantly- do not ask me why? and then destroy as though I had done something to them--

HACKING INTO ACCOUNTS OF EVERY TYPE- Changing what is in them--

folders on my computer

/wiping off emails- de select

destroy contact with friends and family

Lost desirable job in Dalian China/ intentional

all operatives permitted to hack into my folders and take and change what they wish

Hacked into my sites, changed and took out poetry etc

hacked into bank accounts etc

all operatives permitted to copy and take home my work for their own use' Pakis have done so for their children-

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christmas presents to Russia taken home by operatives

eaten chocolates etc thrown out books

book to China close friend professor, operative took home (japanese treatment of english in SIngapore)

all post taken to lab

return from teaching in Italy, box full- charge 50 Euros instead of 20-teaching books, etc operative took home

box to daughter from China, operative sent to family in India

box to Russian friend?

letters and small parcels always taken

Suitcase on flight to Beijing- one year teaching taken off tarmac Manchester to lab all taken to lab and operatives helped themselves, one sold on EBAY my stuff, super expensive artists paints, sketch books, teaching books, 20 silk shirts, etc etc hundreds ofUK CD's

THE OPERATIVES TAKE MY GOODS HOME FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND SELL THEM ON EBAY..

Debra secretary- took photos of mum, frau Schulz, in Barton will never see again, wedding photos of both my elder children (I have NO photos of my elder children)etc

Wayne, threw 80 of my books to European Libraries into disused warehouse London

besides taking everything I send by post/ if I put one into library they have someone take it and not return it

the list is endless since 1984...............

PHYSICAL ABUSE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER

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REPEATED SEXING (as Pr Diana)

AS All night 21.May 2013 (I am 68 years old on 23 May!!!) They used sexing on my mother when she was in her seventies) the bestial animals keep the womb irritant all night, as it is a dreadful feeling and every time you drop off to sleep the pigs put the lewd filth onto the dream continuing torture-

IRRITATIAON OF THE WOMB extremely uncomfortable and also makes me pee- they put on lewd, filthy dreams at the same time- unbelievably disgusting and keep it up all night repeatedly. pointless torture as most of this is..the pakis sit there all night messing the machine -elder white women teachers being tortured in their dirty little fantasies

the evil operatives often use this during lessons, for many years now- women dare not talk of such things, as they think it is their fault as a child with rape. with men they give them an urge to lunge and grab.. hence the Prince was given this treatment too and hence rape, technological rape

They tell their beasts I am to be raped and they have to put on thanks somewhere and that is all I require.

Radium B put on my co-ordinates-- also other type of killer substance--

DEBASEMENT even in Churches and working in Hospitals during holy services and whilst on the Ward nursing..

Wrote a file of their own failings and say it is ME!!!!!!!!!!

because I don't smoke or drink and live a healthy life style, Meyer had put on alsorts of remote torture EVERY NIGHT OF MY LIFE SINCE

it will weaken her and she will think she dreamt it- agonising and excruciating-

used for water heads in mental homes who have sluggish systems -- hyping heart, pressing it (closed half of ducts with this) pressing all organs, especially recently eye retinas and corneas.. for months, so I should never paint again-- or teach. Dredger on brain night after night, destroys brain cells- pressing down with laser on skull

pressing down on arteries, that is Dr Myers speciality on arms, so later they harden. op Megan, presses left artery of heart (whilst in Spain- they paid half million to Spain to continue there.. june 2012- oct 2013..intended to run away there as had many Students living with me and taught for Chesterfield School back then, did not think Spanish were so weak towards corruption)

Endless Lewdity over tv and music--pakistani operatives disgusting, I am 68 years old, never done anything like that- they are filthy. and know it is a put on. watch me in bath and undressing- I would not allow a male nurse never mind strange men watching me and insulting me like that---yet I teach their children! years ago I wrote to BBC and ITV but received no answer-

I know 'ology lady used my PE lesson during BE'd from Nether thorpe School, I heard it, identical// the lab sponsored tv writers to write up my stuff - so that no one could get at them--

Martin, failed exams, given all my work, advertising now millionaire

then Philip-- I see my work on vans etc..

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HEALTH DESTROYED<,

you have about 7 years of life left, as we have left your organs too weak to live much longer than that- besides the Radium B etc... from pressure of laser, your heart and lungs are very weak, can’t walk up slightest incline without panting. Laser presses the squashy material in your lungs, diminishes lung space- Half your ducts in your heart have been closed. Wewanted to use you for sexual experiments remote, not have you studying and paintings-

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22.5.13-5 to 12/ over TV-- We put £100 on to your gas meter--- St Barths Human Research (over phone: your choice the jews said- YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE SIGNED SOMETHING-- I signed a nurses form in April 1991 at West Ham Community Health London- shouted at by Nurse Hughes to do so."this will help you" no copy given, could not read it as straight from Shift at Newham Hospital.. went next day for copy..Nurse Hughes yells : It has gone higher, sapeena me, sapeena me...(at that time I had no idea what sapeena meant- three London solicitors have tried to find this form, without success... I think they refer to this. Thirea London, found a form I signed on the day I was sitting at a desk at the UEL in a German lesson, saying St Barths could open all my files..in the event, I did not bother much, as there is nothing in my files, I have never done anything or had anything which is of concern.)

since beginning, SEE HOW YOU CAN CHEAT THEM--- I have tried to be patient- and just use as little as I can of anything--

lots more such instances over the years

woolwich £50 Arthur took that out

richard german Human Research took out £2000

Werner German Human Research tied my computer to lab computer

Berlin Human Research FELIX took out fifty percent of my hair whilst I was teaching at Ocean Uni Qingdao ..

electricity bill twice £70 I went to Germany - Lynne

gas bill (I was in Hungary)- we gave an english family your tiny bill you got their bill with central heating £80

THE LAB ACCOUNTS LEADER PUT ON

lab owes you about £7000

without the HYPO bank thefts...which were £11,000

Dr Myer had purse stolen at Christmas, so boys and I penniless over Christmas Months benefits-

- had purse stolen, Upton Park underground, £400

Intellectual

Art college failed by Dr Myer Edgeware Rd London WE DOWN MARKED YOU CONSTANTLY SO WE HAD ALL YOUR NEIGHBOURS ROB YOUR UNIVERSITY WORK--

overuse of lecturers, one shot himself, one died of pressing lungs, one given breakdown as many, many others

BE'd - Head you are not mixing with adults! Myer, give lowest mark possible-

UEL-- endless intervention filth, lewdities- give lowest mark possible (Wayne- give her the border line= 20% taken off because she already speaks German)

Creative writing degree Sheffield Uni- mark as low as possible –

I WANT ALL MY QUOTES , money and all my work RETURNING- -------------ALL-----------

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mostlysignssomeportents · 4 years

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Patent troll's IP more powerful than Apple's

I was 12 years into my Locus Magazine column when I published the piece I'm most proud of, "IP," from September 2020. It came after an epiphany, one that has profoundly shaped the way I talk and think about the issues I campaign on.

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

That revelation was about the meaning of the term "IP," which had been the center of this tedious linguistic cold war for decades. People who advocate for free and open technology and culture hate the term "IP" because of its ideological loading and imprecision.

Ideology first: Before "IP" came into wide parlance - when lobbyists for multinational corporations convinced the UN to turn their World Intellectual Property Organization into a specialized agency, we used other terms like "author's monopolies" and "regulatory monopolies."

"Monopoly" is a pejorative. "Property" is sacred to our society. When a corporation seeks help defending its monopoly, it is a grubby corrupter. When it asks for help defending its property, it is enlisting the public to defend the state religion.

Free culture people know allowing "monopolies" to become "property" means losing the battle before it is even joined, but it is frankly unavoidable. How do you rephrase "IP lawyer" without conceding the property point? "Trademark-copyright-patent-and-related-rights lawyer?"

Thus the other half of the objection to "IP": its imprecision. Copyright is not anything like patent. Patent is not anything like trademark. Trade secrets are an entirely different thing again. Don't let's get started on sui generis and neighboring rights.

And this is where my revelation came: as it is used in business circles, "IP" has a specific, precise meaning. "IP" means, "Any law, policy or regulation that allows me to control the conduct of my competitors, critics and customers."

Copyright, patent and trademark all have limitations and exceptions designed to prevent this kind of control, but if you arrange them in overlapping layers around a product, each one covers the exceptions in the others.

Creators don't like having their copyrights called "author's monopolies." Monopolists get to set prices. All the copyright in the world doesn't let an author charge publishers more for their work. The creators have a point.

But when author's monopolies are acquired by corporate monopolists, something magical and terrible happens.

Remember: market-power monopolies are still (theoretically) illegal and when companies do things to maintain or expand their monopolies, they risk legal jeopardy.

But: The corporate monopolist who uses IP to expand their monopoly has no such risk. Monopolistic conduct in defense of IP enjoys wide antitrust forbearance. What's the point of issuing patents or allowing corporations to buy copyrights if you don't let them enforce them?

The IP/market-power monopoly represents a futuristic corporate alloy, a new metal never seen, impervious to democratic control.

Software is "IP" and so any device with software in it is like beskar, a rare metal that can be turned into the ultimate corporate armor.

No company exemplifies this better than Apple, a company that used limitations on IP to secure its market power, then annihilated those limits so that no one could take away its market power.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay

In the early 2000s, Apple was in trouble. The convicted monopolist Microsoft ruled the business world, and if you were the sole Mac user in your office, you were screwed.

When a Windows user sent you a Word file, you could (usually) open it in the Mac version of Word, but then if you saved that file again, it often became forever cursed, unopenable by any version of Microsoft Office ever created or ever to be created.

This became a huge liability. Designers started keeping a Windows box next to their dual processor Power Macs, just to open Office docs. Or worse (for Apple), they switched to a PC and bought Windows versions of Adobe and Quark Xpress.

Steve Jobs didn't solve this problem by begging Bill Gates to task more engineers to Office for Mac. Instead, Jobs got Apple techs to reverse-engineer all of the MS Office file formats and release a rival office suite, Iwork, which could read and write MS Office files.

That was an Apple power move, one that turned MS's walled garden into an all-you-can-eat buffet of potential new Mac users. Apple rolled out the Switch ads, whose message was, "Every MS Office file used to be a reason *not* to use a Mac. Now it's a reason to switch *to* a Mac."

More-or-less simultaneously, though, Apple was inventing the hybrid market/IP monopoly tool that would make it the most valuable company in the world, in its design for the Ipod and the accompanying Itunes store.

It had a relatively new legal instrument to use for this purpose: 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act; specifically, Section 1201 of the DMCA, the "anti-circumvention" clause, which bans breaking DRM.

Under DMCA 1201, if a product has a copyrighted work (like an operating system) and it has an "access control" (like a password or a bootloader key), then bypassing the access control is against the law, even if no copyright infringement takes place.

That last part - "even if no copyright infringement takes place" - is the crux of DMCA 1201. The law was intended to support the practices of games console makers and DVD player manufacturers, who wanted to stop competitors from making otherwise legal devices.

With DVD players, that was about "region coding," the part of the DVD file format that specified which countries a DVD could be played back in. If you bought a DVD in London, you couldn't play it in Sydney or New York.

Now, it's not a copyright violation to buy a DVD and play it wherever you happen to be. As a matter of fact, buying a DVD and playing it is the *opposite* of a copyright infringement.

But it *was* a serious challenge to the entertainment cartel's business-model, which involved charging different prices and having different release dates for the same movie depending on where you were.

The same goes for games consoles: companies like Sega and Nintendo made a lot of money charging creators for the right to sell games that ran on the hardware they sold.

If I own a Sega Dreamcast, and you make a game for it, and I buy it and run it on my Sega, that's not a copyright infringement, even if Sega doesn't like it. But if you have to bypass an "access control" to get the game to play without Sega's blessing, it violates DMCA 1201.

What's more, DMCA 1201 has major penalties for "trafficking in circumvention devices" and information that could be used to build such a device, such as reports of exploitable flaws in the programming of a DRM system: $500k in fines and a 5 year sentence for a first offense.

Deregionalizing a DVD player or jailbreaking a Dreamcast didn't violate anyone's copyrights, but it still violated copyright law (!). It was pure IP, the right to control the conduct of critics (security researchers), customers and competitors.

In the words of Jay Freeman, it's "Felony contempt of business-model."

And that's where the Ipod came in. Steve Jobs's plan was to augment the one-time revenue from an Ipod with a recurrent revenue stream from the Itunes store.

He exploited the music industry's superstitious dread of piracy and naive belief in the efficacy of DRM to convince the record companies to only sell music with his DRM wrapper on it - a wrapper they themselves could not authorize listeners to remove.

Ever $0.99 Itunes purchase added $0.99 to the switching cost of giving up your Ipod for a rival device, or leaving Itunes and buying DRM music from a rival store. It was control over competitors and customers. It was IP.

If you had any doubt that the purpose of Ipod/Itunes DRM was to fight competitors, not piracy, then just cast your mind back to 2004, when Real Media "hacked" the Ipod so that it would play music locked with Real's DRM as well as Apple's.

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3387871/Apple+RealNetworks+Hacked+iPod.htm

Apple used DMCA 1201 to shut Real down, not to stop copyright infringement, but to prevent Apple customers from buying music from record labels and playing them on their Ipods without paying Apple a commission and locking themselves to Apple's ecosystem, $0.99 at a time.

Pure IP. Now, imagine if Microsoft had been able to avail itself of DMCA 1201 when Iwork was developed - if, for example, its "information rights management" encryption had caught on, creating "access controls" for all Office docs.

There's a very strong chance that would have killed Apple off before it could complete its recovery. Jobs knew the power of interoperating without consent, and he knew the power of invoking the law to block interoperability. He practically invented modern IP.

Apple has since turned IP into a trillion-dollar valuation, largely off its mobile platform, the descendant of the Ipod. This mobile platform uses DRM - and thus DMCA 1201 - to ensure that you can only use apps that come from its app store.

Apple gets a cut of penny you spend buying an app, and every penny you spend within that app: 30% (now 15% for a minority of creators after bad publicity).

IP lets one of the least taxed corporations on Earth extract a 30% tax from everyone else.

https://locusmag.com/2021/03/cory-doctorow-free-markets/

Remember, it's not copyright infringement for me to write an app and you to buy it from me and play it on your Iphone without paying the 30% Apple tax.

That's the exact opposite of copyright infringement: buying a copyrighted work and enjoying it on a device you own.

But it's still an IP violation. It bypasses Apple's ability to control competitors and customers. It's felony contempt of business-model.

It shows that under IP, copyright can't be said to exist as an incentive to creativity - rather, it's a tool for maintaining monopolies.

Which brings me to today's news that Apple was successfully sued by a patent troll over its DRM. A company called Personalized Media Communications whose sole product is patent lawsuits trounced Apple in the notorious East Texas patent-troll court.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-19/apple-told-to-pay-308-5-million-for-infringing-drm-patent

After software patents became widespread - thanks to the efforts of Apple and co - there was a bonanza of "inventors" filing garbage patents with the USPTO whose format was "Here's an incredibly obvious thing...*with a computer*." The Patent Office rubberstamped them by the million.

These patents became IP, a way to extract rent without having to make a product. "Investors" teamed up with "inventors" to buy these and impose a tax on businesses - patent licensing fees that drain money from people who make things and give it to people who buy things.

They found a court - the East Texas court in Marshall, TX - that was hospitable to patent trolls. They rented dusty PO boxes in Marshall and declared them to be their "headquarters" so that they could bring suits there.

Locals thrived - they got jobs as "administrators" (mail forwarders) for the thousands of "businesses" whose "head office" was in Marshall (when you don't make a product, your head office can be a PO box).

Productive companies facing hundreds of millions - billions! - in patent troll liability sought to curry favor with locals (who were also the jury pool) by "donating" things to Marshall, like the skating rink Samsung bought for the town.

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/why-south-korea-s-samsung-built-the-only-outdoor-skating-rink-in-texas

Patent, like copyright, is supposed to serve a public purpose. There are only two clauses in the US Constitution that come with explanations (the rest being "truths held to be self-evident"): the Second Amendment and the "Progress Clause" that creates patents and copyrights.

Famously, the Second Amendment says you can bear arms as part of a "well-regulated militia."

And the Progress Clause? It extends to Congress the power to create patents and copyrights "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."

I'm with Apple in its ire over this judgment. Sending $308.5m to a "closely held" patent troll has nothing to do with the "Progress of Science and useful Arts."

But it has *everything* to do with IP.

If copyright law can let Apple criminalize - literally criminalize - you selling me If copyright law can let Apple criminalize - literally criminalize - you selling me your copyrighted work, then there's no reason to hate on patent trolls.

They're just doing what trolls do: blocking the bridge between someone engaged in useful work and the customers for that work, and extracting a toll. It's not even 30%.

There is especial and delicious irony in the fact that the patent in question is a DRM patent: a patent for the very same process that Apple uses to lock down its devices and prevent creators from selling to customers without paying the 30% Apple Tax.

But even without that, it's as good an example of what an IP marketplace looks like: one in which making things becomes a liability. After all, the more you make, the more chances there are for an IP owner to demand tax from you to take it to market.

The only truly perfect IP is the naked IP of a patent troll, the bare right to sue, a weapon made from pure abstract legal energy, untethered from any object, product or service that might be vulnerable to another IP owner's weapons.

A coda: you may recall that Apple doesn't use DRM on its music anymore: you can play Itunes music on any device. That wasn't a decision Apple took voluntarily: it was forced into it by a competitor: Amazon, an unlikely champion of user rights.

In 2007, the record labels had figured out that Apple had lured them into a trap, selling millions of dollars worth of music that locked both listeners and labels into the Itunes ecosystem.

In a desperate bid for freedom, they agreed to help Amazon launch its MP3 store - all the same music, at the same prices...without DRM. Playable on an Ipod, but also on any other device.

Prior to the Amazon MP3 store, the market was all DRM: you could either buy Apple's DRM music and play it on your Ipod, or you could buy other DRM music and play it on a less successful device.

The Amazon MP3 store (whose motto was "DRM: Don't Restrict Me") changed that to "Buy Apple DRM music and play it on your Ipod, or buy Amazon music and play it anywhere." That was the end of Apple music DRM.

So why hasn't anyone done this for the apps that Apple extracts the 30% tax on? IP. If you made a phone that could play Ios apps, Apple would sue you:

https://gizmodo.com/judge-tosses-apple-lawsuit-against-iphone-emulator-in-b-1845967318

And if you made a device that let you load non-App Store apps on an Iphone, Apple would also sue you.

Apple understands IP. It learned the lesson of the Amazon MP3 store, and it is committed to building a world where every creator pays a tax to reach every Apple customer.

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Who is Shoma Choudhury Age, Biography, Family

Shoma Chaudhury is an Indian journalist, editor, and political commentator. She was managing editor and one of the founders of Tehelka, an investigative public interest newsmagazine. She also co-founded and was director of THiNK, an international conference of ideas, and Algebra, the Arts & Ideas Club, a platform for live conversations with prominent Indians. Shoma Chaudhury is the founder of Lucid Lines Productions, an intellectual properties company.

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Chaudhury was born in Darjeeling, and grew up in the tea gardens of Dooars where both her parents were doctors. She studied in St Helen’s Convent in Kurseong; La Martiniere School in Kolkata; and in Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi. She topped Delhi University twice, in both BA and MA English..

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LEGION Recap: 2x10

I love this show very very much. That is how it has the capacity to disappoint me sometimes. If I didn’t care, I wouldn’t care, you know?

Anyway. I might like this last episode even less than Chapter 15. A little hard to say, as it let me down in the same but also some opposite ways, so that was fun! I’m kidding it was not. This one belabored, incredibly, those SAME themes from 2x07 I find so tiresome and unhappy, Embrace Your Evil Nature and Distrustful Aloneness, combined them into one in fact, until I was just one big sigh, sighing into the phone at Jen, while she narrated her eye rolls. And then, in a great & terrible switch, where Chapter 15 had a tendency to go so obtuse and nonsensical that it was like no one could see the script properly in all the GLOOM, Chapter 18 was just knockingly obvious, a ham-fisted giant green hand, and that too proved not a great look!

But also as with Chapter 15, there were parts I truly and deeply enjoyed (hint: they were all the parts with Lenny). And I will say that something did come together for me during this episode that I found very neat and interesting indeed, and spilled out a dense paragraph of very classic sort of meta on it in my excitement.

So you do have both sorts of things ahead of you, positivity as well as negativity, as Jen and I watch Chapter 18 and have some Opinions.

Season 2, Episode 10: ‘Chapter 18’

me over the phone: “Okay. Okay are we ready for this.” Jen: “I am clutching this juice box to my chest.”

The juice box:

me: “...Is that strawberry flavored tea that literally says ‘You are loved’”

(Note that Jen made sure to clearly state that she “released the intellectual property of this picture” to me, because Jen uses lawfulness to comedic effect like some sort of fictional marshal.)

ALRIGHT OKAY WE’RE READY.

Lightning splits the sky, and stays there. Jen: “It’s like that crack in the wall from Doctor Who!” That crack let time through, yeah? I think it was time, or the universe, or something. Maybe something similar here, as the camera comes up on a tent glowing small in the darkness, which we think to be Syd & David’s tent from the end the previous episode, but no: inside Lenny lounges indolently (.....pregnantly?) on a fur in a slinky gold dress surrounded by bones, while David sits astride a throne with his tall shock of Legion comics hair and holding Syd in a crystal ball in his hand. Um, necessary visuals on all of THAT:

Haha lord.

Potential takes on what this could be, in ascending order of how I like them: - a potential future universe, depending - a Star Trek-style Mirror Verse running parallel to this one where this is the horny evil state of things - Syd’s nightmare

Lending credence to that last, my preferred take, is how much this tableau speaks to Syd’s distrust of Lenny and her fears about David, and also how it places her in an orb, an echo of where David found her future self. The vision ends with a long hold on her face, in this sort of trapped despair. If someone has seen your future, how determinate is that? Is she stuck on a path toward a doom she cannot escape, unable to change anything?

We transition to the tent we expected, Syd sadly skimming her hand over David as he sleeps, staring down at his peaceful face. Radiohead is playing, so there’s that for your #mood. In her head she turns over her own ‘Previously on Girl Talk With Sydney & Clark’, “I’m going after him” repeating throughout like a soundtrack. (Repeeeaaating) (Like a soooouundtrack)

Syd gets up and decides to just take a solitary look around the landscape this morning, which makes sense because she’s Syd. She then becomes spectacularly dense, which does not make sense, because she’s not David. *badumpsh*

But ohhhh my friends, the idiot balls are flying thick in this episode, starting and ending with Sydney Barrett, like she has landed in a game of idiot ball dodgeball and she is LOSING.

Syd spies that giant pink drain plug Lenny had seen, and yes, oh look, there’s the drain. On cue, a fuzzy little bunny comes sailing out of it on a FUCKING HOOK, the line still running RIIIGHT back down into this plummeting pit, The World’s Literalist Bait In The World, but she just scoops the rabbit up close in her arms (Syd? the girl who…switches bodies with any animal she touches? you’re saying this is her impulse? wow what key aspect of her character won’t this dumb plot set aside!) and then just SITS THERE like THIS

Every part of my being screams out in survivalist panic at this shot. YOU ARE GOING TO GET— yup, the hook yanks back and catches in the flesh of her hand, and she’s dragged screaming into the hole.

I have been calling David ‘bun’ since Chapter 4 and this baited-bun-as-bun-metaphor-for-David-as-metaphor is a) hilariously recursive and b) a decently accurate bit of foreshadowing for what’s going to befall Syd this episode, vis a vis getting reeled in by swallowing a David-shaped lie, so hey at least that part of this scene resembled good writing.

And the veerrrrry scary flashes of Syd screaming until she chokes as she falls through the darkness & the credits is VERY GOOD. VERY FRIGHTENING. I love the way this show uses cutting to hyper-heighten the terror.

At last Syd lands on solid ground-beneath-ground, in a dim chamber full of these round tables of varying heights, looking like giant phosphorous-lit lily pads. And in the corner, Melanie, in Full Misandry Mode. It’s fun until it’s a caricature, so let’s enjoy that period while we can: “Have you heard the one,” Melanie sings out in greeting, “where the definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result? You know what made me think of that? Men.” *badumpSSH*

She also gestures ironically at the word/whole concept of “gender” when she refers to her and Syd’s own, which is a treat. But after her biting points about the timeless, ceaseless threat of masculinity, this thread starts to go downhill toward somewhere cheaper. And of course, it was all wrong from the moment we saw her, because how & what the hell would Melanie be doing out here, and behaving like this. Clear. Driven. Driven specifically to confront Syd about things.

This set is nice btw, I like it. The lights slowly blink in the Stranger Things roots.

Melanie, who is certainly not Melanie right now, but perhaps a bitter Galadriel, take Syd to one of these wide pedestals to show her David in the blue depths. She informs Syd that of course David doesn’t really love her, not in a real way. All he truly loves is power, “being chosen by God”—so okay this is def Farouk—and “no piece of ass can compete with that”—deeefff Farouk.

Syd just looks up into the distance, then wanders away remarking with casual realization: “I’m in Hell.” Reader we laughed. This is the direction it should have gone, somewhere Syd-like and funny and very Legion, but no. No this was only a glimpse of the brighter path.

We are in Hell, where somehow the blatantly manipulative smoke & mirrors Shadow!Melanie is using are supposed to be…convincing? Jen and I were not convinced, from the jump, and incredulous that either the audience OR Syd were supposed to be.

Jen: “Yeah this is just a deliberate assault on Syd’s core beliefs.”

Shadow!Melanie, with the air of a malevolent magician doing a TEDTalk, just keeps pulling up new slides of David and explaining how in fact, this person that Syd fell in love with, whom she has been fighting to protect, is just a liar who loves 2 maim. Everything you thought you knew is wrong, up is down, right is left, David’s monster was a gift (Farouk shut the fuck up), oh and we’re saying David is mentally ill again, which is now just a conjugate for Evil. Caaannn we not. Sure the person pushing this viewpoint will eventually very clearly be shown to be The Shadow King, not someone whose opinions are supposed to be, on the whole, good ones, but still. Perpetrating that idea at all IS an evilness.

But actually, despite how much of the conversation will be about him, this episode isn’t really about David. We now shift to him searching the desert for Syd, struggling through a yellow dust storm that perfectly matches the blue snowstorm that brought him into Syd’s mindloop, just in case you were wondering what we’re doing here.

This Is An Episode About Syd

David makes it through the glowing blowing wind and finds the empty rickshaw, and up on the slopes: the monastery. Le Desolé. He comes out of the storm to storm the castle.

Inside, Oliver sits at the head of a long table with a martini. “Chill baby there’s no boo-hoo here I thought we could just talk in private,” he rolls out. What an actually very fabulous mash-up of Oliver and Farouk’s vocal tics. But David bodily throws him out of the chair and drags him a few yards to another one. Shadow!Oliver quips not to hurt the vessel, but otherwise just sits there, arms loose in his lap. He’s not fighting back, which should have been a siiiiign, David. You’ve never shown yourself to be stronger than Farouk. It’s a feint, a false retreat.

Well, and a taunt. “I know something you don’t know,” Oliver singsongs, then mimes zipping his lips and throwing away the key, which rings invisibly to the floor some yards away—a small joy.

David is sick of everything, and furious. He’s spent a lifetime being tormented and abused, people he loves have been hurt and killed, and now his beloved Syd is missing, and it seems that ONCE AGAIN this selfsame asshole is responsible for it. But ‘don’t hurt the vessel’—so he goes inside Oliver’s head, brings this fight to the telepathic front, where he can confront the core: Farouk. In fact a mind can feel pain, that’s what minds DO.

Craning threateningly over the Oliver-form now chained to a mental chair, David starts quoting Syd’s philosophy she laid out at the end of Chapter 12. All that stuff about how pain and damage makes you strong, not love, you gotta be fierce to protect love, so that’s why he’s gonna torture him to find Syd. Well, I had a bad feeling about that speech, and look: that feeling came truuue. Syd you have created your own terrible future, haven’t you. The whole Syd Continuum trying to prevent this, and only just helping it to happen at every step. That’s quite a tragedy.

Or it would be, if only this had more impact. If only this show wasn’t trying to have their cake and eat it to, so that I just end up tossing the whole thing from me in distaste.

“That’s my armor, baby,” David agro-preens, “I’m the lunatic you turned me into.”

Alright. Dan Stevens can, in fact, be very properly scary if he wants to be. This is…not. This scans so dorky. So that’s a choice that was made about how he’s portraying David’s new hardness. It don’t fit. He’s just pulling this on, someone else’s armor, and it will work for now, but it clanks when he moves.

And I’m just so…..tired. I’m tired of having to do this. I’m tired of that unpleasant feeling of a show proposing something that would nullify all these positive emotional experiences you’ve had with with it and a character, try to get you to doubt them. Like, excuse me, no, I found value in that. And you’re trying to, what? Tell me I was a sucker for believing in goodness? BullSHIT. I hate that as a message and I hate that as a TV experience, because I’m also so tired of having to haul up a mental catalog of why they’re lying, even while they’re saying it! Because they never commit, they always try to have it both ways. And I am TIRED of getting thrown out of a show to go through this one-sided rebuttal where I’m just like “Evidence that disproves your edgelord “twist”: it’s every minute of your show even including elements of this regrettable moment.” Dumb unsupported negativity. [Vine voice] IT’S NO GOOD, DUCK.

So. In Oliver’s head, ~Evil David~ magics up a screw gun, demands to know where Syd is, and when no answer is forthcoming, starts drilling into his thighs. It is inspiredly horrific, I’ll give them that. Jen points out that this gruesome creativity is what brings people in to the mode of thinking that their ideas, and therefore themselves, are specially damaged and sick; if it was just a basic gun or whatever it wouldn’t have the same effect.

Back in the lily-iPad room, Shadow!Melanie shows this unfolding like u see. Syd protests but with no real conviction. Hey you know what makes that bullshit I don’t like even worse? When other characters whom you also love and respect fall for it. Groan. Groan groan groan.

Okay, enough of that, time for something I like VERY MUCH:

me: “It’s the THIRD time I’ve gotten this scene and EVERY time it’s good.” Jen: “EVERY time.”

Lenny, my girl, my light, carries her weapon case over to the circle of monks (?) wearing safes (?) on their heads, sitting in a silent meditative ring around the edge of God’s Drain in the Desert. Like a balletic long-limbed frog she pops a squat in their circle, and after a beat asks, “Hey what are we doing here?” I am— Ohh my god I love her so much.

When the monks don’t answer, Lenny joins them for a moment, cross-legged in the dirt, then just sighs and decides to check out what’s in this case. “Hello,” she greets it mildly, and pulls out this massive gun from the depths. Jen, laughing: “It’s like a Mary Poppins bag!” It is, and it’s a delight.

Lenny returns the weapon to its case, then turns to a monk next to her. “Excuse me, um. Do you know where a girl could find a monastery?”

Well I feel bolstered, let’s see if I can wrap that interlude around me like a blanket cape and sail through this next section without getting dragged down!

Back in the pit, Syd’s gonna be sick. She wonders how watching this torture doesn’t seem to be affecting Melanie, but doesn’t pursue that line of thought any further than voicing it. Syd, my savvy skeptical Syd, come on, please, please come back.

Shadow!Melanie moves into showing Syd other images of David, her & David, David & others, all ripped from their context, rearranged into a disingenuous narrative that blatantly plays riiiiiight into Syd’s darkest fears.

Jen: “All of this makes me more worried for Syd’s mental health, that she has so many insecurities that this sort of transparent manipulation is working on her.” me: “Jen can you repeat that I wanna get that all down.”

We really don’t talk much about how Sydney Barrett was also committed to a psychiatric hospital. That she also has battled some forms of mental illness, and based on what we saw of Clockworks, was surely not getting proper help there. This Is An Episode About Syd.

Anyway, something I’m much more amused by when re-seen in this context: Farouk and Future Syd’s conversation in Chapter 15 being so inanely clunky sure makes more sense if he was playing to the cameras, as it were, knowing he could use it to manipulate her later. Or, earlier. For her. God this sure is a loop..

But here’s why we’re really here, why I’m still talking about this scene instead of already throwing it over as a bad job: Shadow!Melanie finally gets to the point where “Legion, the World Killer” is said out loud to describe David, and that’s when they show THIS

And I was like JEN HEY. Because this is an image from when David was hashing things out on a chalkboard with his rational British side, trying to piece together what Farouk had been doing with him since he was a baby. His plan to inexorably shatter and remold David until he was a mutant monster, who will wreak chaos and fear and break the world, and then Farouk can finally get back at his true enemy: David’s dad. By showing this again they’ve shown their hand, because look how all of that has proven to be JUST WHAT FAROUK’S BEEN DOING, ALL ALONG. Future Syd’s world IS the future Farouk wants, and David almost had it all figured, even down to the monster raging on the horizon over him and Syd being in love, because that’s no good for Farouk’s plans. Wow remember when one sequence in S1 laid out the entirety of S2, and we FORGOT. It was always there, but the show spent this season distracting us by continually looking into the future for answers, instead of looking BACK. See now that IS a good twisty reveal! Man, we thought of it as a good thing, getting Farouk out of David at the end of the last season, a step in the right direction. But really, that was just the next step in his plan, and we once knew that too, the Lenntity had to convince Syd to help him get out! He needed to be outside in order to work what he wrought this season. Finding his body would be an upside and he did want it, but the race was also a perfect distraction from the other plan he’s always been working. Because even in his body Farouk was bested by Xavier when they went head to head—getting his body back again isn’t going to change those original odds. He needs a different avenue to victory. And a true killing blow to Farouk’s old nemesis, is the pain of his own kid destroying everything. Xavier took his kingdom; Farouk will take the world. It’s why he truly does want David to realize the fullest scope of his Heaven-shaking power, why he keeps bringing it up---he wants to deploy David to win the fight he couldn’t.

So I enjoyed THAT moment.

Theeennn this episode promptly turned on me again by equating mental illness with evilness once more, and even has Shadow!Melanie call David a psychopath, which is inaccurate for even this altered version of David that Farouk is trying to present to Syd. C’mon you guys. You were spot on in sketching out the experience of having bipolar disorder last season, and now you’re pulling all this malarky?

Jen, an affronted therapist: “David could be schizophrenic, and he’d experience hallucinations and low impulse control, but that doesn’t mean he’d be evil. He could even be schizophrenic and a psychopath, though that….[pauses trying to think that through]..that would be really hard to determine. But still doesn’t mean he’d be evil. Having a mental illness does not make you evil.”

And that’s the word on that.

Okay let’s get out of the Drain again. (It’s a good joke because that place is also a drain on my positivity!!!)

“Great shot,” I announce. “I’m going to cap this later.”

The Loudermilks have ARRIVED. Cary’s weapon-tracking device genuinely sounds a lot like a tricorder, really truly, and Kerry has picked up a German Shepherd to help track Lenny. Instead they just find: the big ol hole. Only this time, a bunch of monks come scramble-climbing out of it and it’s veeerrry creepy. They have these ball looking things on leather thongs, and they raise and swing them over their heads, which emits a SOUND, unexpected. It’s like a more electric bullroarer. In this moment, Jen and I discover that of course we had both read that long article about the mysterious acoustic maybe-weapon being used on diplomats in Cuba, which we had each wished had included more information on the SOUND ATTACKS and maybe less of the dense politics.

All of the Div 3 security team are laid out by the frequency, and Cary is on his hands and knees in the sand, and Kerry, wincing, just attacks them singlehandedly to a Jane’s Addiction song. Dooo love a Kerry dance fight! Eventually she’s laid waste to all of the attacking monks, and stands surveying her field of victory.

And that’s when another battalion comes climbing out of the hole, slightly sped up in the film, ooo good effect, so eerie!

In the monastery, Oliver is bleeding from the eye.

Me: “Oh Jesus.” Jen: “Dislike.”

This is the way his psychic torture has physically manifested, and that’s horrifying and well-played.

He collapses out of the chair, and then it’s like a spell has been lifted. Painfully he gets out “she’s with Farouk.” and David, David is stricken.

“You see it? His true face.”

Oliver apologies, said that Farouk made him. Like a delayed action telepathic control? I guess? Sure. The trouble, the devastation, is that it seems to have not been Farouk at all that David was torturing, just an Oliver unable to speak. Oh noooo. Oh no.

Meanwhile Farouk-Melanie plays with Syd’s hair while again hovering close over her shoulder (yeah I wonder where you got that line about the devil on his shoulder, criminy), going on about how David can never change, this is Who He Is, blah blah, everyone is secretly mean and we should all just be alone.

Then Melanie’s beastie wheels in from the shadows.

me: “Please pet it” me: “Yaayy”

“I’m ready,” she tells it in Farsi. It’s….Farouk’s then? Like his demon familiar? Is it of the same stuff as like, The World’s Angriest Boy In the World…?

David stumbles out of the monastery to collapse against the doorframe and feel terrible. He’s a torturer and his sadistic enemy has Syd. A helicopter blows wind and dry leaves at him, but he doesn’t even register it, eyes distant and iced with tears, exhausted, demoralized.

It’s a D-3 copter, and Clark made it after all! With a gang of Vermillion and D-3 guards, and that giant tuning fork thing. Under Clark’s direction the Vermillion all turn their heads in unison to truck it off to the highest point, facing east.

Outside the lily pad chamber is a warren of tall hallways—a fucking labyrinth, a real one, for the fucking real Minotaur. “Go now,” Shadow!Melanie says to it. “Kill the weak. We’ll be leaving soon.” He places Melanie’s hand on it and the beast’s eyes glow like embers, and with a swelling and creaking it grows into a super buff, freestanding version.

me: “Please don’t let this become a Shape of Water moment.” Jen: [laughter]

So this hole appears to drop you into an underground maze (a maze, in the desert), which eventually connects to the catacombs under the Mi-Go Monastery, where Farouk’s body was kept in its egg-shaped coffin. And now Farouk has it back. He kisses himself back to life, echoes of Syd kissing David laid out in the lab in Chapter 8, ohh.

Note: he is wearing his sunglasses even in death.

On the surface, Kerry has just littered the desert with murder monks, murd-monks everywhere. She faces the last two, asking “You give up yet?” What a hero.

Then each monk goes down with a shot. One of them releases his bolo as he falls, and it whips around Cary’s upper arms, half-pinioning him. Swiftly, a secretly remaining monk leaps on Cary and dives into the hole with him, while Kerry yells in anguish.

The person who did the shooting was naturally Lenny, now strolling up through the heat haze. I guess she never made it to the monastery? I mean this place is a “geological disorder” or whathaveyou, maybe she just got looped around.

I do not believe Kerry and Lenny have ever interacted before. They prove to be another off-the-wall pairing I fucking love, as it turns out they can totally communicate with each other. They have a very comparable base-line affect, and it’s wonderful to watch.

Kerry: “Thanks.” Lenny: “No problem.” [They both look down into the hole] Lenny: “You should probably go get him.” Kerry: “Are you gonna...?” Lenny: “Naw, I’m supposed to wait here.”

Kerry leaps in, pinging expertly from side to side to mitigate her fall, landing strongly on her feet at the base. “Whoo!” Lenny calls down from the surface. Jesus H, my favorite moment. Then she just plops down on the lip of the cavern and hangs out waiting for her signal.

Down the drain with Cary and his captor, we discover that the Buff Minotaur can scrabble along the ceiling like a spider, yipes, and also that the murd-monks and Farouk and this beastie are apparently not ALL on the same side, as the Minotaur violently snatches the monk up like the Shadow Monster in Lost (wow yes I am seeing what I wrote there).

Cary goes running off, upper arms still wrapped to his sides so it is exceedingly comical, especially in the hands of BILL IRWIN.

“Oh dear oh dear oh dear!” he chants softly in terror.

He runs into two Vermillion, apparently down here also, informing them that it’s on the ceiling, and they duly climb the walls as he scuttles off trying to recite the periodic table of elements to himself to keep calm, b l e s s.

Abruptly, Cary stumbles into…the inside of the monastery. Huh! Actually, kinda disappointed that there was not, ultimately, a trick to getting to the monastery. Eventually everyone is just finding it. Maybe you find it when you’re ready. Or when IT’S ready for you. Oooo.

Cary spies Oliver on the floor and rushes over to him, just DISMAYED, because it’s Cary, and also he especially loves Oliver, they built Summerland together!

“He’s not dead,” David remarks, like someone who is. He’s sitting in the chair wreathed in shadows, staring at Oliver’s body, feeling sorry and evil, really down & dark.

David flatly tells Cary he’d tortured Oliver into this state, and Cary, too good for this world, just immediately assumes this’ll be Farouk’s fault somehow (which it is), mutters his name like a low level curse, and assures David that they got his messages and everyone is here with all the stuff, ready to help. Even in this mood David rises to the need to deliver some exposition, and explains that what Clark brought is called The Choke. When rung it dampens mutant powers, makes them just normal mortal humans.

Cary thinks maybe this is not the moment to be expositing, and that they should get out of the range of the Minotaur, but David just keeps talking now, undeterred in his misery, mutedly considering that the Shadow King did this to him, but he’s the one who’s a villain now.

Idk, are you? There seems to be…..an illustrated difference.

“See I’m sitting here,” he says, “thinking about how I’m gonna kill him. My parasite. Aaalll the different ways. And what worries me, is how good it feels.”

Siiiiiiiggghhh. Will Graham pls. It’s perfectly normal to crave bloody revenge on the person who abused you. And the fact that you are even WORRIED about feeling good about it shows that you AREN’T ~lost to evil~ or whatever. Buuttt they seem to be Doing The Thing, so now we’re probably gonna get reckless half-suicidal “I’m a monster” David Haller figuring he’ll just walk right up to Farouk and self-immolate to destroy them both together. One plus one does not equal two, but zero.

Back in the labyrinth, Kerry discovers the Vermillion, torn apart on the floor. Shoot. She rounds a corner into Syd’s chamber. “Found you,” Kerry says at Syd, then to herself, “That’s one for me.” Holy shit that’s hilarious.

“He’s the monster now,” Syd says distantly, sitting on the floor staring at nothing. “Maybe he always was.” Well there we go, we got to Future Syd.

The Minotaur looms into the room. Kerry’s like hell yeah, already ready to scrap again. But Syd, kind of wonderfully, just goes, “No, I need to hit something,” and pulls up to her feet to wallop it across its boney beak. Remember when Syd and Kerry were battling through Mindworks together? I had missed this duo! Homegirls vs. Monster, round two.

In the desert, night has already fallen as Clark directs his D-3 squadron to place the Choke in position. Bent a little, like an old man, Farouk comes wandering up the hillside. “Hola friend!” Clark greets. “Can we help?” Clark u are wild. In answer, Farouk throws out his arms and knocks them all out. This is not been a great 24 hours for Clark and consciousness.

Farouk considers the Choke, admires David’s thought, then wings it far, far away. Then he fucking makes the sun rise.

wow

And in whisper, we hear David, quoting from his childhood storybook: “‘To bed, to bed,’ the mother said. ‘To bed,’ she said. The Angry Boy, his face turned red. His face turned red. And with a cry, he chopped her head.”

Farouk turns to find David standing behind him, in the new sunlight.

I had this theory after the previous episode, which I forgot to share but at this point it’s clearly not where they’re going so hey. Anyway I was talking with Jen and I got this idea that we would have it Revealed Upon Us that the Future Syd scenes were happening in reverse chronological order. Like a mini Last Five Years: David moving forward in time through those scenes, and Syd moving backward. I thought this might make sense out of it. Explain a lot of her behavior, her shock at seeing him now because it’s after they’d said goodbye, her mood in the Orb, all of it. I still like this theory. There’s a chance that after the finale I may, as an experiment, try re-breaking this season just to see where I get, so, sneak peak of part of that, probably.

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