Note: This article is redacted as well/best as possible to protect people’s identities. It’s important to properly report and inform the public of this. There might be laws being broken herein.

Just a month after we were forced to sign a new contract that we did not see!

Summary: Sirius ‘Open Source’ (Limited or Inc.) is a truly dodgy company; it has been exceedingly and increasingly dodgy every year since 2019 — a turning point for the worse

AS we noted here yesterday, one must go back to 2019 to properly understand what happened to my employer (since 2011). 4 years ago we were compelled to sign up for a minuscule and dodgy shell valued at one British pound (just a little more than a dollar), initially registered in some poor residential area, maybe the address of the registrar rather than the company’s real (physical) address. Sirius Corporation was “becoming” Sirius ‘Open Source’ Ltd. and nobody told us about it while Sirius ‘Open Source’ Inc. was being created in another continent for Gates Foundation as its “first client” (very shortly after formation).

We don’t know why the company was so secretive about the whole thing, but the CEO did openly admit (verbally, never in writing) that the Gates Foundation had signed some NDA. The Gates Foundation would never ever be mentioned after that; never ever in writing! So what the heck was going on? I’ve long had this theory that they know cannot bribe me for silence (and maybe not threaten the employer either; they tried this already). It’s just too convenient to use a fake ‘charity’ to gain greater control over my employer, getting the company to move to another country based on false promises, all for some work that thousands of American companies (not British) could trivially do. Why choose a Microsoft-hostile firm in another country and continent? It makes no sense.

Was this something to do with me? Impossible to prove? Sure, and moreover there’s an NDA. Why on Earth was an NDA signed?

For those who think Sirius is some ‘small potato’, bear in mind this wasn’t always the case (it is now). For instance, see this 2006 press release from Red Hat. To quote: “Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that UK based open source consulting firm, Sirius Corporation, has joined its Red Hat Advanced Partner Programme in Europe.”

Back then Sirius Corporation was also a sponsor of the Free Software Foundation. It was a good company.

Today, I’d like to show a chain of correspondence demonstrating what exactly happened in 2019, at least as far as we can tell from our side. The gist of the story is, a colleague was working early that morning (or night) and said he’d likely not attend a meeting. I said the same. The company then escalated the tone and forced us to travel to the meeting, without even once mentioning a contract with a new company would be signed. They use progressively menacing, threatening language to invited people.

While it seems a relative of management was invited^*, the CEO was absent entirely. Why? How curious.

In any event, in the correspondence below, do note there’s no mention of contract signing; the training was a bit of a joke too, as it was basically just a cover. The Office Manager initially wrote to the NOC team, with all the “cabal” CC’d^**.

Hi Support,

We will be holding a _compulsory_ [emphasis in original] Sirius Workshop to provide you all with the additional training required to carry out your role. During the specified day (list below) you will all be required to come into the office where xxxx will be able to help with any enquires.

xxxx – 24th June
Roy & Rianne – 26th June
xxxx – 28th June

I will organise travel for those of you that require it, I will send these details in a separate email. These dates cannot be changed due to requiring cover for your shifts whilst you are at the workshop.

Can you all confirm that you have read this email.

Thanks,

xxxx & xxxx

xxxx
Sirius – stress free technology

I politely responded half a day later:

I’ve just spoken with Rianne about this.

Would it please be possible to attend remotely (over Hangouts) for the sake of the environment and also to reduce travel costs? We’re very environmentally-conscientious and believe this can be done remotely in a way that is beneficial to all. We’d be very grateful.

One colleague said: “I’ve read it – but I’ll be on night shift then so would be sleeping during the day time” (same day).

Later we got sent some more:

Sirius Training Workshop – June 2019

Hi All,

Just to reiterate, this is a training workshop not only to help with gaining knowledge but also to collect feedback on what else you need in order to carry out your tasks to the best of your ability and for any concerns you may have. As you are all aware from the fortnightly meetings, Sirius is growing and we’re taking on more and more clients. We want to ensure that each of our clients are getting the same standard of service during the day shifts and overnight/weekend and xxxx will be providing the training to ensure this is the case. It will also be a great opportunity to meet up with the office team.

Please find attached the agenda for the day.

From the attached PDF:

Sirius Workshop Agenda:
W/C: 24th June 2019
Morning Meet-up: 09:00 – 10:00
Brief meeting to discuss what you would like to gain from the training workshop – We will then try to cover all these topics / help answer queries during the training session.
Training session with xxxx
Lunch Break: 13:00 – 14:00
Training session to continue – Task / Trouble shooting with xxxx
Feedback with management – this will give you the opportunity to give any further feedback for anything else that you may need to successfully carry out all tasks during your shifts and receive feedback.
Please feel free to write any notes/questions below that you would like to discuss on
the day.
Notes:
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Notice there is NO mention of new contract signing for a new company.

A day or so later:

Dear All,

As previously discussed, a support workshop has been arranged for each of you between the 24/06/2019 – 28/06/2019 to assist with your role. I have made arrangements for your shifts to be covered and ensured that you will have appropriate rest before returning to your normal working pattern. The training is mandatory training the company are covering all of the costs including the travel and will be providing food. It is not possible for your attendance to be arranged remotely due to the nature of the training so your attendance is required. This shift is regarded as your normal working shift for the day you are attending and failure to attend could result in formal action.

This is direct management instruction and is intended to ensure that there is no issues and that everyone attends this training that the company has gone to expense to arrange.

Kind Regards,

xxxx

Read “It is not possible for your attendance to be arranged remotely due to the nature of the training so your attendance is required” as “we’re going to (en)trap you into signing a contract you never saw, probably illegally…”

Later came this:

Hi Roy,

To ensure I leave you enough rest period your shift on Tuesday 25th June will be covered by xxxx. Your next shift on the 26th June will also be covered by xxxx and you will need to arrive at the office around 12noon for your training.

You will still be paid your normal salary – no reductions will be made.

Please keep your receipts for your travel as I will need these to process your expenses and I will ensure you’re reimbursed on the day. Lunch will also be provided.

If you can please confirm that you understand this, hopefully it all makes senses. Incase I have missed anything please let me know and I will get any queries answered ASAP.

Kind Regards,

xxxx

Still no mention of contract. Next E-mail:

Hi Roy,

Please find attached a Self Assessment that I would like you to fill out before your training workshop. This will be used during the feedback meeting in the first part of the workshop in order to see what we can help with during your training with xxxx.

You can either print it off and fill it in OR fill it in online and email me a copy. Please just make sure its done by the day of your training workshop as it will be really useful for everyone taking part in the workshop that day.

Kind Regards,

xxxx

And to my wife:

Hi xxxx,

xxxx has already mentioned that we will be organising cover for shifts.

Roy – your shifts on the 25th June 2019 and 26th June 2019 will be covered – emails to follow with more details.

Due to the journey, we completely understand that you will not likely arrive by 10am – but we are aware and will be adjusting your agenda times.

Thanks,

xxxx

The person signing the above messages was likely an “instrument” in doing something illegal, having to “lie to Roy to protect the boss” (by denying the truth). Such spineless, blindly-obedient workers would not last long, as the company would collapse. So even this blind loyalty to reckless bosses would not save them. We will always remember.
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^* Probably another fine example of overt nepotism (unqualified relatives as staff).
^** They knew what they were really doing. They kept the staff in the dark all along.

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Sirius Adopts Contract-by-Surprise Policy
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Summary: Further commentary on the way Sirius got all staff to ‘relocate’ to a newly-minted shell while another shell was about to be created in another continent to facilitate Bill Gates, who apparently promised to pay under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) while Techrights wrote about his MIT/Jeffrey Epstein scandals (before this became a mainstream issue, causing the collapse of his marriage and unprecedented exodus in the Gates Foundation)

IN THE part just published (one of two; the latter part will also present some hard albeit suitably redacted evidence) I explained how the company compelled my wife and I to separately sign some “paperwork” (new contract) without even telling us in advance. We didn’t get to even examine what we were signing. That was around the time a person unknown to us registered a company in the US — a company whose first client would be the Gates Foundation. There was an NDA, so nothing was said to us. The name “Gates Foundation” was never put in writing, either (ever!), so it was merely a verbal mention by the CEO, insisting to me it would not jeopardise my freedom of expression. The video above explains why that was extremely suspicious, especially the timing. We also explained this before, even as memes.

Months ago the CEO accused me of saying things I never said. He told my wife that I had claimed Microsoft bribed Sirius managers, only much later to correct himself and actually show what I said (with context included). What I said was not false; it’s not convenient to the CEO. But he’s the one who got himself into this mess. He only told me about it after he had signed some mysterious contract and an NDA. How could he be so naive? Did he not know Microsofters were trying to silence me in all sorts of sinisters and nefarious ways?

The video above takes the example of the Microsoft layoffs (lots of cuts expected throughout this year), mentions the enigma around pensions, and then explains some of the “side stories”. Sirius operates like a cryptic, secretive cabal while maintaining that same old audacity to use the term “Open Source”.

Summary: Today we begin to tell the story about a company that went astray, routinely lied to the staff, and even forced staff to sign bogus contracts under false pretenses

THE last part showed that Sirius ‘Open Source’ had begun ‘hiding’ behind Carbon Accounting, impeding potential lawsuits against the company — a company that now lacks an address and hides the address of its managers as well (one is in fiscal ‘exile’). We have good reasons to suspect that the company has many more skeletons in its closet; it would help explain unpaid and overdue bills (suppliers).

We’ve decided to cover contract-signing and related E-mails in two sub-parts, seeing that the subject may take a while to cover/digest and would likely overwhelm readers if covered in one day. Hence, today we’ll give the gist of the story about the new ‘shell’ of Sirius Corporation, Sirius ‘Open Source’. The next part will present some pertinent, original evidence. The public and even former Sirius employees ought to see it. It might alarm some of them.

To be very clear, “joining” Sirius ‘Open Source’ wasn’t up for debate. It was compulsory because of a contract-signing ritual they hadn’t bothered telling us about! I kept asking questions about it, but I was not receiving honest answers. That was 4 years ago! Things have not improved since then. Despite what was said in E-mail invitations, we did not receive any substantial training and we have good reasons to believe it was a “cover” for something else. In the invitations they didn’t include the contract-signing in the agenda (we’ll show evidence in the next part) and didn’t include the new contract, so they had us sign it blindly on the spot with threats if we don’t do so. In other words, under peer and time pressure we were made to agree to a contract not presented to us properly; the correct protocol is, send in advance or give it some time for a lawyer to check before consent (“implied consent” under pressure does not qualify).

As noted at the top, it’s probably too late to take action over this because the company is more or less ‘hiding’. The company did not give us a copy of the contact afterwards, so we don’t have a copy of what we actually signed. It was ad hoc and dodgy, so basically it’s like in the movies where they say “just sign below the dotted line”.

We said we would go to the company’s office for training and self-appraisal but the real purpose was signing a new contract, not presented in advance. That contract was for a new company, not the company that existed since 1998 (and has listed only one member of staff for years already; he meanwhile created Sirius Open Source Inc. in the US).

It should be noted that all this happened a month before a shell was created in the US after Gates Foundation had paid the CEO. This “training and workshop” meeting was clearly a decoy as they never mentioned signing of a contract with a new company. We’ll show the correspondence tomorrow. Any attempt to not attend the meeting was quickly met with threats from management. Wait for the E-mails to be shown, as careful redaction will be needed. Yes, they almost blackmailed everyone into coming under the guise of “training from [redacted]” — something that barely even happened! In other words, the real purpose was not spoken about; the real intention was to get us to sign some papers without telling us the reason. I asked about it (face to face) and they declined to comment. I remember this clearly. This was rather dodgy, even back then, not just in retrospect. They would pull us in one at a time for a ‘chat’ and then ask us to sign papers. This isn’t just some sneaky means of legal manipulation, it’s very likely unlawful, but no legal advisor was present and no record of the meeting was made, just a signature. So we (re)joined a company worth 1 pound! Yes, not kidding! We all signed up to join a new company with no assets. Meanwhile the absent CEO (hiding in another country, probably dodging financial liabilities) was failing to tell us he and a partner registered a third company; they operate in the US, at least on paper sometimes, so some people need to double-task in office hours in the US (evening in the UK). This whole “double job” situation (more duties, as it’s like we’re working in two virtual companies) didn’t mean increase in pay but greater uncertainty. We were meant to be covering up deception (pretending to be a US company) in addition to the technical work getting worse and worse.

It should be noted that Rianne’s contract (typically weekend cover) does not include lunch break, which is strange and legally dubious. Moreover, if you expand and cover also the US, then amend the contract accordingly. But at this point the company was likely operating outside the rules already. Anybody who works as a Support Engineer and also performs helpdesk tasks (as nobody works in weekends in the US) is suddenly put on a dedicated line for Reception in the US. The job itself changed.

It’s probably too late to hold the company legally accountable, but if the “court of public opinion” counts for anything, then today and tomorrow we objectively tell what happened.

New video:

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CDC & FDA Identify Preliminary COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signal for Persons Aged 65 Years and Older

edition.cnn.com/2023/01/13/health/pfizer-bivalent-…

www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/…

Transparency and vaccine safety are top priorities for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent

CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)

met the statistical criteria to prompt additional investigation into whether there was a safety concern for ischemic stroke in people ages 65 and older

More likely to have an ischemic stroke in the 21 days following vaccination,

compared with days 22-42 following vaccination.

Group 1

Vaccine day to day 21 (more likely to have stroke)

Group 2

Day 21 to day 42 (less likely to have stroke)

No quantitative data is given

They then give lots of reasons this is not a valid signal

Therefore,

No change in vaccination practice is recommended

CDC continues to recommend that everyone ages 6 months of age and older stay up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccination;

this includes individuals who are currently eligible to receive an updated (bivalent) vaccine.

They then give lots of outdated quantitative reasons to get boosted

Once again, no change is recommended in COVID-19 vaccination practice

Timing of adverse events

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There are two peak windows for complications

They happen either within a few days, which we think is acute heart inflammation causing myocarditis and then an arrhythmia

And then there are those that complicate around five months later (related to fibrin clots)

Stroke Associated with COVID-19 Vaccines

(March 2022, Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular disease)

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8894799/

There are increasing reports of various types of stroke.

Ischemic stroke, and hemorrhagic stroke, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis after COVID-19 vaccination.

Most of such patients are women under 60 years of age and who had received ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine.

Denmark

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Stopper AZ rollout April, 2021

US, South Africa and European Union

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Stopped rollout of Johnson & Johnson Covid jab, after reports of blood clotting

British heart foundation

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Is the AstraZeneca vaccine still being used in the UK?

No, the UK government is not ordering future supplies of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.

Evidence shows that mRNA vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, are more effective at boosting protection from Covid-19,

so these vaccines are being recommended for the autumn booster programme.

Secretary-General's remarks at the World Economic Forum

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We need cooperation, yet we face fragmentation.

But these are far from the best of times – and the world is far from being united.

Instead, we face the gravest levels of geopolitical division and mistrust in generations – and it is undermining everything.

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When Companies Go Rogue
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Summary: Sirius ‘Open Source’ and its deal with the devil didn’t salvage the company; instead the company ended up in a country where it has almost no staff and almost no clients

TODAY we explained how the company I left last month had ‘relocated’ to the US for no real purpose (other than serving Bill Gates temporarily). The UK side of the business was meanwhile offloaded onto a newly-minted shell in a residential area (initially), based on likely illegal contract-signing, which will be properly explained tomorrow.

This past week I contacted the pension provider. It says it’s unable to find any records (Aviva and Standard Life say the same; the latter took more than half an hour over the phone), leaving us in limbo. What on Earth is the company doing and why did it register with a phony address just days before the witch-hunts began? The mystery deepens and more uncomfortable facts are being unearthed.

Just two days before the witch-hunt began:

Summary: Sirius ‘Open Source’ is what people in the UK would likely consider/deem a “dodgy” company; today we revisit some aspects of that

IN many screenshots and PDFs shared here before (see the wiki for index) we’ve shown that Sirius changed its address many times before the witch-hunts. We also habitually present evidence that this company is too broke to be worth suing as it can take 12 months for a decision to be handed down; by then, the company might be bankrupt already, unable to pay. Apropos, regarding Microsoft layoffs, some anonymous employees say that the layoffs started last week and some people aren’t being paid severance. We’ll wait and see if more verifiable accounts can be found.

Over the past few years I occasionally downloaded documents (didn’t know years later we’d end up presenting and uploading them!) from what’s known here as “companies house” — basically a companies’ registry with PDFs hosted in AWS (millions of documents about British companies outsourced to another continent, which is ironic!). We’ve used those documents to show it’s getting worse over time as unbearable debt makes Sirius incapable of continued operations. We moreover hypothesise that the company is running away to dodge litigation and maybe dodge payments to the two ex-wives and 4 daughters, especially the young ones (early teens at this point in time).

It doesn’t look good, does it? It would be very difficult to sue or take this to court for dispute resolution. It’s not clear who to even sue because the company is registered at the address of Carbon Accounting and the UK ‘CEO’, whose own business is also registered at the address of an accountancy, is hiding his home address. He literally sends us letters without a return address. So it’s not only unclear where the company is actually based but also where its managers are based. You cannot simply sent legal letters to Carbon Accounting. It would make no sense. Carbon Accounting would turn the bailiff away.

Putting aside the fact that the company is registered with the accountants (Carbon Accounting) — a subject that I confronted the CEO about back in October (over the telephone!) — the address in the US may be an apartment and the addresses there seem inconsistent. The absent boss is also “sleek like an eel”, to use a term we mentioned the other week. Basically, the company now advertises itself as American (despite having at most one American staff member, a relatively recent recruit), it is playing legal tricks (and not following British law, even here in the UK), it tricked us all into signing of contracts we had not even seen (we’ll cover this later this month), and it keeps tricking people by storytelling, hiding the true story and the true state of the company.

This is especially upsetting because as far back as 2019 I insisted on getting some answers. But managers were mum; they were beyond evasive. The “cabal” had a sort of conspiracy of silence, as obviously the Office Manager and Support Manager who sat there in the contract-signing knew what was going on but did not tell the staff. I asked about the whole “US” thing and got no answers at all.

Lying to staff is about as bad as refusing to answer questions when asked. Something was being signed by the company with the Gates Foundation under an NDA.

In the next part we’ll explain how a “training and workshop” invitation turned out to be a trap, based on sheer deceit and obfuscation.

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Sirius Treats Staff as Lacking Basic Rights
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Summary: Sirius ‘Open Source’ failed to accomplish what its mission statement said, but it wasn’t the fault of Free software (or “Open Source”); it was the fault of management that does not understand Free software, rejects Free software, and cracks down on staff that advocates Software Freedom

THIS series has thus far shown that in 2019 things took a turn for the worse, perhaps coincidentally around the very same time the Gates Foundation secretly paid under an NDA. Within weeks at least 2 “managers” conspired to send not only me but also my wife to humiliating disciplinary action (we were fully acquitted by an external HR firm, but the bullying management was never held accountable).

Back then we realised (several different aggrieved employees) that had workers set up a union, even managers would be held accountable. But Sirius was already run by vicious people, who would never tolerate a union and would likely ‘hunt down’ any perceived union ‘leaders’.

So we ended up in a crooked, dishonest, lousy company, where technical staff collectively suffered the wrath/”big ego” of the “Big Shot” management (it’s always right and it knows everything; even when it’s wrong it will never admit it). The management disregarded Free software, failed to make payments to providers (we’ve shown examples), and basically rode the “brand” of company already (by that time) over 20 years old. Opportunists and charlatans.

The video above explains the last straw. It was all about me chatting with a close friend about what I was experiencing at the company, only after the company had failed to act as I expressed those same grievances internally. What I did wasn’t wrong. First of all, what I said was accurate; it’s all true. Second, nobody is mentioned. Third, it’s informal and management should not spy on staff outside work. Fourth, Rianne had nothing to do with the informal chats and wasn’t even aware of them. They’re not “publication” but mere act of fast, informal, typos-riddled chatting in a command line about very legitimate issues brought forth internally first (the culprits want to keep it secret because the truth is embarrassing).

If you work for ogres, don’t wait for them to start a witch-hunt. Quit proactively and explain to the world what happened. If you worry about what future employers might think, worry not. Clever employers with real integrity can value honesty and can identify innocent victims of utterly mad companies, governed by ruthless control freaks.