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Wednesday, April 12th, 2023, 9:24 am

NOW: Pensions and Standard Life Cannot Tackle Pension Fraud After 3+ Months

Corrupt NOW: Pensions

Summary: The crimes of Sirius ‘Open Source’ help highlight abuse by pension providers; after more than 3 months they’re still not holding accountable pension fraudsters (at least 3 people were involved in the fraud and two of them are based in the UK, so extradition proceedings aren’t even required)

Latest (today):

>> I hope this helps to settle your concerns regarding your
>> NOW Pension fund, as you can see from the above, they
>> have outlined how and who is responsible for protecting
>> your pension savings and applies to all NOW Pensions members.
>
> Hi,
>
> Please send the full letter, as promised, to
> 1) my wife
> 2) myself
>
> as promised by ???????? (staff)
> as promised by ???????? (staff)
> as promised by ???????? (manager)
>
> several times since February. We need this obligation in
> writing.

I need an update on this. There are multiple complainants about the pension fraud. We need action, not stalling tactics. You behave like lawyers, not like a pension provider.

Wednesday, April 12th, 2023, 7:03 am

COVID-19 Won, We Lost. Why Doesn’t the Media Admit This?

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COVID-19 Remains Untackled
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I‘ve just published some hard data to show how deaths have soared this year, probably in relation to the neglect of COVID-19 response. Institutions and media compel us to think that COVID-19 is a “thing of the past” or old news while publicly-available data shows alarming numbers, including total mortality across all age groups (it’s up sharply).

Media gaslighting won’t be the solution to all this. We need proper research and real, hard answers.

Wednesday, April 12th, 2023, 3:33 am

In Ireland, More Deaths at End of 2022 Than in 2021 (COVID-19) and Far More Deaths Now Than During COVID-19′s Peak

tl;dr 8467 deaths in 2022Q3, compared to 8165 in 2021Q3

Last year we looked at this data and found that Ireland was not solving the COVID-19 problem.

We have newer data now.

Now, let’s compare Q3 deaths for even older years:

6517 in 2010
6911 in 2011
6825 in 2012
6983 in 2013
7001 in 2014
6851 in 2015
7129 in 2016
6987 in 2017
7143 in 2018
7358 in 2019
7111 in 2020

Don’t believe the numbers? Here’s the data:

Wednesday, April 12th, 2023, 3:14 am

COVID-19 Death Toll in the UK Passes 222,222, Not Counting Indirect Deaths

Excess mortality has been off the charts since last summer. The media chooses to not talk about this (or barely even mention that). A lot more publicly-funded research is needed here, with no (corporate) strings attached.

Meanwhile, “UK Deaths with COVID-19 on the death certificate” exceeds 222,222 (222,283 is the already-outdated figure).

Should we take this for granted? Or the “new normal”? Looking at the hard data, containment saved lived. Lockdowns had a real effect:

Lockdowns effect

COVID-19 is still with us. It won. It’s an unsolved problem and it’s not over, the media is just deflecting and leveraging Russia/Ukraine.

Yesterday around 10AM ONS was supposed to release some death-related figures (updated every Tuesday), but this time it was delayed till 13th of April 2023, i.e. tomorrow. Yesterday wasn’t Bank Holiday.

Tuesday, April 11th, 2023, 6:53 am

Sirius ‘Open Source’: Secrets, NDAs, Bullying, and Threats

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Sirius Victims Out the Woodwork
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Summary: We’re learning or becoming informed of some more crimes of Sirius ‘Open Source’ (a company we left over 4 months ago); the video above explains that the company or its boosters (maybe shills) resort to intimidation tactics and threats (familiar tactics), having not just lost key staff (including the CEO) but also found itself unable to recruit

NOW that people are speaking out about what the company did to them even a decade ago I thought I’d mention a bunch of old stories about what the company did to staff, clients, and suppliers.

The company may not last much longer (maybe weeks or months), pension providers have resorted to stalling tactics and lies (covering their own behinds), but we need to properly explain what happened, more so after Bill Gates had passed some money to the CEO under an NDA.

Whether Sirius was sabotaged or simply sabotaged itself is something for “historians” to decide. NDAs make its exceptionally hard to figure out what really happened.

Monday, April 10th, 2023, 3:33 pm

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Does Not Pay Its Contractors

The company’s victims include blind people

Saturday:

You trying to seed doubt and gaslight many victims. You moreover make  veiled threats against people who speak out facts. Based on your earlier message, you're a friend or de facto  promoter/fixer of Mark

Sunday:

When I saw the praise for Sirius I did cringe to myself because I also find them to be a scummy company.   I thought I'd avoid responding, because frankly life is too short.  However, this veiled threat of libel is simply ridiculous, so now I am going to respond. The reason I find them scummy is because I worked on a project with them 10 years ago, and they simply didn't pay me and ignored reminders to pay the invoice.  The project was ultimately cancelled as the client changed their mind, so I guess Sirus thought they didn't need to pay me. It wasn't even a huge sum of money, but it was enough to totally burn their reputation with me.  So yeah, if they want to sue me for libel, bring it the fuck on. Thanks

Summary: The crimes of Sirius ‘Open Source’ turn out to have gone further than the pension fraud; according to a new message, the company withheld payment to staff that did a lot of work and we’ve seen even worse “wage theft” before (at one point the company was taken to court over it, almost exactly a decade ago if not many times more)

Sunday, April 9th, 2023, 1:58 am

3 Months Later Still No Letters From NOW: Pensions (False Promises, Even From Managers)

Summary: The crimes of Sirius ‘Open Source’ were brought to the attention of NOW: Pensions a long time ago. But it’s still failing to fulfil a simple promise or, in other words, it lied (3 people, including a manager, lied).

A few days ago we shared a response from a manager at NOW: Pensions. But nothing was sent by post.

“I hope this helps to settle your concerns,” he said, but he did not actually do what his colleague, another manager, said would happen. “Please send the full letter, as promised, to 1) my wife 2) myself,” I said, “as promised by [redacted name]
as promised by [another redacted name]
as promised by [manager's redacted name]

several times since February. We need this obligation in writing.”

“To make matters worse, the company is trying to seed doubt, gaslight many victims, and make veiled threats against people who speak out facts.”I already have several of things on record (audio), demonstrating the promises were made. Those were never fulfilled, and very much by intention. The state of the pension “industry” isn’t good and their handling of pension fraud is rather revealing. Sirius found itself a convenient accomplice.

To make matters worse, the company is trying to seed doubt, gaslight many victims, and make veiled threats (by proxy) against people who speak out facts. NOW: Pensions has not replied to my message yet, but it’s a holiday here.

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