INTERNET CUTS: We pay £65 per month for BT Infinity but feel we are in a race against time to stay online (WITH UPDATE 8/5/2018: re 184th Internet cut since 26 May 2017)

The tyranny of threatened powerful ideologies is exactly what you live to combat.
- Donald A. Collins, President, International Services Assistance Fund, Washington DC

UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

It's not just Facebook blocks, blocks on public access to our Church and State website and the daily targeting to fluctuating degrees of category pages throughout the site that Declan and I are dealing with these days; see my previous blog post, Facebook's 21st block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015 (WITH UPDATE 21/6/2017). We are now dealing with Internet cuts as well. Presented below is this morning's 20th recorded internet cut since 26 May. Our concern since the second internet cut on 27 May has been whether we will have the internet to increase our connections across northern Europe, particularly in Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands (see our distinguished list of 121 Honorary Associates from around the world, including two Nobel Prize winners). British Telecom is one of the world's leading communications services companies. We pay BT £65.53 per month (£786.36 per year) for BT Infinity 2 fibre optic broadband. It is noteworthy that the internet cuts we had been experiencing increased dramatically after a BT engineer attended on 12 June; and this despite the fact that he not only provided us with a brand new phone socket but that he also could not find a problem with our line. On 16 June we had a record-equalling 4 internet cuts in one night. The night before that, we had to suspend work on our Church and State website after exactly the same treatment. After this morning's internet cut, we feel we are in a race against time to stay online. So I am double-focused on Denmark.

Denmark Ditches Blasphemy Laws

INTERNET CUTS

1st 26 May 2017, 1.39pm
2nd 27 May 2017, 12.32pm
3rd 3 June 2017, 8.45pm
4th 4 June 2017, 11.49am
5th 4 June 2017, 1.32pm (2)
6th 9 June 2017, 10.50pm
7th 13 June 2017, 9.48am
8th 13 June 2017, 12.48pm (2)
9th 15 June 2017, 6.50am
10th 15 June 2017, 8.01pm
11th 15 June 2017, 9.48pm
12th 15 June 2017, 10.18pm
13th 15 June 2017, 11.06pm (5)
14th 16 June 2017, 12.19am
15th 16 June 2017, 7.16pm
16th 16 June 2017, 8.02pm
17th 16 June 2017, 10.49pm
18th 16 June 2017, 11.32pm (5) (12)*
19th 20 June 2017, 11.32pm
20th 21 June 2017, 1.00am

UPDATES

21st 24 June 2017, 10.01am
22nd 24 June 2017, 5.33pm (2)
23rd 25 June 2017, 12.01pm
24th 25 June 2017, 2.11pm
25th 25 June 2017, 3.31pm
26th 25 June 2017, 5.53pm (4)
27th 26 June 2017, 5.02pm
28th 26 June 2017, 9.50pm (2)
29th 27 June 2017, 6.48pm
30th 28 June 2017, 1.32pm
31st 28 June 2017, 3.17pm
32nd 28 June 2017, 5.02pm (3)
33rd 29 June 2017, 6.49pm
34th 29 June 2017, 8.18pm
35th 29 June 2017, 10.18pm (3)
36th 1 July 2017, 7.48pm
37th 2 July 2017, 10.16am
38th 2 July 2017, 12.33pm (2)
39th 3 July 2017, 2.35pm
40th 3 July 2017, 6.45pm (2)
41st 4 July 2017, 2.35pm
42nd 5 July 2017, 4.04pm
43rd 5 July 2017, 6.33pm
44th 5 July 2017, 7.37pm (3)
45th 6 July 2017, 1.17pm
46th 6 July 2017, 2.50pm
47th 6 July 2017, 4.18pm
48th 6 July 2017, 5.02pm
49th 6 July 2017, 7.31pm
50th 6 July 2017, 9.32pm (6)
51st 8 July 2017, 9.46am
52nd 8 July 2017, 10.46am
53rd 8 July 2017, 8.03pm (3)
54th 9 July 2017, 9.34am
55th 9 July 2017, 8.35pm
56th 9 July 2017, 10.49pm (3)
57th 10 July 2017, 1.33pm
58th 12 July 2017, 8.35am
59th 12 July 2017, 12.48pm
60th 12 July 2017, 3.02pm
61st 12 July 2017, 6.17pm (4)
62nd 16 July 2017, 12.15am
63rd 16 July 2017, 5.46pm (2)
64th 17 July 2017, 7.56pm
65th 18 July 2017, 8.38am
66th 18 July 2017, 9.46am
67th 18 July 2017, 7.38pm
68th 18 July 2017, 9.52pm
69th 18 July 2017, 10.36pm (5)
70th 19 July 2017, 3.18pm
71st 19 July 2017, 4.46pm
72nd 19 July 2017, 6.11pm (3)
73rd 20 July 2017, 6.02pm
74th 21 July 2017, 8.05am
75th 21 July 2017, 9.16am
76th 21 July 2017, 11.31am (3)
77th 22 July 2017, 12.18am
78th 22 July 2017, 1.21pm
79th 22 July 2017, 4.03pm
80th 22 July 2017, 5.48pm
81st 22 July 2017, 8.05pm
82nd 22 July 2017, 10.17pm (6)
83rd 23 July 2017, 10.36pm
84th 26 July 2017, 9.07am
85th 26 July 2017, 1.47pm
86th 26 July 2017, 10.03pm (3)
87th 27 July 2017, 11.08am
88th 27 July 2017, 3.36pm
89th 27 July 2017, 7.17pm (3)
90th 29 July 2017, 9.02pm
91st 30 July 2017, 4.46pm
92nd 1 August 2017, 10.32am
93rd 1 August 2017, 3.47pm
94th 1 August 2017, 4.46pm
95th 1 August 2017, 8.19pm
96th 1 August 2017, 9.31pm (5)
97th 2 August 2017, 12.47pm
98th 2 August 2017, 1.04pm (2)
99th 3 August 2017, 6.33pm
100th 3 August 2017, 8.17pm
101st 3 August 2017, 10.48pm (3)
102nd 4 August 2017, 10.19am
103rd 4 August 2017, 12.02pm
104th 4 August 2017, 2.03pm
105th 4 August 2017, 5.32pm
106th 4 August 2017, 8.58pm
107th 4 August 2017, 11.47pm (6)
108th 5 August 2017, 9.16am
109th 5 August 2017, 10.32am
110th 5 August 2017, 10.56am
111th 5 August 2017, 12.06pm
112th 5 August 2017, 10.22pm (5)
113th 6 August 2017, 12.46pm
114th 6 August 2017, 2.35pm
115th 6 August 2017, 3.50pm
116th 6 August 2017, 5.02pm (4)
117th 7 August 2017, 8.51pm
118th 7 August 2017, 10.02pm
119th 7 August 2017, 11.05pm
120th 7 August 2017, 11.49pm (4)
121st 8 August 2017, 2.02pm
122nd 8 August 2017, 3.24pm
123rd 8 August 2017, 10.45pm (3)
124th 9 August 2017, 12.49pm
125th 9 August 2017, 3.14pm (2)
126th 16 August 2017, 10.46am
127th 16 August 2017, 11.01am
128th 16 August 2017, 7.02pm
129th 16 August 2017, 8.16pm
130th 16 August 2017, 9.12pm (5)
131st 18 August 2017, 2.02pm
132nd 22 August 2017, 2.53pm
133rd 22 August 2017, 3.28pm
134th 22 August 2017, 6.38pm
135th 22 August 2017, 9.49pm (4)
136th 26 August 2017, 6.01pm
137th 26 August 2017, 8.28pm
138th 26 August 2017, 9.17pm (3)
139th 27 August 2017, 3.24pm
140th 28 August 2017, 11.38am
141st 28 August 2017, 3.46pm
142nd 28 August 2017, 7.55pm (3)
143rd 29 August 2017, 8.42am
144th 29 August 2017, 9.54am
145th 29 August 2017, 10.52am
146th 29 August 2017, 11.38am
147th 29 August 2017, 12.02pm
148th 29 August 2017, 12.47pm
149th 29 August 2017, 3.10pm (7)
150th 4 September 2017, 12.14pm
151st 4 September 2017, 4.38pm (2)
152nd 5 September 2017, 11.53am
153rd 5 September 2017, 1.48pm
154th 5 September 2017, 4.35pm
155th 5 September 2017, 9.32pm (4)
156th 6 September 2017, 2.38pm
157th 6 September 2017, 5.19pm
158th 6 September 2017, 6.35pm (3)
159th 7 September 2017, 1.22pm
160th 7 September 2017, 11.06pm (2)
161st 8 September 2017, 6.35pm
162nd 8 September 2017, 7.47pm (2)
163rd 28 September 2017, 10.19pm
164th 9 October 2017, 11.12pm
165th 13 October 2017, 8.50am
166th 19 October 2017, 11.02pm
167th 30 October 2017, 8.36am
168th 31 October 2017, 3.48pm
169th 31 October 2017, 6.57pm (2)
170th 15 November 2017, 9.41pm
171st 22 November 2017, 6.31pm
172nd 22 November 2017, 8.32pm
173rd 22 December 2017, 2.31pm (3)
174th 6 January 2018, 1.21pm
175th 10 January 2018, 9.42am
176th 11 January 2018, 8.14pm
177th 21 January 2018, 8.02pm
178th 5 February 2018, 6.20pm
179th 15 February 2018, 8.42am
180th 20 February 2018, 11.14pm
181st 28 February 2018, 8.10pm
182nd 8 March 2018, 6.54am
183rd 10 March 2018, 10.41am
184th 8 May 2018, 2.13pm

Update Summation 8 May 2018

184 internet cuts since 26 May 2017 (173 cuts 2017; 11 cuts 2018). With an all-time record breaking 7 cuts in one day by 4pm on 29 August 2017 (in bold); 1 cut today i.e. a 1/2 hour cut on the same day as Declan's updated complaint to the UN (as of 8 May at 11.58pm).

January 2018: 4 cuts
February 2018: 4 cuts
March 2018: 2 cuts
April 2018: 0 cuts
May 2018: 1 cut (ongoing)

* 12 (in bold) out of the first 18 internet cuts were within the first four days of the BT engineer's visit on 12 June 2017. It is a matter of written record that this engineer "securely fitted a brand new master socket to another location on the same wall. He also carried out a comprehensive line test and could not find a problem with [our] line".

Re: Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

Paragraph 12 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

12. It is important to underscore that the discriminatory surveillance suffered by the Applicant and his wife is not an isolated event. Rather, it is emblematic of a larger pattern of surveillance by law enforcement officials in the UK that has been well-documented by international and domestic human rights bodies. For example, GCHQ's Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) specialises in the "4 D's": deny, disrupt, degrade, deceive. It has been branded by the press as the spy agency's "deception unit". Though its existence was secret until 2014, JTRIG has developed a distinctive profile in the public understanding, after documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the unit had engaged in "dirty tricks" like deploying sexual "honey traps" designed to discredit targets, launching denial-of-service attacks to shut down Internet chat rooms, pushing veiled propaganda onto social networks and generally warping discourse online. Previous reporting on GCHQ established its focus on what it regards as political radicalism. Beyond JTRIG's targeting of Anonymous, other parts of GCHQ targeted political activists and groups deemed to be "radical", even monitoring human rights NGOs. Simon Davies, founder of the London-based Privacy International, asks: "If spying on human rights NGOs isn't off limits for GCHQ, then what is?"

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8 May 2018: Threat to life: Updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Today we are cut off the internet for a half an hour

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