Thursday, September 19, 2019

Email interception: This month not one of Declan's 24 emails to Nobel laureates has been read. We have had using Mailtrack a round average of 150 unread emails a month since last May (UPDATED 30/9/2019)

8/4/19

Half a million [hits] a month with the kind of corrupt blockages you get is amazing!!

Donald A. Collins
Founder, International Services Assistance Fund

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).
Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population". Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).


24 Nobelists emailed, 1 bounce, 23 unread (0 read)

This month not one of Declan's 24 emails to Nobel laureates has been read, according to Mailtrack. Not all of our emails are sent using Mailtrack, but of those that have been, we have had a round average of 150 unread emails a month since last May. And we can no longer tell when, if at all, anyone will receive an email from either one of us. According to the first Mailtrack summation below, 164 of our emails this month have gone unread; however, the footnote reveals that this figure may be underestimated due to an apparent manipulation of the extension. Last month we experienced Facebook's 60th block (3 days) against Church and State since 1 December 2015, and as usual without an explanation. For the 59th time, they blocked me from posting Church and State articles in groups I belong to. This month it's a double administrative block from them. Not only are they blocking a listing of all the groups I belong to (152 days), but they are also blocking me from scheduling posts from our page (25 days). Despite opposition from Facebook, Church and State topped 3 million hits in 11 months from January to November 2017. Subsequently, Facebook's blocks against the site have gone from 47 days in 2017 to 179 days in 2018 plus 189 days this year. Nonetheless, we get hundreds of thousands of hits - 2.3 million hits in 2018 despite the equivalent of six months of these blocks; and 4.4 million hits this year despite another six months of blocks. These Facebook blocks are in addition to over 2,100 blocks on access to Church and State since 26 July 2016, plus full distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year lasting for as long as 24 hours at a time. (SiteGround is paid $1,000 per year to host Church and State and manage the server.) About 70% of our hits are from Americans.
In re Email Interception

Paragraph 42 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

42. The Applicant further complains that the extent of the interference with his emails resulted in 2011 in the shelving of his and his wife's petition in support of human embryonic stem cell research, which had by then been signed by 29 (now 31) Nobel laureates as well as hundreds of academics. In April 2010, an American professor wrote to Minister Featherstone: "I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference. I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse" (emphasis added). Minister Featherstone's subsequent letter to then Home Secretary Theresa May and the Applicant's Human Rights Act claims to the IPT and European Court have had no effect; if anything, the situation has gotten substantially worse. In February 2019, 68 of the Nobel laureates emailed since the previous month had not seen their email, according to Mailtrack. On 21 April 2019, the Applicant's MP Lyn Brown acknowledged by autoreply his complaint about the interception of email but hasn't responded to it. Last month (June 2019), 155 of his and his wife's emails went unread, including four reply emails to those who had just agreed to be listed as Honorary Associates of N4CM. The Applicant has also amassed evidence relating to incoming and outgoing mail delivery. For example, in May 2017, he complained to Royal Mail about the mishandling of his and his wife's incoming mail following the loss in London of their employment contracts to the United States. He repeatedly complained about mail not being put through their letter box before he received £30 in compensation and a failed assurance from the Royal Mail Chief Executive's Office that "the actions taken will prevent this happening again". On 17 July 2018, the Applicant complained to the Office that their renewed Tenancy Agreement was delivered through the bathroom window of another tenant's flat. They can still find letters for them in the front hall of the property they live in.

12 July: Threat to life: Updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's highlighted


Update Summation 30 September 2019



At least 164 unread emails in September using Mailtrack

2 September: 1 email sent, 0 unread (1 read)
3 September: 24 emails sent, 1 bounce, 23 unread (0 read)
4 September: 14 emails sent, 13 unread (1 read)
6 September: 17 emails sent, 8 unread (9 read)
7 September: 62 emails sent, 44 unread (18 read)
15 September: 1 email sent, 0 unread (1 read)
16 September: 15 emails sent, 15 unread (0 read)
17 September: 2 emails sent, 1 unread (1 read)
23 September: 9 emails sent, 2 unread (7 read)
24 September: 1 email sent, 0 unread (1 read)
25 September: 15 emails sent, 11 unread (4 read)
26 September: 7 emails sent, 1 bounce, 2 unread (4 read)
27 September: 14 emails sent, 4 unread (10 read)
28 September: 45 emails sent, 32 unread (13 read)
29 September: 13 emails sent, 9 unread (4 read)

September: 240 emails sent, 2 bounces, 164 unread* (74 read)

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* This month's total of 164 unread emails using Mailtrack is almost certainly underestimated. Last night in the space of 5 minutes Declan received 32 Mailtack reminders that emails from the previous day had not been opened. There's nothing unusual in that, but for the first time ever he also received within that time frame 23 Mailtrack alerts that emails from the previous day had just been read (none of which are counted as legitimate in the figures above). It would appear that Mailtrack can be hacked to trigger findings one way or another.

As of 30 September at 11.35am.
Emails resent to Nobel laureates

On 21 February 68 of the Nobel laureates emailed since 3 January had not seen Declan's email.

21 February: 25 emails resent, 21 unread (4 read)
22 February: 27 emails resent, 23 unread (4 read)
25 February: 46 emails resent, 43 unread (3 read)
26 February: 2 emails resent, 2 phone calls, 1 unread (1 read)
1 March: 5 emails resent, 5 unread (0 read)
2 March: 5 emails resent, 4 unread (1 read)
3 March: 8 emails resent, 5 unread (3 read)
4 March: 8 emails resent, 6 unread (2 read)
5 March: 11 emails resent, 10 unread (1 read)
6 March: 8 emails resent, 7 unread (1 read)
7 March: 10 emails resent, 10 unread (0 read)
8 March: 10 emails resent, 9 unread (1 read)
30 March: 22 emails resent, 19 unread (3 read)

Totals: 187 emails resent, 2 phone calls, 163 unread (24 read)

The above statistics apply to the 68 Nobel laureates recorded on 21 February as not having read Declan's email. Since 31 March, Declan has been trying to email Nobel laureates a second time (32 unread emails) as well as those who have not heard from him previously (170 unread emails).

Not included in the figures above is an email to a Nobel laureate on 4 March confirming his listing as an Honorary Associate that went unread. This has happened four times this year with Nobel laureates, most recently on 1 April. It happens plenty of times with other new associates too.

Last April every category page in our Church and State website was reduced to zero Facebook likes/shares. Our 5 Most Popular articles have 5.7 million (the first 2.1m) Facebook likes/shares between them, not zero.





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