MediaFire (two weeks): I can still only embed images in this Church and State blog in a roundabout way. MediaFire is an internationally recognised name and one of the largest cloud storage services in the world. British Telecom added to my new backup Church and State blog at WordPress

DAY 383 IN A WEEKLY PERIODIC TENANCY
SUBJECT TO A 'NO FAULT' SECTION 21 NOTICE
MAYOR OF LONDON RSI PROPERTY

14/04/20

With the background as provided above, the Heaveys now are facing an eviction notice from their landlord, Peabody Trust housing association. The tenancy is a flat, which falls under the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative. Pardoning my intrusion into English law, but in fairness there does not appear to be any reason for the eviction, relying apparently entirely on the discretion of the landlord.

Joseph R. Carvalko, Esq., American lawyer (full letter here)

Our Church and State website has no less than 63 Nobel Laureates on it despite the never-ending assault on our email; see paragraph 2 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar (updated today).


It has gotten to the stage where if I want to increase my chances of getting through to someone an email seeking permission to republish an article on Church and State in the field of AI, I must wait until I have at least three high quality permission emails to send. A success rate of one in five Church and State emails has become the norm for Declan.

Last week our web host, SiteGround, restored to view our Church and State homepage and my ability to edit and publish new articles (see here). However, for the last couple of weeks, I have been waiting for MediaFire to restore to me the link I had for embedding my images in this Church and State blog. According to Wikipedia, MediaFire has 43 million registered users and attracted 1.3 billion unique visitors to its domains in 2012. They suggested on 20 May that I change my password, which I did to no avail. I then twice responded to their email below by confirming that I have for almost two years the PRO subscription they mention for the link they provide to embed my images. Exasperated, I complained last Thursday to Derek Labian, co-founder and CEO of MediaFire. Later that day I was provided by the other co-founder of the company, Tom Langridge, with a roundabout way to embed my images in this blog pending "a fix for the share dialog that will give you the option to get an embeddable download link again".

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 12:01 PM Lola Heavey wrote:
Derek Labian
CEO
MediaFire

Address removed for email


27 May 2021

Dear Mr Labian,

I refer to the email below from your Customer Support and for the third time confirm that I have the PRO subscription they say I need to use the link you provide to embed my images. Please can you restore this link to me? I have had my PRO subscription for almost two years.

Sincerely,

Maria (Lola) Heavey

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 19:38 PM MediaFire wrote:
Hello Lola,

Thank you for contacting MediaFire.

I am happy to assist you today. Unfortunately, we have removed the option from our site. However, with a PRO subscription you should still be able to use the link we provide to embed your images.

Best Regards,

LaChandra
MediaFire | Customer Support

8 March: Tonight I have had to rectify almost every image in four blogs by moving the images from MediaFire to an alternative host for images. It started with this blown-up GCHQ image throughout this blog. Will all these images and more be restored to their former size? This is that GCHQ image:



On another front, Declan and I pay British Telecom £900 a year for broadband and TV. We have had 24 internet cuts in the last three weeks for up to 20 minutes a time, three of them today. Last Friday was the 25th day since February with our second BT TV YouView box at 0% Signal Quality. When this happens, we have the option of switching back to our aerial for a perfect reception on free view channels. Today our aerial remains the preferable choice for reliable reception on these channels. We have had three BT engineers in our flat to date to no avail. No equipment, phone line or aerial fault detected; in fact, quite the opposite. The individual targeting of our four operational laptops also continues unabated. Declan's secondary laptop today reduced in speed from 73 Mbps to 3 Mbps. Individual laptop speeds of a fraction of 1 Mbps have not been uncommon since last December. See footnote 2 in the block that follows.

New backup Church and State blog



This Church and State blog was temporarily blocked on 14 May 2021. The following categories in my (paid for) backup blog at WordPress are up and running:

British Telecom
Email Interception
Equality Commission
Facebook[1]
Financial Ombudsman
Housing Ombudsman
Investigatory Powers Tribunal
Parliamentary Ombudsman[2]
Peabody Trust[3]
Pixsy
St Mungo's
Vandalisation of property

All links go to my new backup blog at Wordpress.

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[1] The lead post in this category reveals that we have had 10.7 million hits in the past three years on Facebook and despite the company's unfair practices.

[2] Posted on 14 May, the lead blog post in this category includes a section on internet cuts and individual laptop interference and a section on TV interference.

[3] Peabody Trust's appalling new terms of tenancy have been added to this category. We live in a Mayor of London Rough Sleepers Initiative designated property.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

14 May: Pixsy (day 185): I have found Declan's Motion to Dismiss to fight their threatened court action in an article titled "Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling". No sooner had we heard from them than they were named and shamed by Computer Weekly and it's a truly sickening read (regularly updated)

Declan lost this Financial Ombudsman case

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Headquarters in Gogarburn. The RBS owns National Westminster Bank (NatWest).

Declan dealt with the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) about the RBS's NatWest for over a year following the non-payment of his salary by standing order. The Financial Ombudsman effectively found in a final decision in this case that the Executive Case Manager at RBS wouldn't have been reasonably aware when she paid Declan compensation on 17 February 2020 - in recognition of issues he had experienced in setting up two replacement standing orders on the Network for Church Monitoring account - that there had been some error previously made by NatWest in setting up the replacement standing order for the payment of his salary. Declan's complaint about the subsequent cancellation of the standing order without his knowledge or consent that resulted in the non-payment of his salary on 24 February 2020 was passed by the investigator to an ombudsman, who is the former Team Manager at FOS and has held roles at Alliance and Leicester (now Santander). Below is a link to Declan's response to the ombudsman's published decision not to uphold his complaint.

FOS investigator: "NatWest have said although the cancellation was processed on the 12th February 2020, it wasn't uploaded for processing until later – so it didn't actually cancel until the 19 February 2020."

26 March: NatWest Bank: Declan's response to the Financial Ombudsman's decision on their website. Pixsy continues to chase payment for the past non-commercial use of one image on the Church and State website

The above complaint concerning the non-payment by standing order of Declan's salary was only the first of three complaints about NatWest that he submitted to the FOS last year for resolution. The first of the other two complaints involved the wayward transfer in branch of £1,850 to St Mungo's by court order, after the cashier manually changed Declan's surname from Heavey to Henry. This was another complaint not upheld by the FOS, notwithstanding that Declan received £30 compensation with a final decision letter before the error was resolved with St Mungo's.



The FOS's third investigation is ongoing and relates to the second time, on 7 October 2020, we discovered that NatWest had made an error with the spelling of Declan's surname (Haeavey). I made the discovery when I attempted to make a payment to him online:



20 March: No quick fix from the Financial Ombudsman again this year. We're still waiting to be made public this Ombudsman's decision about the non-payment by standing order of Declan's salary last year. Laptop interference continues unabated

DJ Ruth Fine orders Declan to pay £1,850 in costs

The Central London County Court is based at the Royal Courts of Justice.

The following is the full content of paragraphs 3 and 4 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar that have been updated today.

3. This is Day 383 for us living under the threat to life of a 'no fault' eviction by Peabody Trust.[1] We live in a Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI) property. Peabody's appalling new terms of tenancy have forced us into an unstable weekly periodic tenancy that poses a threat to Declan's life and inhibits our ability to exercise our rights. Declan accumulated quite a history with the Housing Ombudsman Service before he received the Ombudsman's decision not to investigate a referral from Lyn Brown MP on jurisdictional grounds. The Ombudsman was asked to consider whether or not our tenancy has been renewed like for like; and whether, if not, it should be in light of the landlord having accused us of not signing a like-for-like agreement. The Equality and Human Rights Commission will not accept a referral of discrimination from Ms Brown, the Commission's helpline (EASS) having grossly distorted the complaint against Peabody. We no longer have pro se access to the courts (see next paragraph).

4. This eviction matter came before District Judge Ruth Fine at the Central London County Court on 30 June 2020, when both counsel for St Mungo's (the charity in effective control of our tenancy) and Declan presented their positions. Declan lost the case and was ordered to pay £1,850 in costs. A publishing colleague in America cleared these costs within 24 hours of my blog post about this hearing for strike out on a related issue that was the essence of the claim, i.e., that St Mungo's would take a phone call to confirm that we are clients of the Mayor of London's RSI programme. Within a week of the hearing, St Mungo's had agreed to take this phone call for us both, the Court having ruled that they were not obliged to do so despite our circumstances. This time we escaped bankruptcy (counsel for St Mungo's asked for £3,407.50 in costs), but consider that to seek pro se access to justice in the courts has become far too dangerous for us. Declan currently has before the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman the decision of the Information Commissioner that allows St Mungo's to continue processing coercive support plans without our knowledge or consent and that also poses a threat to his life.

30 June 2020: District Judge Ruth Fine orders Declan to pay £1,850 in costs. St Mungo's are under no obligation to even vouch over the phone that we are clients of the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's TST programme (WITH UPDATE 14/05/21)[1]

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[1] Part of the Mayor of London's RSI programme in our case is access to the Mayor's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) at St Mungo's.

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.

An American professor to then Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone in 2010

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has carefully considered your complaint and Human Rights Act claim, and has concluded that it is obviously unsustainable, and thus falls within the provisions of Rule 13(3)(a) of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal Rules 2000, such that, pursuant to s67(4) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, the Tribunal has resolved to dismiss the claim.

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal was created in October 2000 by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and given the power to investigate any complaints against the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), MI5 or MI6, as well as complaints about surveillance operations mounted by the police or any other public bodies. The Guardian reported in 2014 that the tribunal, which claims to be completely independent of the UK Government, is secretly operating from a base within the Home Office, by which it is funded. The newspaper found that the IPT had investigated about 1,500 complaints and upheld only 10, five of which concerned members of one family who had all lodged complaints about surveillance by their local council. No complaint against any of the intelligence agencies had ever been upheld. The discovery that the IPT is lodged within a Whitehall department has fuelled criticisms of the tribunal that has been levelled by rights groups, lawyers and complainants. The IPT's critics complain that the secrecy is excessive and that its procedures are stacked so heavily in favour of the government and against complainants that it is fundamentally unfair. According to The Guardian, some senior lawyers have described the IPT as "Kafkaesque", while one eminent barrister dismissed it as a "kangaroo court". The newspaper also reveals that because of the perception that the tribunal is unfair, many would-be complainants spurn it.

'Independent' court scrutinising MI5 is located inside Home Office http://t.co/ZezpDipCPx via @guardian

— Ian Cobain (@IanCobain) March 5, 2014

From My Picks:

An American perspective: "I thought the UK was a civilized democracy!" In reference to the following blog post:

28 May: Eviction back to the streets a third time from a Mayor of London Rough Sleepers Initiative property is a massive assault on me. Not only am I likely to lose Declan to his health condition, but I am also likely to be left crippled following a torn meniscus that has had me using a crutch for months (regularly updated)



Our list of 303 Honorary Associates includes 20 Nobel Prize laureates, 18 US National Medal laureates and 13 knighted professors notwithstanding the excessive targeting of these categories of emails in particular. (In April Declan had the honour of adding the 20th Nobel laureate to the list, having had an average of 85% of his emails blocked for over a week.)

http://churchandstate.org.uk/honorary-associates/

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