Round 2: The Daily Beagle Is Back. Thank You Everyone!

The show *must* go on

I must apologise for the disruption. I like one person’s private remark that I should treat it as a “blip”. And on reflection, they’re right.

I took the four days out to review what I was doing with my life. I was not expecting the deluge of supportive comments from the wonderful community, and it seemed like even family could sense something wrong as I received emails out of the blue.

Why The Daily Beagle Is Important

The success of The Daily Beagle without compromising on integrity is extremely important for me, for a number of reasons. The first, which I did not disclose before as I’m not looking for sympathy points, just matter-of-fact. I am physically disabled. In theory, possibly treatable, but the NHS slowrolls everything. Perhaps maliciously.

Disability is extensive enough to preclude me from many jobs. Many that are available - typically hideous beast government - are unethical. Mandatory LGBTQ training, bureaucracy as you crush productivity below stupid ass decisions.

The Truth

This wil shock many of you - something I did not fully realise at the time, given the compartmentalised nature and is painfully obvious in hindsight - I was working on the UK government’s health passport scheme.

It wasn’t called a ‘health passport scheme’ initially (it isn’t like they label everything ‘evil world domination plans - kill everybody - part 2’).

It was called health data interoperability (you might have heard the term used in the Bali G20 declaration). They are dead serious on using it.

Premise was hospitals are disjointed, keep out-of-date records, botching surgery, and what they need was unified records. Makes sense, who wants out-of-date botched medical procedures? NHS notorious at getting stuff wrong. One doctor tampered paper-based mental health records to cover-up; a digital audit trail seemed sensible.

Trojan Horse

It soon ballooned to interchanging with European healthcare providers. Again, you could justify. Pre-pandemic - 2018 - UK was still part of EU, with no idea what it was doing. People do travel overseas (‘health tourism’) for treatment.

Expanded again. Interoperability with America, and then others. China, for one. Yes, forced organ harvesting, child slavery, Uighur Muslim raping, mobile execution vans using China.

UK Police can view people’s mental health records upon request. The excuse: so they don’t accidentally violate rights. To me this sounds ripe for abuse and exploitation by bent cops doing exactly opposite.

Expanded again to include private prisons run by G4S, you know, the same ones who abuse children. The public have not been told; no consultation. Sign up at the NHS, have your data shared with child punching G4S.

Another system, a test, called “health passport” introduced. I was introduced to it. What it displayed was a clip-in folder with an outdated microchip on it, not a passport.

Now, healthcare systems have some pretty stupid names that don’t align with what they are or do. Managers and outsourcing invent some dumb ones. SystmOne (yes, the ‘e’ is omitted) and PARIS, as examples. PARIS doesn’t stand for anything. It’s not even French.

It is painfully obvious now what ‘health passport’ is for, but in healthcare names weren’t literal, especially as there were no plans to tie it to actual passports. NHS Trusts couldn’t even properly talk to each other, let alone other systems.

Vaccine Passport By The Backdoor

Yes that system tracked vaccination status - but it kept medical records for a wide variety of things, including mental health, physical ailments, etc. So it could have been based on pretty much anything. G20 now talking about health passports? Aww s—t.

The UK government issued diktat forced all providers to use some generic URL system by an American company called ‘Cerner’, whose entire outfit only had two security advisors. Two. For a worldwide operation. And they clearly weren’t InfoSec experts given the design that had been in use for over 7 years.

IT experts would cry at the ‘security’ Cerner ‘invented’: embedded patient data in URL, ‘encrypted’ with an out-of-date SHA-256 encryption using static, easily pilfered (by employees), easily guessable passwords (often kept on post-it notes by many an org).

Given URLs are exposed and highly visible, easily sniffable, and loggable, meant it could be tracked and easily captured. Capture the URL traffic, reverse engineer the password, expose what medical professional wrote what about whom.

Replay Of Mistakes

I’m not an InfoSec expert, and yet I discovered a ‘replay attack’ scenario where simply having the URL allowed you to impersonate doctors and nurses. They refused to fix this security flaw, and literally swept the vulnerability under the carpet (‘hid it from view’ - their words). The UK government had ordered Cerner’s adoption, so security be damned.

Mass surveillance by intentionally flawed design. Don’t need a backdoor if GCHQ can crack it in under a second. No news outlet has reported on this terror. No-one in the NHS has spoken out on it.

I hadn’t, because with my involvement I might as well just print my name and address. Everyone knows what happened to Julian Assange. It’d be like if a guy in Florida said they were the CEO of the world’s biggest theme park before signing off with a Phineas and Ferb quote trying to be anonymous.

Getting Off The Bus

My disability had worsened in 2019 such I was no longer really working on it. 2020 made the sinister purpose of it painfully obvious, and mentally I made the decision to quit.

I quit after running the course on disability payments, invoking the disability as grounds for leaving. It is one of the only jobs I can do with the severity of my condition, on the basis that I have such a knack for programming and Big Data of that particular type - which you have might of seen from my OCRing of the thousands of Fauci FOIA pages and the filtration of the 754 vaccine studies - that I wrote major code systems were dependent upon.

It is not expert, professional level code like you’d expect from senior programmers with years of experience (although I am a programmer with said years), but it was extremely novel, usable (read: maintainable) code able to solve complex, insane problems only healthcare could experience. It wasn’t the programming, so much as the problem solving I was de facto hired for.

Impoverished Work

I brought an entire NHS Trust up to spec. As a result I was free to work at any time of the day. I wasn’t highly paid however. If you saw my pay you’d be insulted on my behalf. McDonalds cleaners earned more (McDonalds cleaners: 20-21k. Mine? 11k).

I was technically speaking a ‘junior dev’ with the abilities of a senior team lead without the pay to match. You can’t demand pay rises when you don’t turn up consistently on time due to disabilities. Hypothetically I could have been fired many times over. Low pay in exchange for them looking the other way on my very inconsistent attendance.

I do not want to return there. Because those tools they’re using, are built to be part of the health mass surveillance.

Noble Causes, Ignoble Outcomes

What I thought I was doing was bringing security and standards up to spec. It is no secret the NHS has awful security. I even exposed a remote executable vulnerability; this was actually patched. Enhancing patient privacy, squashing vulnerabilities, saving clinicians time were the noble goals I was aiming for.

Despite doing this to the highest ethical standard, I was unintentionally building the s—t G20 were talking about. The health passports were not in response to the pandemic; the pandemic was in response to the health passports (mandatory vaccines - infinity profit for vaccine manufacturers).

This is like being opposed to war, becoming a chemist, and finding out the lifesaving medicine you thought you was making for children, was instead being used in high yield explosives to kill people. I thought I was upgrading security and privacy, instead I was writing code used opposite to that in a giant spy network. You can’t whistleblow on what you don’t even realise is a threat.

A number of systems I built were sufficiently complex enough they hypothetically depend upon my return to keep working. The job is still open to me. My disability severely curtails my ability to select other work. I either succeed in self-employment (I don’t care which field so long as it is moral or at least morally neutral), or I fail and get thrown back to that underpaid meat grinder.

It does not seem fair I should have to starve to death to resist. 11k was insufferable pre-pandemic. Post-economic Ukraine war on even less is a death sentence. I fought against the vaccine mandates in the US, now I’m in such a difficult position I can’t even fight for myself.

The Daily Beagle Means Freedom

Seeing The Daily Beagle lose paying subscribers and lose traction as I try to warn of the realities of the healthcare system - everything from vaccine companies releasing the very viruses they claim to protect you from, to the CDC lying, to the NIH exposing people’s emails publicly - is disheartening to me because it feels like I will be forced back into that line of monstrous work.

For the Daily Beagle to at least roughly match the low, below McDonalds’ employee pay (which is what I’m gunning for) and keep me out of that horrible line of work, I would need 110 - 135 paying subscribers, currency exchange rate depending. Or a job willing to tolerate the aggressively erratic downtimes my illness brings.

All work I do under The Daily Beagle is basically open-source, including any datasets, any code and any videos I opt to publish (minus any work copyrighted by others, of course).

Will Work For Freedom

I’m also open to the idea of doing commission work, not just in journalism, but other domains as well; I’m happy to offer problem solving consultancy, programming, and if you’ve seen a skill I’ve done before, feel free to ask about it (some skills for moral reasons I cannot monetise). I’m able to offer a payment link via the payment processor I have.

I’m not looking for handouts, I want to earn my cake by moral, upstanding work.

As so many of you have requested, I will be bringing The Daily Beagle back, and my first port of call will be holding Elon Musk to account for his hypocrisy over child deaths.

Answering Commentators

I’ve extracted some short quotes that appealed to me, to respond to. There were so many I decided to group it together.

gatochapinmuertodehambre asks:

Will your past articles remain on Substack?

Yes, even if I quit, I would not purge my prior work, with the exception of non-essential information (read: personal) that I might want removed to help maintain privacy.

You’re also free to use archive.org and archive.is to keep copies of articles, download, edit and redistribute my work. If you do redistribute, I only ask for a linkback and/or name credit where appropriate. Paying subscribers can redistribute work without giving credit (whether the article is paywalled or not).

Could you please post a link to your videos?

You can find my channel ‘The Underdog’ on Brighteon.com, where you will find an odd variety of videos as I experimented with different topics and styles trying to work out what was the most successful format.

I don’t post videos because they are very time consuming to make. The EMA leak video took 2 weeks to edit together, as did the History of the Union.

The most interesting videos of note are:

• What does the EMA leak show?

• Scottish Independence Series: History Of The Union (Sad part is, it isn’t a series)

• A Rebuttal To Vaccines, Part 1 and Part 2

• 755 Studies

• Rights Laundering (Low Quality Video, Decent Topic)

• And the series on Timcast’s leaked email addresses (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5). He finally fixed it after I contacted one of The Register’s journalists.

Tony Ryan remarks

This is how it is, Beagle Boy.

True. And I think Elon’s glib remarks about Alex being a bad man talking about child deaths whilst Elon accepts financing from, and works for, the US military, known to kill many children, irritated me so much I felt like I needed to come back just so I can use The Daily Beagle’s Twitter account to call him out. Anger can be a positive driver if used right.

Also I’m sorry to hear about your death threats, but keep up any good moral work you’re doing in spite of it. Let me know if I can help.

kevin remarks

If you figure out the answer please let me know :-)

I don’t have an answer, but I’m content with achieving minimal success. For me that’s below the McDonalds employee pay (read: just barely survivable). If I can’t achieve that then my choice is between conformism or a very slow death. You’re always a friend here. :-)

I can handle a lack of friends. I can handle isolation, rejection, disagreement, insults, threats. I don’t mind being in the minority. What I cannot do, with my particular physical limitations, is manifest food, or warmth or shelter. There was a point I did this sort of thing for free, but people who do good, honest hard work deserve compensation. I’m not entitled to a farmers’ food for free just because their food is moral, likewise for in-depth research.

If a crackhead Wallstreet broker can make millions shuffling money, it is only fair I get at least a small amount collating original research and presenting it honestly.

Konrad wrote

After reading a few posts, I said to myself this guy is worth it, so I subbed and didn't regret.

Comments like this made me want to return and resume. I can still cancel the subscription for you if you wish, but you’ll need to send an email (the one used to pay for the subscription) to this newsletter so I know which payment to cancel.

Mick From Hooe (UK) remarked

You may have noticed I comment on some of your topics but always try to slip in my fanatic view that IF LIABILITY was made LAW for Pfizer & other poison makers, this mess might disappear!

I’ve often enjoyed your comments reminding people to abolish immunity to liability - even on articles where it isn’t relevant. It needs to be a constant thorn in the side of the people until it is abolished. Reminding people is thankless work but I always appreciate the remarks! Post as many as you like!

Bezuhov wrote

You are, clearly, a very intelligent, principled and disciplined person - and such personal characteristics absolutely guarantee that something good for you will pretty quickly follow this disappointment with the Beagle.

So - I suggest that you treat it as a blip, which is going to lead on to great things, which will come very soon! I say that absolutely sincerely: someone with your talents is not going to be down for long.

Wow. Thank you! Positive remarks like this are the absolute lifeblood when one feels like they’re under-appreciated, and another reason why I am going to come back for Round 2. And I absolute will treat this as a blip.

Skidmark wrote

My blog is maybe the best resource in the French language - there, I said it. I should have thousands of suscribers. I have 27. I should get hundreds of thousands views a month. I get less than two hundred.

I don’t expect The Daily Beagle to be an overnight success - I have a growth mindset, but losing paying subscribers rapidly and seeing declining viewing figures is not a good sign. I’ve seen a lot of ‘crash and burn’ YouTube channels to know minor downward trends are often a bad signal.

I imagine The Daily Beagle isn’t the best Substack out there - yet, and there is always room for improvement, but I do not want to have it turn conformist.

You’re the second subscribed Substacker who has expressed distress on their growth and what I might do is create an article explaining what I’ve done for The Daily Beagle to get at least the limited growth I’ve obtained.

You might be able to offer a sort of translation service. It is very difficult for English readers to grasp French politics (and especially French news) because, well, they don’t typically speak French.

I have great difficulty penetrating the linguistic wall and thus cannot really research French events, because to use search engines well you need to have a good understanding of the language.

So perhaps you could transcribe important French events (not reported by either French or English news media) into English. For example, the nuclear power issues, cheese and milk shortages I’d like to know more on, but my only source on those is Strana Today (Ukrainian) and ZeroHedge (Australian owned investment website).

Seth Day wrote

Perhaps the Common Sense model would yield better results. One blog with multiple authors contributing, we could use an alternative to that conservative inc. BS anyway. 

I will be honest, I’ve been burned on many occasions - even within seemingly trusted groups. I have thought about cross-posting and shared authorship, but the issue of ‘guilt by association’ is a problem. It is impossible to know much about other people’s back history, so impossible for me to veto any ‘bad’ picks.

The issue for me isn’t the months of work. I will nosegrind myself into work. It is the negative repercussions for that work, the loss of income. It’d be like if your employer added a ‘hardwork penalty fee’ if you overperformed or did too well.

I have looked into automating The Daily Beagle Roundup, however the ability for a machine to curate stories (read: select high quality ones) is difficult, and the non-machine Roundup reports got less and less views. I currently use the generated Roundup reports personally to keep me informed of events on a daily basis and spot trends.