It is funny that in all
the years that I have been publishing online I have thought more and
more about how regular people have been used to make certain
companies .. rich .. or richer?
When I think about how
you simply cannot start out from day one expecting anything it made
perfect sense.
As a matter of fact I
did not even think about making anything when I first started out!
But this was put to me
in a matter of months by none other than Google themselves. So I
thought well that is a good idea and I went into their Adsense
program with the idea that there might be a wait but .. down the line
if I could do this long enough I might acquire a small amount on a
monthly basis. That was just from my blogs of which there are 12 ..
read it .. TWELVE. Twelve subjects and I do not even cover all my
knowledge bases.
In fact I had a YouTube
channel that had been sitting idle for a number of years with just
the odd video being uploaded, like breeding a friends Red Eyed Tree
Frogs (Agalychnis callidryas).
Yeah .. I don't only
know about corruption.
In fact the subjects I
cover are Reptiles, Amphibians and Fish which are all combined into
one blog along with British Wildlife, Astronomy & Astrophysics,
Orchids, Photography (well more experimental artistic side), Japanese
Maples, Films and Music. Hmm .. on yeah Wing Chun Kung Fu though that
has been neglected for a fair old while, mores the pity.
In fact as part of my
business pitch to the company providing the so-called help to the DWP
over their NEA, New Enterprise Allowance, program I deliberately left
out the part that I had already been working on this for over 4 years
in my spare time and when y health would allow. Which was not very
much and not very far, if I am honest.
What I was told,
without being given a reason why which was what I was interested in
seeing if they could provide, is that it would take too long to build
up a decent amount of viewers.
Well that lasted for
about ten seconds while I puled out my folder and then explained that
I had been actually been building this up for four years and had so
far attracted 500,000 odd visitors. Across the board. Then it was
like a scene from an old Tom & Jerry cartoon whereby the eyes
looked almost as if the word 'TILT' had appeared in them.
“I can tell you now
that I would not even need to speak to my company .. you WILL be
accepted!” was what I was then told.
Well they were helpful
.. for about 3 out of 8 weeks and then suddenly and after being
approved TWICE the Job Centre and the DWP pulled the plug in the most
dishonest way you could possibly imagine.
This was right after
spending £20,000 odd, only having half of what I needed and well
AFTER I had also made a very, VERY major commitment I could not back
out of.
So what I am getting
right now is nothing .. at all.
I do have a solicitor
that I have been waiting to change the DWP's PREVIOUS decision to cut
my disability money .. oh yeah another thing that had already screwed
up my plans to be self-sufficient.
That was after taking
it away once before for seven whole years. Technically someone owes
me in the region of £40,000 and as this blame could be attributed to
either the DWP or the NHS .. it makes it, intentionally, difficult to
sue anyone. Not that there is any Legal Aid for anyone .. anyway. But
then I now realise that was their plan all along starting many years
ago now.
Funny then that when
they was first informed that I had received money that they then
dragged me in for an assessment and then spoke to me as if I had been
dishonest about it.
Funny .. it seems if
your dishonest they then throw the proverbial book at you and then
love to label you as being as such .. but .. they do it and everyone
says nothing.
Just this morning I was
explaining this to someone who likes giving them excuses and instead
of the usual .. “Oh, you just got a moron working for them!” they
must have realised this had gotten a bit tired as they thought that
they had confused me with someone else? Umm .. no! “But they cannot
do that!” Umm .. they just did. Three times!
When I told them they
they treat money you have differently depending o where you get it
they also said “they can't do that” but I answered with “They
told me that they can do this and told me over the phone!”
Yoinks!
But as the years went
on in the beginning I started to wonder if there was ever a time
anyone gets paid anything .. even if it is a small amount per month.
To someone that has nothing, or has never been able to mustrt
together a career of any kind due to health or other issues even a
small amount each month can make a world of difference. But that
seems at times like something that would take ten years or work or
really professional equipment that would be ludicrous to expect
anyone to have and use for YouTube videos?!
Except I see time after
time that on YouTube that is exactly what people expect! LMAO!
Normally by morons that like to go around calling other people names
and not realising how stupid and unrealistic they sound.
Fortunately not
everyone is like that online but there are enough to matter.
Just the other day I
was explaining to a small audience of wildlife enthusiasts in a bird
hide what I have done, what I do and how I have worked through a shed
load of tools. This was because I explained a bit about photography
to these people and showed one guy how to switch his Canon bridge
camera onto the shutter speed mode, or 'Tv', pumped his shutter up to
a 1000th of a second and he went off to take pictures of
Great Tits and Blue Tits, they are birds lol, as they were taking off
and landing on a bird feeder. After a few minutes he came over to
show me how he had just taken a photo and the wings of the birds were
frozen in the image. He had a big smile on his face and mentioned a
couple of times how he was glad to have bumped into me. I told him I
was happy to oblige.
I even managed to get a
few laughs from those there and then one old lady mentioned that she
has met someone who used to have a store where I said I had one years
ago and that he then took her and showed her the wild orchids. I then
realised she was talking about me and told her so from about four
years ago.
When she realised this
was in fact me and everyone else thought it was a perfect example of
a small world I then explained I had been through no less than five
cameras in that time. This did not include using my phone to start
with and nor did it include the three faulty Nikons that were
returned nor the Olympus that was also returned all to Argos!
In other words an
argument can be made that I have worked my way through nine cameras.
Oh .. wait a minute? I forgot .. I have been through two mobile
phones in that time. So possibly TEN cameras?
But let us forget about
the exact amount and splitting hairs for a moment. Five cameras and
it is only my latest one that comes anything close to a professional
camera. In fact it sits near the top .. well depending on your point
of view .. it is £3,000 for the body when top Canons and Nikons are
£6,000 but it does many things better than those two companies
mentioned. Well .. Nikon were about to announce the Nikon D850 and I
had considered waiting for that model but .. it was an unknown and as
good as it is .. there are still things about my Sony A99II that are
better.
Does it make a
difference? Umm .. yeah!!
Except .. I waited so
long to be able to buy it that I have lost out on most of the summer
and all the flowers, most if not all the insects and other things
besides. Bummer!
Yet I have managed to
acquire my first ever photos and video of what some consider to the
the holy grail of British Wildlife, the Kingfisher!
Would I have gotten
photos with my Nikon P900 of this Kingfisher? No, and that includes
both occasions it appeared. It was weird as within the space of a
week and for the first time EVER in that particular spot I had been
visiting for almost ten years .. the first Kingfisher.
Not the first time I
have seen one you understand and not the first time I have seen one
while taking photographs of British Wildlife. The hots could have
been better and it could have been .. well diving but not where I was
at. Kingfishers do not and rarely hang round bird hides long in built
up areas and certainly rarely fish in front of one. In fact I spoke
to someone else about the Kingfisher's that reside at Rye Meads which
is not far away and they said that it was a waste of time because the
bird hide is always full of people with cameras.
Yeah to do some real
wildlife stuff and get some great and unusual photos and video you
need to be .. well .. in the wild, so to speak. Lol. The funny thing
is I do know of a spot but it is not easy to get to and .. I wont be
able to .. go and sit there waiting as I would like. Hard to explain
why right now but I will in time.
I have to find ..
somewhere else.
So that is just the ..
British Wildlife side of things. Some effort, planning and
professional tools required.
Then there has been
this long urge to be more creative and artistic with photography
which I have been extremely limited to until very, very recently.
Still things are too hectic, up in the air and I have far too many
people and organisations to deal with .. right now.
So much for that
support, eh?
So yeah I see people on
YouTube trying to build up there channel while no one mentions the
obvious. Why do people have to work their arses off for years, go
through various amounts of expenses to buy stuff to be to start to do
this and then improve things and still no money starts being paid? It
is like this humongous Elephant in the Room. Maybe no one complained
as they thought YouTube, or Google, might hold things against them or
hold payment back or something? Oddly YouTube have been going around
demonetizing videos and so much so that it has affected a long list
of popular people. Now people are complaining about it. But that
Elephant still lurks behind that .. very broad curtain.
My own YouTube channel
was only really used to back up my blogs and by being able to add
content. Up until now I could only ever upload certain photos because
Blogger, also Google owned and one of over 200 companies they
purchased, restricts the photo size. I did have a FlickR account and
possibly others .. but as my photos were not being shot on anything
even remotely professional I did not really see the point?
I have started to
upload again to my FlickR account where I am known as 'allnights1'
and said photos of Kingfisher are now there. Plus some old photos of
the British Orchids I previously referred to.
One cool fact of
FlickR, but I guess they all do this, is telling the viewer on what
specific model of camera I took each photo on. Hmm .. those two
faulty Nikon P610's, could have been P620's, might have some photos
on their? I do know my Sony A99II is on there along with a Nikon P900
as well as the previous bridge camera, another Sony HX-300 I think it
was? Just looking now I see my first camera purchase of a Nikon S8200
is on there too?
Nope neither of the
short lived Nikon P610's, there were TWO, Nikon L810 or Olympus
SZ-820 made it onto my FlickR account. I guess I was either too busy
replacing faulty cameras or I had decided my equipment and photos
were not professional enough for me to bother? Lol.
So then .. if I spend
an entire year from this moment onwards .. though I am limited for
about two weeks from today onwards, do you think that recently
purchasing £10,000 worth of camera equipment and the same amount on
a car is enough time to expect something to happen? Oh that is
£10,000 on my CURRENT camera equipment. Body £3,000, 70-200mm f2.8
lens £2,700, 24-70mm f2.8 lens £1,800+, Sigma 85mm f1.4 lens,
LowePro Whistler, Battery grip, filters, Cotton Carrier chest
holster, SpiderPro holster and god knows how many other things.
Cleaning equipment for lenses/sensor. Do you think that would be
enough? Or will I have to keep on giving away free advertising to
Google and its partners for ever more? Lol.
I am actually missing a
macro lens for insects and flowers though I am not really sure I need
it right now, not sure on minimum focus distance of current lenses
and still need to test.
I am also missing
something around the 300mm size which I could use with my 1.4x Sony
Teleconverter. Or a 500mm size lens. Unfortunately the former is
£6,000 on its own and you think that is bad then the latter is
double that! There is the option of a 100-400mm lens but not sure of
the quality of the images and it is £2,000 and not sure if it would
work, or even just work well, with my Sony teleconverter. Oh the
teleconverter alone is around £500 to buy!
I am also interested in
astrophotography which I MAY be able to achieve with the 24-70mm
f2.8. May. Really you want something that is a faster aperture then
this .. purely because the faster that light is transmitted then the
shorter the shutter speed so you do not get star trails. It gets a
bit more complicated, for those already deciding, because the
aperture is not literally indicative of a lenses speed and this comes
down to something else called 'T-stops'. Bummer! But it might mean
that my f2.8 wide angle zoom might be better than some f2 or even
f1.8 lenses? I simply do not know as of right now and am too busy
sorting out other things while trying to correct some major errors or
pulling the knives out of my back of public services that are
anything but public, they seem to be self-entitled morons, or a
service, screw you over at every opportunity and are really reluctant
to give anyone any help at all while using the feeblest excuses to
hit you with a steal tax.
Lol, oh yeah I have
been hit by a really surprising steal tax for something I have never
done .. except I seem to have this time .. had to think about it and
realised that instead of waiting in a queue of traffic that all
wanted to go straight across at the lights, I crossed into the left
hand lane to turn left right at the end of a bus lane. Well it seems
that a camera spotted me and I got a letter of a fine this morning.
Initially I was confused and thought … “I have never entered a
bus lane .. EVER. How the hell ..” then when I saw the location I
realised. I thought “What the fuck?! At the end of a bus lane
instead of waiting in the WRONG queue of traffic .. I followed a car
in front that did the exact same thing?! Your fining me for THAT?!”
LMAO!
Someone said that they
saw my car on the photograph and decided that as I am able to be
screwed for what is in essence a load of bollocks, £550 per year car
tax, I will pay for a stupid fine and have been hit with a stealth
tax.
This country.
Everyone I know that is
legal .. mainly British people are fed up with doing things legally
and then getting caned for it with the most lame excuses imaginable.
It is funny how people
do not have the brains to realise what is going on right under their
noses .. or their just think that it will all magically go away one
way?
Just this morning a
social worker friend of mine had a couple of pedestrians have a go at
him while I was on the phone to him and he was explaining that he
could not go anywhere and if he had gone where they said that he
should go, because it was inconvenient for them, he would have been
fined. He then told me that he paid a fine once because his car was
six inches over a box in a junction?!
I will be happy to see
the back of that crap .. which I can honestly say only seems to
happen in London. I do not know whether the local governments in
London are just clueless to the fact that people they con actually go
elsewhere in the UK or they are just clueless and think every local
government does what they do? Umm .. NO!
At this rate it will
only be a matter of years before everyone in the London area is
driving illegally and unregistered .. who will they get their
salaries from then? LMAO!
I have invested my own
money to try and do something for myself and become self-sufficient
but where is the help and where is the support?
Remember that I have a
registered disability. A pretty bloody nasty one if I am completely
honest and if it is not the bloody aching of my feet from standing
around on concrete and tarmac, is is the memory blanks, the panic
attacks, the tiredness or even the damn digestive issues .. oh and
the high blood pressure .. the blacking out from postural hypotension
and the rapid heart rates.
My father and Uncle,
like their mother, did not like Doctors and Hospitals much. My father
was never even registered with one. Both my father and Uncle died in
their mid-fifties and I show worse symptoms than they did and I am
48. But because I look fit, buff at times, they think they can state
that because I look fit therefore there is nothing wrong with me? Or
at least they did think that .. until the high BP, high heart rates
and waking up in a patch of stinging nettles and being rushed into
A&E several times despite not wanting to.
Well .. lets just say I
have a wee bit more than my medial records. Lol.
So yeah in the meantime
I will just continue working to help make ever more money along with
a load of other poor saps for what is now widely seen to be an evil
company that likes to claim it is not and left leaning, get ever
richer.
Is it not funny how all
of these organisations and companies that claim they are left
leaning, heavily left leaning, do not appear to be so when it comes
down to money?
I mean they claim to be
very far left but .. wait a minute? Is not the left supposed to be
more to do with communities than individuals? As opposed to the
extreme right? Like a communist society? Or maybe someone along the
lines has moved the goalposts?
To me if your extreme
right, your Hitler. If your extreme left, your Stalin.
But of late I have
gotten into conversations with people where the have tried to explain
different types of left leaning or even extreme left? Umm .. what?
It's a scale .. not a
bloody road map!
There is left and right
and different accents along that scale, no up and down or top and
bottom and nor is there a north and south. LMAO!
Just crap labels for
people who want to cherry pick, that is it and that is all.
Oh and of course it is
all about what is fashionable I guess? Well .. that is until everyone
realises your full of shit!
LMAO!
What makes it worse ..
do you think that working for years at great expense to yourself is
bad enough? Well how about demonetizing videos?
What follow is a
YouTube link about one independent journalist, called Tim Pool,
talking to another independent news reporter, Luke Rudkowski, talking
about YouTube demonetizing videos because they do not agree with the
extreme left.
You would be forgiven
for thinking that these two are extreme right, except as far as I can
tell so far Tim Pool is .. centre.
Would you not think
that it would be down to the companies that the ads are for to decide
whether or not they can advertise with someone's channel?
Sooner or later
something has to give and someone needs to ask some serious
questions. True enough some of these questions are now being asked,
just as these two guys are discussing in the video.
Maybe it is my
imagination but it seems to me that someone seems to be trying to
control the world by controlling the Internet? Maybe one company that
has been purchasing literally hundreds of other companies in the
process?
Once again .. an
extreme left attitude .. until of course it comes to money. Which is
more or less they way that many countries claiming to be communist
countries seem to act. I would love to hear of one that does not act
like this .. I might even be interested in living there?!
Six hundred and sixty videos demonetised overnight!
LMAO!
Tim Pool speaking to
Luke Rudkowski and some worrying .. trends ..
Oh and I almost forgot the one I was originally going to link in here ..
Vee speaking about the demonetising and a rather large channel being .. well hypocritical about it ..