There’s a fairly reliable maxim that to any news headline that ends in a question mark, the answer is “No”.
There have been a lot of such headlines this weekend over the tragic Jeju Air crash in Muan. “Was it a bird strike that…” “Is it significant that there have been four crashes over the Christmas…” “Was the deteriorating weather…”
No. At least, not simply any of the above as a stand alone cause. Causal, yes, but it’s always much, much more complicated than that. Before I go on I ought to declare an interest. I write under a pseudonym. Not because I’m flying kites I’m ashamed of, but because for several years now I’ve been a media spokesman for a national aviation organisation. Whenever I’m quoted, or whenever I appear on the electric wireless or new-fangled television, it’s not my views I represent but those of the organisation. If I’m anywhere under my own banner, right or wrong, I have to avoid using the same name otherwise people will muddy my views with the organisation’s.
I write here as James Leary. James is real enough, but is in no position to argue. He died in 1896. He is my Great Great (possibly Great) grandfather. His is the earliest photographic record we have of any family member. He watches down on me. I often wonder what he would have thought of a descendant of his writing about aviation on an iPhone. He was a lowly farm worker in rural Lincolnshire in the middle of the 19th Century, and a Methodist in the county of Charles and John Wesley, so I’m guessing I would be the spawn of the devil. There are a few others who think that to this day.
I digress. I’ve had a lot to do in the course of my ‘official’ work with the media handling of aircraft accidents, and incidents. Almost always doom-laden. And quite often over Christmas. It’s that time of year, isn’t it? A sort of mini silly season. Often the ‘B’ team are in charge of reporting, and the constant sweet of saccharine festive stories has to be balanced with a bit of sour, to show they’ve still got a grip on how terrible the world really is. Air crashes fall neatly into that slot. Grâce à Dieu, so did the Far East Tsunami 20 years ago. A friend of mine died in that so I kept a closer eye on the reporting than maybe I would normally. The speculation was spectacular. It was while the climate religion was still in the manger, but I’m absolutely certain some ‘expert’ or other would today have been wheeled before a microphone at the regulation 10 inches from the speaker, and let loose with whatever barmy ‘climate change is to blame’ theory was passing between their ears at the time. And they would have been listened to solemnly. As an ‘expert’.
The thing with reporters is that they all have political views, world views, or whatever masquerades as religious beliefs these days, and you can guarantee that they would find it very difficult not to interject their own views into the discussion. This is much less so if they wheel in a pilot to talk about aviation. They are in your office, rather than the other way around, and they behave more circumspectly. I was once on the show of a prominent BBC lady whom I have seen giving Nigel Farage a very hard time of late. Hardly a word in edgewise. She was interviewing me on the subject of laser interference with aircraft trying to land or take off. I’ve had it happen to me so I was speaking hard facts, and the said lady, let’s call her Victoria, was totally out of her depth, but asked relatively intelligent questions as a good reporter should. They broadcast the interview uncut, so it must have met with their requirements.
On another occasion, I was phoned on a Sunday by a minion from the BBC World Service to record a short interview on the same subject to be aired on the main WS midday news programme. As it happened I was actually in London at the time and at a loose end so offered to come in to New Broadcasting House and do the interview there. This wasn’t what they had expected so they said they’d call me back. Which they did shortly after. Somebody higher up the food chain. After a few minutes it became obvious that I was being interviewed for the interview, before they invited me over. Anyway, they did and I was taken up to the gods where WS live, and met the producer. There then followed a further interview to see if I knew the subject. I did my usual ‘ranging widely’ through my history and knowledge of aviation and after a bit the headmistress (spitting image of one) producer decided I passed muster and became herself quite interested in the subject. I watched as she junked the programme timelines on her computer to the horror of her acolytes who would have to pick up the pieces, and proposed I go on live. I was still talking after seven minute into a two minute interview. Jamie, doing the interview, was also hooked on a world totally foreign to the average reporters’ experience. I have a recording of that interview. It was spoiled by me inadvertently coughing during the intro.
This is all to illustrate that the media can get it right if they want to, but by god, 24 hour news cycles drives some of them to invite on any ‘expert’ in aviation that cares to call himself one.
Was the Korean accident caused by a bird-strike? I was asked this morning. No. A bird strike can be nothing or something. I’ve had several. Mostly they are a nuisance and cause delays whist foul smelling bits of half cooked bird are pulled out of the fan of the engine. They can also be fairly catastrophic – ask Capt Sully, as he rowed away from his machine floating in the Hudson River. Not to speculate (haha) but this 737 kept flying for some time after so it’s unlikely to have been that alone. The landing gear didn’t/wouldn’t come down, likewise the flaps, all hydraulically driven. Everything on a plane derives its energy from the engines as do the hydraulic pumps. On a 747 which I know best there are four different systems and a couple of back-up systems to those, so total hydraulic loss is highly unlikely. We wouldn’t go flying, any of us, if anything like what happened in Korea was even approaching ’likely’.
There’s another analogy in aviation safety (and other risk managements) called ‘the Swiss Cheese’. It’s got holes in it – the cheese not the analogy. Everything we do in aviation is to stop all the holes in the cheese lining up so you can see straight through it. Engineering and crew procedures are designed to stop this ever happening. If just one safeguard out of a dozen works, then we have succeeded.
However if a chain of events can happen, it will happen sometime, somehow.
What will happen now is that the two flight recorders, the voice recorder of what went on in the cockpit, what was said, how it was said, what language it was said in and even the strain in the voices of the pilots will be examined along the same timeline as the thousands of parameters of aircraft systems and performance are analysed. This will be done by a competent Korean authority backed up by contingents from Boeing, and CFM, the engine manufacturer. These guys are real experts. I barely understand how they operate. There are groups of them all round the world who are on permanent standby, with grab-bags by their front doors. Their Christmases will have been rudely interrupted too.
I will wait for them to do their jobs. It won’t necessarily take long. If they even suspect a fatigued part, or a faulty crew procedure has played a part they will issue an ‘interim bulletin’ which will be in the hands of all operators and interested parties within the week. Or if it’s a labyrinthine aligning of the holes in the Swiss cheese an in-depth report and recommendations will follow in due course.
So the next time you hear an ‘expert’ pontificating a few hours after an accident, hang in there. It’s in hand, he’s guessing. Unless it’s me, of course.
The below is an extract from the statement of the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations, and it was issued today. It sums it up.
Our thoughts are with the friends and families of the reported 181 passengers and crew
members that were onboard the aircraft.The Federation is working closely with its local Member Association, ALPA-K, who have
recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) of the Republic of Korea, with four IFALPA-accredited
Accident Investigators from ALPA-K appointed as Official Advisors to MOLIT. Through this
MoU, IFALPA will keep its accident investigation resources at the disposal of MOLIT to help
gather facts and any other information which may be pertinent to the investigation.The Federation urges caution against speculation in media and social media surrounding
the accident. IFALPA stresses the need to avoid any conjectures or suppositions as to what
happened in this event. The investigation into the circumstances of the accident should
strictly follow the provisions laid out in ICAO Annex 13 with conclusions and safety
recommendations identified by the appropriate investigative bodies.
James Leary is the pseudonym of a retired passenger jet captain.
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Top of the world Ma.
Morning all.
Us again!
Looks like it.
Good morning Marcus.
We should meet at a more respectable time and location, Huxley. But then I was told never to meet my heroes
You smooth talking bu….
…buffoon?
Oh, enough, we’re wasting prime screen space on these niceties. Toby will tell us off.
Downunder seriously slept in. Good morning to you both!
Thanks AE.
Gooooooood morning Vietnam!
Good morning, cg (wherever you are … )
Nice one CG.
Sigh! The same bs that they tried to pull on covid, pretending the consequences of their panic policies were the consequences of covid itself.
No, Germany did absolutely the right thing by buying oil and gas from a reliable supplier who could provide the cheapest supply.
The stupid thing to do was let themselves be manipulated into a completely over the top, self-harming response to the Russians doing something the US and NATO have happily done repeatedly without any significant punitive consequences.
At least be honest enough to put the blame for a consequence on the choice that led to that consequence.
No, they imposed green ideology and crippled their own energy production
They did that as well, but that hardly makes them any less the idiots responsible for their own situation!
The result of letting themselves be manipulated into self-harm for the benefit of the US regime will be that German industry will be damaged, possibly destroyed competitively. There is no way around the fact that sourcing energy from other places will increase costs dramatically, because it’s simply the case that Russia is and will remain the cheapest supplier. And the fact is that a significant number of German businesses already cited high energy costs as potential threats to their existence, before the declaration of an economic war of aggression on Russia.
Sympathy for Germans or other Europeans who will suffer as a result of the choice to pander to the US declaration of said economic war of aggression? None whatsoever. They did it to themselves, or let their governments do so on their behalf, mostly (as with the covid panic idiocy) while cheering them on, waving and clapping and banging pots in support.
Morons.
Meanwhile, for all those blue and yellow flag idiots, here’s what was going on in the Ukraine since 2014, that they basically didn’t give a monkey’s about:
Documentary film “Donbass 2016” – understand why Donetsk and Luhansk do not want to belong to Ukraine
Thanks for this. I saw it some time ago and was horrified. The hate-filled beginning should be compulsory viewing for those worshipping all things Ukrainian.
There are superb Ukrainians and appalling ones. The appalling have been encouraged by Western powers who are willing to see innocent Ukrainians die, because they know they can blame it all on the Russians, whom they have turned into caricatures of human beings.
This evil incitement to hatred of an entire people, the people who have brought us some of the most sublime art in all the world, has resulted in the shrugging off or dismissing of barbarism – vicious and barbaric cruelty – because the Russians are once again what they were to the Nazis, subhuman.
Shame on them all.
Those who bought the anti-Russian war propaganda, as Jacob Dreizin aptly put it in the piece I linked here earlier, “began as idealists and ended up as apologists for mass murder.”
Shame on them for being such gullible fools, but the greatest sin was by those who intentionally manipulated them in this way.
“There are superb Ukrainians and appalling ones.”
This, of course, is true of every nation. The question that matters in each case is which are in charge.
I think, sadly, the last couple of decades and especially the past two years have clearly shown which are running the nations of the US sphere. And any foolish inhabitant who thinks that any external issue whatsoever today matters a jot next to changing that situation, is very definitely part of the problem.
When those in charge are also inept, wilful and colossally ill-informed we are all endangered.
Truly crazed ideologues are happy to cut off noses to spite other people’s faces. Perhaps because they believe that they, personally, will not suffer at all.
Of course. Those who have manipulated us into wars have always been able to assume that they and theirs would get off scot-free.
As I’ve noted here before now, that situation changed perhaps forever with the advent of nuclear weapons. Nowadays they can only go to war directly with non-nuclear nations (or at any rate, those without an effective second strike intercontinental capability). But as we’ve seen, that hasn’t stopped them seeking all manner of confrontation and war short of that existentially dangerous open warfare with peer powers.
The stupid thing Germany did was abandon nuclear and coal. The EU was originally the European Coal and Steel Community, with Ruhr coal at its heart. This must have cost them dear. Who would have thought the Green party could wreck countries like that?
Again, “another stupid thing”, not “the stupid thing” here.
In the context of this particular Telegraph piece, the directly relevant stupidity was pandering to the US neocon determination to confront and destabilise Russia. All the rest just set the scene for that final, towering act of stupidity – economic suicide to try to enforce a supposed “rule” (of law and of morality) which does not exist in practice, because they have repeatedly ignored its violation by those (supposedly) on their side..
Spot on.
I totally agree with your and John Mearsheimer’s assessment of this misguided US/UK sabotage and German naivety and stupidity in that regard.
But then, reason has only ever been with a few, as Schiller already observed.
“The Russians are part of our balancing coalition against China. If you live in a world where there are three great powers—China, Russia, and the United States—and one of those great powers, China, is a peer competitor, what you want to do if you’re the United States is have Russia on your side of the ledger. Instead, what we have done with our foolish policies in Eastern Europe is drive the Russians into the arms of the Chinese.”
https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/02/trading-realpolitik-for-a-puppet-show/
You can recognise someone immediately as ignorant or dishonest on global affairs if they think, or claim to believe, that Russia is a real “threat” to us or to the US.
The bottom line is that while Russia has strengths, as we do, it is just not a potential superpower in the current state of the world. There is one superpower (the US) and one aspiring potential superpower (China) that is rapidly overhauling the dominant power. A bipolar or multipolar world is much better for second rank powers like us (who nevertheless have the ultimate safeguard of a nuclear deterrent), than a unipolar world, but for the US, who stand to be the sole hyperpower in question, they would obviously like the unipolar option.
So the US seeks to keep China down, and the options for doing that require Russia either to be a balancing ally, as Mearsheimer correctly suggests, or to be destroyed and replaced by a bunch of US satrapies on the lines of post-WW2 Europe. The latter is the high risk, more costly strategy of the two, but it has been adopted mostly because of the kinds of people (Russia-hating neocons, often of eastern European immigrant stock) who have driven US foreign policy for the past three decades. And our elites are of course basically the same as the east coast US elites, and see those interests as what matters, not British interests per se.
All the rest of the anti-Russian jingoism from the likes of our host here and his fellow suckers of the political right is just childlike noises from people who swallow all the propaganda bs – the direct equivalent of all those who agonised about how dangerous covid was and how we must all be “responsible” in order to “protect the vulnerable”.
“Last Energy, linked to Elon Musk…”
Oh god, no, please don’t give taxpayers’ money to that crook. He is called the Subsidy Truffle Hound. Tesla only makes money by being given money by governments for being “green”. It only loses money making and selling its cars, and the cars are shonky as heck. The gullible fan boys don’t complain because they’re too ashamed they fell for a lemon after idolising “Elon Himself”.
I found something to agree with him on when he spoke out against lockdowns, but the only reason he did that was because he realised that Fascist California was falling out with him and running out of money to give him.
Similar story in Berlin, New York, China, Texas, Nevada.
Don’t get me started on SpaceX. He didn’t have his security clearance renewed because of his drug habits and all round irresponsible and arrogant behaviour. The real genius is Gwynne Shotwell.
The other thing he is called is a Pretengineer, because he pretends to have attended one of the big US universities, when in reality he was never even enrolled.
He is a genius at sniffing out gullible politicians with fragile egos. Methinks we have one of those at the helm.
He is often described as the founder of PayPal, when in reality he just tugged on the coat tails of Peter Thiel. He almost ran it into the ground before the board sacked him.
He calls himself the founder of Tesla, when in reality it was Martin Eberhard.
I could go on. Let me know if you want to know more.
There you go again telling the truth. It’s a very bad habit. Keep it up.
I fear there’s a lot of “eppur si muove” about it.
He is another of Schwab’s young leaders….
How many Africans have died or been seriously injured mining the mineral Musk needs for his car batteries? I know he buys from the company doing the mining but what I’ve read it seems like old fashioned exploitation of the worst kind.
Thank goodness for The Telegraph otherwise DS would have nothing to link to.
Geez.
Thank goodness for DS otherwise the Telegraph would have nothing!
Undoubtedly correct. Silly me.
I don’t like to criticise DS, because I’m so grateful for its existence.
But, in the spirit of free speech, I must say that the preponderance of Telegraph articles (all behind a paywall) has the effect of making DS look a bit like a junior partner.
I find those BTL more reliable suppliers of food for thought.
Most of us have perfected stopping the page loading and reading for free over the last 2 years.
Or 12ft.io
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but of you have to pay for news it probably isn’t factual news.
Very resourceful – and I congratulate you.
The point stands – too much Telegraph.
A plausible summary of the likely situation, unlike the nonsense you will get in our mainstream media outlets.
This month will decide world politics for next 30+ years
“To all the democracy crusaders, as always, “You began as idealists and ended up as apologists for mass murder.” ”
Pretty much sums up US sphere foreign policy for the past 30 years.
And then there’s US support for the anti-democratic EU (which they would never accept for themselves), an organisation that arguably precipitated war in Europe (in 2014 – possibly one reason people voted to leave).
Thanks for the link.
Here’s another – to the unfashionable war. Putin doesn’t seem to be directly involved (though somebody may be working on a way to make him to blame for it), so we’re short a super-baddy.
It has the bonus of a superb cartoon by Bob Moran.
Ukraine vs Yemen – A contrast in media coverage – OffGuardian (off-guardian.org)
The Ukraine vs Aden.
Anyhow, brings us back to the coup d’etat in Kiev in 2014, and the EU’s role in it.
Disappointing, but understandable that now our fantasy energy policy has been found out, we are swinging between even greater fantasies, and rushed knee-jerk solutions.
Are there any grown ups in charge..?
No. “Grown-ups” believe in calm thought, deliberation and nuance. They do not panic, and they do not shriek abuse at those who differ.
No, the likes of Owen Patterson get thrown under the bus (whilst Insulate Britain get encouraged by the police).
Doggone it, how many children will die because of these stuffing lockdowns? I suppose SAGE and government and the civil service and all the other crooks didn’t discuss this particular aspect when proposing their human rights abuses? (And speaking of crooks, is Fauci in prison yet?).
Considering the HS2 progress (not that I support it), I’m not optimistic Mr Kwarteng’s 2050 prediction will come true. Perhaps seven new nuclear power stations by the year 2500. That I could believe.
Perhaps the Chinese can build us a few more..?
Why are we looking to the US and Elon Musk, when we have the Rolls Royce mini reactor all tested and able to be put into production.? Are we scratching the American backs again, or kissing their arse..?
The more you see, the less sense it makes. I doubt it is a ‘buggers muddle’. It appears to be entirely by design.
Hovercraft, jump jet. We will underfund the modular reactor technology and in the end let the USA buy it for pennies and develop it.
At this point anyone not accepting that the vaccine killed Hawkins is in a state of hypnosis so deep I would argue it makes them a danger to others and themselves.
With the vaccine, or of the vaccine?
Nice one, pjar. I like your style.
That sure is a long way to say “communist lies”
Indeed. About time we decolonised Britain, but perhaps not in the sense they mean it.
This is only natural. Post-Blair Britain has a fairly inflexible social caste system based on race and gender. Black and brown people are significantly higher in the de facto caste system and know any bullying will be met with the full force of the law, sackings and compensation. Lower caste whites know any bullying of their children will be met with laughter. All perfectly natural in a caste-based system where a totalitarian regime ensure people are longer equal before the law.
Alex Belfield just aired a video which included a poster saying that 98% of men won’t date tarns women because of “hatred.”
Similar chains of thought in race as in sex.
Belfield has been pretty good throughout the last few years. I’ve toyed with joining his paid site.
There’s a lot of his ego on the site….he wasn’t very complimentary to those who couldn’t/wouldn’t pay the subscription. There are others blogging, putting out vids who are more humble.
He’s there because one more complaint to YouTube like the one from the Times “journalist” after they alleged he had organised the demo when Starmer & Lammy were leaving Parliament (whom along with the paper he’s now suing) and he’ll be permanently cancelled off YouTube. As he says it’s up to you wether you want to pay or not.
You can always go to Russell Brand’s site but you’ll need to be quick as MSM are now targeting him.
I’ve always been a bit wary of AB. Is he controlled ops? However, until he was booted off for a couple weeks, he was getting very close with the truth bombs…and then he came back with his PAYG platform. Now I think…nah.
I’m not sure what to make of him either, although he is one of the few who mentions the illegal immigrants turning up on the south shore. I’m prepared to give him some kudos for that.
Was the Lady of the Lake a ‘tarns woman’?
We all have our preferences. Obviously most men prefer women as nature intended.
What can you mean? Trans women are women. How can you even tell the difference?
As usual, disagreement with the woke, identitarian left is “hatred”, while the real hatred is what they feel for the dissenters.
“Tarns women are men. Follow the science.
But is it working? Arguably the answer is no. The able don’t need special help. Asians and blacks struggle in first world cultures. They lack the mental structures to operate here without damaging it.
We probably need more of this for ordinary people to waken up and realize that the Tony Sewells are a rarity. We are being replaced by third worlders with absolutely no interest in our culture or history.
The 800 P&O workers .. I wonder how many of them were chanting the “Diversity is our strength” mantra before they got their dose of ‘Diversity’ ??!!
As the last two years has taught us, most cannot independently reason their way through issues. They must experience the downsides firsthand.
Whatever the 800 believed beforehand about multiculturalism fewer will now embrace or endorse it. And each of the 800 will have other family members affected too.
Alas that is what it will take. Like your meme below. Only once they are treated as infidels, their local pub bulldozed because it is offensive, their eating choices restricted, only then will the penny drop for many. That the people we are importing are not like Dutch or French immigrants; they are aliens who will not adapt.
You get what you order.
How many illegal migrants arrived on the southern beaches yesterday?
Fewer and fewer politicians in Parliament have ‘British’ names.
“Diversity is our strength”.
Turkeys voting for Christmas.
Indeed. Sleepwalking into civil war.
However, there is also this, which I’m beginning to see signs of. We live in a dynamic world and attitudes change.
That’s all well and good and I understand entirely where it comes from.
But care is needed, because that is the road the Ukraine travelled….
Blame belongs with the advocates of mass immigration and their dupes, but that doesn’t make the outcomes any less dire.
Indeed. I’m not advocating it. But it seems inevitable now. We can’t go on like this.
Imo, the sooner the backlash comes, the less virulent it will be, and the less damaging.
This is my view too. Done soon, in the next ten years, it is a blunt and uncomfortable public discussion about repatriation, with some incentives to take off the edge. Zero taxes for the year running up to them leaving, no stamp duty selling property etc.
If we wait 30 years it will look much more like a civil war, and it is our children who’ll have to fight it. Because their children will claim to be natives born and bred.
Remind me now – who was it who predicted that “the black man will have the whip hand over the white man”?
Quite.
That’s what happens when you rely on ad hominem attacks and ignore the message. You erode the ability to publicly debate things in a sensible manner long before they become dangerous issues.
It is often overlooked the Enoch Powells were trying to warn us we would put in place a mechanism for the election of a Hitler if we kept importing foreigners who did not fit in. It is that insight we throw out with the bath water.
Another news item on the transgender sports business;
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10679981/Trans-goalkeeper-used-play-mens-football-selected-England-Universities-womens-side.html#comments
I am starting to think that testosterone reducing drugs should be added to the list of substances banned in sport. The idea that a six foot man built like the proverbial brick-****-house, can be considered female because they are taking testosterone reducing drugs is preposterous.
As this article reports this trans in sports issue is already causing women and girls to drop out of sporting activities. This whole business seems to be insulting to women and a real danger to them, ironically these trans athletes seem to be demonstrating a strong display of male aggression and arrogance in the way they are pursuing this issue.
All working as planned. Designed to condition the plebs to believe they have no power or control over societal events. A demoralization strategy.
There are more people saying this is a load of *!?*, so who is able to push an agenda of this magnitude against the majority? They need to be hunted down.
That’s the insight. It is a vanishingly small number. Ignore the actual trannies. They have no power. In real life they are instinctively viewed as mentally disturbed, which you’ll know if one of them appears where you work. Women are particularly unimpressed.
Our system of media amplifies often small fringe concerns. It is the media class we must focus on
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The media class is in decline. You cannot really cheat real life. All those legacy outlets are clinging on for dear life.
I asked my 10 year old, “Can women have a willy?”. She replied “Don’t be stupid, that’s disgusting!” LOL “Inbetweenies” are all “disgusting” at the moment, but she scored full marks on that aptitude test…unlike most politicians and woketards. Then she goes on to tell me about the 11 year old boy who attends school in make up every day. Maybe when she’s in high school I should worry more about boys in dresses gaining entry to the girls’ changing rooms…
Alas we probably need a few “incidents” for us to come to our senses.
Amazing that these stories are rarely about women who become men. I wonder why that is?
Because women rarely have paraphilias (fetishes). It tends to be men who sexualize things. A casual romp through porn sites aimed almost exclusively at men is a wall to wall freak show. Among the more commonplace stuff, lesbians, threesomes etc., we see midget porn, amputee porn and everyone’s favourite, vomit porn.
And that’s all overlooked. Many “transgender” males are what are known in the literature as autogynephyliacs; men sexually excited at the thought of themselves as women. That is not the same as thinking you are a woman. And women don’t get excited at the thought of themselves as women.
Much of the trans nonsense is really about the erosion of standards in scientific disciplines. Nothing more.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10677845/How-secret-courts-hitting-people-Covid-fines-without-realising-writes-SUE-REID.html
Our “justice” system has been badly abused over the last 20 years or so, with judges’ independence being undermined by politically driven sentencing guidelines, prosecution appeals to increase sentences, the watering down of double jeopardy protections, the use of the DBS to make rehabilitation of offenders more difficult and, of course, the use of Fixed Penalty Notices whose purpose is to sideline the court process.
FPNs have long been a proven money making business model for the speed camera scam. The alacrity with which some cops have handed them out for such “crimes” as not wearing a mask should come as no surprise. Allowing a copper to be judge, jury and executioner is a trait we normally associate with a police state. Rigging the magistrates’ court system to allow a single magistrate to rubber stamp further punishment without representation confirms the situation.
This is very dangerous indeed.
What do we do to stop it?
Many such legal and procedural changes exhibit the same characteristics of being entirely for the convenience and profit of law enforcement and governance, while dressed up as supposedly beneficial for “safety” etc reasons.
As you say, hugely dangerous, but hard to see how we can halt it, let alone roll it back, without a profound cultural (and subsequently political) return to self reliance and (justified) suspicion of government.
Why the timing of this, why is this only coming to light now? Is it to keep people fearful that they might yet be fined, now that restrictions are supposedly over? This smacks of deliberate scaremongering (but maybe true) from Saint Boris’s spin doctors, to keep the public terrified. I notice that the article only tangentially mentions that a police officer had to hand out the fine in the first place.
Is it not a bit on the awkward side though, when those who committed crimes the whole way through via their participation in partygate, some of which were worse than “Joe Bloggs not wearing a mask in a takeaway” are currently being fined only £50.00 and are not being named?
I think it is a false story for the same reason that the awake dismiss many such stories. It doesn’t make sense.
No one intends to save us from ourselves.
Until our appetite for war, deception, duplication and non critical thinking ends, the date of our extinction on this water planet we call earth, will advance at a pace.
Breastfeeding indeed affects infants and proves mRNA vaccine shedding by breastfeeding mothers.
UK Gov:
“It is unknown whether BNT162b2 is excreted in breast milk”
Another blatant lie awaiting explanation.
How many lies does it take for something to be done about this?
“It is unknown whether BNT162b2 is excreted in breast milk”
In which case the bloody stuff should never have been pushed on pregnant ladies or mothers of new born.
Bastards.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/vitamin-d-call-for-evidence/vitamin-d-call-for-evidence
” This call for evidence seeks views on how to improve the vitamin D status of the population in England, in line with existing recommendations, as well as addressing associated health disparities and improving health outcomes through maximising the benefits of vitamin D.
…
This call for evidence will run for 6 weeks, starting from 3 April and ending on 15 May 2022.”
Watch out for the usual false premises e.g. that mass adulteration (“fortification”) of food is somehow justifiable regardless of the delivered dose being uniform despite varying body size etc and so potentially harmful (excessive vitamin d can be problematic too I gather). So industry lobbying has preceded this perchance?
Irony of ironies that this otherwise benign consultation follows rapidly on from the Government’s decision to push on with water fluoridation. The common theme in each case being that unless stymied, private enterprise will be adulterating something else ingested by the population and no doubt making money in the process. Another burgeoning case of privatisation of profits and socialisation of losses/costs?
They want you farmed, and medicated.
Yes and watch them, if they do go down the fortification route, of doing it with the wrong thing, the inert and biologically inactive vitamin B2 as opposed to the active version, vitamin D3.
And they will fail to take account of the fact that if it is not accompanied by the co-factors of magnesium and vitamin K2 then increasing the amount of Vitamin D could be positively harmful for some people.
I’d certainly like to give them some evidence – but I have been there before and got the T shirt and have other and better things to do with my limited time. Hopefully the Vitamin D Council, which will have more authority than I ever could on the subject, will be included among their consultees and will respond in depth to their consultation. That would be a response worth reading.
Wow – another consultation – which I failed to see in time, seems it closed 1 April.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/10-year-cancer-plan-call-for-evidence/10-year-cancer-plan-call-for-evidence
So I guess there’s no means of asking why GcMaf seems to be sidelined in favour of cut-burn-poison and if blood testing for nagalase levels is being done at all. (See e.g. Timothy J. Smith MD – The Cancer Book (webpages only?))
https://web.archive.org/web/20140821163232/http://gcmaf.timsmithmd.com/book/book/4/
Brilliant post!
Oddly enough was thinking this exact same thought about Gcmaf and cancer only today. Weird!
No Mr. Warner, Germany’s decision to cooperate more closely with Russia was very sensible and in its and Europe’s national interest.
But obviously not in US and British interests, for shortsighted power and vanity reasons alone (Brzeszinski driven, ignoring that communism is no longer a factor).
Unfortunately, they prevailed with their sabotage, in conjunction with the MIC and OGMC, who are already and for decades to come the main beneficuaries of that sabotage, thanks to Germans naivety.
And noone warned of and described that and the catastrophic geostrategic consequence of that criminal US/UK sabotage better than John Mearsheimer:
“The Russians are part of our balancing coalition against China. If you live in a world where there are three great powers—China, Russia, and the United States—and one of those great powers, China, is a peer competitor, what you want to do if you’re the United States is have Russia on your side of the ledger. Instead, what we have done with our foolish policies in Eastern Europe is drive the Russians into the arms of the Chinese.”
https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/02/trading-realpolitik-for-a-puppet-show/
Massive queques at airports and ferry ports for Easter holidays.
The last time I looked, Easter was still 2 weeks away.
Am I missing something here? or is this the new reality?
The WFH reality?
“Puppies ‘could be more dangerous after lockdown’”
“after a spate of attacks on children by non-dangerous dog breeds”
Husky, “American Bully XL” apparently, i.e. a pit bull by another name, and Rottweiler.
Socialisation isn’t the problem. Just stop buying bloody weapon dogs because they make you feel hard, and then saying “Dethgrip is soft as butter, normally. Wouldn’t hurt a fly, only killed the one kid, to be fair, must have been provoked.”