The Great Kowtow 720

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The dreadfully stultified pageantry of the British state has been on full display the last couple of days, all mouldy ermine, fraying gold braid and musty velvet. But forms which evolved as a vibrant display of Imperial might have transmuted into rituals of obeisance, as the nonogenerian Prince Philip stumbles behind the Chinese President along lines of men wearing decaying bears on their heads. The sickness of Britain’s monarchical system was never more bluntly revealed than by the rictus grins of the aristocratic clowns balancing their tiaras at the state banquet.

The Chinese are the imperial masters now. Cameron begs them to build a nuclear power station for which the British state guarantees it will pay double the market price for electricity produced, for twenty years. And a government which has just announced the extension of thought crime to the expression of non-violent or anti-violent thought deemed “extreme”, has no locus to talk about human rights, a concept at least as alien to Teresa May as it is to the Chinese Communist Party. Britain has its own war criminals like Blair and Straw running around, immune and very wealthy.

The British state is an immoral entity which I view with disgust. That is what drives for me the imperative to early Scottish Independence to be rid of it. Every day as a British citizen is like bathing in sewage.

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  • Squonk

    Another strange thing about the Clutha crash is that the press are reporting many facts as if they are brand new.

    In fact most of the details were in the preliminary accident report which I summarised over at squonk back in May 2014.

    https://squonk.tk/blog/2015/03/15/the-general-discussion-thread/comment-page-18/#comment-7484

    Squonk May 18, 2014 at 5:32 pm

    I’ve had a read through the Air Accidents Investigation Branch Preliminary Report. Although they don’t explicitly say so (yet) the initial findings seem to suggest pilot error. The helicopter was in the air with all of its fuel in the main tank and none in the engine tanks. Critically the fuel pumps between the main tank and the engine supply tanks were physically in the OFF position. It was thus impossible for the fuel remaining in the main tanks to reach the engine. Both engine tanks ran dry and both engines cut out.

    Now even at this point that particular helicopter was capable of doing an auto-rotate hard but survivable landing without power. Initial findings suggest no attempt was made to initiate auto rotate landing.

  • Mary

    Mike

    From http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/10/corporate-media-wont-tell-you-hillary-clinton-is-a-lying-fascist/

    ‘Even daughter Chelsea, who married a Wall Street banker, is a friend of Ivanka Trump, daughter of The Donald who leads Republican candidates at this time. Bill and Hillary attended Trump’s last wedding. One almost expects to hear the déjà vu of Bill whining that he doesn’t know how Hillary can run against her friend Trump.

    In fact, in his current election campaign, Trump is running a video highlighting praise from Bill Clinton, ending with “Thank you Bill.” The Trump campaign opens the video with a suggestive question: “An endorsement from Bill Clinton?”’

    YCNMIU

  • Ortega y Gasset's screaming skull

    7:44 in which Habbakukk demands to be educated, a futile task since the lonely little blellum can’t handle the kindergarten ABCs, and contents himself with pulling words randomly out his ass. He’s simply not up to the standards of this place. If he was equally lazy and ignorant about say, feminism, he’d be shit through a goose in any online forum but here there is a tolerance for sub-par habits of mind that permits a lot of manipulative behavior on Habbakkuk’s part.

  • glenn

    Squonk: “Both engine tanks ran dry and both engines cut out.”

    Is there some balance-pipe which keeps the levels at the engine tanks equal, or are they entirely independent? I ask because unless both tanks were exactly equal, we would expect one engine to cut out appreciably before the other. An engine cutting out would – one might think – prompt the pilot to land it PDQ. (Alright, alright – not _that_ fast.)

  • Squonk

    Glenn,

    There’s further discussion of the report in subsequent comments down thread from the one I linked above.

    https://squonk.tk/blog/2015/03/15/the-general-discussion-thread/comment-page-18/#comment-7509

    One other point. The fuel feed system on that model is designed so that both engines don’t flame out at the same time if fuel is not being fed from the main tank. Simply put one engine feed tank is bigger than the other.

    There’s a few other comments as well with more information and some speculation.

    The following article was quoted in some pilots forums at the time and I also linked it on squonk.

    http://www.flyingmag.com/blogs/flying-guest-opinion/land-damn-helicopter

    Land the Damn Helicopter

    President of Helicopter Association International shares his thoughts on helicopter accidents.

    So, how is your day going? Mine was not that great. I spent it reading National Transportation Safety Board helicopter accident reports. I don’t know about you, but my level of frustration is at an all-time high.

    There were no surprises. No one has yet invented a new way to crash helicopters. The reports noted the usual suspects — fuel exhaustion, continued flight in marginal weather resulting in inadvertent IMC and, in the minority, mechanical failures…

    …With the above in mind and assuming an acceptable landing site is available, why don’t pilots exercise one of the most unique and valuable capabilities of vertical flight — namely, land the damn helicopter! In a high percentage of crashes, this simple act would break the chain of events and prevent the accident.

    I once spoke to a pilot who had survived an accident and asked why he hadn’t used his option to make a precautionary landing. He indicated he had not given it direct consideration and had focused instead on destination and mission completion. He admitted, though, that in the past he had worried about the scrutiny he would incur for making a precautionary landing. This didn’t surprise me. In my early days of flying, I, too, pondered the same issues at times, although luckily I don’t any more.

  • BrianFujisan

    Hi Mark.. Cheers for that.

    we had navy ships from all over the world in the Clyde for many days, and by strange coincidence an unknown diver found a mine apparently in shallow waters.. they Closed off Gourock main street, asked residents to move out their houses.. then Dragged the mine further out into the Clyde to blow it up.. thanks for getting back to me on that.

    Below is what they say is a foto of the mine being blown up..

    http://www.inverclydenow.com/photostream/15619-mine-risk

  • mike

    Thank you, Mary. Very enlightening.

    I’m basically trying to decide who would be the least-worst President. I’m assuming that Sanders has no chance.

  • Mary

    Talk Talk’s CEO Dido Harding, aka Baroness Harding, aka Mrs John Penrose.

    ‘On graduation she joined the management consultancy McKinsey & Company.[6] Leaving to become marketing director at Thomas Cook Group, she was then appointed commercial director at Woolworths Group. She then joined Tesco within Sir Terry Leahy’s office as international support director,[4] before being appointed commercial director of “added-value foods” in 2001.[5]

    Resigning her position in October 2007, she joined the board of directors at Sainsbury’s as convenience director. She was named CEO of TalkTalk in 2010, during the period when the group split its Carphone Warehouse retail operation from the group telecoms operation.[7] She was appointed as a non-executive director on The Court of The Bank of England in July 2014. [8] She has also served on the boards of British Land and Cheltenham Racecourse.’

    ‘In February 2013 she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK by Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4.[14] The honour was repeated the following year, when she was named in the 10 most influential women in the BBC Woman’s Hour power list 2014.’
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_Harding

    She didn’t strike me as very impressive today as she wittered on about the massive hacking. She did not appear to know what was going on.

    Every TalkTalk user has been ‘hacked by Jihadis’ who warn Judgement Day is soon
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/every-talktalk-user-been-hacked-6693792
    1 hour ago – TalkTalk chief Dido Harding said: “I personally received a contact from someone purporting, as I say I don’t know whether they are or are not,……

    Whatever, she got a peerage from Cameron and takes home £6.84m WTF!

    Her husband John Penrose was a DCMS minister but is now a Junior Whip.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Penrose

    What a crowd. Definitely part of the 1% brigade.

    PS Fancy that. She is a director of Cameron’s Holocaust Memorial Foundation.
    http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/baroness-harding-of-winscombe/4324

    http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/128960/david-cameron-announces-new-holocaust-memorial-will-be-built-london

    PPS One interesting little snippet from Penrose’s Register of Interests.

    ‘6. Overseas visits
    •18-21 September 2005, to USA, to extend and improve links between British and American legislators. Travel and accommodation costs met by Dr Liam Fox’s office from a donation by Mr Michael Lewis, a businessman from London. I received free upgrade on return flight from Virgin Atlantic. (Registered 24 October 2005)’

    Liam Fox took five MPs to Washington with donor’s money
    Michael Lewis, who donated almost £14,000 to Fox’s Atlantic Bridge charity, paid for newly elected Tory MPs’ flights in 2005 http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/13/donor-liam-fox-flights-washington

  • BrianFujisan

    Exactly Mark

    In the Background is Helensburgh… Which means they dragged it into MORE Shallow Waters… Better for all The Photographers situated at Greenock Esplanade… Here is a An old Sugar Boat Resting very Close To the ( Mine Explosion Site )

  • Dave Lawton

    @Mary “Talk Talk’s CEO Dido Harding, aka Baroness Harding, aka Mrs John Penrose.”

    Mary I had a run in with TalkTalk a few years ago were the tried to rip me off.What a battle. I did win in the end because they are a bunch useless idiots and chancer`s with regards to computer systems.

  • BrianFujisan

    Node HaHa..Cheers Other Species Always make me Smile .. Polar Bears are my Fave… But i love Pandas Too. 🙂

  • fwl

    Anyone able to recommend any light weekend reading after a brisk hack in the winter air: the Prometheus Deception was a blast. Talk about an exciting plot. Its good to sit around the fire and talk.

  • glenn

    Mary: “She didn’t strike me as very impressive today as she wittered on about the massive hacking. She did not appear to know what was going on.”

    Can you think of any Chief Exec who has even the vaguest understanding about the technical intricacies of their organisation? I heard the same interview, and thought she was being pretty honest. The interviewer (equally clueless) was obviously crowing with delight at this “gotcha”, much as you would have been (and clearly were, at hearing her discomfort).

    If your company has just been stuffed with a rarified technical problem, what else can any executive say honestly, other than they haven’t got a clue?

  • Jives

    Look y’all..

    Aint we all figured Habba,Jemand,Anon1,etc are probably just one and the same shift-changing tag-teamers just here to forum slide?

    Ignore the eejit sea lions.

    The point i wanted to make was this:

    Visiting the Grauniad website the last few days its more like a PR cheerleader for the new bullshit Bond movie guff.

    What happened to real news?

    The Grauniad is soooooo far up the Establishments ass im surprised the pig aint being offered counselling from both ends of the spectrum.

  • Tony M

    Interesting read the AAIB report. Very possible in his mind the pilot had the transfer pumps on or back on after turning them off, and instead had turned the prime pumps on, if these switches were not displaced in the crash or subsequent handling of the wreckage. I think with the activation of low fuel warnings in circumstances attributable to sustained pitch and roll attitudes of the helicopter, enough spurious warnings would take on a nagging rather than a useful purpose. But if both fore and aft warnings were on together, it was already serious, as were low fuel alerts for either of the smaller supply tanks, in any circumstances.

    The baffling instruction to turn off a transfer pump in the event it had apparently ran dry (continuously for three minutes), rather than having a timed backoff that would retry pumping after a short interval, and keep doing so, would still have minimised wear or overheating of the pump, continuous dry operation or higher current demand and would have surely drawn a little additional fuel into the supply tanks as changes in the tanks orientation in flight swilled the dregs around. Additionally overflow fuel from each supply tanks’ compartment could have returned to the main tank by the craft’s motion, and could have usefully been returned to the supply tanks again than become held in the main tank uselessly. Once running on one engine any fuel scavenged from the main tank by its fore and aft pumps, should optimally have went to the supply tank compartment of the running engine primarily, not to both running and non-running supply tanks.

    Simplicity has its pitfalls too. The whole thing needed a rethink. Hopeful fixes for newer models put in place are not backward-compatible with some the older machines. What on earth could have been going on at Shotts, that the airspace there was restricted and detouring round it seemingly commonplace?

  • Tony M

    Two things are unclear in the report, in its description of the fuel system.

    One is whether there is possibility of inadvertent transfer of fuel from one supply tank, when the level of both is well below the baffle, to the other supply tank, via the interconnecting common manifold; the non-return valves only control non-return from the common area back into the main tank, not from the one supply tank to the other.

    The entries to the tank for the return of unburned or excess fuel supplied to the the engines and not taken up by the engines own mechanically driven LP and HP pumps, is not shown on the illustration, the text says this is returned to both supply tanks and to the main tank, but why ever return any of this at all to the main tank and not just to the more important supply tanks, from which it must have momentarily before just come.

  • Mary

    Ref Penrose. I omitted to mention that Michael Lewis’s BICOM connections.

    Links to Conservative Friends of Israel

    According to Peter Oborne:
    Despite the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) and BICOM not formally merging there is a huge amount of co-ordination. Many of BICOM’s key figures also play roles in the CFI: Trevor Pears, Michael Lewis and Poju Zabludowicz are driving forces behind both lobbies. David Cameron also accepted £20,000 from Trevor Pears in his leadership election.

    In 2006, Michael Lewis is reported to be deputy Chairman. At the time Lewis was also Chairman of UJIA and is described as ‘a South African emigré whose business interests run from retail and restaurants to biotechnology.’

    http://powerbase.info/index.php/Britain_Israel_Communications_and_Research_Centre

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