After such an extended break from blogging, you will be deeply disappointed that I restart with something as mundane and trivial as Jeremy Clarkson. I have defended the man in the past, because I much enjoy Top Gear and consider that much of what he has been criticised for in the past had been an amusing winding-up of the po-faced of the kind I employ myself. But nasty, indeed vicious bullying of a subordinate should always be a sacking offence.
That did not ought to be the question, though. He hit someone and they had to go to hospital. Where are the police? They are incredibly fond of sweeping up scores of teenagers for thought crime, but here we have an actual violent assault that spills blood, and it seems completely out of the question the perpetrator is brought to account. Why is that? I had a personal experience a couple of years ago when I was very mildly hurt – less than young Oisin – in an assault, and the police insisted on arresting the perpetrator despite my repeated requests to them not to do so. They told me rather firmly that the idea that it is the victim who has a say in pressing charges, is a myth. Why was Clarkson not arrested?
I cannot in my mind dissociate this from the non-arrest of Jimmy Savile for his crimes, despite their being well-known and reported at the time. That seems to link in to the wider paedophilia scandal, and the question of why no action was taken even in the most blatant of cases when there was compelling evidence, such as that of the extremely nasty Greville Janner MP.
But then I think still more widely as to why, for example, Jack Straw has not been charged with the crime of misfeasance in public office after boasting of using his position to obtain “under the radar” changes in regulations to benefit commercial clients, in exchange for cash. I wonder why a large number of people did not go to jail for the HSBC tax avoidance schemes or the LIBOR rigging scandal, which involved long term dishonest manipulation by hundreds of very highly paid bankers.
At the top of the tree is of course the question of why Blair has not been charged for the crime of waging illegal war. The Chilcot Inquiry heard evidence that every single one of the FCO’s elite team of Legal Advisers believed that the invasion of Iraq was an illegal war of aggression. Yet now the media disparage as nutters those who say Blair should be charged.
Then I think of all the poor and desperate people who get jailed for stealing comparatively miniscule amounts in benefit fraud, or the boy who was jailed for stealing a bottle of water in the London riots.
The conclusion is that we do not have a system of justice in this country at all. We have a system where the wealthy and governing classes and those associated with them enjoy almost absolute impunity, broken in only the rarest of cases. At the same time those at the bottom of the pile are kicked hard to keep them there. There is no more chance of justice against those in power in the UK than there is of the killers of Nemtsov being brought to book in Russia.
But what has really scared me is this thought. This situation has been like this my entire life: and I have reached the age of 56 before I realised it. A very great many people have still not realised it at all.
What does not scare me is this. I realise that if the system of justice is completely corrupted, then there is no obligation on me to follow the laws of the state. In fact it would be wrong of me to do so. I must seek my ethical compass elsewhere than in the corrupt power structure which weighs so hard upon the people.
Villager, thank you for proving my claim that you’re a troll with such fine examples of the inconsistencies I referred to. However, it will suit your disruptive agenda if I continue this dialogue, so I won’t respond any more.
My work here is done.
Little Noddy Node, the consistency is very simple: I soon realised that people like you and Mary consider yourselves as great researchers but sadly you are both such I N C R E D I B L Y small-minded little people. The comment you dug out re Habby is what? Exactly T W O whole years ago?! Wow, I’ll leave it to you to live in the past. You’ve dug that comment out before and you probably sleep with it under your pillow and I have absolutely no doubt that you will get your kicks by digging it out again a year from now. T H A T is exactly what little people do. (Note your little bitch dragging Krishnamurti into this!)
Btw, last night you were faux-gloating away and revelling in Anon’s comments giving publicity to your ingenious action to write to the supermarkets. What’s happened now?
“My work here is done.”
LOL if I’ve managed to disrupt your silly little notes to the shop-floor, good, and, yes, to that extent I’m delighted to be a troll. But you’re just a dimwitted-fool. Now bugger off to Morrison’s with your tuppenny protests!
Mr Lurkio displays his nastiness.
When you go to the checkout at the supermarket ask the checkout operator to check your products to see if any come from Israel. If they do come from Israel ask the operator to take them out. These have to be replaced on the shelves. It has proved to be quite effective because one of the purposes of supermarkets is t move customers through quickly. Eventually they will stop selling Israeli products.
Actually I believe in international trade and have nothing against Israeli produce. What I am against is the mistreatment of Palestinians, and someone mentioned today they have joined the Saudis in bombing Yemen, so I am against that too. Israel, though it need not be, is just about the most despised country on the planet, run close by its puppet, the USA.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-fighter-jets-join-saudi-arabia-in-war-on-yemen/5439378
“Little Noddy Node”. I have to protest here. The name Noddy is already taken – and the person trying to apply it to another commenter may be in breach of blog etiquette, though I leave that to the mods.
“When you go to the checkout at the supermarket ask the checkout operator to check your products to see if any come from Israel. If they do come from Israel ask the operator to take them out. These have to be replaced on the shelves.”
That’s it make life even worse for the poorly paid shopworkers and all the other hard working people in the queue behind you – and you idiots pretend to be left wing and socialist. If you cannot find a better way to make your protests that doesn’t irritate ordinary working people then you really should give up – no wonder you have such a fixation with Noddy if you indulge in such Toy Town protests.
BTW I wouldn’t recommend trying such techniques in your favourite Detsky Mir not unless you want a quick visit to your friends across the way.
Enoch Powell, before he went into the Army, and then into politics, was a very promising classical scholar. The Oxford text of Thucydides, which I used during my studies at Oxford, and still have in my library, was revised by Powell. He also had a distinguished military career during the Second World War, and for a time was the youngest brigadier in the British Army.
Most disappointing if he was involved in these crimes.
Mary
27 Mar, 2015 – 11:23 pm
I was wondering what Craig’s reaction is to the news that Amanda Knox is now completely exonerated.
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She doesn’t want to talk about
– the War in Yemen, or
– the humanitarian crisis in Syria, or
– the Iran nuclear talks, nor
– the human tragedy of the Germanwings plane, not even
– the Country’s elections.
She wants to talk about, at 11.30 on a weekend night, Amanda Knox!
Now how scintillating is that? Or is it titillating?
Poor lost, lonely Mary! I just don’t want to be like you when I am ‘all growed up’. Beyond sad. One of the things that irks me most is when i see old grey-haired people without an ounce of wisdom.
Krishnamurti would call her the definitive second-hand human being. A life of cutting-and-pasting other people’s words. Shudder.
Next we will have the synagogue of satan tag team here at this blog telling us this is just a figment of Mary’s imagination !!
Or as krishnamurti used to say one picture is worth a thousand hot curries !
“If you cannot find a better way to make your protests that doesn’t irritate ordinary working people then you really should give up . . .”
Fair enough. With all sanctions somebody has to suffer. So as an alleged socialists opposed to austerity, and professedly opposed to Israeli genocide against Palestinians, and I presume Yemenis, I would like to hear your alternative means of bringing Israel to task. Or are you still all puff and puffball dust?
It is not unreasonable or overly suspicious to assume the technical possibility of a back-door access to a flight management computer and in fact patents exists for such a system to essentially foil an aircraft hi-jack attempt.
http://www.google.tl/patents/US8702033
The details are a closely guarded secret although some patents can be examined on-line. A few years ago US senior aircraft engineer David Prentice leaked worked done on aircraft avionics to over-ride the pilot controls with data streamed through the mode S transponder.
These days a large part of the flight is controlled by the “autopilot”; particularly on long haul flights with extended periods of little change.
On a fly by wire aircraft there are no points in the flight where some computer system is not partially or fully in control of the flight. So, to take the plane off course we need to have overwritten the database used by the field loadable software in the flight management system (FMS) with new waypoints that the crew can’t override, so when each waypoint is transmitted to the autopilot to adjust the controls, those the ‘controller’ has provided are used.
For the technically minded it is possible to intercept the ARINC-429 messages and their derivatives, such as the ARINC-629 variant; blocking the originals and providing new commands.
What do we need to take control from outside the aircraft?
As mentioned earlier, the first thing we need is access to the software used to control the flight management computer or some physical access in which we can insert something to interrupt the signals using the ARINC-429 protocols. This access is controlled yet the server hosting maintenance software from Airbus would give that access. Given the architecture of the avionics systems and broadcast connectivity between them, an event driven trigger could be placed in the software to initiate an ACARS message from the ground.
All we need to direct the course of the aircraft is to provide the messages in the appropriate format to the autopilot system, and the ARINC-429 standard and its derivatives give us the instruction set for doing this.
For those of you interested in this technology I provide a tutorial:
http://leonardodaga.insyde.it/Corsi/AD/Documenti/ARINCTutorial.pdf
and the A320 Compact Information. The Airbus wiring schedules and maintenance manuals do not show the modifications inserted to control the flight system for obvious reasons.
http://forums.flightsimlabs.com/index.php?/topic/4257-a320-compact-information/
“I would like to hear your alternative means of bringing Israel to task. Or are you still all puff and puffball dust?”
Lets start by hearing what the Palestinians’ brethren, the Arab states, particularly the oil-rich ones that are so closely allied to the Americans, are doing to bring Israel to task, directly or indirectly through influencing the Americans?
Btw, in terms of your suggestion that the supermarket teller’s be asked to identify the country of origin, what makes you believe that they are obliged to do that for you when you can very well help yourself?
“Btw, in terms of your suggestion that the supermarket teller’s be asked to identify the country of origin, what makes you believe that they are obliged to do that for you when you can very well help yourself?”
I’m sure they would be helpful as I can’t read small print without my glasses, which I often leave at home.
Mark, are you discussing hypothetically the technological possibilities? Or, are you discussing the actuality that Merkel would sit back and allow the Americans, even if the Americans were devious enough, to down one of their civilian jets in the centre of Europe?
JeSuis Travesty
29 Mar, 2015 – 11:06 pm
Or as krishnamurti used to say one picture is worth a thousand hot curries !
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I doubt very much that you would get away with that type of remark, loaded with racist stereotype/innuendo, in a schoolyard in this day and age?
Perhaps it shows the kind of humourless, warped-thinking that is off-colour (pun untended) in this blog? Are you the ‘Krishnamurky’ (amongst other aliases) that was unequivocally banned personally by Craig?
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She is..I just told her..You are Not Only The Nicest Girl In The World..I have ever Met..You are Also The Most Beautiful Girl in The World I have ever seen..
She said how can you say that…???
I said I can say it my girl..cos its true.
She is My Wife
Tony
@ Republicofscotland Thanks I`ll tell them.
The great Video and audio put together by Brian Cox`s son Alan Cox.
so you know its true…I ain’t going to write it again.
JHC. Is there nothing on here but personal sniping, deranged conspiracy theories and Tony’s drunken, repetitive BS ?
Time was, you could come here and actually read some worthwhile posts. Well thought out original positions. Test your own notions, and receive genuine, constructive criticisms. Ask questions, and be treated to a considered reply.
Nothing wrong with a good conspiracy theory, I hasten to add. Just have a bit more to it than unsupported assertion, wild speculation, calling for the belief in mysterious sci-fi weapons (usually floating in space), and the laughable notion that the writer (eg Trowbridge) is somehow privy to these unbelievably top-secret, ultra-scandalous “facts” which are tossed around like confetti.
As it is, this blog has degenerated into virtually pointless bickerings such as a bitter old couple might achieve, but scaled upwards a couple of orders of magnitude. With a few nut-cases barking away on the sidelines.
Republicofscotland, now that we’ve seen Ganglion off, let me share another very aesthetic piece: Auld Lang Syne sung in three different languages — English, Arabic and French with a hyped up samba-like pace and percussion…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jwATHWAqU
PS any Arabic speakers who can provide the Arabic-verse lyrics, it would be welcome.
@Glenn, here you go;
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/29/403787/Clinton-permanently-deleted-her-emails
Very grim reading;
http://orientalreview.org/2015/03/26/arms-to-sadists-us-congress-urges-pres-obama-to-provide-ukraine-with-more-torture-techniques/
More grim reading from the apartheid entity known as the State of Israel;
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/17767-israeli-court-orders-demolition-of-palestinian-village-in-west-bank
http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=760161
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=70885
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=70900
http://www.imemc.org/article/71048
NATO not very popular in some places;
http://praguemonitor.com/2015/03/23/czech-military-ready-protests-against-us-convoy
http://spectator.sme.sk/c/20056524/anti-nato-protesters-gather-in-front-of-u-s-embassy-in-bratislava.html
http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2015/03/23/367169/lifenews-authorities-in-bulgaria-keep-silent-about-anti-nato-protests.html
Baltics States next for fascism after Ukraine?
http://www.i24news.tv/en/opinion/65928-150329-fascists-march-in-the-baltics-and-the-world-is-silent
For those that read the anonymous poster’s link here;
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/03/impunity/comment-page-9/#comment-516461
Here’s a supplement;
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/record-346-inmates-died-florida-prisons-2014/
Imagine the outrage if these reports were about Russia !
Krishnamurti’s disciple (Villager) has missed my posts on:
The concerted attack on Yemen by the US proxies
The German wings crash
The talks on Iran’s nuclear capabilities
The general election
Is he completely thick?
PS What could I possibly say about that poor benighted country Syria which Agent Cameron wanted to finish off in the same way as he wrecked Libya?
Glenn UK never ever puts the boot in of course.
Krishnamurti’s disciple should not make false assumptions.
I am neither grey haired or lonely.
-Nothing wrong with a good conspiracy theory, I hasten to add. Just have a bit more to it than unsupported assertion, wild speculation, calling for the belief in mysterious sci-fi weapons-
Glenn_uk-
No nothing at all… then isn’t it best not to use the term in the first place if you really believe that there’s nothing wrong with them, because its use in this context seems patronizing to me. The problem as I see it is that the rush to judgement has been swallowed hook line and sinker by Joe public before any proper investigation and inquiry. Proposals of almost any ‘theory’ have got to be better than the universal mindless acceptance of questionable scenarios
This is a recent comment from the expert on international terrorism, Fred, relating to an alleged eye-witness report of having seen the rebels shoot down MH17.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/03/impunity/comment-page-5/#comment-515360
According to the reliable news outlet, Russia Today, on this morning’s news they sent a reporter out to interview this witness. He said he does not like talking to journalists because of the lies other journalists have told. The original journalist never even asked the ‘eye-witness’ to verify whether the article he had written was a correct representation. But he did phone up later to ask if he was in trouble, that is in trouble with the separatists. “Why should I be in trouble?” he asked. So it appears that this snake of a journalist had actually tried to set the ‘eye-witness’ up so he could do another report on how he had been ‘silenced’ by the decent people of Donbas. What a Snake!
Watch Russia Today and get the real news.