According to section 255 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, the definition of wreck includes “jetsam, flotsam, lagan and derelict found in or on the shores of the sea or any tidal water”.
Derelict describes property, whether vessel or cargo, which has been abandoned and deserted at sea by those who were in charge of it without any hope of recovering it.
The charge against Danny Tommo mentioned damage to a SHIP; and since the RIB had been abandoned, it becomes a Derelict Wreck.
The Defence have a week to study this aspect of Marine Law.
Still too early to do the final posting, also the vault is a bit empty just now … now I could run a film … too long, or a Templar … or these two episodes to see what you think. We’ve had the second already I think.
There’s just something about those early TV 26 min programs … a lot of fun do you think?
(0359) Not a good time, awake since 2 a.m., DAD drop coming up, need sleep. Back a bit later. (0402)(0759) Greetings again, chaps and chapesses. Main post of the day is now up at OoL and at Jstack. Have a good weekend. (0935)
5. Again with this one
Pic: Irena Buzarewicz
4. Steve at 1501
300 of 400 DOJ Civil Rights Attorneys Quit Rather Than Clean America’s Voter Rolls and Kill DEI — Assistant AG Dhillon Says They “Self-Deported”
Supreme Court Reinstates Database for Voter Citizenship Verification – Ketanji Brown Jackson Fumes
Right-wing Frontrunner in Next French Elections, Le Pen Praises Trump’s G20 Invitation for Russia’s Putin
Iran Vows Regional Response To US Aerial Blockade
Busloads of migrants harass and intimidate native Britons in Essex; Private security guards are hired to protect women and girls
Quantum Computing Flees Europe
Much more.
3. At some stage, Reform voters must wake up
… to what they have on their hands.
2. DAD at 1501
a) England. Greens wiped-out in key Council as Tories surge ahead.
The Green Party lost its final Cotswold District Council seat to Conservatives this week, eliminating its presence after both councillors resigned.
b) USA. Danube Institute raises awareness about Christian Persecution around the world.
The Danube Institute has held a series of events about Christian persecution in the United States. Previously, the institute has also produced a research paper about the fate of Christians in Nigeria, based on a visit by a group of its researchers to the West African country.
c) Migrant Camp Found in Tunnels Under Ceuta University Campus.
Firefighters battling a blaze under a Spanish university campus in Ceuta discovered a makeshift migrant camp in underground tunnels with mattresses and evidence of prolonged habitation.
d) What will be the fate of decommissioned wind turbine blades?
‘According to some industry estimates, the decommissioning of wind turbines could generate around 43 million tonnes of waste from wind-turbine blades worldwide by 2050. This waste is expected to be distributed unevenly: 40 per cent in China, 25 per cent in Europe, 16 per cent in the United States, and the remaining 19 per cent in the rest of the world.’
e) UK. 83,279 small boat arrivals people since the 2024 election. This doesn’t include lorry arrivals or undetected boat arrivals.
But in the same period the UK granted … 1.58 MILLION non visitor visas for work, study, family and ‘other’ routes including dependants.
Oh and 196,975 people claimed asylum Shhh ….
1. Lord Toby summary this morning
… not going to explore, you can at Daily Sceptic (blogrolls).
I was planning not to run this one for specific reasons.
Firstly, it was Judith Durham leaving the group, which of course broke them up. There were the New Seekers and decades later, another farewell concert but it was really over this night below. Many of us thought it was just ambition on the part of JD but reading her tale, her Christian spirituality, which she said was in all her songs … I was thinking that with Another You … it made sense for her.
Second reason was the danger of tempting the metaphysical by playing a song with lyrics like these below … they’re intense and sad, they might portend, I’m hoping not. There’s too much finality for mine.
Thirdly, they were never really my style, that sort of Peter, Paul and Mary folk, a bit like straight country music … Southern country rock, yes, some of it was good. Yes, her voice was superb, no one’s arguing with that.
But the main reason I do not like listening to this song is it was from 1965 through to 1968 … it was mega but it included some incidents … one I’ve written about before. I’ve mentioned that for some decades, I was spending the middle of the decade in Oz, the ends in Britain. This was from a southern summer, maybe 66 or 67, maybe 68 and it involved a girl I restablished contact with a year ago now … we write to each other now … it was at the beach during the holidays somewhere then.
One evening, the beach was very quiet as usual … were this a landscape picture, it would look like this … the wide, sloping beach, with fairy lights would occupy the right third of the picture, the Bay filled the rest, bobbing boats. It’s dusk. Maybe 500 yards away, way over to the right, off picture up above the beach, is a carnival, an actual carnival with rides, a stage, the usual things.
Picture behind that a pier, one of the longest on that Bay, jutting out at rightangles to the shore, people on it, lights. The carnival is in a space near the start of the pier … across the main road behind that are the seaside entertainments, including the fish n chip shop I worked at.
We were trudging through the sand to get there … a few of us. The wind was fickle and every minute or so, the sound through the tannoys set up this side of the carnival but still distant was wafting back this way, then dying, then wafting back.
And yes … the song was the one below. It felt almost surreal even back then … total stillness apart from the fickle song. We had no idea whatever that the innocence of those days was also closing. It was also the end of our summertime … the whole thing was combining in a way I could not envisage that evening.
Yes we had fun at the carnival … my fave dodgem cars and the cha-cha ride … out in the wide world though, the ladylike innocence JD had given the world was about to be dirtied, drugged, the music far darker by 1968/9, so many sicko bands appearing, looking like something from a horror show. And this girl I correspond with now … she’d been there on that beach with me. That evening maybe not, maybe the following year. Her letter from that summer sits in a packet of letters two yards from me right now. Shan’t get it out again this evening.
Anyway, here tis:
20. Two points of view
19. Moosh revisited
18. The cost of supporting one’s people
17. Is he still alive?
16. The DT TR situation
Danny Tommo has been remanded in prison until his appearance at Portsmouth Crown Court on the 29th of September.
The fundamental interconnectedness of all things (Douglas Adams). The presenter above is, I seem to recall, Graham Kennedy whose home was in Dromana on the Bay south of Melbourne, near some friends of ours called Rhodes, who were friends with others called Carnegie … getting the drift?
I once sailed my A Class around to Safety Beach, next to Dromana and won the race that day. Sometime later I came back here and stayed at first with a mate in Ammersmiff. We went to see The Great Rock n Roll Swindle at the Odeon.
The crime of criminal damage, and I’m quoting, is defined under the Criminal Damage Act 1971. It is a statutory offence that occurs when someone deliberately or recklessly destroys or damages property belonging to another person without lawful excuse. Before the police charge anyone under this Act they must first determine ownership. If the property was used in the commission of a crime, by criminals, then the law of criminal damage has no answer. The other offence he’s being charged with is ‘endangering the life of an emergency worker’. The problem with that one is jurisdiction, it was a French emergency worker and where exactly did the endangering of him take place? Good luck with that one.
11. From Zero Hedge
China controls roughly 80% of the world’s tungsten supply.
That’s becoming a major problem for Washington.
On January 1, new Pentagon sourcing restrictions are set to tighten the rules around Chinese tungsten entering U.S. defense supply chains.
And America hasn’t produced tungsten domestically since 2015.
Yet tungsten is critical to many of the systems the Pentagon depends on – from missiles and warheads to drones, military aircraft, rockets and spacecraft.
This raises an important question. Where will alternative supply come from?
Skyline Builders Group (NASDAQ: KAZR) is combining with the company advancing Severniy Katpar, one of the world’s largest undeveloped tungsten resources.
If developed as planned, the project could produce roughly 15% of current global tungsten supply.
And Washington is already paying attention.
Two U.S. government agencies have expressed interest in providing up to $1.6 billion in indicative financing support to help advance the project.
With tungsten prices up as much as 900% and a major Pentagon deadline approaching, the search for alternative supply is accelerating.
