(0824) Morning all … light poisoned cloud cover, wall to wall out there. (0909)
10. Moo corner
9. Pass the Save Act
8. More from TimCB on X
A third survivor has walked off the government’s grooming gangs panel. Elizabeth (not her real name) Rotherham. Fiona Goddard and Ellie-Ann Reynolds have already gone. They say the process is scripted, toxic, and that the Home Office keeps trying to widen the brief so race and religion slide out of shot. They do not want another police or social-work chair marking the same homework.
Labour announced a national inquiry. Survivors are leaving it. The girls who were failed once by councils, police and a political class that would not say who the gangs were are being failed again if this becomes a general child-abuse seminar with the hard bit deleted. Keep the inquiry on grooming gangs. Appoint a chair the victims can stand. Anything else is why they quit.
7. Fragmentation looked at again (see Mon 5)
6. Fairford
TimCB on X:
Why Fairford? It is not a quiet Gloucestershire field. It is the US bomber strip in this country. B-1s have been flying the Iran war from there. About a dozen still on the pan. The IRGC had already talked about the base and the people on it.
Five men, explosives, vans, a village emptied. If that had gone off it would not have been a local incident. It would have been an attack on the runway the alliance uses to hit Iran, on British soil, next to British houses.
Host the bombers and you host the target. Policing a village at midnight is now part of air defence. The farmer who dialled 999 did more in that hour than another review of “resilience.” The next one may not get a 999. Treat the base as what it is: a front-line airfield with a Cotswold postcode. It is speculation but it seems likely that at least some of these men came by dingy treat the Channel as defended national border not a welcome to criminals.
This flour “enrichment” malarkey currently in the UK.
Here’s a map/list showing countries currently adding stuff.
https://ffinetwork.org/global-progress/
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Back in the 1970s I remember announcements from HM gubermint exhorting women who were planning to become pregnant or currently pregnant to take a folic acid supplement to avoid the possibility of their babies being born with spina bifida.
Look at the map above and join some dots if you will. Which demographic in the UK has the most kids now?
Is this the reason for the rush to adulterate flour and all its iterations?
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JH: Well spotted.
Miles is having a rant.😉
“The Great Resistance”
https://mileswmathis.com/resist.pdf
“ No, this isn’t about the political resistance—the fist in the air.
It is about the human resistance to all things new. And the inability to listen.
Just as people have no appetite any more for anything but sugar-coated fatballs, they have no ability to
listen to anything but themselves or to some sexed-up propaganda, delivered at top volume from a
flashy 60” screen by spooky trolls.
Nothing else registers. Yes, they pretend to listen to each other day
to day, because you have to get by, but it is all rote and nothing sinks in. They are just passing time
until the CIA ice-cream truck arrives with sticky treats….”
6. Fairford – apparently on the village noticeboard in Whelford there’s a telephone number for RAF Fairford, which you can use if you see anything suspicious. Unfortunately the lady farmer who called it didn’t get an answer, so she called the police. The base had been on high alert for months as it hosts the ongoing B-1B Lancer operations in the Middle East – not answering the phone is a massive security fail. The three white medium-sized panel vans she observed near Whelford were being driven by men of ‘middle eastern’ appearance. They were EV’s and each of them were filled with barrels of..
ANFO, also written as AN/FO (an acronym for ammonium nitrate/fuel oil; is a widely used bulk industrial high explosive. It consists of 94% porous prilled ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) (AN), which acts as the oxidizing agent and absorbent for the fuel, and 6% number 2 fuel oil (FO) road diesel.
The use of ANFO originated in the 1950s. It is highly insensitive as an explosive, requiring a quantity of secondary explosive, known as a primer or a booster (larger than a standard blasting cap), in order to be detonated. One or two sticks of dynamite were historically used; current practice is to use Tovex or cast boosters of pentolite (TNT/PETN or similar compositions). That is all.
Update: The five arrested were from boroughs in London and are British nationals age 23 to 25.
Update 2: Unbeknownst to her in calling the police the lady farmer triggered an active counter-terrorism operation. To avoid exposure they went from observation to capture in a matter of minutes. If this had been a base in the USA they’d all be dead.
Update 3: Newspapers are saying the villagers were told of an ‘imminent threat’ to the base the day before it all kicked off? This afternoon Trump revealed they knew all about them (the five arrested) and he was surprised they were released [bailed]. He said: “I wouldn’t have done that”. SNAFU if you ask me.