Friday 25 December 2020

 An alternative take on Christmas.


Adoration of the Shepherds by Dutch painter Matthias Stomer, 1632

Standing outside before making my cup of tea, I took in the Christmas Morning. A vivid red glow in the south eastern sky presaged the rising sun, whilst the sky was a layer-cake of shades of grey and pink and custard yellow. There is a special sort of silence about Christmas Morning and this is no exception, wonderfully devoid of human mechanical sound. No cars, no boats, no trains, no planes. Peace and goodwill to all the earth. The twitter of distant birds but no dawn chorus this. So silent is the air, a faint illusive hum can be detected, perhaps the remnant sound of the planet hurtling through empty space or the mysterious music of the spheres? Despite my solitary and stationary presence, observing, listening, it still startles several pigeons from their night time reverie, smacking their wings to a further perch. As if taking the hint, a brace of Pheasant swoop down out of their Cyprus tree hide, into the green meadow, squawking in protest that their privacy has been disturbed surprising as much me, as I them! In this time of naked boughs, when nature pretends to sleep, the ever-greens, the Holm Oaks, the Pines provide a camouflaged resting place for birds of the air - the angelic winged messengers of heavenly sound. Surrounded by such a cloud of barren branches, the defiant Camelia remains glossy green, bedecked in gaudy blooms, incongruous, like a loose woman with rouge red cheeks, tempting and dangerous. Yet reminiscent of those exotic gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh - immutable, perfumed, cherishing. Preserving the divine myth of "God with us".  Or perhaps not a myth? Perhaps he, she or it really is in the air? In the sap? In the synapse? In the blood? In the vital spirit? In the crib? In the flap of the pigeon's wing and the squawk of the pheasant disturbed? Now as the sun rises, black bark turns ochre, the clouds turn white, the sky turns blue. The day is born anew. Jupiter and Saturn aligned, have set, as they did two thousand and thirteen years before, over an Arab byre, announcing a special birth to divide humanity. Not that every birth is not a miracle, much taken for granted, except for the Mary and Josephs of the world. A bright point of light bring east and west together, before the blazing sun in all its glory, rises on another Christmas morning. The beginning of all genius and misery starts here. How many more before humans awaken to the mystery; desist from all desire, deceit, discontent and slaughter of the innocent? Ibrahim Colak(1) tweeted, "He had tried to be good but could not succeed." Yulia Galyamina(2) is to be sentenced on Christmas Day for waving the flag of freedom. How hard is it to be good? Living is hard. Good people can be crucified because of it. The seed of the end is always in the beginning. Salvation is in the story. So let us eat, drink and be merry, casting care to the wind, for tomorrow we die. We must celebrate both beginnings and endings, and let love reign, especially on a day such as this. "Glad tidings of great joy"?


1. https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/author-accused-of-sexual-abuse-commits-suicide-in-turkeys-capital/news

2. https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/23/moscow-lawmaker-yulia-galyamina-sentenced-to-two-years-probation

Thursday 24 December 2020

 Another strange little (Bin Laden) coincidence:


Aviation enthusiast Geoff Pierce took this photograph of the aircraft moments before it crashed


Phil Giles, a former air accident investigator, said: "It suggests that the plane either landed too late or tried to take off again when the pilot realised it wasn't going to make the end of the runway.

"Or it may have been a problem with the brakes."


Eyewitnesses at the scene said there had been a "ball of flames" and "several explosions".

Bin Laden family on Blackbushe Airport crash plane

Published1 August 2015



Summary:

At the end of a routine flight, the aircraft entered the visual circuit to land on Runway 25 at Blackbushe. A number of TCAS alerts occurred while flying in the circuit, and the pilot manoeuvred the aircraft until it was significantly higher and faster than normal for a visual approach. Following several TAWS alerts, the aircraft crossed the runway threshold 43 kt above the target threshold speed .

The aircraft floated before touching down and overran the runway end. It collided with an earth bank, and then cars in a car park, causing the wing to separate and a fire to start. The four occupants were fatally injured.

Several factors combined to create a very high workload for the pilot. This may have saturated his mental capacity, impeding his ability to handle new information and adapt his mental model, leading him to become fixated on continuing the approach.

Bulletin Correction

A correction was issued on the online version of this report on 12 January 2017.

Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300, HZ-IBN Correction 02-17

Download amended report:

Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300, HZ-IBN 12-16

Special Bulletin

A Special bulletin was published concerning this accident on 6 August 2015.

Special Bulletin S2/2015

Download glossary of abbreviations:

Glossary of abbreviations

Published 8 December 2016


Tuesday 15 December 2020

 Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (2)






There is a saying in the computer world, "Rubbish in, Rubbish out" (RIRO) That is what the British people have been subjected to. Yet people still fail to realise its significance for day to day life. They have been blinded by centrally generated fear and apprehension. The problem kicked off with wildly pessimistic projections from Imperial College based on a completely false model. The obsession with the 'R-number' was another crass mistake. Natural immunity obtained from previous SARS type bugs was underestimated as was little understood natural immunity as has been demonstrated by children clearly not previously exposed. The two tests used to produce these maps (PCR in particular) are fatally flawed. The only really reliable statistic is DEATH with distinctive flu-like symptoms. This peaked in March, April and May but even this should be treated with great caution. Despite this particular bug having been around since at least last December (it has been recorded much earlier) deaths only started a precipitous rise AFTER government measures were introduced. It is therefore a moot point as to whether it was the bug or the measures that caused the spike. That increased mortality overwhelmingly affected the old and sick in nursing homes and hospitals often linked to policies of 'Do Not Recusitate' (DNR) linked to the manipulation of the statistics whereby anyone who died with flu like symptoms - a normal winter phenomenon - or without, was declared a Covid case. Rather than these unreliable and misleading 'infection' charts, only hospital admissions from identifiable symptoms and deaths statistics AS RELATED TO NORMAL ONES are reliable on which to base policy and behavioural judgements. Reference to these proves WE ARE NOT IN AN EPIDEMIC and both flu rates and hospitalisations from that cause are seasonally NORMAL. Everything else is government hype that has not only had severe economic consequences (the debt burden surpasses even WWII!) but has actively CAUSED deaths in a younger group of people from depression, isolation and treatable disease. These are the realities that people fail to realise. As has previously been stated, there are lies, damn lies and statistics, and the above map is an a classic example.


See also:  https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/search?q=statistics

Saturday 12 December 2020

CHEW MAGNA MILLENNIUM VIDEO


Where many of my ancestors and tribe passed their days.


Scenes from Chew Valley School 1963 -1965 : https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/searchq=chew+valley+school  


Despite impending doom,  how young and innocent we appear?

Thursday 3 December 2020

Paul Weston: A Message For Commissioner Dick - I Do Not Consent


Paul Weston: A Message For Commissioner Dick - I Do Not Consent



A natural biological phenomenon has been seized to make as a pretext for an unnatural political agenda. WAKE UP PEOPLE!






Saturday, 26 May 2018

State of Policing. Or Police State?

Britain Aping Israel on the back of Zionist-Inspired Terrorism?

When did the British public agree to this fundamental change in the philosophy and practice of British policing?






Once upon a time, we believed the police were there to pursue the criminal and protect the honest citizen ; now we know they are there to intimidate, abuse and arrest the innocent on behalf of a corrupt government. The former gained our respect; the latter deserve our righteous contempt.