Well when you actually realise the magnitude of the event and the way it is panning out you have to look at both sides of the coin! I know a couple of aid workers from the past 5 years ago plus into last century! And simply just put all the comments from then into perspective. When it comes to defending their countries against aggressors [ in the early days of the aggression ] they wont sign up or offer support ! They expect the aid agencies to supply them with aid and although being taught how to do things grow things manage things they dont, as the gravy train is due in a few weeks! 1 instance about 30 tons of seeds were taken to an area where the "groundwork was in place to plant them" within a week they had eaten them all! But they were not short of food or water as the aid was there also, and drought was not really a problem at the time !! Weaklings take the previous 2 examples and add in a few other things they are not prepared to do and weaklings is probably a bit tame? The economies that are lookingafter these people have all gone through periods of their history with their backs against the wall and suffered shortages and had to work extremely hard to better themselves .... they could do the same
A driver who filmed himself speeding at 123mph before hitting and killing a pregnant mother-of-two has been jailed for 12 years. Adil Iqbal admitted causing the death of Frankie Jules-Hough, 38, by dangerous driving on the M66 in Bury, Greater Manchester, on 13 May. The 22-year-old also admitted causing serious injury to her son, aged nine, and nephew, aged four. The family's solicitor described the sentence as "insulting". In this day and age of appealing the sentence length it is hoped that is attempted and the sentence is extended beyond the old maximum period of 14 year. Some times these judges just dont do the sentencing justice!!! 30 years would be more like it .. as it is can be out in 6 !
And what about the Banks and free speech issue ? So Coutts have lied, the BBC didn't do their research before blabbing the story that it was all about him not having an account balance of £1m, and now it's come to light that Nigel Farage (whether you like him or not) had his account closed by Coutts because of his political views. Coutts are owned by Nat West and the RBS Group (I didn't know that) and they are part of the woke mob where stuff like inclusivity and all the other nonsense outweighs them doing their job AS A BANK that is designed to look after people and their hard earned money and be a-political. Their chairman has said her mission is to tackle climate change. Um, excuse me, you're supposed to be a banker not a moral crusader ? If being head of Nat West doesn't suit your mission in life, then jack in your hugely paid job and join the eco terrorists why don't you ? The banks, among many other British institutions have clearly been captured by all this nonsense, have picked on the wrong person this time, and people from the left, centre and right are rightly supporting Farage, and he won't be letting them off lightly and rightly so. Loads of other people have come forward with their stories about having their bank accounts closed by various banks, like a Vicar in Yorkshire who questioned his bank why the branch was full of Pride flags. He had his account closed with no explanation. And a successful vintage motorcycle dealer in Norfolk who has had an account with the same bank for 40 odd years and who had an account closed because he dared to deposit large (ish) sums of money whenever people paid for bikes in cash. There was also a woman in her 90's who has banked with Nat West for 77 years and they closed her account because of her withdrawing and depositing cash too often ! With digital ID still being pushed, and the likes of Nat West trying to get us to become a totally digital and cashless society (yet another of Blair's many ridiculous and sinister ideas) what is then stopping them from interfering in what we do, what we say, like they've tried with Nigel Farage, and what we spend our money on. This happened in lefty Canada remember where the Government froze the bank accounts of people who supported and donated to the Truckers strike. Big Brother or what ? So basically, if your views and habits don't match theirs in a cashless and digital society, they could prevent you buying plane tickets if they have a green agenda like Nat West, they could stop you eating meat if the bank thinks we should all be be vegetarians. If you're a smoker they could stop you buying tobacco etc etc etc We need to maintain our freedom and that means keeping cash alive and stopping digitisation. It's a total disgrace and it needs stopping NOW before it's too late. All the banks, need forcefully reminding that after their contribution to the financial crisis of 2008, they are 40% owned by us, the taxpayer in the case of Nat West/RBS ! Not sure about the rest but didn't we bail Barclays out as well ? They and any other bank that continue to follow this path should have their licences revoked.
Barclays stood on their own 2 feet ... LLYODS was one of them but a number of shares I believe were cashed in and by about 2018? all had been sold [ this was done privately or through some system where small investors didnt get a look in! The price at the time was about 65-70p? now at 45p
Then there is the SNP who have knowingly felled 16 million trees on publicly owned land since 2000 to make way for wind farms. That's a rate of felling 1,700 trees per day Their latest planning framework relaxes controls on building more turbines, with protections for unspoiled wild land watered down. The John Muir Trust, a conservation charity, has warned the new threshold for allowing wind farm companies to build turbines on wild land is so low that it appears impossible for them not to meet it. The SNP wind power target also includes replacing existing turbines that may be coming to the end of their working life with even taller and larger versions, a process called “repowering”. It emerged earlier this year that some developers want to erect turbines up to 850 feet tall, the equivalent of more than 60 double decker buses. In a letter to Mr Kerr, dated July 13, Ms Gougeon said the equivalent of around 7,858 hectares of trees had been chopped down to make way for wind farms since 2000. With an average of 2,000 trees per hectare, she said: “This gives an estimated total of 15.7 million trees which have been felled in order to facilitate windfarm development.” The minister added: “Removal should only be permitted where it would achieve significant and clearly defined additional public benefits.
As a very frequent visitor to Scotland, with a passenger or 2 on board we keep awake on the 10 hours plus drive by having various "little games" Last couple of trips we have counting wind turbines [ not an exact science as we are travelling at 60+ ] from CARLISLE to Ullapool we have 4 aggregated scores amazingly each one is higher than the last 2100 / 2230 /2256/ 2316 .. and these are the ones seen from road M74 / M9 /A9/ A835 ... Scotland has a very open right to roam [ referred to as CROW Countryside Rights Of Way act ] .... In Scotland the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 comprehensively codified into Scots law the ancient tradition of the right to universal access to the land in Scotland. The act specifically establishes a right to be on land for recreational, educational and certain other purposes and a right to cross land. The rights exist only if they are exercised responsibly, as specified in the Scottish Outdoor Access Code. Access rights apply to any non-motorised activities, including walking, cycling, horse-riding and wild camping. They also allow access on inland water for canoeing, rowing, sailing and swimming. The rights confirmed in the Scottish legislation are greater than the limited rights of access created in England and Wales by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. Vast swaves of trees have dissapeared from view on m74 [ not wind farm accesssible and off the A9, with and without access on both that would mean erecting one in the docks and seeing the tip of blade yours and mine houses!!!! Or would dwarf Glastonbury tor .......
We were in the highlands in mid May and whilst I noticed it at the time, it didn't really register, but around the Cromarty Firth area there was considerably less forest than there was last time we were there in 2017, although there didn’t appear to be any more turbines We went across to Ullapool then up to Ledmore and across to Oykel Bridge and back via Tain We also went down to Oban from Nairn and back the same day via the quieter side of Loch Ness and Fort William. That was a long day on those roads !
thats my stomping ground Ledmore Junction. Did you check out Knockan crag and the geological display .. a world famous site. We turn left at Ledmore junction go about 2 miles and up the track toward the bone caves.. Smoo is another stomping ground .
No We didn’t go any further north or north west ftom Ledmore Nice and quite unusual scenery and landscapes above Ullapool though We liked it very much
Next time you must go to left and follow it to DURNESS and visit Smoo cave this is unique scenery and you go along a bit of the road that is a mile and some dead straight on the side of a glaciated valley as you start to go down , look down for a perspective of size and after maybe half a mile over your right shoulder to another valley that joins into it . One evening hour before sunset? we saw what looked like a rolling mass of cloud pouring out of it and spreading down the valley.... Loch Glascarnoch you drove past 4 miles ? long with the dam at the start! Ive seen it a mere puddle and also water almost going through the top bits, also in a February saw it mirror flat a real eerie feeling [ approahed from Ledmore direction ] I will try and post a pic! Tain is the HQ of police Scotland speed camera's! have had 2 or 3 lovely chats with them.. not got a speeding ticket though!
Well I never knew that ! Despite all of my visits, alone and with my Wife we have never done the far north west of Scotland above Ledmore, including Cape Wrath Have done Thurso, John O’Groats and the east coast between there and Inverness and Baurn including Black Isle many times Aside from Oban, in May we went as far east as Peterhead via Burghead, Spey Bay, Banff, McDuff, Fraserburgh etc a really nice drive If you’re ever that way, St Combs just a few miles outside of Fraserburgh is a historic 19c fishing village, with an amazing Beach and interesting churchyard populated by just a few families The Visitor Centre and wildlife area at Spey Bay is also well worth visiting
Our hut is based in ASSYNT [ as is Ledmore Junction ] and although our efforts are concentrated in the area of the Bone Caves [ about 2-3 kms further ] we do take days off to explore or if WX is sh*** ! Before Knockan about a mile or so, [ travelling from Ullapool ] there is a road goes left to Western Isles ... fantastic route if you like wild! but when the road branch's go to Lochinver. [ or do Western Isles bit then go to Lochinver ] Lochinver has the world famous pie shop ... not so good under new owners ... but still amazing though not cheap I tend to have the peach oie and asa meat one what takes my fancy on the day! [ it is opposite the shop on your way out, carpak just before it! ] take the road left 500m or so might be a bit more left takes you to Clactoll [ BEACH ] then on to Stoer lighthouse viewing point for sea life occassionally sea eagle. returning you go left where you turned in at the village hall . You eventually come back to the A894 and head left to Kylesku and onward to Durness .. some of the best viewing available ... the valley is about a mile further on might be more after a BB called Ardbeg. If you go back via / to ULLAPOOL or LEDMORE from Kylescu to the A837 Where you turn left it takes you 5 miles to Ledmore and you have completed the scenic "main roads" bit.
the latest scientific reports on the extreme heat wave are painting a picture of doom for the future. The worlds population now stands at 8bn 8,000,000,000 ..... world . . 65,000,00 ..... UK about 1 / 125th A few years ago, we had discussion on the world climate. A number students in their last year of Uni were at our hut and had just finished their 4 years at UNI studying the enviroment and ecology and what they though [ put in their desertations! ] SOME INTERESTING FACTS have made the passage of time [ this was 10-12 years ago ] The melting of the glaciers /world population/ocean warming/ excessively hot summers leading to drought and in all cases [ we probably all think the same ] population was the dominate factor. One thing put forward was humans generate heat, and also suffer from heat! so they are a part of global warming ... in a nutshell they use heat via energy to keep warm and to keep cool to maintain their own generation of heat !!! [ think about it not going into it ].Another to which I actually prompted was humans need fresh water, and was taken up as "well when the population gets to a certain level we will need more drinking water, the seas will get more saline and need diluting, so global warming will melt the glaciers to increase the oceans volumne to give a bigger surface area etc etc etc " [ think along lines of surface evaporation from a warmer sea surface ] ..... read about it on BBC news ..... By Georgina Rannard BBC Climate & Science reporter The heatwaves battering Europe and the US in July would have been "virtually impossible" without human-induced climate change, a scientific study says. Global warming from burning fossil fuels also made the heatwave affecting parts of China 50 times more likely. Climate change meant the heatwave in southern Europe was 2.5C hotter, the study finds. Many if not all the topics the conversation covered are pretty much coming to fruition .. and this was from a group who were 19/20 years old and looking back closer to 15 years ago..... the youth of yester year the future of the present! i wonder what jobs they actually do now?
I’m still not convinced that it’s man induced We had a heatwave here last year and it was 35F in August or higher. This year it’s very different so far although June was warm, but with the Jetstream below us for the last 2 weeks we’re currently having below average temperatures for the time of year with excessive rainfall, whereas in southern Europe where everyone flocks for their summer holidays to get the hot Sun of Spain, Italy and Greece they have very hot temperatures and wildfires, some of which according to local Police, may have been started deliberately. We live on a cyclical planet that doesn’t always have polar ice caps and with El Niño being present for the next 3-5 years the worldwide weather is very much up in the air if you’ll pardon the pun ! The latest from America is the ultra climate hypocrite and eco warrior John Kerry now wanting to seize farmers land just like the Government tried to do in Holland, to stop farmers producing dairy products such as Beef.
el nino is not regular .. it is irregulary regular! example is that 100 years ago there was no el nino for about 15-20 years if memory serves when I checked up on it a decade or more ago! I would think that the driving forces of it , Ocean temperature from Pacific / Indian ocean [ southern ocean ] will have differing effects as the build up of the temperature of the water takes place over a number of years [ it is a very complicated system ] In the early 60,s I can remember summers with sunshine from June through till September ... works Holidays were 2 weeks and spread over 12 weeks [ 4 shift working ]. You dreaded the third period especially if you went to Cornwall ! as you could guarantee a 3 day hooley of gale force winds and torrential rain and thunder and lightening like no other ... I fell foul of a shift change and a period 4 and had it 3 years on the trot!!!!! either side of it you baked!
The seasons are now often indistinguishable from each other We regularly get Indian Summers into late September We had a long wet and cool winter aside from late January and February which were pretty dry A cool spring and a chilly May A warm June in places and a distinctly underwhelming July The climate is changing, there’s no denying it but I’ve still yet to see any proper evidence that’s its linked to human activity Good to at least see the Tories reigning in the Net Zero nonsense as well Maybe with a year to go until an election they are starting to listen to what the public want for once Tax cuts next and stop the boats And Sturgeon might be gone but the potty ideas of the SNP are alive and well They are bringing in a law that means you will be unable to sell your house in Scotland if it has a gas boiler or heats the house using oil Sounds like a vote winner to me
Q What’s the link between the Greek wildfires and climate change? Mark Poynting BBC News A A BOX OF MATCH's ?
