Have we any longer the capacity to fight the amassing army inside our borders?

From our reader Ian J:

A quote from Larry Johnsons article today on 'Britains military failings' (in addition to the useless 'people carriers' - I left out aircraft as did the 'govt'):

"Put another spin: Our national football stadium has seats for 90,000 people. So, we put all the Army in it and still have 15,000 seats to fill! And how many are actually warfighters?

Capita – or Crapita as it is known to the rank and file – has been an unmitigated disaster. By the time thy get their shit together a typical recruit has already spent 9 months on the shelf. The potential recruit has moved on by the time their slot comes up. The Royal Naval College care and maintenance is also outsourced and is an unmitigated disaster of dangerous grounds and shoddy housekeeping (personal knowledge) also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-66603297

Amusingly, barracks that are used to house soldiers are categorised as unfit for illegal immigrants!

809 squadron, Fleet Air Arm F34B, is not up to strength and will not be until 2025 despite our carriers being available (I use that term loosely) for 3 years. And it contains RAF (Crabs!!) not just naval personnel. Can you smell turf wars? There is also nearly a 12 month delay in going from the Military Flying Training System to Operational Conversion unit training. UK military pilot training in limbo for beleaguered RAF – Airforce Technology (airforce-technology.com) The RAF face the same issue so it is not just the Navy pilots who are suffering. Flying fast movers is a perishable skill.

Pensions and healthcare benefits for reservists? Should I point out that MoD have sold most of their military hospitals so regulars who had injuries in the field were then fed into normal National Health Service wards, who are not used to squaddies and the military mind set, and those wards were often serviced by immigrant muslim cleaners. Yes, some injured were assaulted in hospital. Good deal.

The Government is over 4 years late just rolling out a Veterans ID card. No real benefits just an ID card.

Overall, the UK is in a shit state, and the government leaderless, or spineless twats. It is unlikely to change whoever is in power."

https://sonar21.com/more-musings-on-britains-failing-military-and-the-feckless-u-s-bombing-of-iranian-proxies/

And:

Doesn't a working 'aircraft carrier' require working aircraft? Our pair of 'people carriers' seem to match the few F35Bs available for reliability. These dinosaurs only ever served one purpose - vote winning for G Brown!

The second was in reference to Andy, with:

While our newest aircraft carrier stands virtually useless the Turkish navy is doing this.

https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/wds-2024/2024/02/ares-shipyard-showcases-ulaq-usv-armed-with-cakir-cruise-missile-at-wds-2024/

(USV stands for unmanned surface vessel, these will be armed with cruise missiles with a 150 km range.)

Let’s throw this in too:

And this … similar situation in the US:

https://slaynews.com/news/number-annual-illegal-border-crossings-now-exceeds-american-births/

So, not only are any defence forces decrepit, low in morale and uncaring for servicemen, now forced to go diverse and Woke, but the gathering Bibby Stockholms, airforce and army barracks and every available building is being turned over to the burgeoning, paid for and teained enemy meant to take out the indigenous Europeans.

Whether you blame the Askenazis, Khazars or deathcult … point is … the enemy is within and amassing. 

The capacity to deal with this enemy?

Sounds Like It's Not Just Foreign Care Workers That Can't Understand English...

...the useless Tory government can't, either:

Minimum standards of English in care homes will not be raised despite the death of a 91-year-old woman after care workers struggled to describe her condition while calling 999.

So, we desperately need these people to work here, but if their lack of English language skills means they can't communicate, it's perfectly fine? What happened to 'Conservatives' to make them think this made any sense?

An inquest into the death of Barbara Rymell found that the primary school level of English required for a health and care visa was 'wholly inadequate' for those working in the 'direct care and protection of vulnerable people'. Mrs Rymell died at Ashley House Residential Home, in Langport, Somerset, on August 8, 2022, when she became trapped by a mechanical stairlift after a fall and staff were unable to free her.

Senior coroner for Somerset, Samantha Marsh, issued a prevention of future deaths report, warning the government that 'deaths will continue' without more rigorous language tests, The Guardian reports.

And the Home Office said 'Whoa, no! We might have to work a bit harder!': 

Despite this, the Home Office has ruled out raising the required standard of English, telling the coroner that this would be 'very difficult' to assess and manage.Home Office minister Tom Pursglove said: 'We do not believe raising the level of the English language requirement for skilled workers would be appropriate.'

And that, Reader, is just one of the many, many reasons why the Tories are heading for electoral collapse.  

Care Rights UK, which campaigns on behalf of residents and their families, said it was 'beyond comprehension' that ministers had rejected the call.

Oh, if only it was. 

The great charity scam

 This scam

... cloaked, as the Frankish hordes also were who descended on Constantinople back in the day, in tunics of white over chainmail, red cross emblazoned ... rivers of blood, false flags of rampage and ravaging, all in the name of Christ ... just as Welby and the antiPope are doing right now in other ways ...

... that charity scam is laid out by St Peter at BRN:

https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-not-so-religious-charities.html

From a recent tweet (click the image for a larger view):

The federal government pays huge sums to those charities (and others like them) to "help refugees".  It's a staggering amount.

And much more over at Peter's just now.

Cull the indigenous, welcome the invaders

Near our place are 40 to 50 steel frames ready to go up for illegal invader, murderer and rapist accommodation - it’s reached a frenetic level. Meanwhile:

The Church of England is aiding and abetting this:

They’re all working for you and your children, yes?

No, Sidney, There’s One Better!

Blimey, Sidney, you don't have to look all the way across the Pond. There's a better option much closer to home, after all:

The Met Police's chief has claimed that the special constable who told off a Christian busker for singing 'church songs' on Oxford Street was trying to 'do her best', but made a mistake.

Rowley, 59, told BBC Radio London: 'She’s a volunteer doing her best who made a mistake.

''We had a special constable who was on patrol and because of complaints about busking decided she would deal with the case and she didn’t deal with it perfectly well – it was a woman singing some sort of religious songs – and we’re dealing with that as a management issue and we have said we got that slightly wrong.'

The utter contempt for the public who pay this uniformed weasel's wages by referring to Harmonie London (a popular and well-known figure on the street) as 'a woman singing some sort of religious songs' is utterly breathtaking. But hardly surprising. 

He effortlessly pivots to the attack and claims victimhood on behalf of his Karen-with-a-badge:  

He said he was disappointed to see that Hadzhipetkova had received a wash of racist abuse following the incident, which took place on Sunday.

'She has had massive racist abuse online, she has had all sorts of vitriol. Now that doesn’t help policing in London.

It might, if it curbs this ignorant power-drunk bitch in any future interactions with the public, and teaches her that her actions are scrutinised and will draw consequences.

'People behaving like that to me, I’m paid for it, I’ve stepped into a senior role. Someone who’s just out there a couple of days a week trying to help out her community who gets that vileness, that’s a real, real problem.

'That’s tough for my men and women on the frontline having to cope with that sort of thing day in, day out.'

I'm glad you mentioned 'your men and women on the frontline', 'Sir' Rowley. Because this wasn't a case of one ignorant volunteer making a mistake, there were four other officers with her - presumably at least one or two were real cops. 

Yet not one stepped in to defuse the situation, apologise for her mistake and reassure Ms London that she was perfectly well entitled to be there. Why is that? Are they all cut from the same cloth? It would explain a lot. 

The utter bollox of Black History Month

Music used:

https://youtu.be/gZ9tzb94Gmk?si=xqqGugQ6_JR8VFlG

Slapping back at the bullies

Not those dogs in this case.  Upfront, this blog’s chief admin, the boss, the numero uno, is Julia, with myself and Mike after that. She is the chief regulator but if different authors have different blacklists, that’s a fluid thing. However, the site is technically on my account but that can change at any moment, should Julia feel it necessary.

Having said that, this first post at N.O. today (reprinted below) might be worth your while glancing over. References in the text to different versions of N.O. have no application at OoL but the legalese does, the references to lawfare going on out there. Might just be worth a few minutes.

By the way, I was ill on Thursday.

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Slapping them right back

The Barrister we sometimes watch has two channels and this below is his second.  He explains, which can be construed by nasty people as leaving himself open, and this is because:

a.  There are different applicable laws in the UK:

(i) Home country, e.g. Eng & Wales, Scotland

(ii) Historic versus revised, esp. if now a different national entity

(iii) Local by-laws

(iv) Those governing the international net/web, again which revision (?)

(v) Regulations by those providers and platforms, each with its own

(vi) EU, UN, WEF.

Until now … and in fact continuing on … we at N.O. (both versions, which is an interesting legal issue in itself) adhere to what is now a very old regulation, which is unstated at ONO and yet was laid out at NOdotOrg (now thrice deceased), which was based on Pig Boy Dave’s early rule.

Where does that leave the Barrister? It leaves him trying to explain according to very wonky law as it stands this day, dynamically changing according to the latest relationship between Eng&W, the EU, the WEF, UN, Ggl, Blgr, WP, BT in Eng&W … and so on.

Making it clear that of course I’m onside with our Barrister’s intent so far, despite my raised eyebrow on the laws themselves and his contention is that this “lawfare” is for various intents, which I summarise as:

(i) To stop something getting out

(ii) To make moolah either for client and/or self or for a higher body

(iii) To tie people up in proceedings, e.g. DJT, to drag out, so as to kill off

(iv) Sheer malevolence, mischief and strategy.

b.  So the Barrister’s assured and reassuring “this is the law” manner I watch and occasionally raise an eyebrow at (sometimes two eyebrows) from my differing experience.  

One thing I quite agree with at 04:38 in his video:

https://youtu.be/V1Tmd6ZR9WY?si=ZEkDX4G6_dCuuFvL

… is that, as he practices law in this area in Eng and Wales:

(i) The litigant inevitably, eventually, has no leg to stand on, on this matter but

(ii) That can cause all sorts of troubles which put people off who would otherwise speak out.

We saw last night the nurse who spoke out and what happened to her and there’s no doubt that this is the intention of miscreants doing wrong above her, plus we’re hardly versed in law though we know enough to keep out of mischief … but where I disagree with him is he says it’s only the owner/admin who can be litigated.

Legally maybe but that is not what platform regs say, esp. platforms outside of the country who do rule their platforms in real terms and who can protect or leave vulnerable as they wish.

He made the point that you, the reader/commenter, cannot be litigated. Yes you can, in real time, even if spuriously … which is why my job as immediate manager, with the providers above me again, must be ultra careful, which I am … moderation here, first time moderation across the way, plus sometimes the need to delete.

One strategy has been to block out Wokery:

https://nourishingobscurity.blogspot.com/p/our-position-on-wokery-at-no.html

… plus other “defusing” strategies to protect everyone associated with us. I do say “the buck stops with me” in terms of protecting you, the commenter but though that’s fine for you and me, it does not stop someone really gunning for you, the commenter, and yes, you are included in the Big Collect in the miscreants’ eyes.

That’s why we are pretty much regulars here, patrons of a tavern. The relationship between landlord and patrons is complex but obviously harmonious for the most part … they’re his livelihood in RL, therefore he’ll do what’s necessary.  But unless it’s a freehouse, he is still beholden to the owners … to a minimised point.

And it’s in that nebular state, using that tavern analogy, rather than the 1, 2, 3 legalese of the Barrister, that we operate in all forms of N.O.

…

Back to OoL again, having re-read the above … hmmmm, OoL does operate differently, OoL being Julia’s, my and Grandpa’s second sites, though we feel deeply connected to, the custodians of, the 2011 Orphans project and a good little blog in itself at a crossroads … well worth the upkeep of.

A Tale Of Two Sets Of Guidance...

Ministers have been accused of watering down guidance around new buffer zones outside abortion clinics in England and Wales, after it emerged campaigners could still be allowed to conduct silent prayers and approach women attending clinics to discuss the issue.

It says: “The term ‘influence’ is not defined in the statute and therefore takes its ordinary dictionary meaning. The government would expect ‘influence’ to require more than mere mention of abortion or the provision of information. As such, informing, discussing, or offering help, does not necessarily amount to ‘influence’.”

I wonder if that's a definition the government's own notorious 'nudge' unit would subscribe to? 

But no matter, it was always an absurdity to throw the weight of the state against people for silently praying for what they consider to be wrongdoers. And since it's guidance and not law, are they not free to ignore it anyway? 

Healthcare workers are being told not to report women to the police if they believe their patients may have illegally ended their own pregnancy. The Royal College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians (RCOG) says "deeply traumatised" women are being prosecuted following abortions.

The new guidance follows a recent rise in police investigations into abortions. The RCOG says these cases are rare, however, and it is encouraging women to seek medical help if needed. NHS staff can breach confidentiality rules to give information to the police about possible crimes, but only if it is in the "public interest".

The RCOG says it is "never" in the public interest to report women who have abortions, and that they must be safeguarded.

Looks like they are! So, how's that sauce, goose? The gander loved it. 

Live Export is in Deep Shit.

As many who read my polemics might know, I do not subscribe to the ideas that animals ‘know every word we say” philosophies. To me an animal is a non-sentient creature, and whether for companionship, i.e. a pet, such as a dog or a horse; or for food, a heifer, a bullock, a pig etc. 

They react to certain stimuli, they learn that we are their source of food, and that is the sum of their lives. But while I detest, without exception, the very ideal of ‘love’ between an animal and its owner/trainer, I also detest cruelty towards a dumb animal which usually cannot fight back.

If a farmer runs cattle, either through a milking herd, or for the beef market, it is normal for the farmer to ‘know’ his animals; how they react, how to keep them clean and healthy; how they learn what is expected of them: because if the farmer doesn’t look after his animals correctly, safely and humanely, he will swiftly become bankrupt.

I read about an Australian-flagged cattle carrying ship which has been forced to detour from her passage to an Arabic state; through the Houthi-sponsored attacks on Red Sea Shipping, and, I will admit, that my blood pressure rose, because we have seen this Trade dissected before. 

But the sheer greed exemplified by the loading of over 16,000 animals, condemned to spend a fortnight or more in their own filth because the shippers gain a high price from their Arabic customers for live animals; simply cannot be condemned too much. 

After nearly a month at sea, this ship, which had turned away from the Red Sea and was aimed at docking in Durban, was again diverted back to Australia, berthing in Fremantle in the midst of a bloody 400 heatwave. The seafarers have to walk through knee-deep piles of urine-soaked manure, just think what that sort of treatment does to the bloody dumb animals!

Where Were You Three Years Ago?

Alice Ferguson, of Playing Out, said: “Compared to previous generations, children’s lives have become incredibly restricted, indoors, isolated and inactive, largely due to changes in the outdoor environment. Government could reverse this trend and hugely improve children’s health and wellbeing by making streets safer and neighbourhoods more child-friendly, enabling them to get outside and play every day.”

Until the government forbids them from going outside in the next manufactured panic, you mean?

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said in a report last year that children’s health in the most disadvantaged communities presented “a terrifying picture”.

“Economic deprivation and racial inequality are both significant additional factors compounding children’s lack of access to outdoor play, physical activity and green space. There is also evidence to suggest girls spend less time outside playing than boys.”

Wow, suddenly, there is a difference between boys and girls after all!