Jump to content

sheffco

Members
  • Content Count

    416
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by sheffco

  1. I have often worked in a Muslim country, on a crew with 150 or so ethnics, who try to operate their religeous heirarchy type control over the day to day running of the crew. Some guy with a henna'd beard, and an "In'sh Allah" attitude, would be named camp boss, and his word was law. Well among the labourers that is. No matter that he hadn't the faintest idea about the job in hand, the safety of his disciples, and where their next meal was coming from. They operated on their "Village mentality" rules from back home. You fire a driver for wrecking a £100,000 truck, and the old geezer will come and tell you it was the will of God? Irrespective of the fact that he was not authorised to drive it - he was off route - and was definitely speeding (Spy in the cab). Nepotism is the name of the game, and unfortunately, we have the same type of thing operating in our cities. Diss-affected Youths I heard them called. They are not dis-affected with the british way of life, so much as they are protesting about the imported laws and rules they are forced to live under by their sharia law minded leaders. They want a new muslim state - - - - throw them out - - - let them reform their own country. They are born here, - - - then revoke the citizenship of their parents or grandparents - - - really show them that we don't want them here.
  2. Don't read the links - - other people comment on them though. I form my opinions from regular news, discussion programs, life experience and common sense. To see muslim radicals spouting about their plan to rule britain, and to hear the muslim (Comittees - support groups - Councils - and even parliament of britain) still bleating about being upset over possible racial overtones, and the british liberals bleating about a possible muslim backlash. Well, as I've said - Root them out, jail them for life, or deport them - that includes their supporters. I really don't care if they face torture or execution back home. They show no mercy or compassion in their terror attacks. Be interesting to see how many loony groups like "Animal Rights" get swept up in the new rules.
  3. Being quite old, and having lived and re-lived through a few important episodes in my life. I find that being a little paranoid is actually a healthy way to be You do miss out on some bargains, by sitting, and wondering "what the catch is", - - but you often, by doing a "what- if", or "Why's that" with a partner, can come up with a fail-safe method of dealing with a problem. Some of the theories on this thread are a bit way out, but I tend to agree with the latest government measures(Proposed). Don't bleat about "Human Rights" - - what human rights does a potential mass murderer have? It could mildly upset the public at large to be stopped and searched, or asked to produce identity, but only a pre-prejudiced individual would object. Are they "Hoodies" up to no good? Are they drug dealers/carriers? Are they illegal immigrants? Workers on the "Black" cheap labour schemes? It looks to me like a good way to start cleaning up the mess created by bleeding hearts and liberals. Not to mention money chasing human rights lawyers.
  4. I also think that a lot of the Quiet Sheffield image can be put down to the Yorkshire attitude of "Live and Let Live" A common sense, down to earth way of life, that keeps them content in their own little area. Of Course, Being quite elderly, I don't need Vibrant Clubs, or to run the obstacle course, of pleasure/mischief seeking younger set. I have known a few favourite cities - - Algier's in the 60's and 70's, Oran too. Cairo - Tripoli (Try that one) - Marseilles and Paris - - - mainly through the entertainment side of things, clubs, bars, hotels and some seedier places. Nice to be back home, and as some have said, in a place of lesser gang/gun culture than most of the UK.
  5. I hope there is a resident phsychiatrst reading all this?
  6. Interesting Thread this - - - - "What Good does a Degree do for you"? As some have said, it shows that you attended and managed to stay the course. Therefore you should be capable of knowing where to look and how to pick out the information you need to complete any project. Going through life without the benefit of a Uni education, I earned my qualifications by practical field work. During this time, I met many (Educated Idiots) as we termed them. Loads of qualifications, but No Common Sense. It has been said, that every time you wake up with a hang-over, you have destroyed a few "K" of brain cells? Well, two answers to that! One, I must have had More cells than Einstein. Two, I always seem to retain the things that are useful, and lose the irrelevant. I think, that the knowledge and skills that you aquire by sweat, and making the mistakes, really stick with you. Like my multiplication tables and mental arithmatic that were beaten into me by Sister Lucy - - - a long long time ago. University of life - - - - Doing it, rather than being told about it.
  7. I always thought, that one qualification for CityHood, was a Cathederal! Universeties follow (Church Schools). In the 1950's and 60's, In the Army, and getting experience of other towns - City's both in England and abroad, Sheffield was known as the biggest village in England. All pubs shut at 10:00pm - - the only late bar I remember was the City Hall Dance. It changed with the world cup - - some matches being played at Hillsborough. A couple of beer gardens, a few disco's, (Stringfellow started up then!) to accomodate the european visitors. However, being built on hills, it has a small town centre, and does cling to the "collection of small villages mentality". The dormitory areas of the council estates contribute to this factor too. To refer to the "Far East"post - - I would like to see a mother or father with two kids in the "Pannier", cycling up city road, or prince of wales road etc to get home to Hackenthorpe. Even strolling home late at night, invariably would involve a bit of mountain climbing. (One reason for it being populated by the younger set), Energy!
  8. See dem - - D - - Ducks! R - - D R--D--R O - - R - - D - - R! Needs no translation.
  9. A long time ago, I read a book titled "The Seven Sisters". It was about the Major oil companies, and the part they had played in shaping the boundaries and politics, mainly in the Arabian peninsular. I'm certain that they are still behind the shifts in opinion as to favoured nation status on the lists of the western powers. I still hear of Dallas style, (Southforks) lunches where block voting is discussed for politicians who favour the oil business. If we believe some of the theorists, then the world resources of fossil fuels are close to running out. I don't support this, and think that as the exploration technology becomes more advanced (As it Has) there are huge fields left to dicover. Expense is the barrier, and the companies will exploit the cheapest options first. Where does all this touch on this "Thread"? What will the Arab nations of the Middle East, and Africa do when their reserves are gone? Opec are encouraged to increase their output - - - The dollars are flowing in, and some of the countries are desparately trying to change their home industries. But - - - the oil will run out! In my opinion, this will serve to increase the resentment these people have against the so called decadent western nations. Britain should be even more vigilant in the Immigration department. Soon there will be thousands of dis-allusioned politically/fundamentalist motivated, who will blame the West for the fact that all they have left is Sand and Allah! The donations to Al Quaida will dry up, so we should make sure that we are not funding them via social benefits etc. Just a few thoughts on the future problems.
  10. Being Polish - - and being the cause (Albeit by treaties and an archaic army) of the British coming to your aid. And as I suspect, being an immigrant to my Britain. - - - DONT KNOCK IT! Have had the pleasure of sharing a few vodkas here and there, and have generally found the polski's as far right as their mongol origins. Don't tolerate traitors - - - exterminate them.
  11. I agree with a moderator (Tony)! I don't go searching on obscure websites, but I do avidly watch the news channels. There is a conspiracy, it is being rapidly rolled up, and there is a long way to go yet. We don't really need an Israeli security company, we have the best security forces in the world, but they are committed to the armed services. I suppose it is just a matter of expense as usual, and having to be seen to be doing something. I'm sure the real surveilance will be carrying on in the background. To the liberals, still protesting about allusions to race or creed, I can only say, that so far, no one with a name like "John Smith", or "Joe Bloggs" has turned up in the arrests or investigations. An interesting point was brought up in a discussion program over the weekend. - - I don't introduce my self as "Sheff, a British agnostic" - - However there seems to be a majority of the minority who initially announce themselves as "Muslim". Whatever how small the percentage of this ethnic/religious community are radical fundamentalists, they do not belong here, and they need to be denounced and either imprisoned in mental institutions for de-programming, or de-citizenised and sent back to their country of origin. The often barbaric powers that govern those places can deal with them as they will. Behead them - - amputate them - - stone them at a pillar of wisdom. Believe me - - it happens.
  12. Not wrongfully shot Tulip - - - mistakenly shot. In the climate of suspicious behaviour, and wrongfully ignoring legitimate demands to stop, the man acted in a manner likely to label him as a possible suicide bomber. Let's not get away from that Fact. He was legally challenged and then legally stopped from carrying out what was taken to be a threat to public safety. Unfortunate, but I hope the event will bring home to people the seriousness of trying to evade I.D. checks and bag searches, during the present crisis. There have been postings on this thread by people who think it is best to run away from the police, for whatever reason, I can't imagine. Did it myself in my younger days on the manor. Usually for scrumping someones apples or gooseberries, and once or twice for playing with fireworks. After growing up and working overseas, often in some of the places that being mentioned in the terrorist hunt and arrests, I have been exposed to the security forces of North African countries. Often Very Slipshod outfits. Patrolling airports with sub-machine guns - safety catch off - and finger on trigger. Once being accompanied by an armed escort who shot the roof out of the Toyota when I drove over a bump in the track. I would like to think that our own forces are a cut above that, and if procedures were followed, I trust there will be no re-procussions for the unfortunate mistake.
  13. How can anyone answer that Don? Commiserations on your loss, but I do remember Steel Peach and Tozer with seven chimneys, each churning out a different colour smoke in the rovverum area!
  14. Yeeeeees Incorrigible Unccoruptable Very happy and content, and can't understand why people are so fanatical about what is a very personal choice. I don't smoke in "No Smoking Areas" I count the open air as "As much mine as anyones" I don't blow smoke at people! I will apologise and walk away from anyone who seems affected. (Often a barrage of false pathetic coughs). I will discard my cigarette butts into the appropriate litter bins. If Junk foodies have irresponsibly put greasy wrappings in there, blame them for the fire. I don't believe the horror adverts on TV, and think they apply more to the fast food munchers. In fact, after smoking for more than fifty years of a very active life, I will carry on until my last smoke (Cremetorium Chimney)
  15. Well! The "suspected suicide bomber" (And that's the reason he was stopped" certainly got his 15 min's of fame! Memorial service in Westminster Cathedral, near "State Funeral" in Brazil. World wide TV coverage, the whole works. Some erstwhile Big Brother contestants would sell their souls for such publicity. Apologising for a genuine mistake, coming out of the security alerts and conditions at the time, is one thing, but a whole Media driven Circus? - - - It's Pathetic!!!
  16. November 25, 2002 Good vibrations Jack Wheeler I love the way President Bush mispronounces the Iraqi dictator's name: SAH-dum, not sah-DAM. Whereas the latter pronunciation in Arabic means "One Who Confronts," the former means "Barefoot Beggar." Be assured that when Mr. Bush says SAH-dum in his speeches broadcast to the Arabic world, he is doing it on purpose. The Barefoot Beggar has finally agreed to let in U.N. inspectors because he is confident he can hide his weapons of mass destruction from them. But if Mr. Bush tells Vice President Dick Cheney to give his former colleagues at Halliburton a call about utilizing oil field discovery technology, that confidence will evaporate. Sah-dum has hidden his weapons of mass destruction in secret underground tunnels and bunkers, some of which are flooded, underneath his palaces. There are dozens of them. The Baghdad Republican Palace has more than 700 buildings. According to French engineers who worked on the Qasr-Shatt al-Arab Palace, it is bigger than Versailles. A mason who worked on the Maqar-el-Tharthar Palace west of Baghdad, and escaped to the West, says it is "four or five times bigger than the White House." Many of these palace compounds have artificial lakes. The Tigris River was diverted near Sah-dum's hometown of Tikrit to form a lake at his Baiji Palace. Sah-dum has built weapons of mass destruction storage depots underneath the lakes as well. He knows that the ground-penetrating radar brought by the U.N. inspection teams will not see through steel-reinforced concrete palace and factory floors and the water of the lakes. That's why Mr. Cheney needs to call his buddies in the "oll bidness," as they say in West Texas, to tell them, "Guys, we want the best doodlebuggers you've got to go to Iraq." "Doodlebuggers" is the nickname of the folks who search for oil and gas with seismic technology. They are capable of finding oil deposits under thousands of feet of rock and ocean water. Shallow lakes and steel-reinforced concrete slabs in Sah-dum Land will be no problem. They'll use a state-of-the-art technology called 3D seismic, used for extremely accurate mapping of the earth's subsurface. Here's how it will work. The two basic items the Doodlebugger teams will use are geophones and vibroseis machines. The geophones can float on a lake surface, driven into the ground in a palace compound, or placed on a palace's concrete floor. The vibroseis machines, either in a small truck or towed by a pickup, vibrate the ground surface with a force of 70,000 pounds per square meter. It does no damage to structures, and can be operated up to hundreds of yards away from a specific suspect site. The geophones get a seismic recording of the vibrations as they penetrate the surrounding area. Data is beamed up to a satellite, together with their precise location via a GPS locator. It is beamed back down and compiled by e.g., Halliburton's or Exxon's supercomputers. The result will be a complete and detailed map of what's under the palaces, factories, and lakes. A huge contrast will show up in the seismic maps between dirt, sand, water, air, and reinforced concrete. Whatever storage areas, tunnels and bunkers are down there, the maps will show just where they are. Should the Iraqis refuse to disclose the entrances, a device called a fluorine lance ignited by a small thermal charge can burn through more than six feet of steel-reinforced concrete in about 20-40 seconds. A swimming camera can then be inserted in the hole, as is used in inspecting sewers and pipelines. Once weapons of mass destruction stores are located, we'll know where to drop the thermobaric penetrating bombs. These penetrate below the surface to the underground depots, then detonate with such force and temperature that all nerve gases and biochemical agents (such as anthrax) will be oxidized into carbon dioxide and water. Of course, it is most likely that Sah-dum's petroleum geologists will explain to him what the Vibroseis units are for, and he will prevent their use. Thus, their introduction in the inspection process will quickly precipitate the violation of the U.N. Resolution, providing the basis for the U.S. military to take care of the problem. It is vitally necessary that such precipitation happen soon. We cannot wait until next summer when it is far too hot in Iraq for U.S. soldiers to wear chemical protection suits. For the evil of the Barefoot Beggar to be terminated, it must be done quickly. (Note that if the seismic mapping is incomplete when the inspectors are ejected, geophones with GPS transmitters can be airdropped en masse around the palaces, then GPS-guided bomblets to provide seismic sources. In a few days the maps will be done, showing just where to target the thermobarics.) Given that oil has been the source of this evil's wealth and power, it would be ironic justice for American oil companies to play a heroic role in such termination. Jack Wheeler is the president of the Freedom Research Foundation. This is an article from the "Washington Post" that I found amusing at the time. I don't think that it was ever acted on, but seismic crews have found many objects and caches from WW2, and solved some of the mysteries from that time. (Lost Planes, abandoned vehicles, and in modern times, stores of smuggled booze in Saudi Arabia) Not much of the booze survived as evidence though.
  17. I heard an Islamic representative on "Hard Talk" BBC, describe them as sons, or grandsons of economic migrants, who were so "Dis-affected" by the British way of life, that they felt they had lost their identity. With the economic decline in the northern cities, they were easy prey for the more radical muslims who can be seen handing out leaflets and propoganda outside most mosques. Should we just put them on the list of "Mentally Disturbed"? Should we blame their family for trying to instill the "village mentality" of religion, arranged marriages, strict rule by "Tribal" elders? All of this was mentioned by the representative as possible reasons that these "Dis-affected" youths killed themselves and 50 odd innocent victims.
  18. I'm sure that the identities of the suicide bombers, and the more recent failed suicide bombers, will really change peoples natural born mistrust of some of the ethnic minorities in our midst. The investigation net spreads, and yet there are still people out there that sympathise with them, and help them evade capture. Families, friends and associates. The suspicions are, that they are part of a network of cells, controlled by leaders possibly by way of the internet. Each successful arrest or "Raid" could provide further evidence, via examination of lap-tops or mobile phones. The snippets of information released to National News services is just the tip of the iceberg. Congratulations to the security services, and I hope they continue to roll them up
  19. Never mind the Mc Pherson report, When are the multiple muslim councils and committees going to start reassuring the public that they have nothing to fear from muslims as a whole? It will be a long time before people feel entirely comfortable sat on public transport with a few Rucksack carrying, obvious muslims around. This feeling of mistrust did not come out of nowhere.
  20. First hint of racialism that's cropped up. However, if I was a Moslem living in Britain, and I had any knowledge of the people or sects that are connected with these bombers - - - I would stay at home. I wonder how many illegals will be swept up in the investigations?
  21. "Execution" now is it?? - - Any more emotive terms to be used? Listening to the comments of this guy's family, he was used to living in an area whre armed police are the norm. He would have known full well how to react when confronted by armed police, and I'm sure that they didn't just produce guns and chase him. He could have gone down in a hail of automatic fire the moment he walked into sight. (That's an execution) He was of good character, friendly and law abiding. Very similar sentiments were expressed by the families of the 7/7 bombers, who were the root cause of this anti terrorist policy. His family now intend to sue the police. Who will the bombing victims of families sue? It was a very tragic error, but rather than dissuade the security services from their unenviable duties. Let it serve to inform the public as a whole to obey stop instructions to the letter. Britain didn't ask for this climate of mistrust and fear, and 99% of the population have nothing to worry about when requested to stop and be searched.
  22. I have no wish to enter into any kind of debate, so we shall just say that "It Came To Pass". It now remains to be seen, if the Immams will produce any kind of information of the "Hatred Nurturing Cells" that unquestionably exist. It is interesting to watch the new or little known (Previously) muslim societies that jostle to put forward their views on how the present situation should be handled. Plenty of advice as to how the proposed anti-terrorism laws should be toned down, but I have yet to see one of these representatives put forward any proposals as to how they will root out the evil in their midst.
  23. A Scenario, pieced together from various eyewitness and police statements, mainly from BBC 24Hr News. The suspect was being followed by plain clothes police (Special Branch?). By his dress, he would be suspected of concealing something under the large heavy coat (Bomb). If a suicide bomber, it would be necessary to find a safe-ish place to stop him. Somewhere not crowded (Difficult in London). On approaching the station, the operation stepped up a gear. It was obviously more congested with passengers etc. Challenged - - he ran, pursued by the officers (3 I believe). Although using low velocity bullets, to minimise collateral damage (Exited shots - Richochets etc.) they would obviously not fire while running. He was chased onto the train, and either was tripped or stumbled - - but ended up face down on the carriage floor. Restrainment? - NO - - prevent him from using his arms to detonate the possible bomb - YES. Still struggling to reach his body? It was ended by five shots to the back of the head. (Low Velocity bullets) to make sure he is immobilised. A dead man's trigger? Well, that would normally consist of a switch or lever that had to be activated, then kept depressed. The explosion taking place when the pressure on the switch or lever is removed. Not a nice job, but a necessary one, and one carried out with skill and with the safety of the Public in the area in mind.
  24. Man shot at Stockwell station - - - police baggage check - - man ran away - - pursued by armed police and shot several times. BBC News.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.