Lost Rivers Of Time

Nearly every capital city in the western world has lost a river or two (dozen) over the centuries and decades ....

The Entrance To The Fleet Canal 1750 - After River Straightened.

This is particularly true over the last 50-60 years in Europe, where a rush to redevelop after WWII, led to many smaller rivers being paved over.

No More Surprises

What? No 'Je Suis Londres' posts this time?

Emoji's versus Bombs ... UK's Keyboard Warrior Generation Fight Fire With Facebook

No solidarity marches, with Imams claiming its nothing to do with Islam, again? .... No more of that hypocrisy?

Skid Row LA

The term Skid Row (or Skid Road), originally referred to the path along which timber workers skidded logs, and dates back to the 17th century. When a logger was fired he was "sent down the skid road," and its in the timber region of the pacific Northwest USA that the term also took on its current meaning of the domain of the 'down and outs'.

Shanty Town LA

Los Angeles County (pop 9,818,605 2016), incorporates the city of Los Angeles, and is home to more than one-quarter of California residents. Los Angeles was recently declared 'a city of shanties', when figures showed that there were 44,359 homeless people in Los Angeles County, and 25,686 in the city itself. Some estimates say that more than two-thirds of homeless people are on the streets with no shelter at all, because the weather / climate allows this.

Fat City

I had heard of Bergs in South Africa (mountains), Icebergs in the Antarctic, but not 'Fatbergs' under London .... there are apparently two differences between 'Ice' and 'Fat' Bergs.

1) One is made of water frozen into Ice and the other of sewer content bound together by fat deposits.
2) The Iceberg is 9/10th under water, while the Fatberg is fully submerged under sewage.

How do I know this?

London's Fatberg

Well Britain's biggest ever "Fatberg" has just been removed from a Kingston (London) sewer .... it was the size of a bus and weighed 15 tonnes according to the water authority, and was composed of a nasty mixture of food fat combined in an unholy bond with wet wipes, condoms and other unmentionables. These 'Fatberg' are formed in drains under roads in major conurbations around the world.

 

The Thames Water board (and others), are warning of the dangers of "Fatbergs," saying that it was trying to spread the message of "bin it and don't block it" ..... this particular one has taken three weeks to clear, and they still have to repair the damage it caused underground. Apparently if left, if would eventually have led to raw sewage spurting out of manholes across the whole of the area.

Apparently, they have actually recycled the berg ..... its been turned into power station fuel.

It makes you shudder to think  .... imagine having to clean up after that dam burst.

Taking The Diplomatic Mickey

Everyone knows that the diplomats from third world countries often commit abuses under the cover of diplomatic immunity (sometimes terrible crimes such as child abuse, rape and murder) .....

Diplomatic Abuse Is Rife In The UK and USA

...... but usually its parking offences, shoplifting and espionage.

 

A Life Well Led, A Job Well Done

Steve Jobs, one of the co-founders of Apple, and a one time owner of Pixar Animation (bought for $10m in 1986), died of cancer yesterday. 

Candles in London

A sad loss for his family and friends no doubt, but not the death of Mother Teresa, Gandhi, or Mandela. 

Law And Order: Losing The Streets

The Police have lost the streets in the black areas of London (Peckham, Lewisham, East Ham, Hackney etc etc), and there are also reports that there are 'disturbances' in Afro-Caribbean areas of other cities in the rest of the UK e.g. Birmingham and Leeds.


Three ladies "Out Shopping" and assorted ethnic cultural events

No doubt the copycat 'lowlifes' will try it on in St Paul's in Bristol, and other towns such as Manchester. Lets hope someone decides to police this with real firmness in one of these cities, before anyone is murdered .... its an indication of what passes for 'law and order' in the dis-United Kingdom these days, that the authorities can't deal with a bunch of looters and arsonists.

 

The Ethnic Gangs Of London Town

Tottenham in London is what politicians quaintly describe as a 'vibrant multicultural' area ... Wiki describes it a 'multicultural hotspot', meaning its has a large Afro-Caribbean community, and consequently very high crime rates, loads of gun crimes, a large lawless 'Gangsta' community, hoodies, drug wars, and the highest unemployment rate in London .... it was also the scene of the 1985 Broadwater Farm riot.

Last night they had what passes for a peaceful protest in a 'multicultural hotspot', over a shooting. Not because of the shooting per se, no, they have shootings in Tottenham regularly, drive by gang shootings are common in the area. No, what kicked off the 'peaceful protest' was that the police shot a man who was allegedly carrying and used an illegal weapon in the back of a mini cab .... obviously he was immediately classed as a pillar of the local community, and the killing as a 'police assassination' by locals.

The man was named as Mark Duggan (aka Starrish Mark) and the killing was being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, although the evidence on the BBC website suggests that there was no illegal activity by the police. It gives a description by local resident David Akinsanya, who was at the scene of the fatal shooting soon after the incident, who said that an eye witness had told him that a police officer had shouted to the man to stop "a couple of times", but the man had not heeded the warning.

Still, we have the right to 'peaceful protest' in the UK, although they may not have considered what this might mean in a 'multicultural hotspot' when that right was given  .... but Quelle surprise! within 5 minutes of the crowd gathering, the first bricks were volleyed at the local police station, followed by petrol bombs, and then the 'peaceful protesters' decided that a local 'carpet shop' needed to be taught a lesson as well, and it was torched. This was then followed by the looting and torching of the local supermarkets, a local bank cash machine, PC world, local shops, and in fact, anything that could conceivably have any value was looted, before the properties were torched.


Wecome to Tottenham

Above all these buildings were occupied residential properties and flats, the residents of these buildings had to run for their lives as these 'protesters' wilfully burnt every building. Even this morning the police don't know if any residents were killed in the fires .... no doubt the apologists for this sort of 'cultural' activity will be out in force today ... suddenly the theft, arson and possible attempted murder (eight police officers in hospital, and a search underway for any bodies in the burnt out shells of the flats), will all be condoned by local 'spokespersons'.

As for the police, well whether their hands were tied or they were being led by some officer who believes all the PC crap about 'sensitive policing', will no doubt come out in the endless enquiries that will be instigated to 'explain why this happened' (its a 'multicultural hotspot', that's why it happened .... they don't like being policed, end of story), but last night, all reports suggest that they were impotent and allowed the looting to go unchecked, and this was followed by the arson.

No doubt yet more public funds will be wasted trying to get businesses to rebuild again in the area, but considering the propensity of the local community to looting them, I suspect that they will all think long and hard about this  .... I was in Manchester during the Moss-Side riots, when princess road was burnt to the ground ... it took over a decade for the road to recover its shops.

US Airliner Attack - UK Links Confirmed

I suggested in a recent post that there was likely to be a UK connection to the bomb attack, even though the first evidence suggested that the bombers 'radicalisation' had occurred elsewhere.

It appears that Yemeni officials are claiming that the US plane bomber Mr Abdulmutallab met radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, but only after he was recruited while living in London(istan).

Whether we like it or not, the UK is one of the hubs of radical Islamic belief's and ideas, and we nurture to our breast the very viper which will kill us.