Operation Firedump

April 25, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Winning the other argument

The Home Office unaccountably continues to survive my best efforts to compass its abolition. On the other hand, though… Nobody ever did try to explain why the RAF Harriers in Kandahar were being withdrawn just as 3,000 British soldiers were deployed there, but the MOD did better than trying to explain it: they reversed the…

March 31, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

5A-DKR Destroyed

One of the Jetline International-run Ilyushin 62 jets, 5A-DKR ex. RA-86554, has been destroyed in an accident at Moscow (Domodedovo). Apparently the aircraft, which came in from Tripoli for overhaul, overran the runway and came to rest 500 metres off-airport, breaking into three parts. Crew are safe. Interestingly, the Il-62s and other large aircraft at…

March 22, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Firedumped!

The European Commission has issued a new blacklist of dubious airlines. You can get the document here (pdf). Notable on it is that a number of frequently-mentioned Viktor Bout-related operators are now on the list. Specifically, Phoenix Aviation, GST Aero, Reem Air and Jetline are all there, as are Butembo and Great Lakes Business Co.…

Au procès Squarcini, les ordres de LVMH pour infiltrer le journal « Fakir » | Mediapart
« Alex » n’est autre qu’Alexandre Djouhri, intermédiaire dans plusieurs dossiers politico-financiers, proche d’Hervé Séveno comme de Bernard Squarcini, explicite le président....L’équipe de Fakir décide de le filmer à son insu dans un café de Saint-Ouen, mais il détecte vite « une sacoche, avec un trou et une lumière rouge » posée sur une table. […]
Teachers at top academy in Hackney ‘screamed at’ and humiliated pupils, say angry parents | Academies | The Guardian
who thought it was anything else but backdoor selection? I guess that the selection was by screaming at them until some dropped out is a twist
FAA team recommends Boeing MAX design change and pilot notification | The Seattle Times
“Much like MCAS, the discovery that LRD is not known to pilots is very concerning,” the memo states // do the Pilot's Notes just say "you don't need to know this stuff and it'll only confuse you"?
Francis Martin on X: "When your job is to report on a document like this, your emotions just have to take a back seat. But you can’t insulate yourself entirely, and there’s always something which gets through. For me it was this letter, sent by Smyth
if by some chance you've not gazed into a sickening moral vacuum in the last twenty minutes or so...also a fine example of bad faith writing. no beat of pre-emptive self justification missed
Tom Lee on X: "That's in part because the specific incentives they face are largely social, but also because irrelevance is the failure condition for any of these organizations. You do not want to just become a faceless source of checks going to the same
the specific incentives they face are largely social, but also because irrelevance is the failure condition for any of these organizations. You do not want to just become a faceless source of checks going to the same hidebound recipients. That's death.
aaron from queens 🇵🇸 on X: "AOC asked her followers who split their ballots either for Trump/her or Trump/downballot Dem to explain why and posted the replies: https://t.co/LuTcD29szt" / Twitter
mom does this. says she votes Dem locally for services and Rep national for budget // looks like we found where the unfunded mandates are coming from...
Daniel Khalife denies asking Iran for help after prison escape - BBC News
Asked why he had taken a change of clothes and his notebook with him when he escaped from the prison, Mr Khalife said: "I wanted to exude a sense of professionalism... to show that I was capable of doing what I did."
Daniel Khalife misspelt 'secret' on publicly available document to please Iranian spy handler, court told | UK News | Sky News
Daniel Khalife, who has admitted escaping from Wandsworth prison, wrote "secert" instead of "secret" on the front page of a document which could be found online, Woolwich Crown Court has heard // top secert!
Ex-soldier Daniel Khalife changes plea to guilty of Wandsworth prison escape | UK news | The Guardian
“[The bike] was rotting away, I gave it new life,” he said.
Joe McReynolds on X: "@datepsych Dealt with the Lions Club back in high school (as pres. of the Leo Club community service club at my HS); there was just something deeply sad about them. Hard to explain exactly what it was, but I'll give it a guess. We li
the Lions Club types seemed to prefer the company of a bunch of arbitrarily-assigned middle-aged guys (mostly; I think there were a couple of women?) to their families or 'real' friends