SWWood- Location: Dover
- Registered: 30 May 2012
- Posts: 261
Nicola Barley wrote:So how about that pint in Mush Tang this weekend, SWWood? Would love to debate all things from Syria to Novichok to elections hacking and Iraq's WMD false flags etc. over a cold beer with you. I must be a masochist, but could be fun, eh?
Whilst I appreciate the kind offer, I shall have to politely decline.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,070
The lying Russian leader aims to convince the gullible and paranoid that there is no such thing as truth. That's you lot that is!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/vladimir-putins-toxic-power/
Meanwhile in the real world - Murder investigation launched after man found dead in New Malden
http://news.met.police.uk/news/murder-investigation-launched-after-man-found-dead-in-new-malden-298894"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
- Posts: 1,071
The rabbit's ears flap vigorously in March.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
as mad as a march hare.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Must say I did not think this post would get the views in number and the points you all are putting over some I do not agree on ,but that does not matter after all I do not not know who is right or wrong .but it is one of the few post we get on the forum with some beef behind it,so thank you all for your views,but going back to my own I still think the same as I did on the first one,still no prove of anything.And even if it was true is it worth all the upset and lost of trade and good will it is causing ?As I said before I do feel very sorry for the members of the public and the police officer that ended up very ill over it.But only my view about it all.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,064
Indeed. And this also:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/skripal-russian-web-or-rusi-web
But do read with caution: as a
'former GCHQ officer', the author fails the Haddock credibility test, in the same way that, say, Breedlove, as '
former 17th Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO Allied Command Operations', fails it, or indeed does the Captain himself, as a '
former teacher of mathematics'.
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,070
WGS. Tks. Interesting read.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 1997- Registered: 3 Mar 2017
- Posts: 148
Interesting read. Thank you.
Having just read Gerald Seymour's new thriller "A Damned Serious Business", it makes me understand how good his research is!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I must have read everyone of his books at least twice over the years and they never disappoint, I wasn't aware of this new one - must be over 30 books by now.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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So they have done the same so what was the point in it all?
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
Just about to finish “A Damned Serious Business” on audiobooks.As ever detailed & shows his mastery of research & great story telling.
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Guest 1997- Registered: 3 Mar 2017
- Posts: 148
#71 - I don't think you'll be disappointed Howard. It's a great read, especially with the notion of deniability in mind.
Anyway, surely this is off topic. Mods - quick delete everything.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,064
Vic Matcham wrote:So they have done the same so what was the point in it all?
I think the point is 'escalation'.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,937
Vic Matcham wrote:So they have done the same so what was the point in it all?
Worth a read Vic.
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/16094006.Have_we_brought_all_this_trouble_on_ourselves_/Do nothing and nothing happens.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Courtesy of the Sunday Times.
Spy chiefs have warned the bosses of Britain’s key power companies to boost their security amid fears of a Russian cyber-attack that could put the lights out. The National Grid was put on alert last week by officials from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) — a branch of the signals intelligence agency GCHQ — and given advice on how to improve its defences to prevent power cuts.
Electricity, gas and water firms, the Sellafield nuclear power plant, Whitehall departments and NHS hospitals have all been warned to prepare for a state- sponsored assault ordered by the Kremlin after the nerve agent attack in Salisbury.
NCSC officials, working with the National Crime Agency and MI5’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, have told key organisations that they could face attempts to steal the data of taxpayers and patients or “denial of service” attacks that could shut down their websites. A Whitehall security source said: “They’re contacting all the critical national infrastructure operators. They’ve been in touch with National Grid with guidance.” Paul Chichester, the NCSC director of operations, said: “It is absolutely right that we give advice to sectors on defending themselves from cyber-attacks. “We are vigilant to cyber-threats wherever they come from and are ready to defend against them.”
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Great thats all we need. The UK should have looked at this before they acted in the way they did.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,070
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:
Spy chiefs have warned the bosses of Britain’s key power companies to boost their security amid fears of a Russian cyber-attack that could put the lights out.
See Estonia
ten years ago! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/39655415"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Perhaps Vics air raid bunker/ shelter will be refitted .I gather their is a plan we all escape to the woods.This thread is serious.I recall back in the fiftieswhen as a teen age r we had civil defence classes and we were warned of nuclear attcacks. I was a young teenager what help I thought I was I don't know but it was scarry.Having lived through the Second World War terrified as a child sitting under tables and at school standing with our backs to the wall.
I lived near an Americian airforce base so there was always this threat.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Sue, there is close to zero chance of UK coming under nuclear attack. Unfortunately some of the war game scenarios played out by the Russian Federation DO involve a first strike on a city in Eastern Europe with a view to forcing capitulation by NATO forces.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"