Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Craig Murray tweets re Notre Dame fire (Apr. 15, 2019)

https://twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1117866272358846464

Like other western states, France possesses incredible technologies, amassed for trillions of euros, which could destroy entire cities in moments. But only invested in too short ladders and hosepipes to safeguard and its built heritage and people. Politicians' values.
12:04 PM - 15 Apr 2019
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    1.  Apr 15
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      Love the way people suddenly become experts in firefighting while the fire itself is still burning.
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    2.  Apr 15
      I know almost nothing about firefighting. I do know that France, like other Western countries, spends incredible amounts on weapons of destruction and not enough on firefighting.
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    3.  Apr 15
      You know they invested in 'too short ladder and hosepipes' precisely *how*?
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    4.  Apr 15
      because TV images show the ladders reaching 2/3 to the top.
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    5.  Apr 15
      That's because a normal motorised ladder has a maximum height of 30m and the nave is 35m high. There are virtually no ladders that would reach that high. It's really quite simple. The fire is still burning. Might be an idea to learn a bit more before using it for politics, non?
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    6.  Apr 15
      A nation that has spent billions on nuclear weapons and their delivery systems has not developed a better technology than a 30m ladder for firefighting. A point which requires a tiny amount of lateral thinking not difficult for anyone but a right wing bigot.
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    7.  Apr 15
      Blimey. I'm a right wing bigot. You've really not looked at my Twitter feed, have you? Or indeed done the teensiest bit of research of any kind. Still, France ought to have been better prepared for a twice in a millennium event. But what matters is you have An Opinion (tm).
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    8.  24 hours ago
      I have looked at your twitter feed. Classic Blairite right wing bigot.
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    1.  Apr 15
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      Ok Craig, please tell us the make a model of the highest Fire Fighting cherry picker that you are aware of. Also, please do tell us the psi required to get water from the mains, up over the 55 m walls.
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    2.  24 hours ago
      My God, how stupid can you be? My point is that if the trillions spent on developing and building weapons systems had been devoted to peaceable purposes, we might have entirely different and better firefighting technologies.
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    3.  16 hours ago
      You really are an absurd little man.
       
       
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    1.  Apr 15
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      Just posted this 2 minutes ago thinking the same.
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    2.  Apr 15
      You’ve obviously no experience of lead work and roofing. Chemicals, heavy lifting, molten heat & precarious practice & great risk is normal. Anything can go wrong anytime. For a church ffs.
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    3.  13 hours ago
      It's not about the risk of fire. It's about inability to extinguish it in time. Take a look how Russians do it when they have fire in Moscow.
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    1.  Apr 15
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      Would be sad to think it was neoliberlism that destroyed an 800 year old national treasure.
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    2.  24 hours ago
      Well, it is destroying everything else - including the biosphere, so an 800 yr old cathedral is probably the least of our worries right now.
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