Brexit, for once some facts.
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I think you might find it is 5/8th inch British Standard Pipe thread. Which thread standard, despite its name, has been widely adopted around the world (not USA). Including, for example, France, specifically for plumbing.
Sealed plastic containers. The only path for moisture or oxygen is via the plastic walls. I am very familiar with waxing .. happened with our kerosine when the temperature went below -10 c a number of years ago.
The thread used on the French gas system from the cylnder is not any of the normal pitches used and is not interchangeable with anything else. . While the French plumbing does use the same thread and in some cases the fittings are replaceable with Irish and UK fittings, the same is not true for the olives and copper tubing. You cannot use UK olives on Irish copper pipe or French olives on UK pipes etc etc. They may look the same but collapse at different pressures and Bite into the copper differently... The only way to be sure of leak free compression fittings is to use the same country pipe and olives.
More nonsense from the Express
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Brexit EXPLOITED: 'Opportunist' EU shocking member states by pushing UK out of Galileo
So they should and further down they give a logical reason
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EU bosses have maintained that Britain will lose access to Galileo as a result of Brexit, most notably the satellite navigation system’s Public Regulated Service – an encrypted signal available to government agencies, militaries and emergency services.
Brussels said sharing sensitive information with a third country – which Britain becomes after Brexit – “irretrievably compromises” the service.
But to Brexiteers what we want is all that matters.
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Brexit EXPLOITED: 'Opportunist' EU shocking member states by pushing UK out of Galileo
So they should and further down they give a logical reason
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EU bosses have maintained that Britain will lose access to Galileo as a result of Brexit, most notably the satellite navigation system’s Public Regulated Service – an encrypted signal available to government agencies, militaries and emergency services.
Brussels said sharing sensitive information with a third country – which Britain becomes after Brexit – “irretrievably compromises” the service.
But to Brexiteers what we want is all that matters.
Nothing more than posturing by another in a long line of spokespersons for the toothless UN!
Here is the list of all the post-WW2 Secretaries - General of the UN. They all made occasional noises similar to the current incumbent but nothing has ever been achieved in settling the middle-east disputes nor in feeding Africa or resolving the Balkans conflict. A buffer zone here and there is about all I can credit them with over the last 70 years.
I can't imagine anyone in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem is quivering over this headline.
https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/former-secretaries-general
Tom
The UN was crippled at the outset by the USA. All other countries wanted it to be based in Switzerland to be truly neutral, but the USA insisted it would have to be in their country or they wouldn't support it.
And ever since they've flexed their muscles over it, for example having never paid a cent of their UNESCO dues since 2011 as a protest against Palestine being admitted as a member of the UN. Israel also predictably stopped paying then, and some others have joined the fee dues refuseniks, including the UK. The USA alone owes UNESCO over half a billion dollars.
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This article from The Irish Times reflects the current position of the UN and its perception by the Israelis:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/israel-will-not-co-operate-with-un-human-rights-inquiry-1.3500709?mode=amp
Tom
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/israel-will-not-co-operate-with-un-human-rights-inquiry-1.3500709?mode=amp
Tom
I am not defending Israel - but there is no possible solution to the conflict in Palestine until all neighbouring countries and Palestinians accept the right of Israel to existence.
FYI
BSP use Whitworth thread (55 degree)
Since all female sealing threads by convention are parallel a Whitworth bolt ( and no other , would go straight into insert, if it was lht)
From Wiki about BSP.
The thread form follows the British Standard Whitworth standard:
Symmetrical V-thread in which the angle between the flanks is 55° (measured in an axial plane)One-sixth of this sharp V is truncated at the top and the bottomThe threads are rounded equally at crests and roots by circular arcs ending tangentially with the flanks where r=0.1373P.The thread is Whitworth.
Don't ask me why BSP decided on Whitworth when so many others were already flourishing, perhaps tooling ? Or perhaps it was established prior to UNC/ UNF / AF etc etc ? Not sure...but it has caused plenty of problems over years...and gives suppliers a monopoly???
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Nobody can deny its existence just its locality...why in Palestine ? Because us and USA decided so in 1947 ? Rather tenuous??? Suppose they,d chosen Cornwall ? Charlie would be dischuffed ?
I read Leon Uris' Exodus years ago. That made a big impression on me.
I have always felt for the refugees and the displaced, israelites and Palestinians included. Palestinians and Israelites are cousins if not brothers. May they live peacefully together one day as one country.
I recently read a fantastic tale which involved a faked nuclear explosion contamination incident which made a section of the Navada desert a no go area. Then over a 10 year period, Jewish benefactors paid for the building of infrastructure on this contaiminated land. Then on a specific date and with total secrecy, the entire population of Israel decamped and made their way there... With the support of the US administration, who were in in the scam.. if only it were that simple. But and think about it a moment, the population moved was only 8 million or the population of London.
And those Palestinian families, still holding their door keys after 70 years could return to their family homes.
And those Palestinian families, still holding their door keys after 70 years could return to their family homes.
This cannot ever happen due to Israeli policy, which is to wipe out all record of the Palestinian name and Palestinian existence in a deliberate form of ethnic cleansing.
The government and Jewish people of Israel refuse to use the name Palestinian, always referring to them as Arabs. When the Palestinians gained membership of the UN after a long struggle, both Israel and the USA stopped paying UNESCO dues in protest, and in 2017 both resigned from UNESCO membership. This is because they will not accept the existence of Palestine or Palestinians, only Arabs and Israel.
Once again we see the immense international bias. It's Israel that won't accept the existence of Palestine, and why they will never allow the two state solution, yet all we hear is that the Arabs won't accept the existence of Israel.
The basis of the Zionist claim is that when the Romans expelled them from 66 AD on, they gave the area of Judea the latin name of Syria-Palestinia. The Jewish claim that God had given them that land makes it impossible for them to accept the validity of those names, so they act against Syria such as taking the Golan Heights while historically deleting the name of Palestine.
It follows that there will never be Israeli - Palestinian peaceful co-existence until the Palestinians reject that they are Palestinian and become Arab citizens of Israel with Arab-Israeli nationality.
That's never going to happen.
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for good reasons.
The human race is not civilised enough to avoid war altogether.
We can discuss this another time.
Or as we have seen recently even our own government is prepared to use false truth to justify indulging in air strikes, merely as a diversionary tactic.
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This Israeli chat-show host has an opinion about what is happening to the Palestinians and he is not frightened to air it!
Tom
Tom
.. and that is the type of interaction with is necessary to promote.
I can easily believe that - my reply was actually meant to be about Calor threaded. Obviously I have confused by my less-than-perfectly worded response.