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The urban badger – healing our badgers
KILLED BADGERS WON’T BE TB TESTED
Among the most cynical aspects of the entire badger slaughter
proposal is the declaration by Defra that it does not intend to test
the badgers it orders killed to see if they do indeed have TB. Such
testing, it states, would be too expensive and would not, in any case,
provide enough useful information.Since 1975, more than 30,000 badgers have been killed in an attempt to
curb TB in cattle. [...]
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Operation Nimrod
The Iranian Embassy Seige 11:30am Wednesday April 30th, 1980 : Six Iranian gunmen force their way into the Iranian EmbassyThe terrorists, who called themselves the ‘Democratic Revolutionary Front for Arabistan‘ were protesting against the oppression of Khuzestan by the then Iranian leader – Ayatollah Khomeini. They demanded the release of 91 political prisoners who were imprisoned in Iran. [...]
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pics of Yorkshire
all these pictures were taken by me – please use them anyway you wish (right click – “save as” to download) taken with a fuji A820
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All magnetic objects produce invisible lines of force, extending between the poles of the object. Note that I said the lines were INVISIBLE. An easy way to see these invisible field lines is to spread iron filings on a sheet of paper and place a bar magnetic under the paper. The iron filings will arrange themselves around the magnet and along the magnetic field lines.
The earth acts like a very large magnet. Just as a bar magnet produces field lines, so too does Earth. [...]
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