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...The navy said the pirates on board were armed with guns and rocket propelled grenade launchers.Well, quite.
When it demanded the vessel stop for investigation, the pirate ship responded by threatening to "blow up the naval warship if it closed on her", the statement said.
Pirates then fired on the Tabar, and the Indians say they retaliated and that there was an explosion on the pirate vessel, which sank.
A month ago MEPs in the European Parliament adopted, with a huge majority, a proposal to downgrade piracy (report, November 18) from an act of war to a simple criminal act...which clearly hasn't prevented the Royal Navy from shooting people where necessary, or from sending prisoners to trial. And in the scuffle described above the Indian Navy, unrestrained by any EU decision, gave chase when the pirates fled their sinking ship but didn't "blow them out of the water". Derek Clark MEP continues:
Once implemented it means that a naval vessel will not be allowed to blow pirates out of the water, as they deserve, but will have to arrest them and send them off to an international court, where, no doubt, they will plead "human rights"...
Two months ago the Parliament enthusiastically adopted a report which will require all ships in EU waters to carry an electronic tag to record their movements and cargos. This information, relayed by the Galileo satellite, will be electronically stored in an EU data centre. ...The important words there are "all ships in EU waters". The astute reader will notice that pirate blackspots like the Somali coast and the Malacca Straits aren't in EU waters.
Just one corrupt operator and the pirates will have all they need to sort out the richest pickings, instead of relying on chance.
There are hundreds of descriptions by credible witnesses from Moses to John of glowing flying objects, mechanical devices, a huge fleet of invading super vehicles, hyper-advanced weapons, and unearthly technologyFor example, clouds:
Perhaps the most important reference to clouds is that Jesus will return with an army in the clouds. If these clouds are not the fluffy kind, but very sophisticated flying craft, as the Bible records, then this would seem to have relevance to properly identifying that army. When Bible text says that Yhovah rides a swift cloud, are we to believe that he is literally sitting atop a cloud speeding through the sky?You've got to admire that. The Bible isn't saying that God physically rides around on actual clouds, because that would be silly... but it's somehow quite sensible for it to be an accurate depiction of vehicles driven by some kind of super-advanced alien race. Some might think a more likely explanation is being overlooked.
MEASLES ONCE AGAIN ENDEMIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOMWell done, Wakefield, Daily Mail et al, I hope you're feeling truly proud. <slow hand clap>
Fourteen years after the local transmission of measles was halted in the United Kingdom (UK), the disease has once again become endemic, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA), the public health body of England and Wales. In an update on measles cases in its weekly bulletin last week, the agency stated that, as a result of almost a decade of low mumps-measles-rubella (MMR) vaccination coverage across the UK, ‘the number of children susceptible to measles is now sufficient to support the continuous spread of measles’
Woman led into river by guide dog
WILLIAM Shatner, Star Trek's James T Kirk has lumped his motorcycle while not wearing a helmet on a Californian highway.Nooooooooo!
The reckless former Star Trek star is famous for not bothering with leather or body armour and rides around the state wearing just beach clothes. But took a few scrapes after toppling off his Harley-Davidson. He said: "I think leather, and helmets and protective gear is foolish, in the hot California weather. I ride with sandals and shorts and a t-shirt.
I was driving along and the bike slid from under me, and I skidded across the two lane highway.You see - the man's a true talent. Despite it being a long time since Star Trek he's not lost the knack of rolling on the ground in a ripped shirt.
"I grabbed the bike hauled it up and got back on. I had to get to Los Angeles. ... I got back on the bike and my clothes are shredded, then I realised I was bleeding."
A shop in [Exeter's] Princesshay centre will come under the spotlight tonight when it is featured in an investigative TV programme.Neal's Yard do sell malaria remedies, which are so diluted they contain no active ingredient. As far as recommending homeopathic-only prophylaxis - instead of effective pharmaceutical prophylaxis - goes, they sell a book titled 'Homoeopathic Alternatives To Immunisation' which "contains practical information on preventing and treating major infectious diseases, including hepatitis, flu, malaria, measles and whooping cough" (my emphases) by Susan Curtis, who is a member of the Society of Homeopaths and works as the Medicines Director at Neal's Yard.
BBC One's Inside Out South West has investigated claims by Neal's Yard that homeopathic remedies it sells in its stores can help prevent and treat serious fatal diseases such as malaria.
For the programme Janine Jansen also interviewed Susan Curtis, medicines director for Neal's Yard and author of the book Homeopathic Alternatives to Immunisation.Well I suppose just getting up and walking out of the interview is one way of dealing with criticism. I don't know what "evidence by extension" is supposed to be, so I've written to her to ask what she meant, as well as to ask her for her evidence of homeopathic effectiveness against epidemic diseases.
Ms Curtis called an abrupt halt to the interview after about 15 minutes, when being questioned about the scientific evidence that homeopathic remedies worked.
She said during the interview that: "I do say that there is no guarantee that the remedy will prevent malaria. There are no clinical trials that we know of that show that the homeopathic remedies work for malaria. However, there is some evidence by extension that homeopathy can be very effective in certain epidemic diseases."
The House of Lords has refused to hear a petition of appeal brought by a Christian activist group trying to prosecute the BBC for blasphemy [because] it did "not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance".Having exhausted all available avenues of English Law, the complainants invoked the Wrath Of God. No, really, in the 21st century:
Christian Voice called the decision an "ignoble move".So everyone be on the lookout for plagues of locusts. Mind you, if 'Jerry Springer' can move the gods to anger, I dread to think what they'll make of this:
"It brings down the judgement of God on us all," said Stephen Green, national director of the evangelical lobby group.
"I love my neighbour and I do not want that to happen."
The government has got its controversial plan to scrap the blasphemy law through the House of Lords.Never mind the locusts, take precautions for a rain of burning sulphur.
Peers voted 148 to 87 in favour of the move last night - which was a government amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill.
The amendment will abolish the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel in England and Wales.
I challenge you to phone Ainsworths Homeopathic Pharmacy and order a Lycopodium 10M powder and tell me you don't feel ANYTHING at all after taking it!Lest someone accuse Science of cowardice in the face of Magic I felt obliged to accept that challenge. So it is that at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon I will collect a bottle of homeopathic lycopodium from Ainsworths in New Cavendish St and go to The Dover Castle pub just around the corner in Weymouth Mews. I will then take it in the presence of anyone who cares to be there. I've invited sceptics and homeopaths alike, but the homeopaths didn't seem keen. In fact it's been over a month since I wrote to the challenger 'LouiseZ' to ask her what effects she expected the homeopathic lycopodium to induce in me, and she's not uttered any reply. But my own background reading suggests hair loss, itching of the scalp, biliousness, flatulence, impotence, hair loss, headaches and the baffling-sounding "fan like motion of the nostrils", all of which sound fairly noticeable, would be predicted by homeopathic theory. I predict nothing will happen because there's nothing at all in the pills. I suppose we'll just have to see whether I "feel ANYTHING at all after taking it!"