Self healing minefields have been developed to confound clearing operations. Allegedly it’s a humanitarian approach-
One of the main uses of anti-personnel landmines has been to keep mine-clearers away from anti-tank explosives. A dynamic, rearrangeable set of anti-tank mines would eliminate the need for anti-personnel defenses, the logic goes.
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Some useful information on the relative strengths of speed, protection and firepower of 1940’s era battleships. I’ve got some sea battles coming up in Heavensent, so I’ll have to take this into consideration.
There’s no such thing as bad publicity, so go and vote for me in the anti-bloggies, seeing as it’s too late to enter the real bloggies.
Just up the road from home (High Trees, Cumbria home, not Manchester home) is an old redbrick building that used to be the pump house for Cogra Moss (even further up the road, through a wood and nestling in a horseshoe of hills). A few years ago, it was found to contain a manufacturing lab for ecstasy. In Kansas they think bigger, using an abandoned missile silo to manufacture LSD.
Self healing minefields have been developed to confound clearing operations. Allegedly it’s a humanitarian approach-
One of the main uses of anti-personnel landmines has been to keep mine-clearers away from anti-tank explosives. A dynamic, rearrangeable set of anti-tank mines would eliminate the need for anti-personnel defenses, the logic goes.
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George Monbiot provides some figures to back up my Red Nose Day rant.
Across the table from me, the Major Incident Policy team are dividing up disasters- ‘I’ll take botulism, you can have ricin and dirty bombs’- whilst there may be a case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in North Manchester General.
Was it just me, or did Dubya look even more like a bad piece of animatronics than normal as he issued his ultimatum?
Another ministerial resignation, but Clare Short is staying.
Lots of little protests around the country. I’d take part, but I don’t think anyone would notice I wasn’t working.
‘they wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
they wanna have a war to keep their factories
they wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
they wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease
they’re pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
they wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind
they give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three
two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease’
Industrial Disease from Love Over Gold by Dire Straits.