Badgers or cops? Badgers.

Just in case anyone’s in any doubt about the police

The police (supposedly independent) told badger cull protesters that they would pass their details to the NFU.

The police (supposedly independent) handed out pro-cull leaflets to badger cull protesters.

A high court judge (supposedly independent) has banned protesters from using torches or whistles (as opposed to guns) as that amounts (in his (independent) view) to harassment of farmers.

As I understand it (and my understanding of anything at all is open to a lot of questions) the police are not the government’s private army. However, going on the absolute drivel they  came out with after a farmer shot an innocent, good-natured, non-threatening dog because he’s an utter git, taking his side and threatening another innocent dog with termination just because he was there, they deserve no trust whatsoever.

Hillsborough. Tomlinson. Miner’s strike.

Thatcher, hateful of sport, said blame the supporters. The police complied, falsified reports, cared nothing for the hurt they caused already grieving families. Thatcher used them as a private army against the miners, Blair and Brown and now Cam-Clegg-oron do the same against the G20 and May Day protesters, with disastrous results, including the abhorrent practice of ‘kettling’, which is probably against the constitution, a constitution those sworn to uphold are happy to ignore. Habeas corpus is the right to be brought before a judge or a court if held or detained, particularly without cause or evidence. If kettling people indiscriminately isn’t being held without evidence or cause, then that’s one imaginative argument you’ve got going to support that view.

Blowhead whales…

…have turned up with the residue of harpoons in their bodies. Harpoons of a type that has not been used since 1870 to 1890. Their estimated typical lifespan has been revised to around 200 years. Analysis of amino acids reveals that the whale could be somewhere between 177 and 245 years old. There’s giant clams that reach over 400 years of age.

This is what we’re doing to the ocean environment…

…the Pacific has a gyre, which I think is like a ocean whirlpool thingy that concentrates any rubbish dumped into the sea. There’s seven of them, they all contain these floating rubbish islands, but the Pacific one is the biggest.

Estimates of the size vary, due to disagreements on what density of garbage constitutes pollution (arguably, any?) but it’s big. North America big. Ignore the sceptics. There’s wonders beyond your wildest in the seas, and we’re doing nothing to preserve them.