Should We Be Worried....

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Or is this just nonsense.

In today's Herald

"Surveillance of European waters is set to go much further than combating illegal fish landings. A complex system of logging ship and even small boat movements would help combat water-borne terrorism threats, illegal immigration, drugs smuggling, and pollution. In return, seafarers would benefit from improved navigation and safety.
Mr Richardson said that such a scheme would include surveillance by radar and radio, by aircraft, satellite tracking, and possibly unmanned flying drones in future.
His paper has also proposed a three-dimensional mapping of the entire seabed around Scotland...."

This is a small extract from the piece. The full story can be read in The Herald

Cost £200m

How much is a hospital these days?

Donald
 
Sounds good to me. I won't need to buy an expensive chart-plotter. I'll just get someone up on the radio and keep asking "Where am I?".
 
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His paper has also proposed a three-dimensional mapping of the entire seabed around Scotland...."


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That should come very handy, I don't think.
 
Three dimensional mapping of the seabed?

He could start by talking to the UKHO! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
Well, it's to combat terrorism, so how could we refuse?

The war against nobody is proving to be an expensive war, as the enemy is all too elusive. The plan of creating enemies as we go along is proving a masterstroke though.
 
........thing is we might find out that we're the 'enemy' one day. Not befoe we've signed all our rights away of course............

Germany was a democracy before Adolf and his mates took over....so was Zimbabwe........

sleep tight /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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........ that was a hole in the ground covered in petrol as I recall.

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Still is though you can't smell the petrol these days. It's about ten minutes walk from where I live.
Close by is the old Gestapo headquarters and one day, as I was telling this to some visitors, my wife remarked "It still is, only these days they're called the Finanzampt ." (Inland revenue).
Another time, when I was still new to Germany, I chuckled when I discovered that the town hall was called a "Rathaus". I remarked that "In Britain, a rathouse means a house full of vermin"
My wife replied "It means much the same here!"
 
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Please accept our fondest wishes, we are here to protect and serve you. No, the terrorists (oooh scary men with big boom booms) have not won. Any vocal or thoughts against the state will result in correction.

Now, plss off!

hmg.
 
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