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offsite link Sweden Celebrates Migrant Crackdown Success as Asylum Seeker Numbers Hit 40-Year Low Tue Jan 14, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
The number of migrants granted asylum in?Sweden?dropped to the lowest level in 40 years in 2024 after a years-long crackdown on immigration under a succession of Governments. If Sweden can do it, why can't the U.K.?
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In the latest effort to deny reality, the Leftist German word police have announced that a standard term for ethnic German is "racist and antidemocratic". Can we no longer even acknowledge our existence, asks Eugyppius.
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The share of electric cars in new registrations in Germany plummeted 27.5% in 2024 compared to the previous year, as the future "remains bleak for e-mobility".
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Investigators who examined police failings in the Rotherham grooming gangs scandal were told not to investigate senior officers and no one lost their jobs, a whistleblower has said.
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Celestial Display

category international | sci-tech | other press author Friday August 12, 2005 13:23author by triffid protection eye wear. Report this post to the editors

To put us all in our place, yeah verily its the annual night of the triffids.

the Swift Tuttle comet's debris annually colides with the planet Earth in mid August giving us all shooting stars which are called the Perseids.

You may approach this simple cosmic fact with awe and superstition, gasping and pointing and mkaing little wishes for world peace or higher wages or you may choose to be scientific about it and simply record time, brightness and suspected location of the drop. Its up to you.

The last time the comet itself was visible was in 1992, someday that comet will collide with us but not yet.
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Take yourself up a mountain this weekend, and count your lucky stars, and know that all over the planet oters are doing the same...

"looking up"

This year's show will be slightly clearer than last, as the Moon is not hindering visiblity, and as a special extra the planet Mars is visible.

the comet:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/109P/Swift-Tuttle
the meteorites-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids
http://www.physlink.com/Community/Forums/printthread.cfm?Forum=18&Topic=3888
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/22jul_perseids2005.htm

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   & remember that they are valuable.     :-)    Fri Aug 12, 2005 13:31 
   I have instructed not touched the meteorite which touched down in my back garden.     vegetarian    Fri Aug 12, 2005 22:36 
   its a lump of hash on a map!     iosaf    Fri Aug 12, 2005 22:45 
   Vegetarian (& partner) [& local licensed minister of publick religious worship] TAKE PRECAUTIONS!     concerned.    Fri Aug 12, 2005 22:59 
   the music is definitely coming from the "EBE transporter pod" [?]     the partner.    Fri Aug 12, 2005 23:04 
   B'fhearr liom bó     duine eile    Fri Aug 12, 2005 23:17 
   Thank you for the support and solidarity.     vegetarian    Fri Aug 12, 2005 23:46 
   allow me to introduce myself..,     S. oros    Sat Aug 13, 2005 00:21 
   Hi(gh) iosaf     Clear headed    Sat Aug 13, 2005 00:32 
 10   "'tis good to be back 'tis true" emanates from the EBE transporter pod in a sort of loop audio file.     ¿moi?    Sat Aug 13, 2005 00:57 
 11   Its a celestial pizza...     Taurus    Sat Aug 13, 2005 01:09 
 12   it takes a certain king of reader to come to the end of the comments...     iosaf    Mon Aug 15, 2005 23:30 
 13   Don't ever chuck any psychoactive liquid (or petrol for that matter)     more advice    Mon Aug 15, 2005 23:39 
 14   young kathurlicks don't fret!     +ve vill have none of ze incidents+    Tue Aug 16, 2005 14:19 
 15   little tie-in     chemist    Tue Aug 16, 2005 14:46 
 16   ??!!     not iosaf    Tue Aug 16, 2005 15:14 
 17   funny thing happened to me on the way to the forum...     ipsiphi    Thu Aug 18, 2005 15:57 


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