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Bird fair on the run (Where IS the RSPB, highly selective in the brids they protect.?)
"Douglas" wrote in message news:... "Malcolm" wrote in message ... Where is the RSPB when you need it? They seem to have adopted a strategy of silence on bird protection. Nothing from the RSPB over millions of game birds being slaughtered each year, no surprise really when you consider the RSPB actually have hunting partners, and run so called reserves WITH these hunting partners. Nothing from the RSPB when bird fairs are selling rare species? It would seem in the eyes of the RSPB the phrase "Royal Society for the Protection of Birds" is highly selective, in fact so selective the world is seeing the greatest destruction of birds ever known, not to mention habitat. Thank god wildlife still has impartial charities who are not simply offering lip service. This was found at the excellent Animal Aid website. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/2004/0406fair.htm Bird fair on the run The UK's largest wild bird market is now scheduled to take place in December 2004 at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire. After 25 years of holding this market at Birmingham's NEC, the organisers have been forced to look elsewhere. A major joint investigation of the wild bird trade, conducted by the Environmental Investigation Agency, RSPCA and the RSPB, demonstrated that for every bird who survived the brutal capture and transportation process, a further three would have died. This means that hundreds of thousands of birds were snatched from their natural habitat for this one bird market alone, with three-quarters of them dying en route. Exotic birds are either captured in flight by nets, trapped in baited cages or stuck to the branches of trees with sticky 'bird lime'. They may then spend weeks being transported between dealers and months waiting in a cage before being shipped by air to their country of destination. Fifty percent die between capture and transport. After habitat destruction, collection of birds for the pet trade is the biggest factor in species decline. Sadly their plight does not improve once they reach the bird market. Here they are often kept in cages that are overcrowded or too small. Small groups of parrots are seen huddled together - obviously petrified by their experience. Wild-caught birds are especially frightened of humans and will view people as predators. They will feel trapped, vulnerable and terrified at these events. These one-day bird fairs also breach the Pet Animals Act, 1951, which prohibits the carrying on of a business of selling pet animals in a public place. If Warwick District Council allows this event at Stoneleigh Park to take place they will have failed in their duty to uphold the law. Please write to the Council and remind them of their legal responsibility to prohibit this event. See the sample letter in the action alerts section. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/alerts.htm Please also collect signatures for our petition from friends, family and work colleagues and return completed forms to us. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/birdspetition.pdf Together, we can stop this cruel market and crack down on the illegal wildlife trade. Our recently published report on the 2003 event - From Jungle to Jumble http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/jumble.htm - recommends that Solihull MBC commence prosecutions for violations of the Pet Animals Act. Photo credit: EIA For more information, and to find out what else you can do to help with this campaign, see the Ban the Bird Market index. Photo credit:EIA http://www.animalaid.org.uk/campaign/sport/necbird.htm ****** Don't talk to me about the R.S.P.B. 400 hundred foreigners - many from China have invaded the shores of Morecambe Bay and denuded the vast beaches of hundreds of thousands of cockles for transport and sale in Spain Portugal etc. 20 Chinese - Being paid peanuts by our standards but riches in their own currency were drowned by the rip-tides in one night. No-one has been brought to justice. Instead of vast sweeping flocks of oyster-catchers, seagulls, ducks flying and wheeling overhead the skies and sands are bare and people are saying that the fishing is also now in poor shape. Two years go the beach mussel beds were raped and destroyed by vehicles, and thousands of tons of mussels shipped to Holland. Nobody can stop the perpetrators. They have licences. Finally the beds have been "fished out " and notices have been posted banning the taking of cockles on the Barrow Coast road beaches. So what has happened??. The whole four or five hundred of the foreign rapists have moved into the Askam Bay beaches where the only access road to this Bay is a narrow one and the Sandhills nurture the very rare Natterjack Toads. The Police and Authorities have published a warning to the Public to keep clear of this area so as to give free uninterrupted access by the cocklers big heavy lorries which will block the parking spaces which were provided for and paid for by the Public. Did you ever hear of such insolent, - nay, impertinent arrogance. Where are the Freedoms we fought and died for?. Both the Morecambe Bay Coast road and the Askam bay sand-dunes and beaches are the playgrounds of the Furness Peninsular folk, especially in summer. And, despite protests and anger, - what do we hear from the *ROYAL* (!,) Society for the Protection of Birds??. NOT A DICKYBIRD!!. It won't be long before the marauders are marching up our fields and loading their lorries up with sheep. Our mighty Nation, which for over two hundred years ruled much of the planet wisely, is now a Third-Rate Nation, Why is this? It is because its People have gradually but completely lost their spunk. Doug. |
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Bird fair on the run (Where IS the RSPB, highly selective in the brids they protect.?)
"Douglas" wrote in message news:... "Malcolm" wrote in message ... Where is the RSPB when you need it? They seem to have adopted a strategy of silence on bird protection. Nothing from the RSPB over millions of game birds being slaughtered each year, no surprise really when you consider the RSPB actually have hunting partners, and run so called reserves WITH these hunting partners. Nothing from the RSPB when bird fairs are selling rare species? It would seem in the eyes of the RSPB the phrase "Royal Society for the Protection of Birds" is highly selective, in fact so selective the world is seeing the greatest destruction of birds ever known, not to mention habitat. Thank god wildlife still has impartial charities who are not simply offering lip service. This was found at the excellent Animal Aid website. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/2004/0406fair.htm Bird fair on the run The UK's largest wild bird market is now scheduled to take place in December 2004 at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire. After 25 years of holding this market at Birmingham's NEC, the organisers have been forced to look elsewhere. A major joint investigation of the wild bird trade, conducted by the Environmental Investigation Agency, RSPCA and the RSPB, demonstrated that for every bird who survived the brutal capture and transportation process, a further three would have died. This means that hundreds of thousands of birds were snatched from their natural habitat for this one bird market alone, with three-quarters of them dying en route. Exotic birds are either captured in flight by nets, trapped in baited cages or stuck to the branches of trees with sticky 'bird lime'. They may then spend weeks being transported between dealers and months waiting in a cage before being shipped by air to their country of destination. Fifty percent die between capture and transport. After habitat destruction, collection of birds for the pet trade is the biggest factor in species decline. Sadly their plight does not improve once they reach the bird market. Here they are often kept in cages that are overcrowded or too small. Small groups of parrots are seen huddled together - obviously petrified by their experience. Wild-caught birds are especially frightened of humans and will view people as predators. They will feel trapped, vulnerable and terrified at these events. These one-day bird fairs also breach the Pet Animals Act, 1951, which prohibits the carrying on of a business of selling pet animals in a public place. If Warwick District Council allows this event at Stoneleigh Park to take place they will have failed in their duty to uphold the law. Please write to the Council and remind them of their legal responsibility to prohibit this event. See the sample letter in the action alerts section. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/alerts.htm Please also collect signatures for our petition from friends, family and work colleagues and return completed forms to us. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/birdspetition.pdf Together, we can stop this cruel market and crack down on the illegal wildlife trade. Our recently published report on the 2003 event - From Jungle to Jumble http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/jumble.htm - recommends that Solihull MBC commence prosecutions for violations of the Pet Animals Act. Photo credit: EIA For more information, and to find out what else you can do to help with this campaign, see the Ban the Bird Market index. Photo credit:EIA http://www.animalaid.org.uk/campaign/sport/necbird.htm ****** Don't talk to me about the R.S.P.B. Four hundred foreigners - many from China have invaded the shores of Morecambe Bay and denuded the vast beaches of hundreds of thousands of cockles for transport and sale in Spai, Portugal etc. 20 Chinese - Being paid peanuts by our standards but riches in their own currency were drowned by the rip-tides in one night. No-one has been brought to justice. Instead of vast sweeping flocks of oyster-catchers, seagulls and ducks flying and wheeling overhead, the skies and sands are bare of birds and people are saying that the fishing is also now in poor shape. Two years go the beach mussel beds were raped and destroyed by vehicles, and thousands of tons of mussels shipped to Holland. Nobody can stop the perpetrators. They have licences. Finally the beds have been "fished out " and notices have been posted banning the taking of cockles on the Barrow Coast road beaches. So what has happened??. The whole four or five hundred of the foreign rapists have moved into the Askam Bay beaches where the only access road to this Bay is a narrow one and the surrounding Sandhills nurture the very rare Natterjack Toads. The Police and Authorities have published a warning to the Public to keep clear of this area so as to give free uninterrupted access to the cockler's big heavy lorries which will block the parking spaces which were provided for and paid for by the Public. Did you ever hear of such insolent, - nay, impertinent arrogance. Where are the Freedoms we fought and died for?. Both the Morecambe Bay Coast road and the Askam bay sand-dunes and beaches have been the playgrounds of the Furness Peninsular folk for countless generations especially in summer. And, despite protests and anger, - what do we hear from the *ROYAL* (!,) Society for the Protection of Birds??. NOT A DICKYBIRD!!. It won't be long before the marauders are marching up our fields and loading their lorries up with sheep. Our mighty Nation, which for over two hundred years ruled much of the planet wisely, is now a Third-Rate Nation, Why is this? It is because its People have gradually but completely lost their spunk. Doug. |
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Bird fair on the run (Where IS the RSPB, highly selective in the brids they protect.?)
"Douglas" wrote in message news:... "Malcolm" wrote in message ... Where is the RSPB when you need it? They seem to have adopted a strategy of silence on bird protection. Nothing from the RSPB over millions of game birds being slaughtered each year, no surprise really when you consider the RSPB actually have hunting partners, and run so called reserves WITH these hunting partners. Nothing from the RSPB when bird fairs are selling rare species? It would seem in the eyes of the RSPB the phrase "Royal Society for the Protection of Birds" is highly selective, in fact so selective the world is seeing the greatest destruction of birds ever known, not to mention habitat. Thank god wildlife still has impartial charities who are not simply offering lip service. This was found at the excellent Animal Aid website. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/2004/0406fair.htm Bird fair on the run The UK's largest wild bird market is now scheduled to take place in December 2004 at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire. After 25 years of holding this market at Birmingham's NEC, the organisers have been forced to look elsewhere. A major joint investigation of the wild bird trade, conducted by the Environmental Investigation Agency, RSPCA and the RSPB, demonstrated that for every bird who survived the brutal capture and transportation process, a further three would have died. This means that hundreds of thousands of birds were snatched from their natural habitat for this one bird market alone, with three-quarters of them dying en route. Exotic birds are either captured in flight by nets, trapped in baited cages or stuck to the branches of trees with sticky 'bird lime'. They may then spend weeks being transported between dealers and months waiting in a cage before being shipped by air to their country of destination. Fifty percent die between capture and transport. After habitat destruction, collection of birds for the pet trade is the biggest factor in species decline. Sadly their plight does not improve once they reach the bird market. Here they are often kept in cages that are overcrowded or too small. Small groups of parrots are seen huddled together - obviously petrified by their experience. Wild-caught birds are especially frightened of humans and will view people as predators. They will feel trapped, vulnerable and terrified at these events. These one-day bird fairs also breach the Pet Animals Act, 1951, which prohibits the carrying on of a business of selling pet animals in a public place. If Warwick District Council allows this event at Stoneleigh Park to take place they will have failed in their duty to uphold the law. Please write to the Council and remind them of their legal responsibility to prohibit this event. See the sample letter in the action alerts section. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/alerts.htm Please also collect signatures for our petition from friends, family and work colleagues and return completed forms to us. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/birdspetition.pdf Together, we can stop this cruel market and crack down on the illegal wildlife trade. Our recently published report on the 2003 event - From Jungle to Jumble http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/jumble.htm - recommends that Solihull MBC commence prosecutions for violations of the Pet Animals Act. Photo credit: EIA For more information, and to find out what else you can do to help with this campaign, see the Ban the Bird Market index. Photo credit:EIA http://www.animalaid.org.uk/campaign/sport/necbird.htm ****** Don't talk to me about the R.S.P.B. 400 hundred foreigners - many from China have invaded the shores of Morecambe Bay and denuded the vast beaches of hundreds of thousands of cockles for transport and sale in Spain Portugal etc. 20 Chinese - Being paid peanuts by our standards but riches in their own currency were drowned by the rip-tides in one night. No-one has been brought to justice. Instead of vast sweeping flocks of oyster-catchers, seagulls, ducks flying and wheeling overhead the skies and sands are bare and people are saying that the fishing is also now in poor shape. Two years go the beach mussel beds were raped and destroyed by vehicles, and thousands of tons of mussels shipped to Holland. Nobody can stop the perpetrators. They have licences. Finally the beds have been "fished out " and notices have been posted banning the taking of cockles on the Barrow Coast road beaches. So what has happened??. The whole four or five hundred of the foreign rapists have moved into the Askam Bay beaches where the only access road to this Bay is a narrow one and the Sandhills nurture the very rare Natterjack Toads. The Police and Authorities have published a warning to the Public to keep clear of this area so as to give free uninterrupted access by the cocklers' big heavy lorries which will block the parking spaces which were provided for and paid for by the Public. Did you ever hear of such insolent, - nay, impertinent arrogance. Where are the Freedoms we fought and died for?. Both the Morecambe Bay Coast road and the Askam bay sand-dunes and beaches are, and have been for many generations the playgrounds of the Furness Peninsular folk, especially in summer. And, despite protests and anger, - what do we hear from the *ROYAL* Society for the Protection of Birds??. NOT A DICKYBIRD!!. It won't be long before the marauders are marching up our fields and loading their lorries up with sheep. Our mighty Nation, which for over two hundred years ruled much of the planet wisely, is now a Third-Rate Nation, Why is this? It is because its People have gradually but completely lost their spunk. Doug. ****** |
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Bird fair on the run (Where IS the RSPB, highly selective in the brids they protect.?)
"Douglas" wrote ...
---- SNIP ---- Douglas, given the number of times you've repeated that, do you work for the BBC ? ;^) -- Life is hard . . . . . It's harder if you're stupid |
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Bird fair on the run (Where IS the RSPB, highly selective in the brids they protect.?)
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:32:48 +0000 (UTC), "Tony Parkinson"
wrote: "Douglas" wrote ... ---- SNIP ---- Douglas, given the number of times you've repeated that, do you work for the BBC ? **** of parkie, your warped sense of net kook is not wanted here. +------------------------+ | NO PLONKING ZONE | +------------------------+ | | | | | | | ..| |.. .| |.. ...\| |/.... \| |/.. ********************************************** 'You can't win 'em all.' Lord Haw Haw. Since I stopped donating money to CONservation hooligan charities Like the RSPB, Woodland Trust and all the other fat cat charities I am in the top 0.217% richest people in the world. There are 5,986,950,449 people poorer than me If you're really interested I am the 13,049,551 richest person in the world. And I'm keeping the bloody lot. So sue me. http://www.globalrichlist.com/ Newsgroup ettiquette 1) Tell everyone the Trolls don't bother you. 2) Say you've killfiled them, yet continue to respond. 3) Tell other people off who repsond despite doing so yourself. 4) Continually talk about Trolls while maintaining they're having no effect. 5) Publicly post killfile rules so the Trolls know how to avoid them. 6) Make lame legal threats and other barrel scraping manoeuvres when your abuse reports are ignored. 7) Eat vast quantities of pies. 8) Forget to brush your teeth for several decades. 9) Help a demon.local poster with their email while secretly reading it. 10) Pretend you're a hard ******* when in fact you're as bent as a roundabout. 11) Become the laughing stock of Usenet like Mabbet 12) Die of old age 13) Keep paying Dr Chartham his fees and hope one day you will have a penis the girls can see. --------------------------------------- "If you would'nt talk to them in a bar, don't *uckin' vote for them" "Australia was not *discovered* it was invaded" The Big Yin. Need a fake diploma for fun? contact my collegues Malcolm Ogilvie or Michael Saunby who both bought one and got one free, only $15 each, have as many as you like www.fakediplomas.com |
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Bird fair on the run (Where IS the RSPB, highly selective in the brids they protect.?)
"Douglas" wrote in message news:... "Malcolm" wrote in message ... Where is the RSPB when you need it? They seem to have adopted a strategy of silence on bird protection. Nothing from the RSPB over millions of game birds being slaughtered each year, no surprise really when you consider the RSPB actually have hunting partners, and run so called reserves WITH these hunting partners. Nothing from the RSPB when bird fairs are selling rare species? It would seem in the eyes of the RSPB the phrase "Royal Society for the Protection of Birds" is highly selective, in fact so selective the world is seeing the greatest destruction of birds ever known, not to mention habitat. Thank god wildlife still has impartial charities who are not simply offering lip service. This was found at the excellent Animal Aid website. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/2004/0406fair.htm Bird fair on the run The UK's largest wild bird market is now scheduled to take place in December 2004 at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire. After 25 years of holding this market at Birmingham's NEC, the organisers have been forced to look elsewhere. A major joint investigation of the wild bird trade, conducted by the Environmental Investigation Agency, RSPCA and the RSPB, demonstrated that for every bird who survived the brutal capture and transportation process, a further three would have died. This means that hundreds of thousands of birds were snatched from their natural habitat for this one bird market alone, with three-quarters of them dying en route. Exotic birds are either captured in flight by nets, trapped in baited cages or stuck to the branches of trees with sticky 'bird lime'. They may then spend weeks being transported between dealers and months waiting in a cage before being shipped by air to their country of destination. Fifty percent die between capture and transport. After habitat destruction, collection of birds for the pet trade is the biggest factor in species decline. Sadly their plight does not improve once they reach the bird market. Here they are often kept in cages that are overcrowded or too small. Small groups of parrots are seen huddled together - obviously petrified by their experience. Wild-caught birds are especially frightened of humans and will view people as predators. They will feel trapped, vulnerable and terrified at these events. These one-day bird fairs also breach the Pet Animals Act, 1951, which prohibits the carrying on of a business of selling pet animals in a public place. If Warwick District Council allows this event at Stoneleigh Park to take place they will have failed in their duty to uphold the law. Please write to the Council and remind them of their legal responsibility to prohibit this event. See the sample letter in the action alerts section. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/alerts.htm Please also collect signatures for our petition from friends, family and work colleagues and return completed forms to us. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/birdspetition.pdf Together, we can stop this cruel market and crack down on the illegal wildlife trade. Our recently published report on the 2003 event - From Jungle to Jumble http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/jumble.htm - recommends that Solihull MBC commence prosecutions for violations of the Pet Animals Act. Photo credit: EIA For more information, and to find out what else you can do to help with this campaign, see the Ban the Bird Market index. Photo credit:EIA http://www.animalaid.org.uk/campaign/sport/necbird.htm ****** Don't talk to me about the R.S.P.B. 400 hundred foreigners - many from China have invaded the shores of Morecambe Bay and denuded the vast beaches of hundreds of thousands of cockles for transport and sale in Spain Portugal etc. 20 Chinese - Being paid peanuts by our standards but riches in their own currency were drowned by the rip-tides in one night. No-one has been brought to justice. Instead of vast sweeping flocks of oyster-catchers, seagulls, ducks flying and wheeling overhead the skies and sands are bare and people are saying that the fishing is also now in poor shape. Two years go the beach mussel beds were raped and destroyed by vehicles, and thousands of tons of mussels shipped to Holland. Nobody can stop the perpetrators. They have licences. Finally the beds have been "fished out " and notices have been posted banning the taking of cockles on the Barrow Coast road beaches. So what has happened??. The whole four or five hundred of the foreign rapists have moved into the Askam Bay beaches where the only access road to this Bay is a narrow one and the Sandhills nurture the very rare Natterjack Toads. The Police and Authorities have published a warning to the Public to keep clear of this area so as to give free uninterrupted access by the cocklers big heavy lorries which will block the parking spaces which were provided for and paid for by the Public. Did you ever hear of such insolent, - nay, impertinent arrogance. Where are the Freedoms we fought and died for?. Both the Morecambe Bay Coast road and the Askam bay sand-dunes and beaches are the playgrounds of the Furness Peninsular folk, especially in summer. And, despite protests and anger, - what do we hear from the *ROYAL* (!,) Society for the Protection of Birds??. NOT A DICKYBIRD!!. It won't be long before the marauders are marching up our fields and loading their lorries up with sheep. Our mighty Nation, which for over two hundred years ruled much of the planet wisely, is now a Third-Rate Nation, Why is this? It is because its People have gradually but completely lost their spunk. Doug. |
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Bird fair on the run (Where IS the RSPB, highly selective in the brids they protect.?)
"Douglas" wrote in message news:... "Malcolm" wrote in message ... Where is the RSPB when you need it? They seem to have adopted a strategy of silence on bird protection. Nothing from the RSPB over millions of game birds being slaughtered each year, no surprise really when you consider the RSPB actually have hunting partners, and run so called reserves WITH these hunting partners. Nothing from the RSPB when bird fairs are selling rare species? It would seem in the eyes of the RSPB the phrase "Royal Society for the Protection of Birds" is highly selective, in fact so selective the world is seeing the greatest destruction of birds ever known, not to mention habitat. Thank god wildlife still has impartial charities who are not simply offering lip service. This was found at the excellent Animal Aid website. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/2004/0406fair.htm Bird fair on the run The UK's largest wild bird market is now scheduled to take place in December 2004 at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire. After 25 years of holding this market at Birmingham's NEC, the organisers have been forced to look elsewhere. A major joint investigation of the wild bird trade, conducted by the Environmental Investigation Agency, RSPCA and the RSPB, demonstrated that for every bird who survived the brutal capture and transportation process, a further three would have died. This means that hundreds of thousands of birds were snatched from their natural habitat for this one bird market alone, with three-quarters of them dying en route. Exotic birds are either captured in flight by nets, trapped in baited cages or stuck to the branches of trees with sticky 'bird lime'. They may then spend weeks being transported between dealers and months waiting in a cage before being shipped by air to their country of destination. Fifty percent die between capture and transport. After habitat destruction, collection of birds for the pet trade is the biggest factor in species decline. Sadly their plight does not improve once they reach the bird market. Here they are often kept in cages that are overcrowded or too small. Small groups of parrots are seen huddled together - obviously petrified by their experience. Wild-caught birds are especially frightened of humans and will view people as predators. They will feel trapped, vulnerable and terrified at these events. These one-day bird fairs also breach the Pet Animals Act, 1951, which prohibits the carrying on of a business of selling pet animals in a public place. If Warwick District Council allows this event at Stoneleigh Park to take place they will have failed in their duty to uphold the law. Please write to the Council and remind them of their legal responsibility to prohibit this event. See the sample letter in the action alerts section. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/alerts.htm Please also collect signatures for our petition from friends, family and work colleagues and return completed forms to us. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/birdspetition.pdf Together, we can stop this cruel market and crack down on the illegal wildlife trade. Our recently published report on the 2003 event - From Jungle to Jumble http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/jumble.htm - recommends that Solihull MBC commence prosecutions for violations of the Pet Animals Act. Photo credit: EIA For more information, and to find out what else you can do to help with this campaign, see the Ban the Bird Market index. Photo credit:EIA http://www.animalaid.org.uk/campaign/sport/necbird.htm ****** Don't talk to me about the R.S.P.B. Four hundred foreigners - many from China have invaded the shores of Morecambe Bay and denuded the vast beaches of hundreds of thousands of cockles for transport and sale in Spai, Portugal etc. 20 Chinese - Being paid peanuts by our standards but riches in their own currency were drowned by the rip-tides in one night. No-one has been brought to justice. Instead of vast sweeping flocks of oyster-catchers, seagulls and ducks flying and wheeling overhead, the skies and sands are bare of birds and people are saying that the fishing is also now in poor shape. Two years go the beach mussel beds were raped and destroyed by vehicles, and thousands of tons of mussels shipped to Holland. Nobody can stop the perpetrators. They have licences. Finally the beds have been "fished out " and notices have been posted banning the taking of cockles on the Barrow Coast road beaches. So what has happened??. The whole four or five hundred of the foreign rapists have moved into the Askam Bay beaches where the only access road to this Bay is a narrow one and the surrounding Sandhills nurture the very rare Natterjack Toads. The Police and Authorities have published a warning to the Public to keep clear of this area so as to give free uninterrupted access to the cockler's big heavy lorries which will block the parking spaces which were provided for and paid for by the Public. Did you ever hear of such insolent, - nay, impertinent arrogance. Where are the Freedoms we fought and died for?. Both the Morecambe Bay Coast road and the Askam bay sand-dunes and beaches have been the playgrounds of the Furness Peninsular folk for countless generations especially in summer. And, despite protests and anger, - what do we hear from the *ROYAL* (!,) Society for the Protection of Birds??. NOT A DICKYBIRD!!. It won't be long before the marauders are marching up our fields and loading their lorries up with sheep. Our mighty Nation, which for over two hundred years ruled much of the planet wisely, is now a Third-Rate Nation, Why is this? It is because its People have gradually but completely lost their spunk. Doug. |
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Bird fair on the run (Where IS the RSPB, highly selective in the brids they protect.?)
"Douglas" wrote in message news:... "Malcolm" wrote in message ... Where is the RSPB when you need it? They seem to have adopted a strategy of silence on bird protection. Nothing from the RSPB over millions of game birds being slaughtered each year, no surprise really when you consider the RSPB actually have hunting partners, and run so called reserves WITH these hunting partners. Nothing from the RSPB when bird fairs are selling rare species? It would seem in the eyes of the RSPB the phrase "Royal Society for the Protection of Birds" is highly selective, in fact so selective the world is seeing the greatest destruction of birds ever known, not to mention habitat. Thank god wildlife still has impartial charities who are not simply offering lip service. This was found at the excellent Animal Aid website. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/2004/0406fair.htm Bird fair on the run The UK's largest wild bird market is now scheduled to take place in December 2004 at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire. After 25 years of holding this market at Birmingham's NEC, the organisers have been forced to look elsewhere. A major joint investigation of the wild bird trade, conducted by the Environmental Investigation Agency, RSPCA and the RSPB, demonstrated that for every bird who survived the brutal capture and transportation process, a further three would have died. This means that hundreds of thousands of birds were snatched from their natural habitat for this one bird market alone, with three-quarters of them dying en route. Exotic birds are either captured in flight by nets, trapped in baited cages or stuck to the branches of trees with sticky 'bird lime'. They may then spend weeks being transported between dealers and months waiting in a cage before being shipped by air to their country of destination. Fifty percent die between capture and transport. After habitat destruction, collection of birds for the pet trade is the biggest factor in species decline. Sadly their plight does not improve once they reach the bird market. Here they are often kept in cages that are overcrowded or too small. Small groups of parrots are seen huddled together - obviously petrified by their experience. Wild-caught birds are especially frightened of humans and will view people as predators. They will feel trapped, vulnerable and terrified at these events. These one-day bird fairs also breach the Pet Animals Act, 1951, which prohibits the carrying on of a business of selling pet animals in a public place. If Warwick District Council allows this event at Stoneleigh Park to take place they will have failed in their duty to uphold the law. Please write to the Council and remind them of their legal responsibility to prohibit this event. See the sample letter in the action alerts section. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/alerts.htm Please also collect signatures for our petition from friends, family and work colleagues and return completed forms to us. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/birdspetition.pdf Together, we can stop this cruel market and crack down on the illegal wildlife trade. Our recently published report on the 2003 event - From Jungle to Jumble http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/jumble.htm - recommends that Solihull MBC commence prosecutions for violations of the Pet Animals Act. Photo credit: EIA For more information, and to find out what else you can do to help with this campaign, see the Ban the Bird Market index. Photo credit:EIA http://www.animalaid.org.uk/campaign/sport/necbird.htm ****** Don't talk to me about the R.S.P.B. 400 hundred foreigners - many from China have invaded the shores of Morecambe Bay and denuded the vast beaches of hundreds of thousands of cockles for transport and sale in Spain Portugal etc. 20 Chinese - Being paid peanuts by our standards but riches in their own currency were drowned by the rip-tides in one night. No-one has been brought to justice. Instead of vast sweeping flocks of oyster-catchers, seagulls, ducks flying and wheeling overhead the skies and sands are bare and people are saying that the fishing is also now in poor shape. Two years go the beach mussel beds were raped and destroyed by vehicles, and thousands of tons of mussels shipped to Holland. Nobody can stop the perpetrators. They have licences. Finally the beds have been "fished out " and notices have been posted banning the taking of cockles on the Barrow Coast road beaches. So what has happened??. The whole four or five hundred of the foreign rapists have moved into the Askam Bay beaches where the only access road to this Bay is a narrow one and the Sandhills nurture the very rare Natterjack Toads. The Police and Authorities have published a warning to the Public to keep clear of this area so as to give free uninterrupted access by the cocklers' big heavy lorries which will block the parking spaces which were provided for and paid for by the Public. Did you ever hear of such insolent, - nay, impertinent arrogance. Where are the Freedoms we fought and died for?. Both the Morecambe Bay Coast road and the Askam bay sand-dunes and beaches are, and have been for many generations the playgrounds of the Furness Peninsular folk, especially in summer. And, despite protests and anger, - what do we hear from the *ROYAL* Society for the Protection of Birds??. NOT A DICKYBIRD!!. It won't be long before the marauders are marching up our fields and loading their lorries up with sheep. Our mighty Nation, which for over two hundred years ruled much of the planet wisely, is now a Third-Rate Nation, Why is this? It is because its People have gradually but completely lost their spunk. Doug. ****** |
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"Douglas" wrote ...
---- SNIP ---- Douglas, given the number of times you've repeated that, do you work for the BBC ? ;^) -- Life is hard . . . . . It's harder if you're stupid |
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:32:48 +0000 (UTC), "Tony Parkinson"
wrote: "Douglas" wrote ... ---- SNIP ---- Douglas, given the number of times you've repeated that, do you work for the BBC ? **** of parkie, your warped sense of net kook is not wanted here. +------------------------+ | NO PLONKING ZONE | +------------------------+ | | | | | | | ..| |.. .| |.. ...\| |/.... \| |/.. ********************************************** 'You can't win 'em all.' Lord Haw Haw. Since I stopped donating money to CONservation hooligan charities Like the RSPB, Woodland Trust and all the other fat cat charities I am in the top 0.217% richest people in the world. There are 5,986,950,449 people poorer than me If you're really interested I am the 13,049,551 richest person in the world. And I'm keeping the bloody lot. So sue me. http://www.globalrichlist.com/ Newsgroup ettiquette 1) Tell everyone the Trolls don't bother you. 2) Say you've killfiled them, yet continue to respond. 3) Tell other people off who repsond despite doing so yourself. 4) Continually talk about Trolls while maintaining they're having no effect. 5) Publicly post killfile rules so the Trolls know how to avoid them. 6) Make lame legal threats and other barrel scraping manoeuvres when your abuse reports are ignored. 7) Eat vast quantities of pies. 8) Forget to brush your teeth for several decades. 9) Help a demon.local poster with their email while secretly reading it. 10) Pretend you're a hard ******* when in fact you're as bent as a roundabout. 11) Become the laughing stock of Usenet like Mabbet 12) Die of old age 13) Keep paying Dr Chartham his fees and hope one day you will have a penis the girls can see. --------------------------------------- "If you would'nt talk to them in a bar, don't *uckin' vote for them" "Australia was not *discovered* it was invaded" The Big Yin. Need a fake diploma for fun? contact my collegues Malcolm Ogilvie or Michael Saunby who both bought one and got one free, only $15 each, have as many as you like www.fakediplomas.com |
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"Douglas" wrote in message news:... "Malcolm" wrote in message ... Where is the RSPB when you need it? They seem to have adopted a strategy of silence on bird protection. Nothing from the RSPB over millions of game birds being slaughtered each year, no surprise really when you consider the RSPB actually have hunting partners, and run so called reserves WITH these hunting partners. Nothing from the RSPB when bird fairs are selling rare species? It would seem in the eyes of the RSPB the phrase "Royal Society for the Protection of Birds" is highly selective, in fact so selective the world is seeing the greatest destruction of birds ever known, not to mention habitat. Thank god wildlife still has impartial charities who are not simply offering lip service. This was found at the excellent Animal Aid website. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/2004/0406fair.htm Bird fair on the run The UK's largest wild bird market is now scheduled to take place in December 2004 at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire. After 25 years of holding this market at Birmingham's NEC, the organisers have been forced to look elsewhere. A major joint investigation of the wild bird trade, conducted by the Environmental Investigation Agency, RSPCA and the RSPB, demonstrated that for every bird who survived the brutal capture and transportation process, a further three would have died. This means that hundreds of thousands of birds were snatched from their natural habitat for this one bird market alone, with three-quarters of them dying en route. Exotic birds are either captured in flight by nets, trapped in baited cages or stuck to the branches of trees with sticky 'bird lime'. They may then spend weeks being transported between dealers and months waiting in a cage before being shipped by air to their country of destination. Fifty percent die between capture and transport. After habitat destruction, collection of birds for the pet trade is the biggest factor in species decline. Sadly their plight does not improve once they reach the bird market. Here they are often kept in cages that are overcrowded or too small. Small groups of parrots are seen huddled together - obviously petrified by their experience. Wild-caught birds are especially frightened of humans and will view people as predators. They will feel trapped, vulnerable and terrified at these events. These one-day bird fairs also breach the Pet Animals Act, 1951, which prohibits the carrying on of a business of selling pet animals in a public place. If Warwick District Council allows this event at Stoneleigh Park to take place they will have failed in their duty to uphold the law. Please write to the Council and remind them of their legal responsibility to prohibit this event. See the sample letter in the action alerts section. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/alerts.htm Please also collect signatures for our petition from friends, family and work colleagues and return completed forms to us. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/birdspetition.pdf Together, we can stop this cruel market and crack down on the illegal wildlife trade. Our recently published report on the 2003 event - From Jungle to Jumble http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/jumble.htm - recommends that Solihull MBC commence prosecutions for violations of the Pet Animals Act. Photo credit: EIA For more information, and to find out what else you can do to help with this campaign, see the Ban the Bird Market index. Photo credit:EIA http://www.animalaid.org.uk/campaign/sport/necbird.htm ****** Don't talk to me about the R.S.P.B. 400 hundred foreigners - many from China have invaded the shores of Morecambe Bay and denuded the vast beaches of hundreds of thousands of cockles for transport and sale in Spain Portugal etc. 20 Chinese - Being paid peanuts by our standards but riches in their own currency were drowned by the rip-tides in one night. No-one has been brought to justice. Instead of vast sweeping flocks of oyster-catchers, seagulls, ducks flying and wheeling overhead the skies and sands are bare and people are saying that the fishing is also now in poor shape. Two years go the beach mussel beds were raped and destroyed by vehicles, and thousands of tons of mussels shipped to Holland. Nobody can stop the perpetrators. They have licences. Finally the beds have been "fished out " and notices have been posted banning the taking of cockles on the Barrow Coast road beaches. So what has happened??. The whole four or five hundred of the foreign rapists have moved into the Askam Bay beaches where the only access road to this Bay is a narrow one and the Sandhills nurture the very rare Natterjack Toads. The Police and Authorities have published a warning to the Public to keep clear of this area so as to give free uninterrupted access by the cocklers big heavy lorries which will block the parking spaces which were provided for and paid for by the Public. Did you ever hear of such insolent, - nay, impertinent arrogance. Where are the Freedoms we fought and died for?. Both the Morecambe Bay Coast road and the Askam bay sand-dunes and beaches are the playgrounds of the Furness Peninsular folk, especially in summer. And, despite protests and anger, - what do we hear from the *ROYAL* (!,) Society for the Protection of Birds??. NOT A DICKYBIRD!!. It won't be long before the marauders are marching up our fields and loading their lorries up with sheep. Our mighty Nation, which for over two hundred years ruled much of the planet wisely, is now a Third-Rate Nation, Why is this? It is because its People have gradually but completely lost their spunk. Doug. |
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"Douglas" wrote in message news:... "Malcolm" wrote in message ... Where is the RSPB when you need it? They seem to have adopted a strategy of silence on bird protection. Nothing from the RSPB over millions of game birds being slaughtered each year, no surprise really when you consider the RSPB actually have hunting partners, and run so called reserves WITH these hunting partners. Nothing from the RSPB when bird fairs are selling rare species? It would seem in the eyes of the RSPB the phrase "Royal Society for the Protection of Birds" is highly selective, in fact so selective the world is seeing the greatest destruction of birds ever known, not to mention habitat. Thank god wildlife still has impartial charities who are not simply offering lip service. This was found at the excellent Animal Aid website. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/2004/0406fair.htm Bird fair on the run The UK's largest wild bird market is now scheduled to take place in December 2004 at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire. After 25 years of holding this market at Birmingham's NEC, the organisers have been forced to look elsewhere. A major joint investigation of the wild bird trade, conducted by the Environmental Investigation Agency, RSPCA and the RSPB, demonstrated that for every bird who survived the brutal capture and transportation process, a further three would have died. This means that hundreds of thousands of birds were snatched from their natural habitat for this one bird market alone, with three-quarters of them dying en route. Exotic birds are either captured in flight by nets, trapped in baited cages or stuck to the branches of trees with sticky 'bird lime'. They may then spend weeks being transported between dealers and months waiting in a cage before being shipped by air to their country of destination. Fifty percent die between capture and transport. After habitat destruction, collection of birds for the pet trade is the biggest factor in species decline. Sadly their plight does not improve once they reach the bird market. Here they are often kept in cages that are overcrowded or too small. Small groups of parrots are seen huddled together - obviously petrified by their experience. Wild-caught birds are especially frightened of humans and will view people as predators. They will feel trapped, vulnerable and terrified at these events. These one-day bird fairs also breach the Pet Animals Act, 1951, which prohibits the carrying on of a business of selling pet animals in a public place. If Warwick District Council allows this event at Stoneleigh Park to take place they will have failed in their duty to uphold the law. Please write to the Council and remind them of their legal responsibility to prohibit this event. See the sample letter in the action alerts section. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/alerts.htm Please also collect signatures for our petition from friends, family and work colleagues and return completed forms to us. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/birdspetition.pdf Together, we can stop this cruel market and crack down on the illegal wildlife trade. Our recently published report on the 2003 event - From Jungle to Jumble http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/jumble.htm - recommends that Solihull MBC commence prosecutions for violations of the Pet Animals Act. Photo credit: EIA For more information, and to find out what else you can do to help with this campaign, see the Ban the Bird Market index. Photo credit:EIA http://www.animalaid.org.uk/campaign/sport/necbird.htm ****** Don't talk to me about the R.S.P.B. Four hundred foreigners - many from China have invaded the shores of Morecambe Bay and denuded the vast beaches of hundreds of thousands of cockles for transport and sale in Spai, Portugal etc. 20 Chinese - Being paid peanuts by our standards but riches in their own currency were drowned by the rip-tides in one night. No-one has been brought to justice. Instead of vast sweeping flocks of oyster-catchers, seagulls and ducks flying and wheeling overhead, the skies and sands are bare of birds and people are saying that the fishing is also now in poor shape. Two years go the beach mussel beds were raped and destroyed by vehicles, and thousands of tons of mussels shipped to Holland. Nobody can stop the perpetrators. They have licences. Finally the beds have been "fished out " and notices have been posted banning the taking of cockles on the Barrow Coast road beaches. So what has happened??. The whole four or five hundred of the foreign rapists have moved into the Askam Bay beaches where the only access road to this Bay is a narrow one and the surrounding Sandhills nurture the very rare Natterjack Toads. The Police and Authorities have published a warning to the Public to keep clear of this area so as to give free uninterrupted access to the cockler's big heavy lorries which will block the parking spaces which were provided for and paid for by the Public. Did you ever hear of such insolent, - nay, impertinent arrogance. Where are the Freedoms we fought and died for?. Both the Morecambe Bay Coast road and the Askam bay sand-dunes and beaches have been the playgrounds of the Furness Peninsular folk for countless generations especially in summer. And, despite protests and anger, - what do we hear from the *ROYAL* (!,) Society for the Protection of Birds??. NOT A DICKYBIRD!!. It won't be long before the marauders are marching up our fields and loading their lorries up with sheep. Our mighty Nation, which for over two hundred years ruled much of the planet wisely, is now a Third-Rate Nation, Why is this? It is because its People have gradually but completely lost their spunk. Doug. |
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"Douglas" wrote in message news:... "Malcolm" wrote in message ... Where is the RSPB when you need it? They seem to have adopted a strategy of silence on bird protection. Nothing from the RSPB over millions of game birds being slaughtered each year, no surprise really when you consider the RSPB actually have hunting partners, and run so called reserves WITH these hunting partners. Nothing from the RSPB when bird fairs are selling rare species? It would seem in the eyes of the RSPB the phrase "Royal Society for the Protection of Birds" is highly selective, in fact so selective the world is seeing the greatest destruction of birds ever known, not to mention habitat. Thank god wildlife still has impartial charities who are not simply offering lip service. This was found at the excellent Animal Aid website. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/2004/0406fair.htm Bird fair on the run The UK's largest wild bird market is now scheduled to take place in December 2004 at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire. After 25 years of holding this market at Birmingham's NEC, the organisers have been forced to look elsewhere. A major joint investigation of the wild bird trade, conducted by the Environmental Investigation Agency, RSPCA and the RSPB, demonstrated that for every bird who survived the brutal capture and transportation process, a further three would have died. This means that hundreds of thousands of birds were snatched from their natural habitat for this one bird market alone, with three-quarters of them dying en route. Exotic birds are either captured in flight by nets, trapped in baited cages or stuck to the branches of trees with sticky 'bird lime'. They may then spend weeks being transported between dealers and months waiting in a cage before being shipped by air to their country of destination. Fifty percent die between capture and transport. After habitat destruction, collection of birds for the pet trade is the biggest factor in species decline. Sadly their plight does not improve once they reach the bird market. Here they are often kept in cages that are overcrowded or too small. Small groups of parrots are seen huddled together - obviously petrified by their experience. Wild-caught birds are especially frightened of humans and will view people as predators. They will feel trapped, vulnerable and terrified at these events. These one-day bird fairs also breach the Pet Animals Act, 1951, which prohibits the carrying on of a business of selling pet animals in a public place. If Warwick District Council allows this event at Stoneleigh Park to take place they will have failed in their duty to uphold the law. Please write to the Council and remind them of their legal responsibility to prohibit this event. See the sample letter in the action alerts section. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/alerts.htm Please also collect signatures for our petition from friends, family and work colleagues and return completed forms to us. http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/birdspetition.pdf Together, we can stop this cruel market and crack down on the illegal wildlife trade. Our recently published report on the 2003 event - From Jungle to Jumble http://www.animalaid.org.uk/pets/jumble.htm - recommends that Solihull MBC commence prosecutions for violations of the Pet Animals Act. Photo credit: EIA For more information, and to find out what else you can do to help with this campaign, see the Ban the Bird Market index. Photo credit:EIA http://www.animalaid.org.uk/campaign/sport/necbird.htm ****** Don't talk to me about the R.S.P.B. 400 hundred foreigners - many from China have invaded the shores of Morecambe Bay and denuded the vast beaches of hundreds of thousands of cockles for transport and sale in Spain Portugal etc. 20 Chinese - Being paid peanuts by our standards but riches in their own currency were drowned by the rip-tides in one night. No-one has been brought to justice. Instead of vast sweeping flocks of oyster-catchers, seagulls, ducks flying and wheeling overhead the skies and sands are bare and people are saying that the fishing is also now in poor shape. Two years go the beach mussel beds were raped and destroyed by vehicles, and thousands of tons of mussels shipped to Holland. Nobody can stop the perpetrators. They have licences. Finally the beds have been "fished out " and notices have been posted banning the taking of cockles on the Barrow Coast road beaches. So what has happened??. The whole four or five hundred of the foreign rapists have moved into the Askam Bay beaches where the only access road to this Bay is a narrow one and the Sandhills nurture the very rare Natterjack Toads. The Police and Authorities have published a warning to the Public to keep clear of this area so as to give free uninterrupted access by the cocklers' big heavy lorries which will block the parking spaces which were provided for and paid for by the Public. Did you ever hear of such insolent, - nay, impertinent arrogance. Where are the Freedoms we fought and died for?. Both the Morecambe Bay Coast road and the Askam bay sand-dunes and beaches are, and have been for many generations the playgrounds of the Furness Peninsular folk, especially in summer. And, despite protests and anger, - what do we hear from the *ROYAL* Society for the Protection of Birds??. NOT A DICKYBIRD!!. It won't be long before the marauders are marching up our fields and loading their lorries up with sheep. Our mighty Nation, which for over two hundred years ruled much of the planet wisely, is now a Third-Rate Nation, Why is this? It is because its People have gradually but completely lost their spunk. Doug. ****** |
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"Douglas" wrote ...
---- SNIP ---- Douglas, given the number of times you've repeated that, do you work for the BBC ? ;^) -- Life is hard . . . . . It's harder if you're stupid |
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:32:48 +0000 (UTC), "Tony Parkinson"
wrote: "Douglas" wrote ... ---- SNIP ---- Douglas, given the number of times you've repeated that, do you work for the BBC ? **** of parkie, your warped sense of net kook is not wanted here. +------------------------+ | NO PLONKING ZONE | +------------------------+ | | | | | | | ..| |.. .| |.. ...\| |/.... \| |/.. ********************************************** 'You can't win 'em all.' Lord Haw Haw. Since I stopped donating money to CONservation hooligan charities Like the RSPB, Woodland Trust and all the other fat cat charities I am in the top 0.217% richest people in the world. There are 5,986,950,449 people poorer than me If you're really interested I am the 13,049,551 richest person in the world. And I'm keeping the bloody lot. So sue me. http://www.globalrichlist.com/ Newsgroup ettiquette 1) Tell everyone the Trolls don't bother you. 2) Say you've killfiled them, yet continue to respond. 3) Tell other people off who repsond despite doing so yourself. 4) Continually talk about Trolls while maintaining they're having no effect. 5) Publicly post killfile rules so the Trolls know how to avoid them. 6) Make lame legal threats and other barrel scraping manoeuvres when your abuse reports are ignored. 7) Eat vast quantities of pies. 8) Forget to brush your teeth for several decades. 9) Help a demon.local poster with their email while secretly reading it. 10) Pretend you're a hard ******* when in fact you're as bent as a roundabout. 11) Become the laughing stock of Usenet like Mabbet 12) Die of old age 13) Keep paying Dr Chartham his fees and hope one day you will have a penis the girls can see. --------------------------------------- "If you would'nt talk to them in a bar, don't *uckin' vote for them" "Australia was not *discovered* it was invaded" The Big Yin. Need a fake diploma for fun? contact my collegues Malcolm Ogilvie or Michael Saunby who both bought one and got one free, only $15 each, have as many as you like www.fakediplomas.com |
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