Gonna have some colorful kids.
Posted on 10/25/2004 8:57:49 PM PDT by ofset
Russian spying back in the Cold From correspondents in London 26oct04
RUSSIAN spying in Britain is back to Cold War levels, The Independent newspaper in London reported today, quoting government and security sources.
It said 32 Russian diplomats were involved in attempting to obtain secrets about Britain's military, technical and political capabilities, and information about critics of President Vladimir Putin.
"The level of espionage by the Russians in the United Kingdom is back to Cold War levels," a government source was quoted as saying.
"It is business as usual for the spies."
Britain's domestic intelligence agency MI5 is responsible for counter-intelligence, and it had warned its political boss, Home Secretary David Blunkett, of growing Russian spy activities, The Independent said.
Quoting unnamed intelligence sources, it said that Russia's spy network in Britain was overseen by the Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, with about 18 agents claiming diplomatic status in the country.
About 14 agents from Russia's military intelligence agency, known as the GRU, were also posing as diplomats, the newspaper said.
Alex Standish, editor of Jane's Intelligence Digest, told The Independent that there had been a "steady increase" in the number of Russian diplomats posted in Britain.
"If you look at the profile of the individuals, you see a significant proportion of these people are linked to the SVR," he said.
Standish added: "Putin is rapidly building up intelligence systems that have been allowed to fall into decline under the Yeltsin era."
Gonna have some colorful kids.
True. I need to begin finding goat stories to post, so we can have more goat threads.
It wasn’t exactly the Wild West but it was close Tuesday when a small herd of goats fled their fenced enclosure and sent Sikeston Public Safety on a wild goose - make that goat - chase. The herd managed to make their way onto Highway 60 south of Sikeston and briefly interrupted traffic. It took the officers and employees of Potashnick Transportation to round-up the wayward goats. One report said the goats were headed to the Green Acres Sod Farm in an apparent bid to find greener pastures. Above, Gary Tatum, left and Walter Foster of PTI collect the final goat.
Goats could be seen all over the Leaburg Power Canal.
About six hundred goats were released to help clear brush from a two-mile area near Leaburg.
The goats will be at the Leaburg Power Canal for about two weeks munching on vegetation.
It is still an experimental project, but Lance Robertson, an EWEB spokesperson says so far it has been working out. "It's a lot less expensive then say clearing by hand or bringing in mowing equipment in and trying to do it that way."
This is the second year, the Eugene Water and Electric Board has used goats to clear brush.
EWEB officials say it is a non-chemical solution to protecting water quality.
This years goats came all the way from Grangeville, Idaho.
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And we are much closer. So how much land do you have? There's money to be made out there.
I like her markings.
"Is nothing to be worried about comrade."
Not worried, marking "TIME".
I have a breeder at my breederville.com training her herd of yaks for packing.
Are Nubians the fainting goats?
No. Nubians are both dairy and meat goats, but primarily used for milk as they give a lovely very high fat milk which is ideal for cheese-making.
How do we know that you are not one of them? Denouncing such agents would be a perfect disguise for you.
"How do we know that you are not one of them? Denouncing such agents would be a perfect disguise for you.'
Really now are you not giving away trade secrets??? I will keep this in mind as I read post pro and con commies.
Makes perfect sense. :) Also Chechen rebels the most likely are Putin's agents - he tells them to commit terrorist act in order to justify fighting against them.
Wow, Lukashenko the Second Stalin! He would be proud to hear this.
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