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Tropical Islands Resort (BLIMP HANGER) [Q&A] (LIVE MEETING): The Royal Order of the Holy Mackerel – Video

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Tropical Islands Resort (BLIMP HANGER) [Q A] (LIVE MEETING): The Royal Order of the Holy Mackerel
The topic of this month #39;s LIVE MEETING is the relatively unknown (and vaguely named) resort, Tropical Islands. The Malaysian resort built into a former WW2 Nazi Blimp Building Hangar! I...

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SUPER HOSTILE – Sunburn Islands – #9 – Potion Works And More Dungeons! – Video

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SUPER HOSTILE - Sunburn Islands - #9 - Potion Works And More Dungeons!
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Faroe Islands Pilot Whale Activists Arrested

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On Saturday, fourteen members of the animal rights activist group Sea Shepard were arrested on the Faroe island of Sandoy in the North Atlantic, after attempting to stop the slaughter of 33 pilot whales.

Locally, the culling of the whales is known as a grind, and Operation GrindStop was initiated to save more than 1,000 pilot whales, which are among the largest members of the dolphin family. In a practice which Sea Shepherd refers to as being a brutal and archaic mass slaughter, Faroe Islands fishermen herd the cetaceans into a bay using flotillas, and then hack them to death with hooks and knives. Many locals defend the hunt as being their cultural right.

Lamya Essemlali, president of Sea Shepherd France, commented, the 14 have been under arrest since Saturday, and three of our boats have also been seized. The Faroe Islands are under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark, and the Danish Armed Forces Arctic Command stepped in to commandeer the boats.

Here is a graphic clip of a Faroe Islands grind in 2013:

The B.S. Sheen was one of the boats seized on Saturday, which is sponsored by Charlie Sheen. The actor said in a statement, The Faroese whalers brutally slaughtered an entire pod of 33 pilot whales today several generations taken from the sea and Denmark is complicit in the killing.

Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has also been involved in Operation GrindStop, and commented, This is not for survival. There are very few things that happen like this that are so brutal. We have to put this behind us and move on, and let the whales swim freely. And I think its much more important for us in the future to save our oceans and the biodiversity of our oceans that the whales are very important to.

According to Sea Shepherd, 267 pilot whales were killed in a single grind in 2013 near the Faroese town of Fuglafjorour.

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British made Pacific islanders fat by civilising them with fried food

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They taught the locals to fry fish rather than eat it raw, and forced them to import unhealthy produce after co-opting farmland for mining.

Under colonial rule, much changed in how food was sourced, grown and prepared and the social change was swift, said lead author Dr McLennan

What happened to the land also changed as colonial agriculture and mining industries expanded. There was an increase in family size meaning food was increasingly imported.

The tiny island of Nauru

The Cook Islands were taken as a British protectorate in 1888, and became New Zealand's first South Pacific Island colony in 1901 until political independence in 1965.

Meanwhile, the tiny Pacific island of Nauru is a former German and British colony whose Administration was led by Australia until 1968.

Researchers found colonial letters describing how the settlers taught proper food habits as part of their attempt to civilise the islanders

Colonial initiatives, such as mining or cash-crops, meant that land historically used for food gathering became inaccessible or infertile, the team concluded.

And pollution from colonial shipping lines and industry degraded reefs, a former rich food source.

Professor Stanley Ulijaszek said: Previous attempts to explain the disproportionately high rates of obesity in these and other island nations have tended to focus on the geographical isolation of islands and the risk of food shortages.

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Sornfelli – Above the top of the mountains in the Faroe Islands – Video

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Sornfelli - Above the top of the mountains in the Faroe Islands
Stunning view next to the abandoned radar station! You can nearly drive all the way up! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Video...

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Couple spending time together on the beach of Andaman & Nicobar Islands – Video

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Couple spending time together on the beach of Andaman Nicobar Islands
Couple spending time together on the lonely beach of Andaman Nicobar Islands. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a group of islands at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea,...

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China Says Vietnam "Distorts" History With Claims To Disputed Islands – Video

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China Says Vietnam "Distorts" History With Claims To Disputed Islands
China says Vietnam "distorting" history with claims to disputed islands in South China Sea. Story: China said on Monday (May 26) that Vietnam is "distorting history" as tension rises over...

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