The Times of London has been owned for years now by
Rupert Murdoch, who single-handedly reduced it from
a newspaper thought of as one of the pinnacles of
journalism to a scandal rag pretty much on the same
level as the National Enquirer.
Plus, it's good to remember that Murdoch's papers
and TV outlets are famous for publishing whatever
the government in power at the time *wants* published.
So I think it's a safe assumption that Blair & Co.
wanted this particular stuff published, possibly as
a preface to some new law that would take away more
of the rights of the ordinary guy on the street.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Just another piece of crowd-control thru fear bullshit apparently
> dropped by two "journalists" at timesoneline.
>
> If you need confirmation, just check which media has picked this up
> (looking at the hyphenation in your article it seems you might just
> have dig the article up somewhere in Pakistan, or perhaps Australia).
>
> Of you're too lazy to do that, analyze the first sentence..
>
> (1) When did the "warning" come?
>
> (2) strengthen security..?
>
> Apparently not increase the stocks; not make vaccines more accessible
> by distributing them to local hospitals; no vaccination program.
>
> Perhaps what is hinted at is an administrative style measure like
> changing padlocks on the refrigerator doors?
>
> (3) I love this one: Avian flu..? :-)
>
> I guess we all now have to be extra careful when reading stuff on
> timesonline.co.uk - and pieces given as the handiwork of any of these
> two gentlemen:
>
> Stewart Tendler
>
> Daniel McGrory
>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel <babajii_99@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Britain's laboratories have been ordered to
> strengthen security on stocks of more than 100 deadly viruses and
> bacteria after an MI5 warning that Islamic terrorists are training in
> germ warfare. The biological agents include polio, rabies,
> tuberculosis and avian flu. Food poisoning bacteria such as E. coli
> and the sources of a number of rare tropical and Middle Eastern
> illnesses are also included. Scientists and laboratory staff in
> universities, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies who deal with
> agents will have to be vetted by police, and their laboratories will
> be checked by government safety inspectors. Stock will have to be
> regularly audited. The crackdown comes after MI5 privately warned the
> Foreign and Commonwealth Office that al-Qaeda was actively recruiting
> scientists. Extremist groups are known to have targeted students,
> offering to fund courses in return for using their newly acquired
> expertise.
> > NI_MPU('middle'); Last November Dame Eliza
> Man-ningham-Buller, the Director-General of MI5, gave warning that
> terror attacks in Britain could involve weapons of mass destruction.
> > She said that terrorists were seeking the means to mount a range
> of attacks using chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
> devices. "We know that the aspiration is there, we know attempts to
> gather materials are there, we know that attempts to gather
> technologies are there," she said.
> > Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaeda's second-in-command, warned the the
> West in an internet video last night of a reprisal "far worse than
> anything it has seen" if Washington did not change its policies
> towards Muslim states.
> > After the 9/11 terrorist attacks in America, security at
> laboratories was stepped up amid new intelligence on the ambitions of
> al-Qaeda and its allies, and restrictions were placed on 47 agents
> under the Antiterrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. Yesterday the
> Government announced that the list was being increased to 103,
> including 45 viruses, 21 bacteria, 2 fungi, 13 toxins and 18 animal
> pathogens.
> > Tony McNulty, the Home Office minister in charge of policing,
> said: "The terror threat is always changing and we must adapt to
> ensure it is combated effectively. As terrorists look for new ways to
> endanger life, we have to take action to be one step ahead."
> > He said: "That is why we are extending the list of controlled
> substances to prevent terrorist groups using chemical or biological
> materials as terrorist weapons."
> > The move comes after a review by a Whitehall committee known as
> the Salisbury Group, which includes MI5, police, scientists from
> Porton Down, Defra, the Health and Safety Executive and the Health
> Protection Agency.
> > The additions to the list include many of the bacteria and viruses
> that strike at animals, such as foot-and-mouth disease. These might
> not be harmful to humans but could be devastating to the economy, as
> was the foot-and-mouth outbreak in Britain in 2001.
> > Others such as Rift Valley fever normally infect animals but have
> spread to human populations and caused widespread illness and death as
> the illness did in Egypt in the 1970s.
> > Guanarito virus or Venezuelan haemorrhagic fever can be fatal in a
> third of cases, while Shigella boydii can cause dysentery.
> > John Wood, of the National Institute for Biological Standards and
> Controls, said scientists will have to show a valid reason for working
> with the agents. He said the changes mirrored controls in the US and
> would probably mean much stricter access to laboratories.
> > Alistair Hay, Professor of Environmental Toxicology at Leeds
> University, said that the measures were prudent. He said the
> introduction of the first controls had been accepted by the scientific
> community.
> > He said that in the 1980s a cult in Orgeon used a bacterium to
> spread food poisoning and sabotage elections that threatened them.
> >
> >
> >
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