Agreed, and it will happen the next time there is a flu :-)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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" <peterklutz@> 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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