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Germs the new terrorists?

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So far it seems as though swine flu isn’t co-operating with the governments/media’s plan to turn into a pandemic. So far behaving no differently from any other seasonal flu. Of course the more cynical among us might wonder if the rapidly approaching end of shelf life for all those tamiflu capsules the government bought for bird flu back in 2005 has any relevance, it’s certainly hasn’t done Roche‘s share price any harm in the past. According to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation the shelf life of Tamiflu capsules is 5 years in capsule form but with 2 million … Continue reading →

Plugging people I know

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Gratuitous plug for a new blog by people I know (I won’t even mention the appalling use of a .co for something seemingly non-profit when the .org was available… well ok I will but not much), anyway go take a squint at: Police State UK The founding writers are intelligent and their writing doesn’t cause me to wish fiery death down on them, so got to be worth a quick look at least. Enjoy. 00

Passing bandwagons

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Just back from holiday were interactions with local police and PCSO’s gives me some hope that bastions of sanity still exist. However meantime two campaigns that really need advertising, even though they’re a bit old and I’m sure most people have seen them. Firstly sign up to the petition for Gordon Brown to go and go now at Number 10 Secondly if you have an old shirt to hand save the government the effort of stealing it from your back and send it direct to Gordon. Then do let the libertarian party now, they’re not organising it but are keeping … Continue reading →