Monday 10 August 2009

I was busy busy at work this morning.........sigh.Laundry for the family and all their weekend guests,teenagers lolloping all over the place it being school holidays. Still it earns a crust.
The docs in this country have finally realised doling out tamiflu like sweeties doesn't help patients or prevent the virus developing resistance.The worst of a normal dose of flu only lasts a day or two, so not much point in taking something with nasty side effects http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8193012.stm
I see Bush has finally been officially bubbled on his reasons for the Iraq war,god made him do it or it was prophesied or some other demented twaddle.{url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/aug/10/religion-george-bush [/url]
Perhaps his handlers Cheney and co took lessons from the original puppet master Strauss http://www.nndb.com/people/423/000048279/
I can imagine a modern take on the dig for England posters soon http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8189549.stmMI5 have been disseminating, Sir John Scarlett, said his officers were “as committed to the values and the human rights values of liberal democracy as anybody else.” He said there had been “no torture, and no complicity in torture” by Britain’s intelligence agencies, as several former detainees at the United States camp in Guantánamo Bay have alleged. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/world/europe/11britain.html?ref=global-home
The ACLU have started proceedings against a company that holds patents on the BRC1 and BRC" breast cancer genes...I hope they win.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/12/us.genes.lawsuit/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Watched a programme On BBC this week on the fear of food/water shortages in the future, It was frightening.
If you missed it, it's on iPlayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00m9xk9/Future_of_Food_Episode_1/