This is not good news
Fri, 5 Sep 2008 04:25:28 -0700 (PDT)
Gordon Brown faces backlash over fuel aid
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/09/05/bcnbrown104.xml
Let's see if you all can manage to sort it all out; if anyone can,
it's a UKBA'er.
1. Wetter cooler than hell summer, crops still not harvested
2. High fuel prices
3. High food co ...
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Biosecurity failure in Liverpool
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:51:23 +0100 (BST)
You would think that even DEFRA would notice a 30-foot spider trying to
sneak into the country.
--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.
On the horizon, a carrier task force of the Salvation Navy was
turning into the wind, preparing to launch Zeppelins. ...
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Scotland - Yet another E.Coli outbreak
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:01:03 +0100
Pat's Note: Yet another E.Coli outbreak in Scotland's pig country.
From memory, there was a major pig bankruptcy in the area with stock
disposal. In the past that has followed severe upturns in circovirus
epidemics in pig farms.
You can't make money out of sick pigs and they are a danger to
everyone.
Any ...
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Canada: Hog Prices Collapse - Listeria
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:16:28 +0100
Pat's Note: Not a very happy fininacial picture in North America.he
root cause of Canada's problems - MRSA - is neatly evaded
...and the Liseria outbreak is not helping.
The implicationsof that are also grasped:
"It's sad, and now the ambulance chaser lawyers are getting into the
game with class-action suit ...
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Oklahoma E. coli Outbreak Linked to Well Water
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:50:37 +0100
Pat's Note: This is being reported as the US's worst ever outbreak.
Reports vary widely, but this seems a fair summary.
http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3747
Oklahoma E. coli Outbreak Linked to Well Water
Date Published: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
The Associated Press reported over the weekend t ...
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E. Coli - Crown Office steps in and orders Fatal Accident Inquiry
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:44:26 +0100
Pat's Note; I won't be taking the PSIS out of this initiative.
http://www.thefirmmagazine.com/news/1046/Crown_Office_steps_in_and_orders_Fatal_Accident_Inquiry.html
NEWS
03 Sep 2008
Crown Office steps in and orders Fatal Accident Inquiry
The Crown Office has announced that a Fatal Accident Inquiry ...
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There is something in the water
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:41:13 +0100
For the last eight years, I?ve not only been searching for the origins
of all these animal-human disease outbreaks, but also the method of
spread.
Whilst there was never going to be an ?answer to everything? in one
nice string wrapped package, there had to be an over-riding source for
a sudden global increase ...
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Scottish E coli bug may be world's worst
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:12:45 +0100
Pat's Note:
I obviously got that one right. There is something special and more
dangerous about Scotland's zoonotic epidemics.
I will be well in line for President's Salmond's order of an
Independent Scotland. The investiture, marked by a compulsory grovel,
rather than a bow, will be known as taking the "PSIS ...
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I won!
Mon, 1 Sep 2008 07:59:52 -0700 (PDT)
Hey -Guys,
Please excuse the long absence but I just had to tell you that I won
the -Court Case about the horses which got out on the road.
-For those who do not remember in -December 2003 I went to the US for
Christmas leaving my God-daughter looking after her horses which I had
agreed that she could stable ...
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Korea - ntibiotics to Be Banned for Feeding Animals
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:45:23 +0100
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/09/117_30326.html
Antibiotics to Be Banned for Feeding Animals
By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter
Some popular antibiotics will no longer be fed to poultry, livestock
and fish from next year, authorities said Sunday.
The move came as excessive use of antibi ...
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