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Tamiflu, the patented vaccine against influenza H5N1, otherwise known as bird flu, is owned by Gilead. US secretary of defence, Donald Rumsfeld was a major shareholder of Gilean until recently.

Doctor Pushkar Kulkarni, a toxicoligist at the Bombay Veterinary College points out that Tamiflu is actually an extract of Star Aniseed, a major component of the spice Garam Masala, and that any food cooked at over 70 degrees Celsius is safe regardless of the presence of the H5N1 virus.

Independent reports indicate that  the virus is primarily originating in large industrial scale poultry farms and spreading along the transport routes of the global poultry industry. Doctor Kulkarni’s claim joins a growing clamour calling for the focus of health authorities to shift to large scale poultry farming and halt the mass slaughter of birds belonging to the world’s independent poultry farmers.

ABC News Online, 7/4/06

The Australian Financial Review, 6/4/2006, p. 21

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The Age, 5/4/2006, p. B1

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Telstra, Cisco helped: With Telstra and Cisco, Ergon quickly
made available additional bandwidth to both locations, building a
network to connect teams of laptop-enabled staff, as well as a voice
over internet protocol system for use on its private network.

Email essential: Access to email was critical for co-ordination
of Ergon’s internal resources and to co-ordinate company requests to
the civilian management authority run by General Peter Cosgrove, as
well as with the Defence personnel who were moved to the region. The
network was also needed to run Ergon’s fault management software.

Call centre capacity augmented: As Cyclone Larry loomed on the
horizon, Ergon had beefed up its call centre capability. It received
about 7000 calls daily in the aftermath – about double the average it
would normally get for a severe storm.

QFRS wireless voice system utilised: To help restore
communications, the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service also
participated in the work, having recently equipped itself with a
wireless voice over internet protocol command system from Cisco. Power
outages and phone system problems are not unusual in a cyclone, and
Queensland Fire Service district inspector Wayne Waltisbuhl says the
mobile VoIP gave it access to portable voice and data services to share
and forward strategic and tactical information for the response.

Tactical information sharing capability: “The portable system
allows fire officers to access and share tactical information such as
incident plans, front-line status reports, maps and weather reports
downloaded from the Bureau of Meteorology,” Waltisbuhl says.

The Australian, 4/4/2006

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Harsher regime than for the US: The move means China’s use of
Australian uranium will face tougher inspections than those faced by
the US, which takes almost 40 per cent of this country’s exported
uranium.

Rogues gallery of customers: China is believed to have breached
the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1992 through its dealings with
Pakistan when it also constructed that country’s unsafeguarded Khushab
reactor. “China has been a major supplier of nuclear technology to
Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and Libya,” Medical Association for the
Prevention of War spokesman Tilman Ruff said.

The Australian, 4/4/2006

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