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

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ABC News Online, 7/4/06

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.

Repeated the coup in Qld: He would later sell out to CSR, making
his first fortune, before doing a similar deal in Queensland, where in
1986 he floated Pozzolanic Industries. Only a little more than a year
later, Pozzolanic was taken over by Queensland Cement and Lime, after
Peabody sold his remaining 50 per cent for $20 million – before paying
$4.62 million to buy back the non-Queensland fly ash businesses,
including the group’s then small liquid waste disposal business and its
US ash operations.

Trucking interests led to NZ wine: Peabody also retained the
Australasian distributorship for Western Star trucks, which had become
the core of the Pozzolanic transport fleet. The relationship with
Western Star was to make him another fortune and indirectly lead the
family into a somewhat posher business than waste management –
up-market wine making in New Zealand.

The Courier Mail, 5/4/2006, p. 42

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Grim picture: Addressing the two-day forum’s main topic – the
feasibility of sustainable development for billions of people worldwide
– Sachs painted a grim picture of systemic environmental collapse,
coupled with war, famine and pandemic disease.

Burden beyond what world can carry: He said the astonishing pace
of economic growth in Asia and the increasing demands of development in
the industrialised world would impose a burden in a few decades far
beyond what the world was already woefully failing to carry.

All major ecological systems under stress: “It is the central
challenge we face on the planet,” he said. “Every single major
ecological system we have is already under profound stress.”

Not an esoteric issue for scientists: While highlighting climate
change, deforestation, oceanic degradation and population growth,
Sachs, who is also director of the Earth Institute at Columbia
University, warned against viewing the problems associated with
unsustainable development as an esoteric issue for scientists.

White House needs subscription to Scientific American:
“Politics is central,” he said, condemning what he called the
“scientifically antagonistic” policies of the current US administration
under President Bush. “We’re fighting all the wrong wars in this
country,” Sachs said, adding that what the White House really needed
was a subscription to Scientific American magazine.

Reference: Digest of latest news reported on website of Climate
Change Secretariat of United Nations Framework on Climate Change
Control (UNFCCC). 29 March 2006. Address: PO Box 260 124, D-53153 Bonn.
Germany. Phone: : (49-228) 815-1005, Fax: (49-228) 815-1999. Email: press@unfccc.int
http://www.unfccc.int

Erisk Net, 5/4/2006

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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