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 Saturday October 22, 2005 05:55 by cleaves
 Australian federal government expenditure on media consultants and market analysts exceeds three hundred million dollars per annum. For all the Taxpayer’s money that is spent, only a proportion of the population adopts Howard’s cringe mentality and succumbs to the contractionist politics of fear. Announce the (remote) possibility of ‘chicken’ fever (avian flu) mutating and a percentage of the population rushes pharmacies and exhausts the supply of an anti-viral drug reputed to alleviate some of the ill effects (but not prevent) this disease. [Remember the Y2K scare and associated hysteria?] In answer to the tiniest ‘army’ in the history of warfare (a few dozen ‘terrorists’) we turn our whole existence upside down running in fear and loathing at every little alarm that our lying politicians would sound. Read entire text at: |
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Jump To Comment: 1What really got me (as subversive spin) :- the maker of Tamiflu™ the Roche pharmacuetical giant after rush-buying had cleared their stock from October 13th to 15th in several countries including much of Germany issued a press statement,
this was _after the €U met and decided there is no vaccine for a hypothetical mutant strain_
the statement was a humanitarian delight :- they will waive patent charges on the production of Tamiflu™ in Europe to fight Avian Flu.
"I want to register a complaint!
This Parrot is dead!!!!!!!"
"or is it resting?"
Look forward to reading u again.