Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 20 November 2007 09:17 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> WHO group to tackle H5N1 virus-sharing dispute
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| "These companies and institutions see this as an occasion to obtain patents
>>>| and extra profits, and there has been a rapid increase in patenting
>>>| activity related to avian influenza," the TWN document states.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
> http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/nov1907sharing.html
>>>
>>
>> You have to wonder how these people sleep at night. Are they really so
>> morally bankrupt that they feel nothing for those who suffer in order
>> that they can acquire cash?
>
> I can't recall the guy's name, but he won a Nobel prize for daring to fight
> this greed which cost so many lives (probably millions). I posted this to COLA
> about 6 months ago.
>
> Knowledge can apparently be owned... even the knowledge of life-saving
> techniques. You can't /buy/ this knowledge? Then drop dead.
>
> That's how ridiculous it has become. You know, if aliens were watching us from
> above, they'd be ROTFLTAO.
>
Certainly, anyone wanting to invade just has to wait until
"globalisation" has completed. Of course, the pollution will be
terrible by then, but if they've come from somewhere which is low on
CO2, it could be worth hanging around for a few decades and watch the
wars begin, the extermination of millions, and then see what's left.
One thing I find truly incredible is that so few people seem to
recognise that unless we start to address the global warming resulting
from pollution, we will have world wars again, only this time, there'll
be people with nothing to lose. Such people you do not want to fight,
as the Israelis have found.
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